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[Leviathan1]

20000 hours. Jesus Christ. The guy must woke up. Played the game. Went to sleep. Over and over again. He should sue himself.

 

[Zanboo]

This man shall be beaten repeatedly with a wooden mallet until he realizes how dumb this is.

Judge please do this.

Is it a Wooden Mallet with +2 Stamina?

 

[cuyahoga]

I don't think it's too much to ask corporations to assume some social responsibility when knowingly producing an addictive product.

I thought I was going to be the only person here who didn't have much sympathy for NCSoft, but I also don't think MMOs are ethical.

 

[Holy Order Sol]

WARNING: MAY CAUSE YOU NEED GO LY DOW

:lol

 

[Castor Krieg]

I don't think it's too much to ask corporations to assume some social responsibility when knowingly producing an addictive product.

Corporations do not have social responsibility. Stop trying to put responsibility (which belongs to a person) on a corporation (which is an entity, not a person).

US Legal System is so funny.:lol I wonder though why serial murderers are not suing gun companies for selling them the guns?

 

[Odrion]

well, they do hire psychologists and the such to figure out how to make their product mentally addicting.

 

[Dr. Light]

This is from Final Fantasy XI:

So I guess they were covered!

 

[Gravijah]

This is from Final Fantasy XI:

So I guess they were covered!

WoW has an in game warning too, IIRC. Been clean a few months... Not even going to buy Cataclysm. I'm free*!

*Until FFXIV.

 

[Safe Bet]

I thought I was going to be the only person here who didn't have much sympathy for NCSoft, but I also don't think MMOs are ethical.

Sooner or later, if designers continue to design them with intent to addict players, they will be regulated.

MMOs are very similar to Casinos which are not only heavily regulated, but illegal in most States.

 

[commish]

Sooner or later, if designers continue to purposely design them with the intent to addict the player, they will be regulated.

You have to be kidding. Regulate videogames because they are addicting? Let's regulate anything that some people love to spend a lot of times on! A joke.

 

[pseudocaesar]

uh... no. Evilore owns GAF

Perhaps.. but we all know who runs it.

 

[Safe Bet]

Regulate videogames because they are addicting?

The addictive qualities of a product is a main factor in product regulation.

As the popularity of "gaming" continues to grow and the general public begins to hear more and more stories of ruined lives, they will demand accountability from someone.

I could be wrong though...

The general public might just not give a fuck anymore.

 

[Drkirby]

I'm sueing GAF then.

We can file a class acton law suite, and demand lifetime Gold Status in return!

 

[Xristot]

20,000 Hours! 20,000! :lol

If you believe in the 10,000 hour rule he could have learned two skills to an almost mastery level. That's kind of depressing.

 

[Gravijah]

The addictive qualities of a product is a main factor in product regulation.

As the popularity of "gaming" continues to grow and the general public begins to hear more and more stories of ruined lives, they will demand accountability from someone.

Whoever the fuck is regulating need to regulate all these 24 hour "arcades" popping up everywhere. There's dozens in my small city, and they only exist to con people out of their money.

 

[dankir]

You Americans and your need to sue somebody over something retarded at least once in his life!

:lol

How is this supposed to be ruled, he's going to be given x amount of dollars because the lazy fuck can't put his own clothes on?

Epic facepalm.............. and fuck that judge for actually allowing this bullshit case to continue.

 

[zlatko]

This would have never happened if he had played FFXI instead. Can a fellow FFXI player help me get that quote before the game loads up everytime.

It's something around the lines of," Please do not forget about your family, friends, job, etc." I remember when I was little laughing at that statement. 6 years later I was still playing FFXI in my spare time...I didn't think it was funny anymore. :lol

Edit: Woops. Just saw it above from an earlier post. Yeah FFXI had itself covered with that god like statement.

 

[commish]

The addictive qualities of a product is a main factor in product regulation.

As the popularity of "gaming" continues to grow and the general public begins to hear more and more stories of ruined lives, they will demand accountability from someone.

I could be wrong though...

The general public might just not give a fuck anymore.

Yes, heaven forbid we actually hold people accountable for their own lives.

 

[Luigiv]

Only in America.

 

[Zizbuka]

Isn't there a website to deal with idiots like this? The one that basically ruined that boxy chick? Someone get on there and offer them some fresh meat.

 

[olimpia84]

is that game even good?

 

[LegendofJoe]

Only in America.

So you're saying America is the only country in the world that has difficulty promoting personal accountability?

 

[Safe Bet]

How is this supposed to be ruled..

My guess?

The courts would order companies to pay for programs which educate the public to the dangers of their products and offer help in overcoming addiction to their product.

Very similar to the way smoking/gambling is handled.

Yes, heaven forbid we actually hold people accountable for their own lives.

Punish the drug user not the drug dealer?

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Punish the drug user not the drug dealer?

It's not like we're talking about something that's chemically addictive, though. That's a whole different can of worms.

Anyone can become addicted to anything if they do it enough. Should libraries post warnings that you could get addicted to reading books?