Persuasive Essay On Media Manipulation

“There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary (Brendan Behan).”

We gamer have that one game that we just love to death like Minecraft or Grand Theft Auto. Since that game got us through our hardest moments in life or maybe just brought us the most pleasure into our lives. Whatever the reason that we love our games we would fight for them to the end of time. And if anyone ever criticizes them without reason or told us they were just a really bad game and should have never excited. We as gamers would stand up for those games that we loved with logic, reason, and some very angry Reddit posts. But despite our informational and well-fought fights we don’t realize that we’re just being used to sell more of those very games, and

Even though shown from countless games that theses types of methods are not necessary. It’s all just a way to control the gaming communities today using them to invoke other gamers into fighting each other to define or to destroy games that don’t really need it do to their already great succession. In general video game companies have been manipulate media to sell more games when they don’t have to to do so to be successful, and such companies use methods such as violence, nudity, and gore to gain said sells.

One example of how that video game companies manipulate media is through showing that violence makes a game seem better. But before any company could use this method someone had to use it first. “[And] Scotland in the mid-’80s didn’t exist on gaming’s radar, but that didn’t stop full time student David Jones.” All he wanted to do was make his hobby into a dream come true but sadly “at the time there weren’t any local developers to hire on with, so Jones founded one to facilitate his “hobby” while he was finishing up a computer science degree” (“History of Grand Theft Auto”). Soon after DMA (Direct Mind Access) was created it was praised for some of their amazing games. Later Jones thought of a game, called Race-n-Chase, where you could play as a cop or a criminal. Now as the cop you could

They also just made the games because they thought it would be fun to do some of the things in the games that you could never do in real life just like GTA but with more blood and murders. Seeing that gore can cause media to get riled up over games makes it easier for gaming companies to use this method to gain sell over their game no matter the real reason they made their game for money or for the