Well, are they? To be honest, I know they have ruined one of mine. My last girlfriend never said a thing about how much I play games. Until AFTER she wanted to break it off. How was I supposed to know 3-4 hours of games a day was too much?
It’s not my fault really. I sit down and say to myself, I just want to win a few burnout races, or just steal the Ebon Hawk from Davik, or just one mission in Band of brothers. Should not take more then 30 mins I say to myself.
Then I start to feel it. My body going numb, pain as the shoulder I have been leaning on is slowly pulling out of it’s socket. Eyes are burning and I’m starving. I look around and notice that it’s dark out, and everyone else is in bed. My 30 mins have turned into 4 hours again. Whoops, oh well. I kiss my yoda doll goodnight and look forward to a tired day at work tomorrow.
So I wonder how often this happens to other people. So I start examining people I know to see if anything like this happens to them. You know what I find out? I’m not actually that bad. I have a friend who plays World of Warcraft. Enough said? I mean all the time. Besides working and sleeping, that’s all he does. No social interaction with any real people. Is that game really that addicting, or is it just the personality? I used to play Dark Ages of Camelot, and I knew a lot of people that played that game the same way. One guy had a year of solid IN-GAME time. A year! In the game! That is crazy. I mean I liked the game, but I could only play for so long before needing to eat or go out for a beer and socialize.
I wonder if a person who plays games that much starts losing the ability to interact with other people outside of the game environment. Would they start going to bars and instead of hitting on people, they would be ‘pulling a mob’? This must be studied! It is too bad I am entirely too lazy to take on such a project without a large amount of funding. But if there is any information already gathered that you know about please send it /a link to me!
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