Online gaming addiction is claiming lives rapidly. Artificial intelligence games and challenges that force a participant to go to its very end are having a drastic impact on them.
Youth especially children and teenagers are glued to their mobile screens instead of their academic material. Starting from less harmful gaming apps like Candy Crush, Subway Surfers to more mobile games like Pokemon Go, ?Blue Whale Challenge, MOMO Challenge and now PUBG- have taken over the world.
These games provide millennials with an escape from their daily life problems. So much so that they get trapped in their fantasy world only.?
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds popularly called PUBG has now ventured into the gaming world and anyone who is remotely social would know that it is driving the youth crazy since its release in March 2018. However, as soon as it became an obsession, institutions became wary of it, given what gaming apps had done to students in the past.?
Among notices and circulars, the game is fomenting trouble for family members as well. According to a new incident based on a Facebook post written by a woman, a Malaysian man has abandoned his family for PUBG.?
Local media reported that the man left his four-month-old pregnant wife also. He wanted to play the game without any interference or nagging so he walked out of the family one day.?
This incident was reported by a website called ¡®World of Buzz¡¯ and the Facebook post has been written in the Malay language. In the post, the woman has reportedly said that her husband was introduced to the game by her sibling and got addicted to it. This further led to quarrels within the family as he would play the game all night long.
Reportedly, she concluded the post by saying, ¡°It has been a month since he has left us. We are now left with no choice but to support ourselves through any hardship that may come. Before he started playing PUBG, his personality was much more tolerable. However, the situation gradually grew worse from when he first started playing the game four years ago. Please pray that he will return to our family.¡±?
Though, it is still not clear if any official complaint has been filed with the police.?
Meanwhile, PUBG continues to create havoc in India. Vellore Institute of Technology, Gujarat government also issued a notice banning the game in all primary schools. In the most recent case, an 18-year-old boy in Mumbai allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself after being denied a smartphone worth Rs 37,000, to play the game.?
According to a UNI report, there's actually recently been a case of full-blown gaming addiction in India, thanks to PUBG Mobile. It talks about a fitness trainer in Jammu who reportedly began self-harming thanks to the game, and ended up in the hospital. Supposedly this is the sixth such case in Jammu.