gaming biz-a boom

[quikfind_jerry]

Gaming is big business but it has its downside. People have died from gaming

and the world is recognizing that game addiction is serious and spreading fast.

Mental health professionals opine that gaming can destroy lives, keep students

from focusing on learning, workers from working, and women from their duties.

There are instances where gamers have not left home for years.

Games like EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot, and others are popularly referred to

as heroinware. And symptoms of addiction according to Computer Addiction

Services at McLean Hospital are: obsession with the game; inability to stop;

neglect of family and work; lying to hide activity; problems with studies and

work; health problems, muscular as well as vision related; neglect of personal

hygiene; as well as sleep disturbances.

The games provide social interaction to lonely people, gamers gain

acknowledgement as well as power denied elsewhere due to their gaming

expertise, and the game weaves a spell on the mind?one gets so absorbed by the

virtual realities that it is hard to get away.

More in next topic...........

regards
Jerry
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[LiNuX]

topic moved to general gaming since u seem to be talking about games in general lol

[Gamoc]

Gaming is big business but it has its downside. People have died from gaming

and the world is recognizing that game addiction is serious and spreading fast.

That isn't true. In fact, it's complete bollocks.

You don't get addicted to a game, you just play it a lot. You can stop anytime, and you end up getting bored of it anyway if you play it that much.

[Scott]

It has been proven that gaming is not an addiction like Smoking and such.

[LiNuX]

people just say game addicts to describe people that just over play it sometimes, its those gaming nerds that play 23 hrs a day lol but there is no medical proof like nicotine that its addictive, is there? lol