First of all, we can ask in reverse: Why are more and more college students addicted to games instead of reading, playing sports or cultivating other hobbies? Some people will say that because the threshold of the latter is relatively high, it takes a long time to cultivate patiently, and there may not be short-term feedback, but the game can provide a cheap sense of meaning through instant feedback. But the explanation is not finished here, because humans are not mice that have been crushing dopamine levers to death. Man is not an animal, and it is human nature to pursue profundity and sense of meaning.
When I was a child, I felt very happy when I saw a toy, but I felt bored after playing for a while. At this time, children may go to watch cartoons, which are more abstract than toys. After a while, I will find it much more interesting to play with students of the opposite sex than to watch cartoons. In short, with the growth of people's thinking ability, people will continue to seek and explore more advanced gameplay. For some people who have made achievements in this field, their work and study itself is a kind of "game", that is, an activity that can be self-sufficient, enjoy themselves and give feedback to themselves. This is of course an ideal state.
However, the above-mentioned process of continuous upgrading needs a premise that it will not be interrupted by external forces. If a person is never allowed to play freely, he will feel more and more that he is being himself only when playing games, because there are no teachers and parents to discipline him at this time.
However, during the long period of primary and secondary schools, students play games for a short time, which always makes him feel a sense of spiritual death: because he feels that his games (that is, his life) will be interrupted and suspended at any time, and his inner sense of freedom is bound by games, so that the stricter the discipline, the deeper it is, so that it is difficult for him to feel free even in other activities (more and more people have no patience to fall in love).
When he entered the university and lost his restraint, the fear of death still deeply affected him. He feels that he can't help playing games, and other things are even more boring, just like a dying person trying to stuff all kinds of delicious food into his stomach (similarly, why do many people do nothing in their ideal life instead of doing what they want to do, because they are often forced to do it when they don't want to do it). At the same time, his heart is full of voices criticizing himself, and he feels that he has no self-control and self-discipline ability.
But it is this kind of self-critical voice that makes it difficult for him to enter the next stage, and always lingers at the current level. Because everyone has a motivation of self-redemption and self-reconciliation: when I feel that a certain part of my heart is regarded as a bad boy, when I feel that I can't accept a certain self, I don't want to live a good life as a child, but I would rather stay in the state of a bad boy, because that is equivalent to killing that part of myself and making myself incomplete. Therefore, many college students are addicted to games, in fact, they are fighting against their inner voice of criticizing themselves and fighting for the recognition of personal freedom.
What they need most is not to preach, criticize and pressure, but to remove all external authority from their hearts and realize that I can do whatever I want, first of all, my own business (as long as it doesn't affect others). Even if I fail many classes and even fail to graduate normally, I can have confidence in myself, and I will not feel inferior, and I will not be ashamed of others.