The disadvantages would be that there would be:
- Social Isolation
- Excess playing time
- Concerns
- Cost
- Separation from reality
- Education
(1) The social isolation would lead to the gamer having less friends and less people to talk to, which can easily lead to depression for certain people. There are also games where you would socially be interacting with people such as the Sims, which would take over your need to communicate with others face to face. Also with these type of social games, it would take away the purpose of you to go out, so there will be some people who are capable of staying home the WHOLE day, and just play and feed themselves which is really unhealthy for them.
(2) The excess playing time could lead to the game consuming you, and taking all of your free time. Therefore, you would be busy with the game and have less time for reality which include work, friends, family and sports. Nowadays most single player game would take approximately 8-10 hours to complete which is quite decent unless you aim to finish the game all in one go. However, there are some MMORPG games which can literally consume all your free time as you can spend as much as 100 hours if wanted, as there aren't any limit, and you can always improve in that role playing game. This can be very bad especially for the busy type of people who haven't got the free time to hang around and play games as much as they want.
(3) There are concerns from others such as parents, teachers etc, because there are lots of games nowadays that encourage violence, such as Call Of Duty, Warhammer 40,000 DeathWatch and many others. These would encourage children to be more violent which would create problems for them and others, like they might start getting into fights in school etc. There are also games such as 'Bully', which directly show how the victim should defend themselves against the bullies, however there are others saying that this is just the player turning into the bully.
(4) Games nowadays are beginning to become more and more expensive, therefore its the parents who will have to pay up for them when they can simply just play outside for free. Although £40 games can be expensive for certain parents, its the price of the console which is really costly, such as PS4 which used to be around £300.
