With Fortnite being named as one of the new causes of divorces in the UK, PUBG and its mobile version have just as much a chance of being included.
Video games have always had a negative outlook among people. It has been frequently related to bad lifestyle, and gamers have been stereotyped as obese young adults who stuff themselves full of crisps and guzzle aerated drinks all day. This image has been somewhat debunked in the recent times with the advent of major e Sports events which have been broadcast all over the internet as well as TV channels like ESPN.With the growing popularity of online multiplayer games like Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, and tournaments being held all over the world all year long, gamers have somewhat redeemed their image where they are no longer looked at poorly. Gamers are people who are not just concerned about games but about their physicality as well. All major eSports teams provide physical exercise as a part of the schedule for their players.But even when gamers seems to have done away with a stigma that hovered around them, more reasons of concern have come up. Games are played for fun or seriously where the player wants to compete with others in a professional platform. And while becoming a pro requires rigorous and extensive practice of sessions lasting up to 10 hours and more, it has a serious impact on the social and family lives of players. After long hours of involvement, players find it difficult to concentrate on relationships.
Fortnite enjoys massive popularity on all the platforms that it is present on and the whole world seems crazy about it. But the new light shed on the effects it is having on relationships may be a damper. The World Health Organisation in its recent report has even characterized gaming addiction as a potentially harmful technology-related behavior.And while Fortnite is the most popular online game out there right now, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG in short, is also one of those games that enjoyed that status until Fortnite dethroned it. But it still remains the most popular after Fortnite and it is just as involving a game as Fortnite. Its popularity is particularly high on Android smartphones, given that Fortnite’s availability on the platform is limited.
While PUBG has a massive following on PC and Xbox (it is not available on PlayStation yet), it captured the mobile market soon after its launch recently and is reigning supreme right now. And from the looks of things, it won’t be long now before we will see PUBG Mobile being included in potentially harmful lists. This is because a smartphone is a much more commonly available device than PCs or consoles and is extremely portable giving access to it everywhere. This could mean that an addiction to PUBG Mobile could potentially ruin not just relationships, but affect the work done at workplaces as well.These research topics and findings in no way indicate that everyone who plays games does, or is affected by these things. Yet it does show the potential that it has to create situations that throw life elements into jeopardy.