Back in the early days of playing games, people did stuff together in the same room, played video games, talked to each other, share information about games they learned, read magazines about tips and tricks and even helped each other out. Fast forward to present times where the internet is super huge to almost prominent in everyday life (not to everyone) where instead of going to some friend of yours to get some help on a video game you get stuck at, you go to youtube and watch a video of some person who looks like they been playing the video game even before is released and showing off so much is like they worked on the game, and the game has just been recently released.
Instead of asking your friend "hey, come over, I wanna show you what I found out in the new final fantasy game" You instead can simply turn on twitch to show a live broadcast of a game, record all evidence, make some silly compilation video that gets attention and upload to youtube and other sites. Instead of inviting your friend over to play video games with them, you instead send them a invitation through the game network and play without leaving your house, making such things like social interaction a new dynamic.
So some good things, you can play games with other people from around the world, think everyone in america isn't good enough for your Street fighter skills, well play against someone from Japan, or England, or Italy, or wherever. Meet new people, make new friends across the globe. Wanna watch some people who play games you never heard of cause of failure to localize them like Puyo Puyo or tetris? Go find someone on twitch or Youtube who plays them, cause they have it there. Yes, admitting that the internet evolved allowing lots of nice things made easy.
But what about the bad? People don't bother inviting people over to your house cause you can just "Meet them online" or something, no need to spectate when you can just literally watch them live broadcast. Remember when you was 5 years old, and your older sibling was playing a game, telling you how to play cause you wasn't as good as they was? Welcome to live broadcasting where I like to call it the "Older sibling simulator"
So I got two questions for you, do you feel the internet ruined or improved social interaction? Second is what is your opinion in modern 2017, you maybe want it to be more like it used to with the way people handled playing games or are you fine with the way it has become? Honestly is not my best written topic since I am struggling to find proper words for better clarity as well there being people who optionally do both what was described above and find none of this a problem, or just don't care at all.
Instead of asking your friend "hey, come over, I wanna show you what I found out in the new final fantasy game" You instead can simply turn on twitch to show a live broadcast of a game, record all evidence, make some silly compilation video that gets attention and upload to youtube and other sites. Instead of inviting your friend over to play video games with them, you instead send them a invitation through the game network and play without leaving your house, making such things like social interaction a new dynamic.
So some good things, you can play games with other people from around the world, think everyone in america isn't good enough for your Street fighter skills, well play against someone from Japan, or England, or Italy, or wherever. Meet new people, make new friends across the globe. Wanna watch some people who play games you never heard of cause of failure to localize them like Puyo Puyo or tetris? Go find someone on twitch or Youtube who plays them, cause they have it there. Yes, admitting that the internet evolved allowing lots of nice things made easy.
But what about the bad? People don't bother inviting people over to your house cause you can just "Meet them online" or something, no need to spectate when you can just literally watch them live broadcast. Remember when you was 5 years old, and your older sibling was playing a game, telling you how to play cause you wasn't as good as they was? Welcome to live broadcasting where I like to call it the "Older sibling simulator"
So I got two questions for you, do you feel the internet ruined or improved social interaction? Second is what is your opinion in modern 2017, you maybe want it to be more like it used to with the way people handled playing games or are you fine with the way it has become? Honestly is not my best written topic since I am struggling to find proper words for better clarity as well there being people who optionally do both what was described above and find none of this a problem, or just don't care at all.