We are all gamers here, and we love playing them. But at some point you have to draw a line between real life and virtual reality. With all of these internet Avatar games people will one day have a completely virtual life. People interact with eachother W/O even having an Idea of who they are talking to. The future of humanity might completely be virtual life. Games can become over-addicting. This is not the kind of future we want. What do you think about this?
i dont think we will end up in just virtual reality, but i do hope that one daw WoW will have Crysis graphics, that would be a miracle and i would most certainly pay $15 a month for it.
That might apply for some (like the Korean man who died after playing an MMORPG for 72 hours straight) but that won't be the case for the majority. Most likely such games will grow tremendously in scale and popularity but this wont be at the expense of the real world.
I am not crazy it was on discovery channel and you can't control an addiction. What im trying to say is that people are getting addicted to these games and DON`T WANT TO STOP PLAYING- YOU ARE MISSING MY MESSAGE!
We are all gamers here, and we love playing them. But at some point you have to draw a line between real life and virtual reality. With all of these internet Avatar games people will one day have a completely virtual life. People interact with eachother W/O even having an Idea of who they are talking to. The future of humanity might completely be virtual life. Games can become over-addicting. This is not the kind of future we want. What do you think about this?ugafootballfan1
I am not crazy it was on discovery channel and you can't control an addiction. What im trying to say is that people are getting addicted to these games and DON`T WANT TO STOP PLAYING- YOU ARE MISSING MY MESSAGE!ugafootballfan1
Games are fine if you do not over do it. It is an addiction to some but not to all.
Look, this is the last time im going to say it: You can't just stop being addicted to games- Just like somebody who did drugs goes into a rehab group addicted gamers also get in help groups to stop an addiction. People are playing too many MMO games and they get addicted.
Look, this is the last time im going to say it: You can't just stop being addicted to games- Just like somebody who did drugs goes into a rehab group addicted gamers also get in help groups to stop an addiction. People are playing too many MMO games and they get addicted.ugafootballfan1
Yeah you can with a will.... me and my brother used to be addicted to WoW like played 20 hours a day addicted.. we decided to quit and we ended up quiting. A human mind can do anything it wants if it truly desires it.
Look, this is the last time im going to say it: You can't just stop being addicted to games- Just like somebody who did drugs goes into a rehab group addicted gamers also get in help groups to stop an addiction. People are playing too many MMO games and they get addicted.ugafootballfan1
Some get addicted. most do not. you need to find a balence , just like with everything.
Your summarizing that everyone who plays games is addicted and everyone can't quit.... althought that is accurate, it is only about 40% of the crowd that has an addiction that they cannot control... but even they would be able to balance it if they had an inch of self control and a desire.
Look, this is the last time im going to say it: You can't just stop being addicted to games- Just like somebody who did drugs goes into a rehab group addicted gamers also get in help groups to stop an addiction. People are playing too many MMO games and they get addicted.ugafootballfan1
game addiction isnt like drugs, drugs are a physical addiction ur body actually needs them after a while but games arent like tht u can play a game constantly for a while and eventually ur gonna get bored and quit or beat the whole thing and quit or just play so long u just one day turn it off and dont turn it back on
In some internet-chat-life games their are millions of people playing them. I don`t abhor these games and I would love to play home on the PS3 im just saying that some people play them way too much. Im not necesarily saying everyone gets addicted, but more and more people continue to join in on these games (once again i know that just because they play these games they aren`t addicted to them).
In some internet-chat-life games their are millions of people playing them. I don`t abhor these games and I would love to play home on the PS3 im just saying that some people play them way too much. Im not necesarily saying everyone gets addicted, but more and more people continue to join in on these games (once again i know that just because they play these games they aren`t addicted to them).ugafootballfan1
OMG TEH WORLD is going to become A VIRTUAL WORLD OMG!:cry:
Not a real virtual world you freakin` stupid idiot-what im saying is that people are interacting online other than actually seeing them-DUH!ugafootballfan1
Not a real virtual world you freakin` stupid idiot-what im saying is that people are interacting online other than actually seeing them-DUH!ugafootballfan1
Your pretty much doing everything right now that you just described was bad.
[QUOTE="ugafootballfan1"]Not a real virtual world you freakin` stupid idiot-what im saying is that people are interacting online other than actually seeing them-DUH!pintabear49blue
What are you doing right now?
OH NOES! TEH DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND!!!!!!!!!! OMG! It is the end of the world!
my teacher said addiction to video games is not real, its more like a bad habit. like procrastination, its not like a drug (chemicals) that your body will need over time, its just something that you are inclined to do. think about procrastination, would you say you are addicted to procrastinating, or is it just a bad habit? gaming is the same, there are no chemicals for your body to get addicted to.
my teacher said addiction to video games is not real, its more like a bad habit. like procrastination, its not like a drug (chemicals) that your body will need over time, its just something that you are inclined to do. think about procrastination, would you say you are addicted to procrastinating, or is it just a bad habit? gaming is the same, there are no chemicals for your body to get addicted to.bojingles4393
Interesting to compare with procrastination. I am a very severe procrastinator. I always miss coursework deadlines, sometimes by months, and procrastination has come pretty close to screwing up my education. I can't really stop myself from procrastinating, its a frame ofmind I'm stuck in. It is not something I can just shake off, but depends on how i balance the value of the present me and the future me, so itdoesn't have much similarity to addiction.
[QUOTE="nintendo_fan675"]It's called self controlAdam-G
Thats sums up the answer. Some games are very addictive like World of Warcraft, but if you quit playing it for about a week you just forget about it
A week? it took me more then a week to get over it :(... it took me about 4 months of not playing it to fully get WOW out of my thoughts and out of my life.
I am not crazy it was on discovery channel and you can't control an addiction. What im trying to say is that people are getting addicted to these games and DON`T WANT TO STOP PLAYING- YOU ARE MISSING MY MESSAGE!ugafootballfan1
That's only if you have an addictive personality, I tried playing WoW for a couple months but quit. I love games but they haven't done anything bad to me...
[QUOTE="ugafootballfan1"]We are all gamers here, and we love playing them. But at some point you have to draw a line between real life and virtual reality. With all of these internet Avatar games people will one day have a completely virtual life. People interact with eachother W/O even having an Idea of who they are talking to. The future of humanity might completely be virtual life. Games can become over-addicting. This is not the kind of future we want. What do you think about this?Aljosa23
[QUOTE="Aljosa23"][QUOTE="ugafootballfan1"]We are all gamers here, and we love playing them. But at some point you have to draw a line between real life and virtual reality. With all of these internet Avatar games people will one day have a completely virtual life. People interact with eachother W/O even having an Idea of who they are talking to. The future of humanity might completely be virtual life. Games can become over-addicting. This is not the kind of future we want. What do you think about this?SorasGhost009
Jack Thompson, Is that you?
haha, yeah mista thomp has a gs accouint
OMG hes out to Get us again but this time from inside our social world!!!
Look, this is the last time im going to say it: You can't just stop being addicted to games- Just like somebody who did drugs goes into a rehab group addicted gamers also get in help groups to stop an addiction. People are playing too many MMO games and they get addicted.ugafootballfan1
So there are people who were addicted to cigarettes and finally quit because they wanted to get rid of the addiction...
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