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  dorpus, 9 Aug 2005 @ 10:25am

  
  

  Increasing Lower Bounds

  As time progresses, video game makers will continue to figure out ways to make their products more addicting. They will use their expertise of psychology, game theory, neurology, etc., to increase the proportion of people who will become hooked, to the detriment of their health. At what point does it become a public health problem?
  
  Earlier generations of cigarette makers made terrible cigarettes, but they learned how to make them more addicting by improving the taste, increasing the nicotine levels, and increasing the sophistication of their advertising.
  
  
  

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  mattyatty, 9 Aug 2005 @ 10:53am

  
  

  $10

  $10 says if it was in the US nobody would be suing the video game company because all games come with warnings to take regular breaks.

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    spam, 9 Aug 2005 @ 11:50am

    
    

    Re: $10

    Sadly, all the warnings in the world don't stop the hoards of slobbering, ravenous lawyers that live in the United States.

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  Dirk Wessels, 9 Aug 2005 @ 4:30pm

  
  

  What was that game

  Does anybody know the name of that game..
  I can imagine that some online games can be very addictive because it involves real people.
  And very tiring, because people are playing it 24 hours all over the world..
  In some games I have seen that you need to keep playing so you don't lose your game-money, game-posessions or game-territory. The best way to win it is to play long, long times..
  These games could help a bit by restricting access for maximum of 12 hours a day, or by making it easy to cooperate with someone who does supervise your game-business during the times that you have to work or sleep..
  Can even do great social things ;-)
  
  Some games do it a bit better:
  In one Role-playing game (baldur's gate) I have seen this userfriendly tip: "while your characters don't need to sleep or eat, you do".
  

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    mattyatty, 11 Aug 2005 @ 7:41am

    
    

    Re: What was that game

    he "had been playing online battle simulation games" according to cnet news.

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  Scott, 17 Aug 2005 @ 7:48am

  
  

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  Probably Halo 2......I cant put that game down once I start and I have lost alot of sleep because of it.

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  scythe, 31 Aug 2005 @ 2:32pm

  
  

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  god forbid a video game be addictive.
  
  People get addicted to all kinds of things, these MMO games trigger a social part of our brains that we find very important. Really the way to get these manufacturers to limit the time someone can spend on a server is to limit the amount they can charge for server time. Right now they WANT you to spend as much time as possible on the server.

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  allie, 16 Jul 2006 @ 5:13pm

  
  

  WHAT,who would do that thats stupid

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