Video Game Addiction, a very real problem.

[squatz1]

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.

Well, if you get hooked to this kind of games it clearly is you who has the problem

Video games are designed to earn money with them, that's for sure.

+1 to this.

Videogames are built to be addicting, yes. But everything is meant to be addicting in this day and age. If you are to watch CNBC the tickets and colors and all that is meant to draw you into watching them because humans like being stimulated like that.

Facebook and other social media companies? They're addicting too.

Most things in the world are addicting, the people that are addicted have an addictive gene.

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[semobo]

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.

Well, if you get hooked to this kind of games it clearly is you who has the problem

Video games are designed to earn money with them, that's for sure.

+1 to this.

Videogames are built to be addicting, yes. But everything is meant to be addicting in this day and age. If you are to watch CNBC the tickets and colors and all that is meant to draw you into watching them because humans like being stimulated like that.

Facebook and other social media companies? They're addicting too.

Most things in the world are addicting, the people that are addicted have an addictive gene.

All these kind of addictive things were created to extract data about ourselves and keep in control of them so we can relate each kind of addcition to the reality and its long term effect.But if we are just getting addicted to these things and not doing anything then we wasted our priceless life.

[eddie13]

I really dislike video games because they are such a waste of money..

I have friends and family that have massive video game collections. Like they have bought everything new since the PS2. They have untold thousands of dollars sunk into a bunch of 1s and 0s on disks thet they would now be lucky to be able to sell for $100..

Stacks and stacks of games they paid $60 each for and now are close to worthless plus all this buying expansion packages of more 1s and 0s to get a new map or fancier gun or the online playing passes you have to buy and controllers and headsets and fancy TVs...
All holds ZERO value..
Terrible investment..

And they make you fat..


Besides.. All that time you could have been reading some nonfiction and learning useful knowledge and you could use that knowledge and money to build something real that is actually worth something, also increasing your personal value through education..

I used to like playing COD zombies a bit..
I hooked up a PS3 a couple months ago in my living room, played it like 5 times..

This is a much better video game..
http://www.msextra.com/doc/pdf/html/Megasquirt2_Setting_Up-3.4.pdf/Megasquirt2_Setting_Up-3.4.html
Read all that and then go build something real.. Learn something.. Have something valuable when you are done..

Create value in yourself and your belongings..

Video games are just a degenerate waste of yourself, your time, your money, and for god sakes quit spending BTC on video games!
In 10 years you are going to hate yourself when you realize you could have retired on the BTC you wasted to make your videogame screen flash colors a certain way..

How about starting a garden? You ever build a house? Additions? Garages? Fences?
Do something productive..

/rant

[bhabygrim]

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.

If it is about the money that the player spent on video games then it is their problem.
To be honest some of us are only having a real fun in the virtual world .
But we also have to control it we should always remember that having too much is a bad thing.
The problem isn't really the video game it is the person it self if they couldn't control their self in spending too much on video games then don't blame the game,
It is their decision and to be honest some of us are spending time playing video games in order to earn from the game.
There are some online games that some players are using in order to have some profit.

[Lapatai]

Of course gaming addiction is a problem. Every addiction is a problem. But...
Behind every addiction is a big business that generates a very lot of profit. Just look, gaming, alcohol, drugs, smoking etc.
Gaming industry "Sony" for example generated over 11 billions (https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/01/playstation-network-revenue-hit-record-high-in-2018-topped-nintendo-and-xbox-totals)

[qwertyup23]

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.

The problem is not about video games but ADDICTION in general.

People may be addicted to various things and it just so happened that people are hooked to video games nowadays. Also, there are people who are addicted to gambling which I believe brings worse implications and effects. The only way in order to solve this problem is by having self-discipline and limitation to oneself. Without these essential restrictions, people would succumb further which would potentially destroy their lives in the future.

Very true, but you can play to earn cryptpcurrency.

What kind of method would transpose to playing and earning cryptocurrencies? Also, regardless of the earnings, you would still succumb to addiction. The problem would manifest especially you take it away from them quickly and not gradually.

[-Joni-]

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!!

[Heimer]

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 

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

[bitcoin-shark]

 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...

[rocku12345]

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.

[coolcoinz]

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.

[Strongkored]

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.

[chirannew22]

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.

[ReiMomo]

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.

[darkangel11]

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.

[iv4n]

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?

[Strongkored]

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/

[coolcoinz]

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?

[PassThePopcorn]

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.

[Strongkored]

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.

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.

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