Criticizing players who recharge games, TV stations receive bricks: How to spend personal freedom

As one of the markets games developed in the world, the land of the rising sun possesses a gamer giant with many famous developers. However, when “gaming addiction” was listed by WHO as one of the diseases, Japan also carried out the first investigation in history about the disease. game addiction nationwide. So in the end, what is considered a game addiction? In addition to playing the game more or less, the News Zero program of Japanese television also exploits another aspect, that is the amount of money players load into the game.​

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News Zero reported on a player he met by chance on the street, and was told that he had loaded up to 200,000 yen (about 43 million VND) into the game. This 28-year-old male gamer is currently working in the health-related field, although he spends a large amount of money on the game, his daily game time is only about 2-3 hours, absolutely nothing. affect personal as well as work life. The reason he deposited so much money into the game was because he loved rare items.

Everything would be fine if this program did not give male gamers the label of “playing too much and spending 200,000 yen”, which makes the online community in general and gamers in particular feel angry. The keyword “Deposit 200,000 yen into the game” also climbed to the top 1 of this country’s Twitter hotsearch. Many people think that loading 200,000 yen into the game is not an excessive behavior compared to the price and life in Japan.​

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Many gamers believe that the above program is having a one-sided view of in-game transactions, if that person uses 200,000 yen to buy clothes, buy cars, buy collectibles, surely no one will notice. everything only attracts attention when it is related to the game, but it must be known that how to spend money is inherently the freedom of each person.

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There are also some people who think that this number has no meaning at all, because a person with a monthly income of 200,000 yen spending 200,000 yen and someone with a monthly income of 2 million yen spending 200,000 yen are two different things. together.

Indeed, up to now, people have more or less prejudiced against games and spending time and money on this industry. So gamers, what do you guys think about this?