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Cities In India Ban 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Over Fears It Turns Children Into 'Psychopaths' (yahoo.com)
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is facing a "ferocious" backlash in India, Bloomberg reports:
Nowhere has resistance to the game been quite like India. Multiple cities have banned PUBG, as it's known, and police in Western India arrested 10 university students for playing. The national child rights commission has recommended barring the game for its violent nature. One of India's largest Hindi newspapers declared PUBG an "epidemic" that turned children into "manorogi," or psychopaths. "There are dangerous consequences to this game," the Navbharat Times warned in a March 20 editorial. "Many children have lost their mental balance...."
What's different about India is the speed with which the country has landed in the strange digital world of no laws or morals. It skipped two decades of debate and adjustment, blowing into the modern gaming era in a matter of months. Rural communities that never had PCs or game consoles got smartphones in recent years -- and wireless service just became affordable for pretty much everyone after a price war last year. With half a billion internet users looking for entertainment, PUBG has set off a frenzy.
Over 250,000 students entered one recent PUBG competition, according to the article.
At least one local minister criticized the game as "the demon in every house."
What's different about India is the speed with which the country has landed in the strange digital world of no laws or morals. It skipped two decades of debate and adjustment, blowing into the modern gaming era in a matter of months. Rural communities that never had PCs or game consoles got smartphones in recent years -- and wireless service just became affordable for pretty much everyone after a price war last year. With half a billion internet users looking for entertainment, PUBG has set off a frenzy.
Over 250,000 students entered one recent PUBG competition, according to the article.
At least one local minister criticized the game as "the demon in every house."
it's going through them right now. Same thing happened here but it was Mortal Kombat.
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The more modern leanings on that subject are psychopaths are born not made, born with genetic cerebral defects, that are sufficient in nature to define them as a parasitic sub-species, they preys upon human society rather that contributing to it cooperatively. Sociopaths are made as a result of abuse, most often by psychopaths. All PvP attract psychopaths, it's the gaming style as well as narciccists, they also much prefer, PvP as purse vs purse, where they can pay to beat free players who are basically there as smarter than cheap AI targets (in fact in future, smart PvP game developers will alter AI players to act like real players and pretend to be real players, basically just targets, cheaper that providing free network service to free to play targets).
The games do not create psychopaths, they only attract them and start with a high population and the normal ratio being about 1 in 100 being pyschopaths, start with a billion and that is a lot of psychopaths and that game whilst not creating them, certainly could trigger them. For the rest of the population, honestly PvP is not that popular, they generally much prefer coop gaming, PvE, where they work together to defeat an AI enemy.
The problem is profitability of PvE vs PvP. PvP will always generate most of it's profit by creating a environment where you must pay to win and target that at psychopaths and narcissist, those who accept cheating as winning and hence are content to buy game legal cheats in order to beat those who would beat them, playing upon an equal basis, their disturb genetic nature, forces them to win by any means, fair competition undesirable to the extreme and they will pay and pay through the nose to feed their ego, to abuse others and win.
In PvE, by far the majority prefer equal game play and when you win, another person does not necessarily lose, those sometimes they can. The majority have no interest in buying game legal cheats because why play the game if you need to cheat to win. The only real profit possible is for cosmetic if the free ones are purposefully ugly or in account upgrades, new maps, faster travel, AI companions, special characters.
They can never match the profit style of say Grand Theft Gaming, 'er', Auto, where the profit is based upon selling a better gun, to PvPers, so they can win against those who do not buy that gun and then selling an even better gun, to force them to buy it to start winning again and then selling an even better gun etc. basically psychopaths preying upon gullible and readily manipulable psychopaths for whom cheating is winning and they will pay to feed their ego (drawing up a new gun with better statistics dirt cheap compared to having create a new map and story line).
The problem for those companies all piling on the PvP, pay to cheat to win, yeah just a tiny percentage of the market, 1% to 3% counting narcissists and they will eat each others lunch pretty quick and of course the psychopaths will eventually wake up to reality, they are being manipulated and conned by other psychopaths, to pay for nothing but trigger by losing ego, must win, cheating is winning, paying for cheats is winning, yeah (no you sucker you are being straight up scammed and when the AI gets good enough to pretend to be real players, with pretend hurt feelings the psychopaths can abuse, it will become even more profitable to scam psychopaths, them paying to pretend they are abusing real people, it feeds the corrupted ego of psychopaths).
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MMO wolfpacks targeting people for real-life consequences, SWATTING, etc? That's not your grandpa's colecovision.
And isn't your {insert latest popular console or computer gaming platform here} neither, here around in the "rest of the world".
Swatting is a very specific problem of the US - a country whose police has tons of big toy that they are itching to send whenever some actions is happening.
The rest of the world doesn't even have "Swat" to begin with and wouldn't understand why sending military-like tanks whenever somebody phones in telling they "heard gunshots".
In other word, the problem aren't the games, the problem is your dysfunctional country where it is possible to send tanks at somebody else's house with a simple phone call. What is wrong with you guys ?!
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good thing India has it's priorities in order.
banning and arresting people for playing PUBG is a more urgent matter then dealing with all the rape problems they're having.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
You know what school shootings are? Revenge acts. Nothing else.
Why do they shoot up schools? If you're after a body count, go shoot up a mall on a busy weekend. Way more people to off there. Invariably, though, they go to a school. And not just any school, but their school. And they don't shoot just anyone but very specific people.
It's revenge. And you don't influence this by computer games, movies or anything else outside the school. You influence this by fighting bullying.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I remember when Ozzy Osbourne music was the root of all of this evil for teens.