It's a very complicate issue. While I wholehearteadly agree that the moral in games is a complete illusion (it's not common people doing stuff they ALSO think is evil, nine out of ten times people DO believe they have the right to act the way they do), games without moral choices seem very tedious to me nowadays. I really hope they discover more and more ways to add moral to games in forms that work better. Dragon Age moral system is 10x better than Fallout 3 one, and fallout is a new game by any standards, who know what they will be able to implement 3 or 4 years from now....
While videogame addiction is real, other thousands of specifical addictions are real too - if you think well, professional sportsmen are a clear type of addict: they left their studies and jobs so they could do something they felt good doing their whole time, and also destroyed their social lives in the process (later gaining a new social network, other people in their sports, much like a gamer and his favorite game's community). You probably could also find cases of suicides amongst professional sportsmen that where unable to play anymore due to some physical issus (I.E.). Their only luck is - someone pays them to do that and chicks like their bodies so they don't call'em nerds. Winning a footbal match also releases dopamine, or making money with a great contract. Us, as a society, need to determinate what is an addiction, and put that logic to work every time someone show that behavior towards ANYTHING, not just anything we personaly dislike. That said, again - yes, you can get addicted to games. Or football. Or paintball. Or TV. Or work. Or...
While those are nice, the US$ 300 tag is borderline bubbling retarded to me. Yes, 300. I'd NEVER buy just one of those, my guests should not feel like playing with a spoiled kid when I invite them over to play.
I could not care less. As long as professional reviewers get to test games and receive new info from the producers/softwarehouses... I'll never go personally to an E3 anyway.
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