Research On The Cultural Conflict In Online Game

With the rapid development of network technology and digital game technology,more and more players choose to enter the international game server to play games.Becausethe players can break through geographical constraints and interact with each other by using internet,the international server of online game has gradually become a huge virtual cross-cultural communication space.When the players from different regions and culturesmade cross-cultural contacts in game,they also caused cultural conflicts in the game.In this specialcultural conflict,we should pay more attention to the following questions.Why the cultural conflict with strong ideological and cultural prejudice happened inonline game which is just an entertainment media?What kind of game charactors will casue cultural conflict?What are the characteristics of culture conflict in online game?This research analyzed the cultural conflicts between Chinese and Western players in the international game server of Playerunkown's Battleground,and concluded the following conclusions:In the aspect of conflict characteristics,there are multidimensional conflict scenes and conflicting forms corresponding to different scenes,mainly including the conflict of players' behavior in the game and the language bias in the forum.The first outbreak of online games is interpersonal conflict between players,in this period the use of conflict between the two sides is mostly instrumental.However,with the escalation of the conflict,the use of the conflict between Chinese and Western players gradually changed from the tool type to the emotional type.At this time,a more intense ideological color began to appear in the conflict between the two sides,which eventually led to the outbreak of the fierce cultural conflict between the two major cultural groups in China and the West.The causes of cultural conflicts in online games mainly include two aspects:the communication characteristics of online games and the cultural differences between players.From the communication characteristics of the network game itself,the conflict nature of the game,the imitation of the game to the real war,the quasi anonymity of the game environment,the goal behind the game behavior and the weak normalization of the communication of the network game.The main reason for the player level is the cultural differences between the players.