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MMO the Next CRACK
Zamenity
Member Posts: 23
Guys, I think it's obvious that their is a huge war on capital hill. And it's on Games! You hear mass media take its swipes at games as being addictive! And a Time sucker. Where parents ingnore there children. Fathers lose there jobs. And the reason kids get aweful grades. Many times media even goes into some gammers home that looks like pent up TRASH. Asking about what games they play. Just to critisize the horrific sight of laziness.
Goverment Officials has numerous times talked about placing restriction limits on how much time should be aloted to MMO games. Placing auto shut downs for people who play them to long. They have even gone as far as talking about taking children way from people who play too much MMO's, and even giving gammers fines as much as 500$. For excessive gamming abuse.
2 State Rep even gone as far as saying, "I would like to see games ban'ed for young teanagers." As the other rep budded in saying, " No I would even go farther and say I would like to see them ban'd permenately. The MMO style games that is!" As the war grows so does Unemployment rates. Children just dont want to get jobs cause the cave in their parents house is just too much comfiee.
I am bringing this topic up. Cause this was from 2006 the official begainning of our current Econemic Crises. So I ex-ed out all this data. And I say this is how you messure your MMO madness
MMO DEF CON LEVEL BLUE AMITURE-
Signs being "oily hair. Slightly broke. No dates in more than 2 years. Trashiee Room. Talks back to parents. Over the age of 18.
MMO DEF CON LEVEL RED ALERT-
Signs of living actual life like a video game with mild confusion that clicking buttons is how you make real money. <-- Actually happend to me.
Forgetting current actual age. <--- Also happend to me at some point.
Thoughts of ripping off other people is a legal way to make quick cash. As lots of MMO players do this with out consequinces, you will find your self in jail in the real world. <--- Actually thought this was legal because I tricked a guy to sign a contract that they didn't read that tied them into giving me 200$. Yes, I blame this on video games because these type of actions I did in EVE online so much I thought it was truley legal.
I am not joking when you play games too much these signs will occure. Cause this is due to a conscience change in brain function from lack of real world experiences.
MMO BLACK OUTS -
Thoughts of Robbing banks to fuel the cost of your game playing habbits. (this is different than actual crack usuers. cause Crake usuers rob other people. The MMO player just thinks they can truely do the things they do in games. Anyone who play massive amount of a single game will hit this point where they have to catch themself saying hold up there self... I got to lay off the games.)
Other signs of what I have experianced. just a little to creepy to tell.
Alright, thankyou for reading my post I actually had to waste time while my MMO was doing maintance. TY for reading but no bothers with respownces cause my MMO maintance will be over. And I wont be here to read replies.
ZAM
Comments
My biggest problem with too much MMO-playing is the adverse effect it has on one's ability to spell.
You'll get a warning for that, I got one for a similar comment in another thread...
To the OP, didn't you know this is the USSA, United States of Socialist America... you will do exactly what the government tells, you... you will eat what they tell you, watch what they tell you and drive what they tell you... in a few years they'll tell you who to marry and how many kids you can have, if any...
an intriguing look into the psyche of a paranoid schizophrenic MMO gamer.
MMMMMMM..give me some of that MMO crack.
They look at the minorities and place the blame on the entire group. What about the millions of people who go to college and play WoW? Or people like me who go into Computer Science and play MMOs?
MMOs Played: I can no longer list them all in the 500 character limit.
I seriously doubt future MMO's will be administered through the nose... thats just silly.
Not to mention I have yet to attempt to pull any sort of mount out of my knapsack, or smite anything.
Letting out a "lol" or "epic" is normal, but anybody who uses a specialized vocabulary will start to work it into regular speech, look at doctors, or lawyers, or artists... Its not a sign of addiction to talk like your hobby/profession regularly.
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...
At this point I wouldn't care if they banned MMOs because they all suck right now anyway and there are no signs that things are going to get better.
The only serious 'attack' I've heard on video games in a while is that you shouldn't have your children playing them during the first 5-6 years of their life, as it inhibits their ability to develope empathy and stunts their understanding of other's emotions.
While this has been backed up with research, I haven't seen much in the way of the witch hunts we had back in the old bush/gore era. In addition, MMOs are the games with the least worry of reprocussion, simply because they still haven't grabbed the spotlight as much as other forms of games yet.
There isn't a whole lot of decent MMOs out at the moment, and most are far less violent than other types of games.
Pah, if they work out a way to tax the time spent playing games online, they'll be encouraging everybody to do it all day.
Oh Noes, a gubment official sez video gamez is bad?!?! Please, spare me the histrionics. The only "war" among politicians is to who can get to the microphone first to denounce video games. Video games are a safe target to be against, after all they are only "protecting the children". Unlike "lesser evils" such as alcohol, discrimination, or gross financial mismanagement on Wall Street, the only people who will object are we mere lowly gamers. Despite being an international, multi-million dollar industry, video games have a perception in the mainstream of being at best, a simple. childish diversion, and at worst, "evil killing simulators". (Assuming I can quote Jack Thompson without him frothing at the mouth and suing me).
In addition, it's a far easier proposition to knock the game industry and babble about "video game addiction" then talk about such unreasonable concepts as people actually parenting their children or (God forbid) personal responsibility. For that matter, there has yet to any properly constructed, unbiased studies proving the existence of video game addiction.
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
~Omar Khayyam
Wiki!!!!!"In 2007, the American Psychological Association reviewed whether or not video game addiction should be added in the new DSM to be released in 2012. The conclusion was that there was not enough research or evidence to conclude that video game addiction was a disorder" -
Excessive videogame playing can be classified as an addiction. It currently is not classified as a mental disorder.
I have definitely seen people who spend way too much time playing videogames, ignoring friends, family, and their job.
Wiki!!!!!"In 2007, the American Psychological Association reviewed whether or not video game addiction should be added in the new DSM to be released in 2012. The conclusion was that there was not enough research or evidence to conclude that video game addiction was a disorder" -
Excessive videogame playing can be classified as an addiction. It currently is not classified as a mental disorder.
I have definitely seen people who spend way too much time playing videogames, ignoring friends, family, and their job.
Having reviewed both the Wiki page and the American Psychological Association website I stand by my original statement. While there is plenty of anecdotal evidence for video game addiction, as even your own quote above states, there is a lack of proper research into the concept.
As far as the basic concept of addiction goes, there are two main definitions (according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary). 1. to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively <addicted to gambling> 2. compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal ; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. Video game addiction falls under the first definition since it is not physically addictive. The second definition can be applied to things like video games or gambling. This type of addiction is mainly a function of the individual's personality, ie; their susceptability to become addicted to/obsessively involved some activity, rather then the activity itself. This definition can actually be applied to a wide range of activities, including work or cleaning, although the tag of "addiction" tends to be reserved for those activities that have mainly neutral or negative consequences. It's important to note that ANY activity can have negative consequences if taken too far. For example the person who works so much that he/she neglects their family.
Now I'm not saying that people do not become addicted to video games or that it is not an issue worthy of attention. As I said above I'm merely pointing out that video games are unfairly targeted because it's simpler then looking at the more complex but more accurate problems and the genre and it's fans are not viewed as important or politically powerful.
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
~Omar Khayyam
holy spelling mistakes batman
Currently Playing: Fallen Earth
Played and liked: TCOS, Vanguard, Guild Wars, DDO
Played and didn't like: CO, MO, STO, DF, AoC, WAR, WoW, EQ2, EVE, most f2p
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, Secret World
Politicians are not content to control our real lives...they must obstruct any fantasy escape we may enjoy as well
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
To the OP, didn't you know this is the USSA, United States of Socialist America... you will do exactly what the government tells, you... you will eat what they tell you, watch what they tell you and drive what they tell you... in a few years they'll tell you who to marry and how many kids you can have, if any...
Yeah and god forbid you dont let your child who has cancer get treated with Chemo Therapy and radiation, a treatment with such a high success rate...O wait...it doesnt.
My younger brother has been off of meth for a year now. He swears that quitting WoW was harder.
No sarcasm, no joke.
were both of you 9yo? woah,you gotta be the gansta of your school...
Amusing. I left my mom's basement before there was anything called a 'web' and way before MMOs. We had proper addictions back then like hardcore porn and leftover drugs from '69.
Politicians will say anything to get elected and will promptly forget every anti-gaming statute that they were thinking of when the lobbying cash starts to turn up. Very few of these laws, beyond age restrictions, will make it past a judicial review anyway so I'm not too worried.
There are a great many serious things going on in the world today. Game addiction really doesn't come up on my radar. If you really want to tackle interactive TC addictions, ban QVC
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
Hope is not a stategy.
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I don't really have any research to back this up so if i am entirely wrong please correct me. As a teenager (15-16) i was hard into drugs, sex, and pardon the pun rock n' roll. After landing myself in jail for grand theft auto, (i had a very good lawyer and was released with minimum consequences) my parents however took a very strict route. I was basicly confined to our house/yard for an entire year.
I knew what i had done was wrong so i worked to correct my behavior as well. During this process about 6 months in, i became enthralled with pc games. Most noteably Rainbow 6, after modding rainbow six for a long while i learned about EverQuest and immediately picked it up.
2 years after playing EverQuest, after some serious in-game drama, i made a choice to delete my main character. It was quite possiby the hardest thing i had ever had to do in my life up to that point.
Looking back on the entire situation i basicly treated MMORPG's like a rebound girlfriend, hence the reason i had trouble letting that one instance go. I have never been as attached to a game since that has happened.
Quite possibly it was the same as what your brother did, maybe he attached his meth addiction to WOW, and fed it that way. Addiction is a mental affliction it stands to reason that one could get the same rush from an emulated virtual world as that of a real life chemical substance.
Dunno.. my two cents, i don't think games are addictive. I think we as people make them addictive by trying to use them as a crutch instead of merely a tool for enjoyment.
-Z
That's as far as I got before I both got your drift and the lousy spelling caused me to lose further interest. How can you make so many spelling and grammar mistakes in only five lines? I wasn't going to bother with a reply until I noticed a classic case of shooting yourself in the foot - Oh the irony of using the words "aweful (sic) grades" and "the horrific sight of laziness" in your post! If you're too lazy to learn to spell correctly, at least make the effort to run a spell-checker over it.
Mind you, even that would be unlikely to fix your obvious confusion over something as simple as the words "their" and "there". Less gaming and more basic education on your part would make you look less like one of the basket cases you refer to.
I don't really have any research to back this up so if i am entirely wrong please correct me. As a teenager (15-16) i was hard into drugs, sex, and pardon the pun rock n' roll. After landing myself in jail for grand theft auto, (i had a very good lawyer and was released with minimum consequences) my parents however took a very strict route. I was basicly confined to our house/yard for an entire year.
I knew what i had done was wrong so i worked to correct my behavior as well. During this process about 6 months in, i became enthralled with pc games. Most noteably Rainbow 6, after modding rainbow six for a long while i learned about EverQuest and immediately picked it up.
2 years after playing EverQuest, after some serious in-game drama, i made a choice to delete my main character. It was quite possiby the hardest thing i had ever had to do in my life up to that point.
Looking back on the entire situation i basicly treated MMORPG's like a rebound girlfriend, hence the reason i had trouble letting that one instance go. I have never been as attached to a game since that has happened.
Quite possibly it was the same as what your brother did, maybe he attached his meth addiction to WOW, and fed it that way. Addiction is a mental affliction it stands to reason that one could get the same rush from an emulated virtual world as that of a real life chemical substance.
Dunno.. my two cents, i don't think games are addictive. I think we as people make them addictive by trying to use them as a crutch instead of merely a tool for enjoyment.
-Z
Addiction is not a simple thing. As far as your "two cents" ZoLeN, well to continue the metaphor, they are well spent. Two people spend the exact same amount of time gambling, one gets addicted and one does not. Even with physically addictive drugs such as cocaine, one person becomes addicted with their first or second use, another takes 3 months. (Important note: with drugs it is NOT a matter of IF but rather WHEN. They actually alter your body chemistry, thats why withdrawl can take such a physical toll on people.) With psychologically addictive behavior the individual has to have a predilection/susceptability to obsessive behavior for addiction to occur. Those folks will need to monitor ALL their behavior so as not to fall into addictive patterns with something else.
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
~Omar Khayyam
I've done drugs, m'kay, HARD DRUGS! And mmo's are more addictive....jokes on all of you ahahahahahahh!
"Only when a human being realized the frivolity of their own existance, can they begin to learn what is significant." - Me
Quit trolling.
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
~Omar Khayyam
im sorry but we have crack, and then we have facecrack (facebook), and then there is evercrack
mmo's have been crack since their inception