The Effects Of Video Games On The World - 1657 Words

As any child whose dream it was to play video games as their future career, most parents would say that, playing games won’t pay the bills or put food on the table. Instead of having dreams of playing video games for the rest of their lives, they should aspire to become a scientist, a teacher, some kind of engineer, or the all time favorite a doctor, the only people who make money off video games are the lucky ones who can make them not just play them. But how much of this statement is true? If only these parents knew that there are people making six figure incomes by playing video games, they might change their minds before telling their child that their dream is just that and no, it is not only the lucky one or two people in the world†¦show more content†¦Some people would say, â€Å"well how much could there be to learn? It’s just a game, learning how to press buttons?† Absolutely not, character data, frame data, match up data, character combinations, player data, team data, and in most cases the applied thought process of; what could happen next and how to deal with it. In cases where there are multiple characters within a game’s roster, a player does not only have to know the character they are playing but every other character in the game as well, for cases such as a fighting game, in this case Street Fighter V, there are currently 16 characters, each character is unique in their own way with their own move set and frame data and just like any other lesson that would be learned in school, a player must remember as much as they can or they can lose out on a lot of opportunities. If 16 characters isn’t enough, the previous version of the game had 44 characters and if the game genre is changed to something such as League of Legends, there are 129 characters to choose from, not only that but the amount of players changed from a one versus one setting to five versus five, meaning instead of applying data on a possibl e one versus anyone from 16 or 44 different characters to a forming a team with five characters from a roster of 129, to combat another team of five from the same roster of 129 excluding the characters already picked. How