video game addiction

[soushtina]

What can you say about video game addiction? People nowadays are becoming fixated with video games. Some even devote their daily lives playing simple mobile game such as Temple Run and Candy Crush. Be it RPG, stealth, shooting, simulation or arcade games, people around the world are becoming addicted. What's the appeal in these games? Why are they so addictive? Please share your thoughts.

 

[Xilef]

(I hope you don't change your signature to advertise some kind of product after I post this)


Video game addiction doesn't exist as it is a skill that has reward, it's like being addicted to your job because you find your job very rewarding or being addicted to football because you're really good at it.

The symptoms are very much the same as addiction, but when you get down to it the actual activity can't be an addiction as it's just a skill-based hobby. If you play a game constantly chances are it's because you are good at it rather than addicted, as soon as you start losing you'll stop playing.

My family used to think I was addicted to games, and I thought so too, but now I look back it was more that I was better at games than at school-work, one of them rewarded me more and improved my skills more than the other.

 

[Xhukari]

Yeah I agree totally with Xilef, also in high school I was playing this one FPS (now in hindsight, a terrible game), and I would regularly score say, 60 hours a week on it (one week I had 88 hrs, according to XFire). And yes, that was around school hours. But then the game change some aspects of it (became Pay 2 win etc) and my play of the game reduced dramatically until I gave up.

Another aspect could be escape, the desire of achieving something, etc etc; back when I played that game, I was depressed and bullied at school, I used it as an escape because it was something I was good at, and at the time, it felt really good to be THE reason why your team wins, etc.

 

[Mega Flare]

yes there is video game addiction... when Phantasy Star Universe was fresh and new.... I putin about 4000 hours in the game in only for paying 15 months of play time which = like 166 days... it consumed my life.... @.@

 

[Xhukari]

Well someone must be exaggerating, because that comes out to an average of 8.77 Hrs per da, for every single day, for 15 months. Even if you did manage that, game addiction does not exist; only people with addictive tendencies.

 

[Mega Flare]

im not. i would wake up. play for like 30 mins go to school. come home play till like 4 am. sleep. and repeat. video game addiction exists..

 

[Xhukari]

game addiction exists..

An addiction is something totally impulsive which you feel you must do, which lacking it causes some kind of effect on you. What made you stop playing? Was it some long, hardship struggle to give up, most likely with feelings of anger and withdrawal? If yes, then you were addicted to that game. If not, then it was other things that made you play the game to such high amounts.

Video game addiction does not exist; there is nothing inherently addicting to playing video games, what people get addicted to is how the game can fill some void of the player; this can be any number of reasons, ranging from socialising to a sense of achievement. Albeit it does provide the similar outcome as something that is inherently addictive; but gaming does not inherently have anything addictive to it - for instance, what people commonly do get addicted to is drugs, be it nicotine from smoking or alcohol from drinks (the former having directly addictive substances, while the latter occurs as a result of chemical imbalance in the body from over-consumption).

 

[Mega Flare]

i stop playing cause3 i was out of work and i couldnt afford the montly fee lol.

 

[bacon]

phantasy star online was like crack
I at least spent 300 hours playing episode 1&2

 

[Mega Flare]

phantasy star online was like crack
I at least spent 300 hours playing episode 1&2

this but i spent too much time ;x i bought a gamecube just to play the game at home instead at a friends house