Wow, our tech-addicted brethren just can’t seem to get out of the headlines lately. We’ve talked about the Internet addicts, Blackberry addicts, email addicts, and now the focus is back on game addicts after a 26-year old gamer died following a online gaming marathon.
One can’t help but say… WTF!? Seriously though, let’s discuss this. I know a lot of people who have given up school and even their love life just to be good at a certain game. I’ve been through this when I was so addicted to Ragnarok back then. I can’t remember how many times I’ve fought with Mich, or how many times my grades slipped because of desparately trying to reach level 99 during late nights. But wait… there’s more!
Weird as it may sound, my life took a better turn when I got hack deleted. I’m speaking from the heart here so please don’t misunderstand anything I say in this post as being an official stand of Level-up Games (Disclaimer! XD). It’s not because I couldn’t play… it’s because I decided to focus on my career for a bit before I loose myself to Midgard completely.
China and Europe already treat young game addicts with medication, counseling, acupuncture, and even shock therapy, while Korea may be looking at a safer approach. Xtive, a Korean start-up, claims to have developed inaudible sounds that help game addicts quit their gaming sessions on their own.
The quote above is also from the same article. Isn’t it insane that other countries are using medication and my god, SHOCK THERAPY to cure gaming addiction? How does that go? Each time you touch a keyboard or mouse, a surgically implanted microchip sends out shock waves to your entire body? Come on, that’s just plain B.S. right there! If ever anything deserved a WTF, this one is king.
Drawing from personal experience and from talking with former game addicts like myself, the best cure for something like this is SUCCESS. Yeah, you read that right. SUCCESS. Either you succeed in a business venture, career, school, love life, or something else. The important thing is you balance your time so that you will be able to succeed at another field. Let me put it in gamer speak.
You know how good it feels with you pawn someone in-game? You know how GOOD IT FEELS when you kill someone in PVP, and scream “ASA KA BOY!”? You know how dominating it feels when you oblieterate someone in Quake with a missile launcher?
Take that feeling, and multiply it by a hundred. That’s what you feel when you are standing on your own two feet, earning money monthly from work and business.
I am a stern advocate of responsible gaming, and I’ll try to post more articles on time management if needed (LOL) just so we can wipe the negative image being set by some of our extremist gamer brothers and sisters.
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jaybz on March 18, 2007
Gamers should know when to stop themselves. I have experienced flunking the board exams because of reasons which partially is online gaming. Now I got my priorities straight and will be undergoing formal review starting June and a hiatus from online gaming maybe earlier than June.
chynie on March 18, 2007
lol even my professor know if im absent they know im playin RO :p
@Kizuna
hi girl, game and anime fan (“,)
@sir wauks
oh u met ur gf out of the game. that’s ok kc mdami nmn cases yan, like now sbi mo mglaro din kyo ng PW db. pero 22o nmn dami LOVE n ngstart s game, minsan kasal ang abot, sana ako din
Addict on March 18, 2007
@mhuu
Faeryn said: “We transferred servers 2 months ago, from Bonechewer (I miss some Tribo Habagat peeps) to Barthilas an Oceanic server.”
PaulTheBall on March 18, 2007
addiction IS addiction. every bit of detail that goes along with it is applicable to gaming addiction. pwede ang rehab! =) hehe
Hexeris on March 18, 2007
Mas mahirap pag sa babae ma-addict. Bukod sa mas mabigat sa bulsa, dadami pa ang mga panganay mo. Oppsss… LOL
Addict on March 18, 2007
@Hexeris
LOL hindi ba baliktad, sa mga lalaki mo dapat cnsabi yan.
Wauks on March 18, 2007
@Paul
I agree with you – pero did you check the article? Shock therapy is being used in some countries! (Wah)
DarkEros on March 18, 2007
sir panu manalo ng free CB account ng PW? i really like that game, kakatamad na sa RF kasi sa respawn bug hehe! yun lng
iCe on March 19, 2007
@DarkEros
The mechanics of the contest is posted in PW articles.^^
OFFTOPIC:
Do you guys know about POSO of Indonesia? They are know to be christian killers, they are so brutal. >.> They kill every innocent people even the babies. They slashes the head, cut the body parts, etc. There’s a video about the massacre, if you guys wanna see it here’s the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bo-ZRb1Edg
Wauks on March 19, 2007
@Ice
That’s too much information man. Lol.
Noa on March 20, 2007
Don’t let the game control you, you must learn to control the game. :3
LaN on March 20, 2007
I have been around with many games these past years. Close beta and Open beta there but it seems that every time I try to quit on a game, a new game sprouts out and as usual I wanted to try it out and hope that it will be my stable game. No luck.
I hope it will be PW or RO2 this time. XD
Jeffrel Mas on March 22, 2007
Kakasawa na kc mag RAN online pro broken promises ive spent a lot of cards na!!! T_T “starting something new” PW na saana un!T_T