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Quote from: Malsetid on October 02, 2019, 02:22:49 AM

It's the same as gambling. It plays with people's interest. Not all people will be addicted to video games, same way as not all will be addicted to gambling or sports. And it only becomes a problem if it affects a person's personal relationship with other people are their productivity. Proper time management and being responsible is basically the best and easiest solution if this ever becomes a problem.

Yes its the same imho, and its more on behavioral conduct of a person. Game addiction especially related to violence is on the rise. World Health Organization (WHO) even considered Video game addiction a mental disorder.Indeed, there are children becomes hysterical when being disturb in gaming or not allowed to play. I think its very alarming for parents and they should monitor their children, much better they spend more time doing some physical activities as a way of bonding moments with their young ones.

Video Game Addiction Becomes Official Mental Disorder in Controversial Decision by WHO

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Joke's on them, I've never paid for any game. They ain't making anything from me! Grin

I do understand the issue with lootboxes, it's pretty much gambling for kids. If you already paid for a game then they should make you spend more on pay-to-win items and boost. And especially on developing brains, this could set them up later for other addictions as they grow up.

Now as for time, it's your decision whether you want to spend it on a game or not.

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Actually some people (like me) like to "get hooked" and play grinding games for years.
The account is constantly growing and you can see your efforts all the time.

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It's the same as gambling. It plays with people's interest. Not all people will be addicted to video games, same way as not all will be addicted to gambling or sports. And it only becomes a problem if it affects a person's personal relationship with other people are their productivity. Proper time management and being responsible is basically the best and easiest solution if this ever becomes a problem.

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Quote from: Indamuck on July 31, 2019, 07:20:07 AM

Video games are designed to make you hooked and extract as much as they can from you. You are slaves on the world they created, wasting your consciousness away on a virtual world. And the grinding games are the absolute worst, its just the same gameplay over and over.

Video games are designed as a means of entertainment or relaxation. Video games can be educational entertainment. Of course entertainment should not be done excessively so as not to become hedonism. Playing games regularly with enough playing time will help you release stress after a day of work or study.

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Quote from: PassThePopcorn on October 01, 2019, 11:06:09 AM

In college I did a research paper on video game addiction. There are similarities with other addictions as well as the same problems, the biggest issue I found was the number of people who claim it's not an addiction just because it doesn't seem like one or that they themselves are addicted and feel attacked / are in denial.

At the end of the day you can get addicted to anything and everyone reacts to stimuli in different ways. Think about it what are the differences between gambling and playing a video game.

The difference is quite big. In gambling you put some of your money at stake and you can win or lose based on your luck and sometimes skill. When you play a computer game you can but don't have to pay for ingame content. It's always your choice. You don't lose anything because some money spent on ingame items can be redeemed when you sell your account. You also don't risk any money and don't put anything at stake. You choose what you buy.
Playing a game is not gambling. It's more like spending a day in an amusement park or in a cinema. It costs you money but you're buying fun and excitement.

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Quote from: coolcoinz on October 01, 2019, 10:40:52 AM

How can you misuse yourself? Are you in normal circumstances using yourself, so that it's possible for you to misuse yourself?

If I spend 8-10hours a day or even more and also spend a lot of money just because of the game the I consider as misuse my self, and only myself can stop this.

Quote from: coolcoinz on October 01, 2019, 10:40:52 AM

If spending 8 hours a day at work and 4 hours a day watching TV and playing computer games is ok by the rules of our society, what happens if a gamer plays and works for 12 hours a day combining both activities?

If you still works and play games only when it's free then that's normal.

Quote from: coolcoinz on October 01, 2019, 10:40:52 AM

Most activities allow us to earn money and that makes it a job. If you spend a lot of time playing but it brings you money, where does leisure end and a work begin?

But how many of them eventually become games as a means to get money?, and if the games have given money it become a different story

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In college I did a research paper on video game addiction. There are similarities with other addictions as well as the same problems, the biggest issue I found was the number of people who claim it's not an addiction just because it doesn't seem like one or that they themselves are addicted and feel attacked / are in denial.

At the end of the day you can get addicted to anything and everyone reacts to stimuli in different ways. Think about it what are the differences between gambling and playing a video game.

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Quote from: Strongkored on September 30, 2019, 09:42:50 PM

Quote from: coolcoinz on September 30, 2019, 03:01:14 PM

I have played some grinding games in my life and as always the market regulates itself. People are trading ingame currencies outside of the game world (ebay and such), they offer leveling services where they take your character into a high level party to make it level up, they trade items, even full accounts with multiple characters inside.
If you feel abused by the game or its developers maybe you shouldn't spend time playing and find yourself something else to do, because you can get exploited in most activities.

Not players who are abused by games or game developers, but they misuse themselves by letting themselves be addicted and letting themselves get entangled in many things including spending a lot of money to buy raise levels as you stated. Spend many hours just to stick around the games without care about anything else in your life.

How can you misuse yourself? Are you in normal circumstances using yourself, so that it's possible for you to misuse yourself?
Most activities allow us to earn money and that makes it a job. If you spend a lot of time playing but it brings you money, where does leisure end and a work begin?
If spending 8 hours a day at work and 4 hours a day watching TV and playing computer games is ok by the rules of our society, what happens if a gamer plays and works for 12 hours a day combining both activities?

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Quote from: iv4n on October 01, 2019, 08:57:39 AM

It`s simple, you are earning money from playing games, why to not be addicted and play it a lot?

That's simple because they mindset is play to get money not for fun, even you play more than 10 hours a day if you play games for money it's won't to make you addicted, all is because the mindset, when you got addicted worse things will come to you.

If you want to know you got addicted or not, read at this articles and evaluate your self.
https://gamequitters.com/video-game-addiction-signs-symptoms-causes-and-effects/

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Quote from: ReiMomo on October 01, 2019, 03:52:14 AM

Kinda relate on this, almost 1 year being addicted in an online video game. Can't almost eat, sleep even my personal hygiene I almost neglected that. I realized that is causing a big problem and I don't have even savings at that time because I spend it all my money in a video game and wasting time as well. When I got marriage I feel regret that even small savings I don't have. I never realized that before because all I wanted is always having fun.

I used to play MMORPG and there were many people like that in my clan and some of my opponents. It's easy to spot them in game because when you logged in they were always there. I talked to some of them and one guy used to always take holiday jobs abroad which made him earn 2x the money he would in a normal job, then in Autumn he would come back home to live with his parents and tried to make the money last till Summer. The rest of the year was MMO even 20 hours a day with only 4 hours of sleep.

I know people that play WoW 8+ hours everyday, but they are earning money and it`s like a job for them. When you play a game 20 hours everyday, I would expect that person to earn from that game, not just to play for fun.
I like to play games and in the past I had periods when I play more then usual, it`s in winter time, when I don`t get out too much. In the past two years I play LoL, I can`t say I`m addicted, I can play for hours without problems, I earned some money with playing LoL, even now I`m getting some points on playVIg and I collect enough points I will cash out some money.
It`s simple, you are earning money from playing games, why to not be addicted and play it a lot?

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Quote from: ReiMomo on October 01, 2019, 03:52:14 AM

Kinda relate on this, almost 1 year being addicted in an online video game. Can't almost eat, sleep even my personal hygiene I almost neglected that. I realized that is causing a big problem and I don't have even savings at that time because I spend it all my money in a video game and wasting time as well. When I got marriage I feel regret that even small savings I don't have. I never realized that before because all I wanted is always having fun.

I used to play MMORPG and there were many people like that in my clan and some of my opponents. It's easy to spot them in game because when you logged in they were always there. I talked to some of them and one guy used to always take holiday jobs abroad which made him earn 2x the money he would in a normal job, then in Autumn he would come back home to live with his parents and tried to make the money last till Summer. The rest of the year was MMO even 20 hours a day with only 4 hours of sleep.

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Quote from: Strongkored on September 30, 2019, 09:42:50 PM

Quote from: coolcoinz on September 30, 2019, 03:01:14 PM

I have played some grinding games in my life and as always the market regulates itself. People are trading ingame currencies outside of the game world (ebay and such), they offer leveling services where they take your character into a high level party to make it level up, they trade items, even full accounts with multiple characters inside.
If you feel abused by the game or its developers maybe you shouldn't spend time playing and find yourself something else to do, because you can get exploited in most activities.

Not players who are abused by games or game developers, but they misuse themselves by letting themselves be addicted and letting themselves get entangled in many things including spending a lot of money to buy raise levels as you stated. Spend many hours just to stick around the games without care about anything else in your life.

Kinda relate on this, almost 1 year being addicted in an online video game. Can't almost eat, sleep even my personal hygiene I almost neglected that. I realized that is causing a big problem and I don't have even savings at that time because I spend it all my money in a video game and wasting time as well. When I got marriage I feel regret that even small savings I don't have. I never realized that before because all I wanted is always having fun.

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hi,
The video game addiction is a common problem in the society. Most of the parents worry about their children’s this addiction. Video game addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, which does not involve use of an intoxicating drug and is very similar to pathological gambling. Now days most of the children have addicted to the video games. This in not good for their future. The education of the child will destroy because of this. Children use the virtual fantasy world to connect with real people through the Internet, as a substitution for real-life human connection, which they are unable to achieve normally. Some suffering from video game addiction may develop an emotional attachment to on-line friends and activities they create on their computer screens. There are lot of negative thing in this addiction. Not only the children some of elder ones are also addicted with video games. They don’t how live in the real world. Always they are live in the fantasy world. For the human society this video addiction is not good.

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Quote from: coolcoinz on September 30, 2019, 03:01:14 PM

I have played some grinding games in my life and as always the market regulates itself. People are trading ingame currencies outside of the game world (ebay and such), they offer leveling services where they take your character into a high level party to make it level up, they trade items, even full accounts with multiple characters inside.
If you feel abused by the game or its developers maybe you shouldn't spend time playing and find yourself something else to do, because you can get exploited in most activities.

Not players who are abused by games or game developers, but they misuse themselves by letting themselves be addicted and letting themselves get entangled in many things including spending a lot of money to buy raise levels as you stated. Spend many hours just to stick around the games without care about anything else in your life.

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Quote from: Indamuck on July 31, 2019, 07:20:07 AM

And the grinding games are the absolute worst, its just the same gameplay over and over.

I have played some grinding games in my life and as always the market regulates itself. People are trading ingame currencies outside of the game world (ebay and such), they offer leveling services where they take your character into a high level party to make it level up, they trade items, even full accounts with multiple characters inside.
If you feel abused by the game or its developers maybe you shouldn't spend time playing and find yourself something else to do, because you can get exploited in most activities.

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I would add gambling to the list of dangerous dependencies. This is a close friend of video games, when a person, like playing a game, is drawn into the betting process and loses not only his valuable time, but also money. In my opinion, only a few enthusiastic people can benefit from sports predictions or other activities with bets.

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the addiction of video game is not to be underestimated is just as dangerous as cigarettes, alcohol or drugs addictions, those who develop video games try to capture the player's full attention and make them buy as much upgrades as possible to continue the game, the games are structured on those purpose so at a certain point is almost impossible to continue without buying that object / weapon that will surely make you go ahead, like all the dependencies is almost impossible to eliminate you can only keep under control by limiting the playing time, by the way i like open word and fighting games...

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Is this guy even serious? He sounds like some sort of sect member who thinks that everything besides his cult is bad and will lead you to unavoidable suffering Grin

But seriously there are many studies that shows that gaming and video games in general leads to decrease aggressiveness in youth people and can significantly boost their creativity levels

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Quote from: netherfikk on July 31, 2019, 01:36:46 PM

Will it be usefull to discuss some actualy dangerous addictions, not this one?

Addiction is not asked, what are you doing?
Gambling in many cases can be more deadly than alcoholism or drug addiction. It all depends on the seriousness. Do not underestimate any dependence,
the most supposedly innocent can do irreparable harm.
First of all, people with psychological problems get on this!!

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