Know anyone who plays too much Warcraft?

Originally Posted by Superion33

It really is an addictive game tho. Very addictive. They should do more studies on video games and their addictive nature. I hear Dopamine might be involved in establishing the addiction. If thats true, they need to monitor this so people don't become addicted to it.

Originally Posted by skyrinkfusion

yea, i always hear about varying degrees of addicts, but it boils down to how much self control a person has...and though I have never played it, its safe to say that it is the most perfect game i have ever seen. and for those not strong enough to overcome their control, they end up playing it every minute of every day. you hear all those stories of breakups, ruining relationships with family and friends, people committing suicide, people dying from exhaustion and others losing everything they ever had and not caring about it. i find it ludacris how Blizzard is still raking in billions as this kind of thing happens to their customers....they dont give a shit and thats what really pisses me off. I dont find WoW any more different than drugs, honestly, do you? The only solution I see to all this would be forcing Blizzard to implement the time-limit rule to every account to like 4-5 hours a day, it would give people a time off to still go to school, do their jobs and spend time with other people. Once you're willing to sacrifice all that for a game without remorse, thats when there's a problem.

Originally Posted by Smasher

Is it wrong that I ask my wife to be more like Poho?

Originally Posted by Zie

God no. Don't give the right wing nuts and overly liberal media anymore fuel to their "book burning" fires. The addictions from video games stem from people themselves, not the actual games. People can be addicted to anything, but that doesn't mean everything is addictive.



Drugs produce a chemical, physical dependancy in your brain that when that new chemcial isn't provided people will become physically and violently ill. Games produce an emotional and pshycological dependancy, filling voids in peoples minds that are caused by real life stress, problems or difficulties. Out of all those problems you hear about, they number in what, a few hundred, maybe a few thousand cases? That's a few thousand out of over 8 million players world wide. Is there not, perhaps a chance, that these problems weren't caused by the game itself and rather were caused by the people being messed up in the head to start with?

Let me just say, I don't play WoW. Never did, never will and certainly don't want to. I think that game is ugly as sin and wouldn't spend a dime on it. But I do have many many many friends who do play it and that I myself play an Online RPG as well (FFXI, ranked 3rd most popular MMO worldwide iirc). It's not the game that is the root of all the personal addictions and breakdowns, it's the people. Because everyone I know who said the game was addictive or plays too much or whatever has problems of their own out of game as well as in game. These games aren't the cause of the disease, they're the symptom as those who let the game take over their lives have problems with their lives they don't want to deal with.