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400 people worldwide!! Wow, thats a huge servey of the gaming public!
400 people worldwide!! Wow, thats a huge servey of the gaming public!
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gaming fortunately hasnt affected me in this way (other than RSI), but i'd probably agreed this is true. I work with young adults and many of them display traits, as described and are big gamers. Bit of a chicken and egg though- which came first; the disorders or the addiction and which developed from which behaviour? -
I read about this on another website. The 'gamers' they studied were self-confessed WoW addicts and not the most stable people to begin with by all accounts. These are people who flock to online gaming because they can't get on with real people, rather than the other way around.Comment
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Yep, it seems they deliberately target people at a certain gaming level. I think they all played one game in particular, a WoW-alike. I don't think that was an attempt to tarnish all gamers, though of course there are some particular papers that will do that. But the study was in the effects at one extreme as far as I can gather.Comment
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You only need to look as far as Fallows. ;-)
Going to Amsterdam and what is on his list of things to do? Play WoW in a cafe.Comment
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The experts, from Bolton University.
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Hey, a University is the best place to look. 75% of why I dropped out of University about 14 years ago - NetHack. Deadly serious. I was hooked. And I wasn't the worst. People were playing it overnight. We were crazy, crazy, geeky, sad nerds.Comment
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I used to be addicted to RuneScape. I played it like 5 hours a day every day for months.Comment
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So, 3% of gamers play games too much? Wow! Who knew? End of the world!
Also, that suggests that out of the 400 people interviewed, only 13 people played too much. Talk about making a story about anything.
Conversely... "Study shows that 97% of gamers absolutely fine!"Comment
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