Firaxis is sooo screwed -- Judge: Video game addiction suit can go on

Thormodr said:
Weird. Lineage II is a South Korean game and you'd think that'd they would have warnings about game addiction. I remember hearing about a guy that died in an internet cafe (called a PC Bang in Korean) after playing for basically 72 hours straight or how a couple abandoned their infant at home to get in more playing time at their local internet cafe. Pretty bizarre stuff goes on in South Korea. :eek:
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:dubious:
 
Won't have such luck with Civilization: you can save any time you want and everything is so nicely segmented into turns, so it's not like you're losing anything by leaving the game early ;). And yet...that red blinker taunts me constantly!
 
mrhell said:
5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_1846...trying-to-get-you-addicted.html#ixzz0xvIWaBBq


http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html
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wow, a link within that link has a real interesting article. I like how the guy avoided naked boobies to get to level 40 in Everquest.

I'm a recovering World of Warcrack addict. I fall off the wagon occasionally. But my focus lately has been women and having a real life. The above article pretty much shows why I'll never join another online rpg. Not that they are all bad. There are pretty worlds to explore. But raiding and excessive pvp in particular are just plain bad. Grinding away at level 80 for what? It's not like you are seeing new areas, you are seeing the same thing over and over again pressing the same buttons over and over again.

I still have the urge to go back. I'm struggling trying to find a new gf. Sometimes I think of giving up and drowning my life in video games again. It was an escape from reality for me like the article says. But I'm not giving up this time.

As for civ5, I don't know how I'll find time to play it. Having a real life is time consuming. Keeping up on facebook alone requires some time. I'm chatting with several different women at once trying to get something started. And I'm terrible at time management. I don't know when I'll have time to play civ5, but I want to so much. :(
 
Only in America could something like this happen.
 
-- which kind of shows how ridiculous the drug war is, considering how people will complain about anything as an addiction nowadays.
 
I always knew Korean grindfests would, somehow, destroy gaming as we know it.
 
Psyringe said:
Btw, Civ4 would have been relatively safe - while they did make "one more turn" into one of their main marketing slogans for the game, it's one of the very few games that let you display the real-world time, and even set an alarm. I wonder if Civ5 retains this feature. :)
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Yep, one of the best features of Civ4 in my opinion was the built-in alarm clock.

Also, Civ has the advantage of not being a game you can play indefinitely because it will naturally come to an end when you win or lose, at which point the addiction has to be replaced by a kind of meta-addiction like trying to get the best possible score
 
Disgustipated said:
I'm a recovering World of Warcrack addict. I fall off the wagon occasionally. But my focus lately has been women and having a real life. The above article pretty much shows why I'll never join another online rpg. Not that they are all bad. There are pretty worlds to explore. But raiding and excessive pvp in particular are just plain bad. Grinding away at level 80 for what? It's not like you are seeing new areas, you are seeing the same thing over and over again pressing the same buttons over and over again.

I still have the urge to go back. I'm struggling trying to find a new gf. Sometimes I think of giving up and drowning my life in video games again. It was an escape from reality for me like the article says. But I'm not giving up this time.

As for civ5, I don't know how I'll find time to play it. Having a real life is time consuming. Keeping up on facebook alone requires some time. I'm chatting with several different women at once trying to get something started. And I'm terrible at time management. I don't know when I'll have time to play civ5, but I want to so much. :(
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This is why I bought a laptop for civ 5. Just so hopefully I can get other things done while playing, instead of being glued to the desktop and getting nothing else done.
 
AlpsStranger said:
I always knew Korean grindfests would, somehow, destroy gaming as we know it.
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Having lived in South Korea for nearly 6 years, you are right on the money for that one. :lol:
 
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