Obsesssed?

Maplestory is a 2D, online multiplayer online role playing game developed by a South Korean company, Wizet. Although this game is a free onilne game, The creators made it available to players to change their appearance and enhance gameplay by paying real money to customize your character in a store called cash shop. There are over 100 accounts created on Maplestory and more than one million players have purchased items in "cash shop". In the game, players travel the Maple World, defeating monsters, leveling up their characters and develop their character skills and abilities. Players can also interact with each other by chatting, trading and playing minigames. And over the years, players playing this game have been absolutely obsessed with it. People would not eat, sleep or get off the computer until they achieve a certain level. People even steal money from parents and others just to purchase items in this virtual world. This game concerns me is that people are willing to commit crimes and stay on for countless hours just to improve their online characters. Recently they have added a marriage system into the game so that players can get married with each other. They also added something that if you play more 1 hour or more, the game is programed to send you this message "you have played Maplestory for _ hours. please take a break" by adding this they assume that players will take this advice and get off, but they aren't. More and more this game is changing into a reality based game and it worries me because our society will get lazy and treat their Maplestory life as their actual life. Although this game is fun to play, it is corrupting our minds.