LazyEagle wrote:
Didn't Everquest or one of those zany Korean MMOs cause a few deaths?
You know those stories every long while about some gamer who sat in an internet cafe for 78 hours and eventually keeled over. I can't remember any of them being over WoW
Well theres a few Koreans that have reportedly died, read up on one case where a child died of neglect because the parents were to busy playing WoW, if it false fair dues but if its true..........Toco wrote:LazyEagle wrote:
Didn't Everquest or one of those zany Korean MMOs cause a few deaths?
You know those stories every long while about some gamer who sat in an internet cafe for 78 hours and eventually keeled over. I can't remember any of them being over WoW
diablo 2 caused a death and wow i think has had a near miss with someone ending up in the hospital but didnt die
they can make a living out of it because there will always be idiots with too much money playing the game!FullMetal wrote:It's wierd, average WoW players are the ones that play too much, the best guild's in the world on WoW are people with actual lives but some do it for a living and get alot of money somehow hehe.
)^^Haha, that's classLlama@bad wrote:or found a solution to have a workaround against the router which blocked me out of the internet after 3 hours online (i just replaced my ip address with that of my mother, now she had the blocked out thing
The Daily Mail had a field day, I remember reading all about it on my paper round, how Daily Mail blamed games for 'the youth of today' and how they were destroying society. Truth is, some people will always be affected in some way by things, not just games, but 99.99999% of people aren't. Apparently some study that was carried out found that people who played violent games were no more likely to take part in violence than people who didn't.Exterminatus wrote:If you wanna talk about fatal games I'd suggest you talk about Manhunt. From what I hear some sick fuck killed a man in an extremely brutal way, then said the game made him do it, after which it was banned in the UK (I read about it in a gaming magazine some 5-6 years back).
Because virtual violence turns Mr. Perfect-score-honor-roll-100%-attendance into Jack the Ripper.
I also would be surprised if it was faked. Those american teens are really f***ed up.
Manhunt so banned in the UK you can take a stroll to your local Game or Gamestation and buy a copyExterminatus wrote:If you wanna talk about fatal games I'd suggest you talk about Manhunt. From what I hear some sick fuck killed a man in an extremely brutal way, then said the game made him do it, after which it was banned in the UK (I read about it in a gaming magazine some 5-6 years back).
Because virtual violence turns Mr. Perfect-score-honor-roll-100%-attendance into Jack the Ripper.
I also would be surprised if it was faked. Those american teens are really f***ed up.
It was banned, was banned in Ireland too, still had no trouble getting it, ban wasnt enforcedCrimson Edge wrote:Manhunt so banned in the UK you can take a stroll to your local Game or Gamestation and buy a copyExterminatus wrote:If you wanna talk about fatal games I'd suggest you talk about Manhunt. From what I hear some sick fuck killed a man in an extremely brutal way, then said the game made him do it, after which it was banned in the UK (I read about it in a gaming magazine some 5-6 years back).
Because virtual violence turns Mr. Perfect-score-honor-roll-100%-attendance into Jack the Ripper.
I also would be surprised if it was faked. Those american teens are really f***ed up.
