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General: Man Dies After Gaming Binge
Szark
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Reuters is reporting that a man in China has dropped dead in an internet cafe after a 3 day online gaming binge, although the names of the games he was playing were not released.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.
The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital from the Internet cafe, local authorities were quoted by the Beijing News as saying.
"Police have ruled out the possibility of suicide," the newspaper said, adding that exhaustion was the most likely cause of death. It did not say what game he was playing.
Read the full story here.
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Can I have his stuff?
Again! dam.
saw that one comeing long ago
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Dude, let's camp his house!
what did he drop?
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everyone /random 100 for his loot
Get a life..good greif .. NO GAME is more important than your health!
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
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I want to know what game he was playing.
Also, I get the dagger if he drops it.
Serious death penalties makes every close call an adrenaline rush, and every minor achievement a major victory. This alternative rule-set should be in all MMORPGs.
Feel sorry for his family and friends for their loss, but it's not really much to do with something like this. It's up to each other to limit their own play time.
Joking around with this topic I think it's real tasteless.
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Get with it...this is two day old news... read all about it here.....
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/148172
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In related news, men died of 3 day crack binges, 3 day drinking binges, and 3 day jogging binges, but oddly enough, nobody cared.
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Does anyone else agree that the most important part of the story is what game he was playing?
he died after a 3 days world of warcraft session..
if you dont sleep, then your organs cant regenerate and your heart stops pumping...
no sleep = organ failure...
"You must be either retarded or a fanboi..."
I hope that all Americans are smarter than this, because if not; when the news hits that an American died of non-stop gaming; you can bet that some Government Representative is going to want to pass a law of regulating the amount of time any one person can play online games...
If an American has already died because of too much gaming in the past... then don't post it or mention it. Just keep it quite and keep it under the rug.
And that is why...
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Wow i have seen it all somebody dieing from a gaming binge. I wish i knew what game was so addicting i would like to play it, apparently its like heroin with the needle
May the force be with you
They didn't mention wich game.. but I think it was WoW. but really sigh...
I was going to post that this stupid story was going to be more ammunition for the 'All games are evil' crowd until I realized something.
This is China. They don't have free media, they have state-run propoganda machines. And many Chinese officials want to curb video game usage because they are part of the 'All games are evil' crowd.
How much would anyone bet this entire thing was a fabrication? Or at least a twisting of the facts? Since we don't know what game he was playing there's no way to ask any company to provide actual evidence of how long he was online.
Convenient that the politcos can now point to this story in their speeches about why they need to repress more freedoms of their populace.
They joke because they fear... we all know we play more than we "should"
I imagine his family and friends lost him long ago.
I think it should be restricted, nothing stupid, just to like 12 hours per 24 hour period... but then again, i think that cars shouldn't be built to go past 70mph (UK speed limit) anyway
Save us a lot on taxes!
I'm pretty sure this is just the same incident that happened about two years ago... If not, they were probably related.
It wasn't WoW, at least not last time, it was some RTS.
I bet it was rappelz
just three day? What a wimp.
On a more serious note, this is far from the first time this has happen in not only China ( I think this make the FIFTH known case in China alone) but also Korea and I believe there has been a couple of reported cases in the Philippines. And the fact that the Chinese government has put time limits on gamers in their contry is old news, the fact that this is even news is weird when as one of the other posters said there are people going on more serious binges then video games.
As to what game he was playing I'd bet it was WoW or Lineage 2, both are very popular in China.
I would also add that the game had nothing to do with his death, guy had some serious freakin' issues beforehand to be playing for 3 days straight. Not to mention why didn't any worker at the cafe say anything? If he really did play for 72 hours straight wouldn't he .. umm.. begin to get a bit ripe?
Suprised some nitwit newsperson or clueless politician hasn't jumped on the Bash Gaming Bandwagon yet after hearing this.
Now, I typically have libertarian views, but at some point, the ownership of a 24/7 cafe should have the sense to tell someone that they've had enough, just as a bartender should know when someone has had enough to drink. Of course, if the guy was going from cafe to cafe, not much you can do about that... Darwinism at work.