![]() Lazy, perhaps however concentrating on the extreme cases as with other forms of media sells papers or makes people watch and this programme is no different. The fact that around half of UK households have a console, yet things like this a very rare shows how much of a non issue it is. Yet we don't see TV shows about those, or calls for them to be investigated.Īt the end of the day someone getting kicked out of uni, or not going to school, or losing contact with friends because of games is very rare. People can get addicted to shopping, TV, sports, excersise, working, sleeping etc etc. Of course I didn't expect anything else, but it was still disapointing.Īs for the actual "issue". I think it was poor journalism to be honest, focussing on the extremes and not presenting a fair representation at all. But I have a hard time imagining that other forms of gaming can be addictive. Since it is like having something of a second life, there is easily the potential for you to get separated from the real world. I remember playing SWG a few years ago, and so I can see the addictiveness of an MMORPG. Secondly I don't play all night long, because thirdly I still turn off the console to go and have drinks with my friends. One because it only happens on the weekend, it's the only chance I get to game. However, I quickly brushed the thought aside for several reasons. That made me wonder if I should consider myself a gaming-addict since I regularly experience the same thing. He said that one moment it was 15:00, and the next thing he knew it was 19:00 or 20:00. There was one point where I got worried, and that was when one of the "addicts" was talking about playing a game. Then I realised that the reason for that was that they were dumbing it down for people who weren't gamers, whereas I am a gamer. I found myself for most of the beginning smiling at the way things were being put. :( I'm probably going to try and get hold of it later and watch the rest. I started watching it last night, but then it cut off because I didn't realise I was watching a recording. The gaming mechanics point is pretty obvious to me but I suppose to others they need it spelt out how these random rewards are designed.I think he should have made an effort and shut the machine down when he had the reporter round - he came across as spoilt (someone seems to be paying for his habbit with all the good kit he was playing on) and not wanting to do anything else in his life. I laughed when the obsessed 20yr old was talking to the reporter when playing WoW. ![]() very sad but I feel that they weren’t stable enough in the first place to raise a family and someone should have intervened earlier like the single mother in the UK they mentioned. ![]()
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