In a speech responding to the shooting incident in Texas, US President Donald Trump blamed video games as the source of the trigger for these acts of terror.
Negative attitude towards video games as is often shown by most politicians in America. The impact of this shooting incident also caused ESPN media to postpone the broadcast of the Apex Legends tournament given that the tournament date and this incident were quite close.
Meanwhile, Walmart also got rid of ads showing elements of firearms. This includes video games with the FPS genre (First-Person Shooter) or promotions of films showing weapons.
Rod Breslau is a consultant at Sony Music, as well as a world-renowned reporter esports. He revealed that the well-known genre in esportsone of them first-person shooter.
According to Rod, the industry esports himself already emphasized that video games does not trigger violence for the people who play it. This topic has also been brought to the research table. However, the attitude of large companies that indirectly agree with the opinion of the general public, is actually a problem for the industry esports.
Seeing the many negative opinions from politicians, there are also many artists and professionals from around the world esports who came forward and refuted these claims.
This negative view has been around for decades. An example of an incident Columbine High School Shootings 1999where at that time video games not yet well known, and games that use dice like Tabletop have become scapegoats for every social problem.
Multiple teams esports who rely on brand ssponsorship as a source of funding for their team’s operations. However, when an incident occurs then the sponsoring company is also “awakened” and will pay more attention to how their company logo is displayed in the competition games genre ffirst-person shooter.
Let’s peel the journey video games who have been dragged into a similar issue.
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) – Cult of supernatural beings
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), a games An ancient RPG that was popular in its day, it is said to be played together (by offline of course) with players sitting at a large table, using dice and manuals to explain the rules of the game.
At that time, when digital games still primitive in the form of squares, like Pac-Man, already exists games Dungeons & Dragons that can play a variety of characters like the current MMORPG genre, such as mages, knights, or thief.
Not only that, the playable character can also use magic attack and armor equipment. Then there are also exploring missions dungeons while fighting monsters like quest in games RPGs now.
However, the main difference with video games right now it was the D&D players of those days needed to use the manual and understand the instructions to determine the shape dungeons and the types of monsters in it. Then they have to roll the dice every time they do magic attack to determine the struggle of their characters.
After they complete the mission, later playable characters can also go up level and get status upgrade strength, agilityand intelligence. This change in status will be recorded using writing instruments on a paper for the next round.
For people who see it roughly, there are those who think of this book as a book of worship of demons or supernatural beings, then those who read this book will risk becoming murderers and making their victims as offerings to demons.
Because each D&D round is quite long, players often gather for hours in a closed room discussing the name of the monster, carrying a book that contains it. magic, and when players are very enthusiastic about playing a character they play wearing a wizard’s hat and cloak.
Same as games Popular computer RPGs today when on missions, they will fight monsters, explore haunted places inhabited by supernatural beings. Though this is just a game, or if people who understand the language gamingthis is ghost type dungeon missions.
The real problem
For ordinary people, telling the plot of the game earlier will also make them even more panicked. This problem occurs from people who are too quick to blame things.
The main goal of these politicians is not to find solutions to problems, but to make short and simple campaign slogans so that their supporters can easily understand them and they will be elected in the next election. their goal is not for solve the problem, but get votes in order to rise to the leader’s seat.
There are also some of them who are already sitting in the leadership chair and their aim is only to create a new slogan for the next election.
The slogan that is often thrown around reads like “ban some types” video games containing violence.” Messages like this contain short words and clear goals so that easy for people remember.
When compared to long slogans promising legislative changes to gun ownership, slogans like this are difficult to digest because of their obvious goals.
Moreover, changes like this are often blocked by other politicians who get a lot of donations from organizations that lobbied for firearms regulation.
This is my article. Thank you for taking the time to read this article. Hopefully this article can make you know why this issue keeps popping up every time there is an act of terror in the United States.
As the author of this article, of course I am aware that this article will not be 100% accepted by everyone, there are bound to be those who disagree with some of the points above.
If there are criticisms and suggestions that you can add, please write your comments below.
(Source: The Esports Observer; Edited by Satya Kevino)
