Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts

eldavojohn writes "So, you can't find the time to leave the World of Warcraft to seek help for your World of Warcraft addiction? Sounds reasonable. Well, addiction therapists are coming to meet you so you don't have to quit playing as they counsel you and your addiction. From the leader of this initiative, Dr. Graham: 'We will be launching this project by the end of the year. I think it's already clear that psychiatrists will have to stay within the parameters of the game. They certainly wouldn't be wandering around the game in white coats and would have to use the same characters available to other players. Of course one problem we're going to have to overcome is that while a psychiatrist may excel in what they do in the real world, they're probably not going to be very good at playing World of Warcraft.' Send in the level 5 counselor and let the games begin!" What happens when the therapists become addicted?

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Re:Blizzard reaction

[sjwest]

There are some real odd balls on wow, sorry but i yes i did try wow for 15 minutes and kept getting slaughtered by some experienced idiots in the newbie section while wandering about.

At least Blizzard is getting a monthly fee from the people who always know what an addict is classed as -ironic.

Just waiting for a wow addict to mark this as a troll go on you know you want to.

Simple solution

[xednieht]

Income tax on items and gold in the "game".

Monopoly, checkers, chess .... are games. WoW is an economic activity.

Add up the man-hours (or boy-hours) of all the players that would otherwise be engaged in other revenue producing activities. My guess is it has an impact on the real economy. WoW potatoes (like couch potato only glued to WoW instead of the couch) don't spend much sitting in front of the computer, but the time that is spent comes out of the same pool of real-world time.

Tax them, no more addiction.