World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Halo 3, Grand Theft Auto ect.
You can sit for hours, hours on playing these games. But when does a healthy habit, turn into an addiction?
Ask yourself this: Have I ever decided to stay in and complete this mission rather then go out with a mate? Have I ever lost sleep/school/work because I want to play?
If so, then this is concerning...This destroys your social life, your eduction/work, your well being...Trust me, I have been there.
You start to transmit yourself into another world, instead of reality. In reality your a person with a job at Quick Save and in that world, you're an elf that's level 60.
It is that transforming.
Who's to blame?
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The Video Game Makers? These people make the games, they don't mean to make it addictive. They make the money. They are just a business and want people to play their games.
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The Parents They are responsible for their childrens action no matter what. But they can't look after their children 24/7.
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No formal studies have been published addressing the prevalence of a possible video game addiction. A Harris Interactive poll released in April of 2007 found that 8.5% of "youth gamers" in the United States could be "classified as pathological or clinically 'addicted' to playing video games."[11] A British survey reported in November of 2006 indicated 12% of polled gamers exhibit addictive behaviours.[12] Video game overuse is believed to be more of a problem in Asia.[4] A governmental survey in South Korea estimated that 2.4% of South Koreans aged 9 to 39 are addicts, with 10.2 percent more "borderline cases."[13]
A 2005 survey by the Entertainment Software Association found that "video game overuse" was more common in players of MMORPGs.[14] In an interview in 2005, Dr. Maressa Orzack of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts estimated that 40% of the 8.5 million players of MMORPG World of Warcraft are addicted, a figure she derived from the survey managed by Nick Yee at the The Daedalus Project. [15]. However, Nick Yee has pointed out that caution should be exercised when interpreting this survey data[16].
A July 2007 article indicates a 15-year-old boy from Perth, Western Australia abandoned all other activities to play Runescape, a popular MMORPG. The boy's father compared the condition to a heroin addiction.[17]
A 2008 Study by Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that video game addiction in men may be more prevalent than women when the game concept revolves around territorial control. [18]
