Video game addiction exists, in 2007 a study was conducted and it was found that almost 12% of participants in a study of 7,000 people were diagnosed with video game addiction . If this trend reflects larger population numbers, we may be in a deep hole. Video games can be played at all ages, causing a larger population of gamers, this leads to more and more people becoming addicted, making it difficult to maintain the gaming world. While video games are fun to play and are a great way to build relationships, video games are addictive because they cause long-term physical health complications and ultimately cause difficulty socializing and engaging in the real world. Psychology plays an important role in video game addiction. it tells us what causes addiction and the mental side of addiction. A reward system governs how our brain feels when we do something, whether it's a chore, a chore, or anything that results in a reward. This comes into video games giving us that feeling of reward whenever we do a task in the game, we expect to always get a reward from something. The American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, a manual that classifies mental disorders, lists Internet gaming disorder as "a condition that warrants more clinical research and experience before it can be considered for inclusion in the main book as a formal disorder". Gentile says games are so addictive because they satisfy an “ABC” of human needs. ABC stands for, A is “Autonomy, we feel like we are in control.” B is belonging, feeling connected to other people. EC is competence, we like to feel that we are good at what we do," he says. Others may say that playing video games every day for hours is a nuisance. I would like to play... middle of paper... that's why I think that companies that make gaming systems have to put a time limit on how long we can play, a week or a day This will not only reduce the numbers enormously, but will also help health and social problems that video games aren't addictive because they're just a hobby, it's like saying I'm addicted to football. I would like to be addicted to football, I would feel fit and maybe develop my skills to play at a higher level Sure, there are video game tournaments and much more, but you can't turn that hobby into a life that video games are not addictive, all in all the symptoms, the health problems and the social problems, there are so many different types of addiction that it may not seem like a person is addicted to heroin but take their gaming system away for a month and tell me they won't go crazy.