Academic Performance of Dota Players

THE EFFECTS OF DOTA 2 TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UBAY NATIONAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS S.Y. 2015-2016

Fatima, Ubay, Bohol

(S.Y. 2015-2016)

Chapter (1)

RATIONALE AND BACKGROUND

INTRODUCTION:

Video Games are games that are usually played indoor it is a game that use visuals. It is a game with two types, the online games and offline games. Offline games are usually single played while most of the addictive kind of online games is MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online). The MMORPG commonly known as Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game is a branch of MMO and all MMORPG are MMO’s but not all MMO are MMORPG. These days MMO are very popular to students.

Dota 2 is one of the addictive MMORPG these days. Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game, the stand-alone sequel to the Defense of the Ancients (Dota) Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne mod (dota2.gamepidea.com). Dota 2 is played in matches involving two teams of five players, each of which occupies a stronghold at a corner of the map. Each stronghold contains a building called the "Ancient", which the opposite team must destroy to win the match. Each player controls a "Hero" character and focuses on levelling up, collecting gold, acquiring items and fighting against the other team to achieve victory. For other MMO such as Clash Of Clans or commonly known as CoC, to improve your own village or level up you should spend a lot of money just to have a faster development of your village, while for Dota 2 it’s based on your owns skill to improve your performance in the certain game.

Effects of video games towards the students, excessive amounts of time spent on playing online video games can be severely disruptive to school. With the growth of the Internet, more people have access to online games, one of it is the game called as Dota 2. Online gaming is a popular form of entertainment that influences the quality of life of players (Shen &...