The Online Games Industry, The Moral Horizon

Game is a basic way of human existence and activity, and it has profound cultural value. The traditional games were the favorite entertainment for Chinese children. Their simple features brought great pleasure to countless children. Along with the development of society, the status of the traditional games has always been changing. Chinese economy is developing very fast, and people and their family structures are changing greatly. The popularization of computer and the internet arouse great changes to people's daily life and the way of entertainment. The tide of the net games cannot be inhibited by anyone. By the comparison between the net game and traditional game, we have found the causes why children like the net game, and the causes are just the features of net game. They meet the children's needs in different ranges, for instance, loosing the tension, releasing the emotion, allowing the anxiety and accumulating the optimism. At the time when there were no computers and the internet, all the mental needs can not be satisfied in a lower stage, and now net games attract lots of participants, especially teenagers. But now more and more students neglect their studies, and their spirit as well as their health are harmed, which have brought tragedies to countless families and the knotty teenagers moral problems to the society. Net games have brought about great impact and challenge to youngsters sense of morality in an unprecedented scale. So while the net games are developing in a amazing speed, they will arouse countless disputes, such as how the net games should be developed and whether the net games should be industrialized. The doubts and public sentiments make it difficult for the net games to develop. Some encourage it, some hate it. When we calm down from the criticizing to net games and when we regain consciousness from the net games mythology, we should realize that the moral analysis for net games and their industrialization is much more important than the debate of whether the net games are beneficial or not. We should know that net game is a troublemaker and at the same time, it has brought about many positive effects and promote the progress of cultural value and ethical morality. The net game is a kind of impact to traditional ethical morality, so the censure without suggestion will not help. What we should do is seeking all possibilities, from any aspects concerned with the net games, such as the superintendence of the government, the virtuous development and self-discipline of the industry, the strengthening of the youngsters' morality, to help the net games develop in the correct direction.