Is Online Gaming replacing basic literacy skills in society?

Online gaming could be seen as causing a problem with literacy skills within society. This is due to the condition to which its based in. Its a game enjoyed without the 'real' person actualy there, normally through a head set. It's like a phone conversation though whilst playing a game at the same time, it could be thought of as normal, from eye of the beholder. Though is it clear to say that it isn't? Games such as football, or hide and seek involved participation and self co-operation. Gaming is an imaginative lifetsyle, not essentially in a good sense. Most games in this present time are violent and include weapons against one another. This is off topic. But i think in society there needs to be another method where the players could play together. that's what the adverts for these programmes tell us, though there is realy a harsh reality, of self indulgment.