Communication Behavior of Former Online Game Addicts Based on a Religious Perspective

Abstract

Online games have quite a big influence on the people who play the game. People nowadays are used to using gadgets to play online games. Online games have become a new trend that is in great demand because someone no longer plays alone (single), but allows playing with dozens of people at once from various locations (multiplayer), even in other parts of the world. As a researcher, I want to highlight the negative side of playing online games, of course, this impact is not expected by anyone who plays online games. However, in reality, this negative impact continues to be felt by users, because the effects of addiction make it difficult for users to stop their habit of playing online games. Based on concerns about this, researchers have not yet received research results that discuss how online game users can stop this habit. Because of several previous research literature, all of them are only suggestions that can be applied to online game users. No one has discussed research on how former online game users can change and survive their addiction to playing online games. So of course the results of this research can not only be used as advice but can be proven and put into practice by anyone who has the same background, namely the difficulty of getting rid of online game addiction. Researchers consider this research important because research on the influence of online games from the perspective of former users or survivors has not yet been found to have been researched. After all, something is interesting that happens when someone manages to survive addiction to online games, it will have the impact of extraordinary changes in their life. In connection with what has been explained, the researcher intends to examine the communication behaviour of former online game users or survivors, to study, explore, and analyse how communication behaviour is formed from changes in habits made by online game survivors based on a religious perspective.