Get real - gaming in the real world

SPORE!

...that is all...

I’ve clocked 124h:51m:16s on Elder scrolls IV: Oblivion and some time I wish there was a
*Ding* “A friendly reminder that your gaming session has exceeded: X Hours. It is now 4:43AM”

Man, speaking of crazy addicting games...Iheard that some kids in Korea (south obviously), actually Literally died from playing WoW so much. Appearantly their parents thought they were sleeping when they were playing, and after skipping meals and getting 4 hours of sleep in 14 days, the body is so weak that a common infection or flu, even an episode of food poisoning, can actually kill you!!!

I don't know how acurate this is and I'm not sure where I heard it but atleast i can validate that It is very possible. Ok so the game didn't necessarily kill them directly, but it caused them to lose so much sleep and nurishment that a simple cold leveled em' off!!

And I'm sure the companies will protest against regulation timers, but something should be done to keep people sane. I'm actually starting to think that some people might have somekind of undocumented psycological condition where they litterally are incappable of stopping something (like playing a game), and for those people there should be some kind of test they have to take to determine wether or not they have it before they can purchase the game.

Or I could piss millions of people off and hopefully save some teens social lives by writing a virus that renders every online persons copy of WoW useless...

But they might arrest me...or worse.

No here it is, with every copy of WoW purchased, a mandatory PCI card should be sold with it that has a web cam with a tiny hidden sleeping gas dispensor that attaches to the top of the monitor via the PCI card which has the sleeping gas tank and pump on it, With an internal clock that puts the gamer to sleep after a certain amount of play, regulated by a clockchip on the PCI card. And the card would have to be onstalled otherwise the game won't work.

{jusk kidding}

And i'm sure it's not just WoW that's the culprit, I'm sure it's loads of other games too.

And i've seen Dateline NBC special reports, and Nightline documentaries on husbands with kids and a wife that loved them who were divorced because all the husband did all day was play video games.

I'm sorry but If you are over 35 years old and have less than 1 million dollars you should NOT be playing video games, you should be working and raising a family.

CONSPIRACY THEORY: the government really made WoW and are gaining control of us, our minds, making us digital zombies and the game is just a portal into their mindcontrol network.

{just kidding} :p :)

YEAH, actually, I agree more with eddtox.

It really isn't the games it's the people who can't control themselves: Maybe there should be some kind of diagnostic test when you install the game that automatically determines if you exhibit enough self control to decide how long to ply for before it has been too long. I havn't any clue how that test would work acurately though.

NO SERIOUSLY here's the solution...If you purchase a new copy or if you already have the game it won't matter. The player must agree to a 2month monitoring period where the user's gaming habbits are uploaded to a server that monitors how long each person plays the game during those 2months. Than maybe doctors or some kind of special analists decide which users have tendancies to play for too long, and then restricts them with a clock system set to various limits based on the extent of that particular user's habits/abuse. THAT would work pretty well acutally, and people wouldn't complain unless they were the ones that got restricted. :( It's all such a mess.

Yea but when you get a new game you tend to play it a lot more than you would normally so it doesn't accurately represent your habits. I'm not sure thats its ever going to be possible to find an adequate solution that everyone is happy with.

So Im not the only one with WoW addicted friends. My friend and his brother play it all night and sleep all day. Some people just get way too involved.

This whole article reminds me of the family guy where the fcc was censoring everything. Good read though.

Originally Posted by speedfreek
My friend and his brother play it all night and sleep all day.

My brother used to do the exact same - we eventually found out that it was because all his friends on the game were American (as he played on a US server), so he slept when they did and played when they did.

This is kind of an interesting coda to the article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5191678.stm