PUBG - Boom or Doom?

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PUBG, A BOON OR A DOOM? A DEBATE BASED ON TREND
RESEARCH
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• All sorts of video games set its standards and
  never go out of fashion. Especially, it has its
  fan followers. Well! They are probably youngsters
  and kids..! However, a video game will be lost
  its charisma over time, when a new game getting
  popped up in the market. In my childhood days, I
  heard mostly about God of War, angry birds, candy
  crush, Pokémon Go. People were fond of playing
  that. And now, its PUBG. First of all, what is
  PUBG? It is a Player Unknown Battle Grounds.
  Moreover, it is a multi-player shooter game and
  it is played only on mobile phones.

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• Are there any pros in playing PUBG? Will it
  impact your life positively or negatively? Is it
  a boon or doom to society? The answers depend
  upon the playing users and non-playing users.
  Before coming to this QA part, certain sights
  might disturb us a lot. We could see people
  playing this game in a very keen manner, such
  that they almost forgot the surroundings. Even on
  a crowded train, they are very much fond of
  playing this game.

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• Impact in Nationwide
• In India, Millichronicle reports that Gujarat
  banned this game and the proposal is raised for
  banning the game all over the country. A heavy
  drop in the academic level of children who could
  not handle this addiction is the major reason.
  They made a comparative analysis before and after
  PUBG and found the above analysis, which is a
  serious impact on kids as well as their parents.
  Furthermore, youngsters are posed to serious
  psychological problems like stress, loneliness,
  violence, short temper, etc. In addition to this,
  there is a drastic change in their behavior
  towards family and most importantly no sense of
  responsibilities from their side.

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• Current Ph.D. Researches
• Recently, there are so many PhD research topics
  that are done based on psychosocial impacts on
  PUBG in India. One such research paper The
  Psychosocial Impact of Extreme Gaming on Indian
  PUBG Gamers the Case of PUBG analyzed many
  psycho-social related issues and provided as a
  survey. Another PhD research paper Internet
  gaming disorder in children and adolescents
  provides a systematic review of children who are
  the victims of IGD Internet Gaming Disorder.
  Upon seeing those observations, there are some
  shock results on how these games are stringent to
  this society.

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• In fact, WHO states that playing a game is often
  recognized as a real mental disorder. Finally, to
  conclude this topic and provide justification of
  the same, Yes it is a boon for the founder of
  the game and doom for the society. The
  government should take serious steps to prevent
  the younger generation from this evil-deadly
  game.