Didn't some poor sap in Korea die of starvation because he wouldn't step away from the computer while playing WOW?
Aj_habfan said:
Aren't they technically the same thing?
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Drugs, shmrugs.
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| S.T.A.G.E. said: Didn't some poor sap in Korea die of starvation because he wouldn't step away from the computer while playing WOW? |
Wasn't this guy, was it 
I think I remember a story of a 10 year old (or so) boy throwing himself out of a building because something happened to his WoW account.
... Ah, here we go. He was 13:
http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/18/parents-suing-blizzard-for-world-of-warcraft-addiction/
LOL!
Well, After 3 years of playing I quit.
Went back to it for a month, and cancelled it again.
I must not have an addictive personality.
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halogamer1989 said:
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“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
libellule said:
u dont use a drugg, thatis true but there are still molecule in urbrain that are released and act when u are playing WoW Of course, I can't prove it, but I really really think there are some molecular pattern involved in any addiction phenomenon including video games. |
Yes, everything you do which you find pleasurable releases happy neurochemicals into your brain. That includes eating chocolate, extreme sports, having sex, etc. But there's a mile of difference between all of these activities and hard drugs. Anybody who's seriously trying to equate the two is just being sensationalist.
Part of me wonders if getting addicted to one of these relatively innocuous activities actually saves an addictive personality from latching on to something more destructive. My old man used to counsel a recovering cocaine addict, and I have yet to know any WoW players who stole their friend's belongings in order to pay their subscription fee.
If WoW really was cocaine, I wouldn't have dropped my subscription one month after buying the latest expansion because I found it boring. I would have gone through an excruciating detox period.
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Homeless dude that visited my appt. stole money in my wallet for a game card.
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I just realized something, I don't think I've ever heard of Cocaine. What system is that game on?
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