He wasn’t rude to you. His words to you were actually very enlightening, and if you could get past your ego for a few moments and read back over what he has said, you may (hopefully) realize the greater truth that it seems in my opinion you absolutely haven’t yet realized.
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I didnt say they needed to control addiction. I said they needed to do a better job of disseminating addiction awareness and information. Blizzard is just my company im a fan of and im giving constructive criticism as to how to help their community.
Playing video games isn’t addiction. It is a hobby, and a healthy one at that.
The hobos outside wandering up and down the street with needles hanging out of their arms are addicts.
They have ruined their lives, and just bug people for change to get another fix.
Staying indoors away from all that IS A GOOD THING.
And is in no way even categorically on the same level as a junky addict.
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Listen, addiction is a real problem in the gaming world and those that take it seriously are those that i respect. If you dont want to take it seriously than dont post here. I dont know where its written that labeling someone isnt being rude. Please dont label people, its not nice.
Let’s be real - “play the game less” is the last thing Blizzard wants to encourage right now.
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I wish people were less flippant with the word addiction.
Indubitably so
You need to stop. I am not debating gaming addiction with you in any regard, nor have I. Don’t twist things.
My only issue with you is that you are judging how other people choose to live their lives. Earlier in the thread you approached another poster as if they’re some kind of really unhealthy person in need of intervention or something because they aren’t living their life the way you think they’re supposed to. And I read their posts to which you were replying, and there’s nothing whatsoever in anything they said to justify you approaching them like that.
Your intentions here may be good, but I am strongly opposed to your approach.
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My parents tried to get psychologists/therapists/and even a hypnotherapist to diagnose me with video game addiction. Ya know what happened? The moment anyone of them broke the news to my parents that I didn’t have an addiction, they moved onto the next psychologist/therapist. This repeated for several years all while I was taking junior college classes as well as adult ed courses. I also worked various jobs during the summer, but because I didn’t spend my free time watching TV with them, something was obviously wrong. My closest friend lived 25 miles away and they didn’t allow me to drive by myself at the time. I hung out with my friends at least once a week.
Sometimes loved ones think they are doing what’s right, but in reality you just don’t fit into that perfect picture they have of you, so something must clearly be wrong. Yes video game addiction can be real, but just because someone doesn’t go outside a lot, or only for the basic necessities, we shouldn’t automatically assume they are an addict in one form or another. My fiancee and I don’t have any friends because we haven’t quite met people like us who don’t beat around the bush with our feelings and tend to offend others when they are trying to hide the fact that they were in the wrong in certain situations. We’ve been called all kinds of names, which we are fine with because in most social circles we are exactly that. And since you don’t like us, we have no problem keeping to ourselves, laughing, and living life happy as clams…or turtles that made it to the water ![:rofl:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/rofl.png?v=6" ":rofl:")
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Remove all games and everybody will be fine. Seriously!
Personal addictions are a personal problem, imho. No amount of urging by Blizzared will keep people from playing long sessions. They could only allow 5 hours a day of access but then that wouldn’t fly either.
People need to take personal responsibility and if it’s kids you are worried about, let parents be parents. Tough world we live it but lets not go messing it up with forced interventions!
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Im not that type of argumentative person and you did just tell me to stop, so now its the pot calling the kettle black. I wasnt aiming my post at you so dont take it so personally. I was only commenting on the fact that now ive been labeled and thats not cool. You can make me out to be whatever you want me to be. In reality, im just trying to help people and discuss video game addiction.
If somebody is stupid enough to spend 32 hours straight gaming they deserve to be addicted
If nothing else, I do respect your good intentions. Have a good night.
I can’t go 32 hours without eating, drinking or using the bathroom.
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It is legitimately a serious issue. I blame videogames for a lot of social issues/anixety and im not nearly as bad as some people out there. I at least have the desire to meet new people and leave the house.
However, i’m still going to play wow 5+hrs a day lmao…wish i lived in a time without computers, seriously.
I think I’ve done that once in my life.
Which was one heck of a suite of medication, I tell you what.
Old mmo’s were easy to get hooked on. For starters many times you would have to play for days straight to stand a chance at obtaining certain items. I knew a person I worked with back in 2000 who spent a little over 50 hours camping nagafen in Everquest 1.
He did this for what was at the time BIS weapon for a paladin Fiery Avenger (pre epic weapons). Nagafen was on a semi random spawn of 24 to 72ish hours and dropped an item he needed. Not only that but he also dropped other really nice items that people coveted. I don’t remember how many people were with him camping it but raids capped at like 72 people. Not sure how many it actually took to take the dragon down at the time I imagine alot. Pretty much any time a raid boss spawned there were multiple guilds waiting to get them. Unlike wow nothing was instanced at that time so you had an entire server worth of people to fight with every time an important raid or named spawned.
Thing with Everquest there are items that can drop from very obsolete content that can still be desired for clicky effects. Even at max level an item meant for a mid level in classic EQ might have a clicky effect that gives them a damage shield, levitate, increased run speed, invisibility, etc.
As with WOW I can’t see how anyone would get addicted with the game in its current state.
I’m not saying I disagree. But this is an empirical question. And it needs data. You could just as easily say people with social anxiety are predisposed to losing themselves in a video game. Often what happens when people are very isolated, they don’t get the dopamine hits that normal people get from normal social interaction. So your brain only associates social interaction with negative experiences, not the positive experience that drives people to be social.
What are video games good at? Giving you those dopamine hits that you crave. Particularly games like WoW. It gives people a social experience where they feel they have better control. But also, just setting yourself goals, and working towards and finishing those goals gives you that hit you need.
Before we start just throwing around the word addiction, we need to show there is some causal connection to video games. And not just that video game “Addiction” is a symptom of deeper actual diagnosable mental illness. In fact I’d be willing to bet that the majority of video games “addicts” are either people that already have other undiagnosed mental illnesses, or they are just people that have nothing better going for them in their life.
There’s already a message on the load screen sometimes that reads “Remember to take all things in moderation, Even WoW!” something like that which is similar
Also, this thread makes me think of the addiction center commercials i see all the time lol “Addiction IS a disease, and Ya can’t go in it alone”
No one likes a quitter.