Did Clifford Simak predict MMORPG addiction?

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Beer is a much more effective way to ignore stress though. I mean if you have a ***** wife and she won't STFU, I need a damn beer, a game isn't going to cut it.

QFT, but I prefer the beer and the game. No MMORPGs though, I prefer MIOTBSG's (Massively Isolating Offline Turn-based Strategy Games) for my stress/spouse avoidance.

[muxec]

Re: Re: Did Clifford Simak predict MMORPG addiction?

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Dude, this isn't English class. You aren't writing a formal essay, and even if you were, your audience is not your teacher, it's a bunch of people who post on an internet forum. We know WTF a MMORPG is, we know about the concern that people get addicted to them, and we really don't care if you stick to formal conventions on how to write book names, etc. Most of all, we don't want to read something that we wrote hundreds of times in high school.

And if your writing has to be written in didactic style, at least restrict it to stuff we don't know about, and keep it informal.

Oh, sorry, I just wished it to be formal. I even asked a professional editor who looked at the old version and told me what to do to make it look even more formal. :P

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I don't think that games, or anything like that, can cause addiction, although some people may play too much. Addiction means that it's ruining your like in one or more way. And alcohol and drug addiction are real problems. After that maybe sex, eating and other things are also problems. I don't think games are are real problem, at least not in many cases.

Hm, I would think that Shawn Wooley was most definitely an MMORPG addict:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Woolley

Well, maybe we should also make a difference between physiological and psychological addiction.
If we talk about physiological addiction (together with physiological withdrawal symptomes after being prevented from taking the drug) then I would say this isn´t something caused by MMORPGs.

If, however, we talk about psychological addiction (i.e. a constant craving for the drug, as well as neglecting everything else in life for it) then I think that it is something that can (in some cases) most definitely be caused by MMORPGs.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST


Hm, I would think that Shawn Wooley was most definitely an MMORPG addict:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Woolley

He had schizoid personality disorder, so EverQuest was a very dangerous thing for him to be playing. But would the game do that to someone without a personality disorder.

Also, it says in the article that he got his online money scammed in the game. I don't know about EverQuest, but I know that other games are making that more difficult to do. I think it's horrible that you could scam people's money in those games. My son got scammed once and got very upset. This was when he first started playing those games. I had a talk with him about it and he doesn't get like that anymore.

[Jon Miller]

EVE is all about scamming

JM

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
EVE is all about scamming

JM

It's pretty bad when you figure that mostly kids are playing that game. I noticed that WOW is better in that regard.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by muxec
Please note, that in 1952 when the book was written there were no talks on virtual reality and digitalization.

But they surely had plans for flying cars and nuclear driven toasters back then

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Kidicious


It's pretty bad when you figure that mostly kids are playing that game. I noticed that WOW is better in that regard.

Actually, I think the average age is closer to 30 in that game.

And having a free and open sandbox is what the game is meant to be. If it has WOW's protections against scamming/etc, then it wouldn't be the same game (and a lot of the people who like playing it, wouldn't be).

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

http://mmorpg.qj.net/Biggest-scam-in-EVE-Online-history/pg/49/aid/62826

JM

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


Actually, I think the average age is closer to 30 in that game.

And having a free and open sandbox is what the game is meant to be. If it has WOW's protections against scamming/etc, then it wouldn't be the same game (and a lot of the people who like playing it, wouldn't be).

Jon Miller

Well the old guys in there must be the scammers. That's just sad.

[Jon Miller]

I know very few kids, and they are mostly annoying and don't get far.

JM

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by muxec
Please note, that in 1952 when the book was written there were no talks on virtual reality and digitalization.

I think Ray Bradbury would have an objection to that statement...