PSA: A recent article was published on BBC talking about how some people spend upwards of 32 hours straight playing video games without eating, sleeping, or going outside their rooms. I find it a problem that blizzard isn’t pushing for more addiction awareness in their games. Simply giving people a tip saying to take all things in moderation isnt enough. How is this sufficient advice when gaming addiction is soon to be defined as a real addiction under american psychology?
I think blizzard needs to start telling people that games can be addictive and they can ruin your life it you arent careful.
This article also gives insight into a program called “Respawn” that can help you quit video games for good and lead a productive lifestyle.
Please seek help of you are addicted to video games by looking up the project: Game Quitters. They can help you put your addiction to rest.
They’re taking away portals so everybody gets a 5 minute chance to stretch their legs while they ride a long flight path every 15 minutes of play time.
Actually, WOW is designed in such a way that the more you play the less you get per time spent. It’s a game with built in diminishing return per time spent, the longer you play.
Think about what value you get per 1 hour of playing wow.
You maximize it if you do 1 x Mythic+ a week for weekly cache box.
That’s it just 1 hour a week.
You can be spamming the Mythic+ all day everyday but eventually that mythic+ drops will get replaced with weekly cache box gears because their iLvL is always +10 higher.
You can be spamming all the WQs everyday or just do the daily emissary. Which is more time efficient? We all go through the phase of being passionate about something. It is something beautiful too when you think about it. How exciting life can be when you find something you feel so passionate about! And don’t worry. It’s just a phase. It won’t last forever and eventually everyone finds balance.
Some people have a really hard time finding a balance though. Its these people that need the most help. The only solution is to quit for good. You cant tell a person trying to quit cigarettes to simply cut back…smoking one cigarette a day is still bad for your health and it only keeps the addiction simmering. The only way to truly cease the addiction is to cease the action and replace it with something else that steers your mind off it thats healthy and productive.
I’m kind of afraid some of their ideas are seeping into ‘real’ games now, though… All the cooldown timers and gating stuff WoW has now worries me a lot.
I don’t know, I find it hard to get addicted to video games these days.
Everything is such a cash grab now. Remember those days when you paid $30-50 for a game and it kept you occupied for days or weeks? Now, you buy a game for $60 bucks for like 7 hours of gameplay.
Additionally, there are only so many stories they could spin now. Anything that could have been told has been told. Now, it’s just rehashes of the same story you’ve seen before. That’s not the fault of the gaming industry, it’s just that throughout time, much of the different story archs have been explored, multiple times.
I can play for like an hour before I get bored now.
World of Chorecraft is definitely not addicting lol. Unless you’re a masochist and enjoy grinding rep to unlock more stuff and running the same dungeons over and over again.
I liked the old system in BC or cata (tabards), where running dungeons gave you rep. That way, if you didn’t get any loot, ‘meh, farming rep anyway’. If you didn’t care about rep, no big deal, nothing was gated behind rep except the old Naxx raid, I believe.
hmm I see.
It’s not the addiction that’s the real problem though unless it’s drug addiction. It’s usually that individual needing to do some soul searching and figuring out what the real problem is. In most cases, it’s escapism from something. They need to find out what they are running away from.
It depends what level your at. Yes, i was addicted to this game for many years. I grew up and matured and found it necessary to lay the game to rest…only after college. What i read in the article though is, most of the time the addicition manifests itself when the person is young and susceptible to low feelings of accomplishment or self esteem and so video games are a wonderful outlet; however, they become addicting very quickly because the person starts to identify with his or her character. The addiction could cause a person to drop out of college or avoid going to college altogether or have their grades slip in high school. Quitting actually makes you feel like all the time and money you spent on the game was for nothing…the addiction pulls you back in if you dont have anything to replace it with because boredom and guilt sets it and then youre right back at it, tapping and clicking away for hours and hours.
It is the game. Its the game because the game gives you feelings of accomplishment you cant find anywhere else at the stage of life youre at. It becomes addicting because the more time and money you invest into the game, the more you feel inclined to keep the addiction going. To some people it becomes a need. It becomes the only way for them to feel accomplished and obtain a higher self esteem without venturing into the real world and actually becoming productive.
I’m not sure I see it as the only place though. There’s other games, there’s these forums which have wasted untold hours … there’s other things we also do - stream youtube or netflix.
I’m on a computer most all day every day, but ffs I drink and eat at least once a day.
Youre kidding right? People staying indoors is a good thing? People not socializing is a good thing? People not venturing into this wonderful beautiful world of ours and having new life experiences arent good things? Volunteering for a charity isnt a good thing…tutoring a kid in math isnt a good thing…cooking dinner for your parents isnt a good thing…dating isnt a good thing…and on and on and on
