Warning: This is an opinionated post about my personal experience about gaming, you're free to give your reaction but what you will read here is my true experience and opinion about the advantage and disadvantage of a gamer.
Console and PC gaming is one of the most popular hobby today, gamers are not just male or teens now, the number of female gamers are increasing gradually. Most non-gamers see this kind of hobby as a useless thing to do, a waste of time and will bring no good to an individual. But if we just look at the brighter side we can see lots of benefits from this hobby (but in moderate state).
Socialization
Most people say that gamers don't have social life, well that's true for gamers staying in their house and playing non-stop there, but there are type of gamers that uses LAN connected to play with other or other engine to connect online, this team play usually consist of a good team, and that team is composed of members that know each other personally and will play as a whole (physically) so they gather in a certain location and go to other towns to compete the best players there.
Teamwork
Most gamers know how to value their friends, because they experienced on the game they played that you need trusted friends to win or dominate in a game. That's why even in a non-game situation they can call their play mates to gather and unite for a common goal, like what happen in a contest, all of those 200+ gamers united to help their fellow mates to win a contest even though they don't really know each other personally or in real life.
Patience
This is a very important trait or a gamer, those who succeed in most strategy games requires high patience, that's why those players who can't wait usually die and they do not improve their gaming skills.
Strategy
Strategy is a vital skill that every gamers must possess, without strategy you can't win any game (except for hacked game or luck-based game). That's why gamers can easily think of an strategy for a real-life situation than non-gamers (most of the time).
Fast-Thinking
Games like Starcraft, DotA and FPS games requires fast strategy, and you need to think and react faster than a second in order to win a surprise attack, and most professional gamers got this, when they saw an enemy they need to decide quickly whether to attack, wait for some moments or to flee.
Stress Free
Well this is a fact that all of us can't deny, gamers have more peaceful mind (specially if they win), that's why this is called a "hobby" it means we enjoy doing this thing, and doing the things you enjoy will definitely erase your stress in life.
Personal Experience: During my HS years I usually have a hard time to decide faster, that's why I used DotA to train myself to create a strategic decision in the shortest time possible. In just a year of playing the game I noticed that my decision making skills improved dramatically. I also played tribalwars (my most favorite game), from that game I learned how to read people's mind and next move, I learned how to cooperate and to lead a group of people and how to get along with them properly (specially we are from different parts of the world) and I can say that even today I still use the benefits of playing computer games. But still, if you play too much it might get along with your real life, remember that games are meant to be played, it wasn't meant to play you.
Introduction
Console and PC gaming is one of the most popular hobby today, gamers are not just male or teens now, the number of female gamers are increasing gradually. Most non-gamers see this kind of hobby as a useless thing to do, a waste of time and will bring no good to an individual. But if we just look at the brighter side we can see lots of benefits from this hobby (but in moderate state).
Socialization
Most people say that gamers don't have social life, well that's true for gamers staying in their house and playing non-stop there, but there are type of gamers that uses LAN connected to play with other or other engine to connect online, this team play usually consist of a good team, and that team is composed of members that know each other personally and will play as a whole (physically) so they gather in a certain location and go to other towns to compete the best players there.
Teamwork
Most gamers know how to value their friends, because they experienced on the game they played that you need trusted friends to win or dominate in a game. That's why even in a non-game situation they can call their play mates to gather and unite for a common goal, like what happen in a contest, all of those 200+ gamers united to help their fellow mates to win a contest even though they don't really know each other personally or in real life.
Patience
This is a very important trait or a gamer, those who succeed in most strategy games requires high patience, that's why those players who can't wait usually die and they do not improve their gaming skills.
Strategy
Strategy is a vital skill that every gamers must possess, without strategy you can't win any game (except for hacked game or luck-based game). That's why gamers can easily think of an strategy for a real-life situation than non-gamers (most of the time).
Fast-Thinking
Games like Starcraft, DotA and FPS games requires fast strategy, and you need to think and react faster than a second in order to win a surprise attack, and most professional gamers got this, when they saw an enemy they need to decide quickly whether to attack, wait for some moments or to flee.
Stress Free
Well this is a fact that all of us can't deny, gamers have more peaceful mind (specially if they win), that's why this is called a "hobby" it means we enjoy doing this thing, and doing the things you enjoy will definitely erase your stress in life.
Personal Experience: During my HS years I usually have a hard time to decide faster, that's why I used DotA to train myself to create a strategic decision in the shortest time possible. In just a year of playing the game I noticed that my decision making skills improved dramatically. I also played tribalwars (my most favorite game), from that game I learned how to read people's mind and next move, I learned how to cooperate and to lead a group of people and how to get along with them properly (specially we are from different parts of the world) and I can say that even today I still use the benefits of playing computer games. But still, if you play too much it might get along with your real life, remember that games are meant to be played, it wasn't meant to play you.
