Online Gaming Addictive?

gihan_ripper writes "The BBC has a discussion on the addictive effects of online gaming. Reports come from Liz Woolley of Online Gamers Anonymous, and a gamer, Lynn Hall. Liz blames EverQuest for the 2002 suicide of her son Shawn, noting that game manufacturers hire employees with psychology degrees in order to make their games more addictive."

Comments

Not as addictive...

[brilinux]

As obsessively posting to Slashdot!

Addictive = Fun?

[ABaumann]

Well, sure. When I like something a lot, I want to do it a lot. (see: sexual intercourse ) So, to some extent, everything fun has to be somewhat addictive.

And about the hiring someone with a psychology degree to help make games more addictive? Come On! When has anyone heard of someone with a psychology degree getting a job?

addiction

[dreamseason]

It's a good thing they aren't hiring Colombian drug lords to make games as addictive as crack!

Re:It's True

[mrseigen]

Don't you have anything better to do with your life other than click on pictures of monsters and increment numbers in a database far away?

Don't you have anything better to do than post?

Re:It's True

[PromANJ]

Ur wrong! MMORPGs r0xx0rz my b0xxorx! I love pressing that attack icon and see the damage come up!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/wow.gif

Check out the grass foliage, just some years ago they couldn't do that stuff!!!1 The amazing gfx you can do nowdays with up to 16 colors and a staggering 200x160 resolution makes me wonder what's next!


Also, here's Doom III as it actually plays and looks, The 'real' Doom III is actually an illusion - HYPE, level 3 (contagious), can only be cast by larger developer entities.
btw. check out the bevels on the map!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/doom3.gif

Re:Luckily WoW has no staying power...

[DerWulf]

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