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MMORPG.COM News: Man Dies From Gaming
Dana
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Although not exactly MMORPG related, this does apply to many gamers. For all of you who have heard yourself say "five more minutes" several hundred times, here is a cautionary tale on CNN.com of a man who died of heart failure from playing too long!
| Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on August 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said. "We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone. Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe. |
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Dana Massey
Formerly of MMORPG.com
Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios
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what a wimp. Ive done a week run. Other than slightly halucinateing nothing major.
What of the game money slave camps? Im sure they force those guys to play long hours just farming money so some lazy american can get something in a game not working for it.
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well I korea, stuff like this happens more and more often nowadays. THe other day some guy sharpened his sword, and slashed people to death at an Internet cafe after being PK'ed in Lineage2, Anotehr guy had a heart attack after spending 2 weeks on nothing but ramen. Also dude, read the article carefully, he didn't eat, or drink.
Seriously this article is old CNN and other News places keep Milking it when they run out of things to talk about... this is about the 5th time ive heard it...
Its Obviously not true normally if you havent had any food or drink for awhile you will go into a sort of coma in which the Internet Cafe would send him to the hospital the hospital would call his contacts after identifying him and then they would keep him in ICU for about 3 months.
Thats what normally happens
Edit: Also after reading through it once more, i realized that if he had to go to the bathroom he had probably eaten something or drank something so that shows you another inprobability... along with the fact that you can last 11 days without water and 9 without food so if you reach that 9 days your organs tend to absorb fat and start to shutdown after 11 days without water they will automatically shutdown
actually you still urinate if you dont eat/drink and its only a few days of no water before you start to get sick etc. really just depends on the person and how healthy they are before hand. i dont think he did eat anything because lots of people stay up longer then taht.
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More importantly ....which game was he playing !
I bet it wasnt WoW .......4 hrs and he would have been in a coma !
This article is just more stupid pandering for the whole shock value. Honestly, I'm apalled that someone on the staff actually linked this article. Shame on you for perpetuating this nonsense!
This is just another one of those 'video games are teh devil!' stories that politicians and whatnot like to use in order to limit and control our favourite past time.
If he'd died after 50 hours of shooting crack, it wouldn't even have made the news.
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Get off your high horse and take this article for what it is--an interesting little incident.
There is, however, an important question that needs to be asked, "What was the condition of the man's health?" If he was the stereotypical gamer then he probably had a few pounds that he could part with. This could have contributed to his death. I am obviously not a medical professional but there are no doubt a number of pre-existing ailments which could explain why he died.
yea chances are he wasn't in the healthiest of conditions in the first place. i've been doing almost exactly what it says he did for almost a week straight now cause i'm on summer break. i've been playing games till 6 in the morning, then sleeping till noon, then playing again till later. so far i haven't had anything bad happen from it.
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This is also a *news* item in germany. The game in question is supposed to be Starcraft, still a big hit in Korea. I remember reading the same thing some time ago. Starcraft, lost/quit his job/died after a long session. Interesting enough the german news agencies talk about 39 hours of straight gaming and the guy loosing his job because of his addiction to online games.
Looks like it is summer and and old stories are rewritten a bit.
And even if it is true, I reckon Starcrcraft is big in Korea. Tournaments and the league are TV events and the players are paid fairly good, not to mention the stardom. The temptation to get inside this scene must be as big as, say, fir an american to get in the NFL or such. Many young people try this every year, most of them of course failing and hurting themselves in the process. No CNN coverage here. But then, computer games are EVIL
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well yea it's happened before, just like people have died from epileptic seizures, like when that happened to guy playing EQ. that's why like all games now have 'warning, may cause epileptic seizure.' soon they will have in the licence of games: "Not responsible for death by addiction."
hey i like that. Death By Addiction.
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The problem is articles like this are sensationalism and only serve to hurt games in general. It's not an 'interesting little incident' because it's happened before. If someone can honestly come up with a good reason to perpetuate articles like this, in a way that helps games instead of hurts them, I'll be happy to recant all my words.
The thing is, /we/ all know this is just another case of some guy doing something stupid and getting bumped off because of it. What politicians and anti-videogame activists see is something they can use to prove that video games should all be banned. Remember Columbine? That was a tragedy but the media tried to say it happened because the kids were playing Doom. Remember that story about the couple who left their baby alone for 8 hours to go play EQ? The media tried to make it out like Everquest was the reason that kid died. Remember the guy who shot himself after becoming a recluse and doing nothing but playing EQ? Same thing.
Honestly, do we really need to be promoting articles like this? Seems a little bit like shooting yourself in the foot. It makes global headlines because they're trying to act like the videogames were the problem, when the problem really lied with the idiot who killed himself. Most of the news-watching public isn't really smart enough to know the difference, and we're just giving it more importance by posting it on this site.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Funny...I didn't see anywhere in that article where they were blaming the game for his death. They said he died from exhaustion while playing an online game for 50 hours with little or no sleep on a make-shfit bed.
The man quit his job to play games more. He had some issues to begin with.
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If you guys didn't know, CNN is mostly republican. I'm not saying nothing is wrong with that, It's just one of those quotes to a post in here.
BTW, I don't see how some people can be hooked in to extreme game playing like that. It's incredibly ridiculous....
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