[Dasilva]

Originally Posted by melancholick

Haven't the majority of those deaths been in Korea and Taiwan, as well?

They need to hire a guy with a broom to just sweep out the dehydrated carcasses once these gaming freaks hit about 40 hours without food or water. Bounce them out like a bar, if they can't unplug themselves.

Yeah, 95% of all these deaths are in Korea & China. They should unplug them after 15 hours max. Who in their right mind would play a video game for 40 hours non stop without food or sleeping?

[Melanie68]

I'm not trying to burst your bubble but,

http://forums.adventuregamers.com/sh...light=man+dies



(I had just seen this thread already )

[Dasilva]

Originally Posted by Melanie68

I'm not trying to burst your bubble but,

http://forums.adventuregamers.com/sh...light=man+dies



(I had just seen this thread already )

Smarty Pants!

Feel free to delete this thread then.

[Melanie68]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Smarty Pants!

Feel free to delete this thread then.

Well, you're new. You hadn't seen the thread.

I don't think you can delete threads so it'll be here for all time.

[Dasilva]

And with my newly found power of not being bale to delete threads I assure you all I shall rule the cosmos. Bwhahahaha!

[Argosphilia]

Originally Posted by melancholick

Haven't the majority of those deaths been in Korea and Taiwan, as well?

They need to hire a guy with a broom to just sweep out the dehydrated carcasses once these gaming freaks hit about 40 hours without food or water. Bounce them out like a bar, if they can't unplug themselves.

Yes.... And one or two in Royal Thai and Malaysia.......

.....In China....I heard even monks play online games..........

And there is somebody doing something.....

In mainland China, softwares had been developed to stop gaming after 5 or 6 hours(there is only 24 hour in a day you know...), but I think it would not do any good... Because anywhere in Asia you can not get into an internet cafe if you are under 18.... and this regulation never works.....

"Video games and horror films allow us to live on the edge without going over it." (Klaus Manhart,"Lust for Danger",Scientific American Mind)

Some of us just going too far I guess.....

[Wormsie]

[Dasilva]

Wormsie sure has a way with words... uh I mean pictures.

[pleto4_ryan]

Originally Posted by melancholick

They need to hire a guy with a broom to just sweep out the dehydrated carcasses once these gaming freaks hit about 40 hours without food or water. Bounce them out like a bar, if they can't unplug themselves.

That surely creates a weird picture in my head.

"Get out of here you gamer, go back to your family and join the A.G. for god's sace."

[Huz]

Apparently the Chinese government have convinced the operators of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft to penalise players connected from China who spend too long on their games. I can't remember the figures (and I'm too lazy to look them up), but I think if you play more than 6 hours a day, your character starts to lose experience points rather than gain them as you usually would. I think if you continue to play despite this, your character dies!

Seems like a good idea... it would actually level the playing field if this rule were adopted by all MMORPGs, because obsessives would no longer get the rewards that people with, you know, jobs and stuff, are unable to play long enough for.

[seebaruk]

When I was in Malaysia, Thailand, Korea etc. every time I went into an internet cafe it'd be full of asian guys playing these RPGs. God knows how much they spent playing them. For some people I guess it does become a complete obsession, like that guy who stabbed his friend to death for selling his players sword when he lent it to him.

[Glenn Epic]

Merged

[SakSquash]

Being a nerd can be deadly!

[Crunchy in milk]

Originally Posted by Huz

( I'm too lazy to look them up)

The limit is 3 hours of normal play, after which character statistics reduce to make play much more difficult, by 5 hours the character should be crippled. The account/characters return to normal if you take a 5 hour break.

Given the nature of the changes I imagine it would be limited to servers hosted in China.

I don't believe any of these death by exhaustion stories but I do believe games can be addictive and have negative effects on those playing them, which is what the spirit of the changes in China are all about, not levelling the playing field for periodic players.

Many mmorpgs already have short favourable periods for levelling and a regular slow pace the rest of the day. I see no reason to limit those people who wish to play hour after hour, just for the sake of an even playing field. If the game is designed well enough it should be fun for all levels.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Crunchy, are you using those little av creatures again?!!! I missed them something awful!

[Crunchy in milk]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Crunchy, are you using those little av creatures again?!!! I missed them something awful!

For a while anyway, its my version of messageboard tourettes syndrome. I found them again on an old backup CD, they help me combat long winded posts (ie: mine).

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Crunchy in milk

For a while anyway, its my version of messageboard tourettes syndrome. I found them again on an old backup CD, they help me combat long winded posts (ie: mine).

I smile every time I see them. So thank you... for now .

[Henke]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Who in their right mind would play a video game for 40 hours non stop without food or sleeping?

Who in their right mind would not eat and be awake for 40 hours at all?

[Intrepid Homoludens]

So why does it always seem to be some moron from Korea or China? Just for once give us a moron from the U.S. or Canada or some country in Europe who dies from this 'affliction'.

[Moron Lite]

Koreans are incredibly obsessive about their games.