Man Dies From Playing World Of Warcraft - Gaming? Harmful?

It seems mad that anyone could completely withdraw themselves from life and sit there for 50 hours and do nothing but play. You have to eat and drink to live and to stop doing that for a game just seems insane

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I think i may have to play that game then, Guess the parental advisory should read, prelonged exposure may cause death

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That is insane! Was it definitely the gaming and stress and not just an underlying medical problem made worse?
But either way I guess gaming had some sort of implications.
Ultimately though, you cant blame the game. There are millions of people out there playing the game as it should be (not too excessively) and these cases are rare.
Still, it is quite scary and kind of sad, I can't imagine myself being so engrossed in a game to not pee drink eat etc.
I enjoy gaming and graphic design and so on but there are still the basic needs of life that come before that.
Hopefully this is a one off case.

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This topic is still alive? Oh geez =\!

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Man Dies From Playing World Of Warcraft

thats insane right getting a little into the game is okay but playing for 50 HOURS straight thats gotta hurt your bladder or something and I mean its fun to play and all but that guy was downright in love with it or something you know what I mean 

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Thats actually completely out of order because how is it that someone would completely forget about life. I've played world of warcraft and thought it was pretty lame, so hearing that someone's played it for so amazingly long and actually died is quite a shocker. But on the other hand, i think that it's not true becuase that is completely like, unbelievable.

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Gaming can be harmful in some situations, but in others, it can help you gain new skills in your life. Most of the time, gaming is only harmful is you become too obsessed, addicted and absorbed into the game so much that you neglect your own health and ignore the realities of the damage you are causing to yourself. Or when you get involved in a virtual argument in-game which soon spreads into a real life situation (I have seen many newspaper articles of people getting killed over a online dispute that occurs in-game over the Internet).

However, games can be useful in that you may gain new skills of teamwork and leadership when you play multiplayer or co-operative games, where you interact which others and work together to complete a common objective in the game.

It is just which perspective you take when you decide for yourself whether games are harmful or not.

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I am not fom UK, or Korea but i've heard this. I cannot get is... how can he play 50 hours.I mean..WOW is great game, but how can he play 50 hours. He wasn't eating? He was standing up from the chair just to go to toilet? This is ironic...

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Well, sorry if this has been said above but.

1) the man was most likely drinking energy drinks. These have been proven to over stress the heart when drunk in ecsess(staying up 50 hours straight is hard).

2) if he was going on large binges, chances are he had previously, gamers who spend this amount of time on one game generaly don't have a very good diet lack of nutritional goodness also attributes to a weak heart

3) lack of sleep plus the above reasons kinda results in some form of death, plus if he was really into the game other things are put aside.

He was probly in some form of semi concious state that only worried about the game... Meh, my two cents

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 Why are people still discussing this stuff? It's ignorant to think that in any way, a game can be responsible for someones death. Every man and woman is responsible for they're own lives. And in the case of the child... Who the *bleep* forgets they have a child to take care of?! Immersive game or no, that's messed up. It wouldn't surprise me if a war on technology began, cause that's really where this ignorance will lead. And I suppose I was addicted to WoW at one point. Playing for days at a time...Never once did I lose my sense of reality. I ate every meal, and I'd even stop for smokes:P

I don't want to seem unsimpathetic. But I am, so that's how it comes across...

And yes...I know I just joined the discussion. Can you blame me?

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