Most of us have played different kinds of video games. For me, I seldomly play video games, still, I like playing Happy Farm. Happy Farm is an online video game that players can grow crops, trade with others, sell produce, and steal from neighbors. Happy Farm allows players to steal the others’ crops. And many critics claim that these farm games will distort the value of children. The Taiwan Education Department decided to ban Happy Farm in primary and secondary schools since this game encourages players to steal others’ plants to upgrade their level and earn money in a faster way. Besides, an employee was fired when his boss saw he played the Happy Farm in the working hours; and a girlfriend broke up with her boyfriend because her boyfriend forgot to water her plant [1]. Furthermore, a doctor refused to save a baby in his working hours because he was stealing the others’ plants, and the baby died in the end [2]. From these matters, we can see that children will affect by the farm games, even adults and professionals.
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[1] Facebook「開心農場」偷菜 台政府「不鼓勵」 提出「偷」改「租」 免混淆價值觀, http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/091019/4/erg4.html, accessed 20th October 2009
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