Comment by lazyjones

There are many good things to say about video games (after many studies about positive effects on brain development), but I've come to realize that there is also a huge downside: games satisfy your yearning for accomplishments and there seems to be a finite amount of that (one could say that they give you a cheap, false sense of accomplishment, even though what people achieve in games are often real accomplishments). So by achieving much in games, you will have less "hunger" left to pursue achievements elsewhere and this will potentially affect careers, relationships, self-development.