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Recent years have witnessed the phenomenal rise of online games in Vietnam with a wide range of games continously launched on the market. Hundreds of online game services mushroomed in large cities to cater to thousands of game-addicted youngters. The proliferation of online games has spark a controversy over whether or not they should be facilitated. In my opinion, online games in VietNam should be banned outright to keep their harmful implications on the Vietnamese youth at bay.

Firstly, there exists in Vietnam a stark reality that more and more pupils and students spent days and nights playing online games at the expense of theirs studies. Mainstream newspapers in Vietnam have cited many stories in which pupils secretly play online games when they are supposed to be studying at schools. What is more, they even attain money to play by telling lies to their parents or stealing from others. In Vietnam, online games have long been the bane of many parents who have children.

Secondly, online games proved to be have addictive and detrimental impacts on those who play. Instead of taking part in social activities, game players stick to computer screen and communicate to other players through faceless nicks and avatars. They immerse themself in a fantasy world whereas eveything is unreal, digitally-designed and lifeless. There was a handful of reported cases in which exhausted players were sent to hospital due to playing too much yet sleeping too little. A sudden dealth of a gamer due to heart-attack while playing overnight has turned on the alarm bell to everyone over the inherent risk of online games.

Thirdly, Vietnamese gamer community usually boast their achievements in international contests. They heap much raise on little goodsides of online games while concealing its several drawbacks. They carve out a misleading image of a "pro-gamer" who earns thousands of dollars by just playing games. They intentionally obscure a fact that: Vietnam has yet to have a profession called "gamer". It is next to impossible to find out any online gamers in Vietnam who can earn their livings by playing online games days and nights.

On the whole, online games induces Vietnamese youth by giving them a surreal world where they can become heros from zero and exert theirs superiorities over other players. The reality will soon shatter their illusions and bring them back to the real world. Online game is nothing but a drug to Vietnamese youth and thus, they should be forbidden for Vietnamese youth's good.