Comments on: Addicted To Gaming? MTV Wants You!

By: matty

matty — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:17:14 +0000

Some do, but the government also issues stuff like DDRs to schools once they noticed kids were getting fit off them, and developers are no strangers to police and marine forces.
I truly believe the “smart” politicians know that video games are not the answer to youth corruption they thought it was (other than thugs shooting over Xbox systems, but they do that with DVD players and radios, etc). Now, the ones that do try to stick it to games is so that they can *regulate* them. BAD MOVE. I'm not about to go off on a tangent, but that's not gonna happen for many reasons. But, why do they insist to push that agenda? Hmm…

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:04:58 +0000

I would have to say “money” is the only negative effect gaming has on me.. but what's the point of the show, politicians are going to use this to say games are bad for kids. Too much of anything is bad I suppose.

By: matty

matty — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:17:14 +0000

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:04:58 +0000

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:02:31 +0000

They need to just watch World of World of Warcraft.

By: matty

matty — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:06:23 +0000

I know MTV did a similar take on this years back, but it was called "True Life: I'm a Professional Hardcore Gamer" or something like that. It featured Fala1ity (the numbuh 1 FPS gamer in the world), a man who went to bars to play tournaments of that old arcade golf game, etc.

There's actually a former WoW player who is now a phycharist that specializes in cases like this. She has a few interesting videos up on Youtube and gives some really thoughtful perspectives on the subject.
Also, there's a documentary called Second Life that's suppose to cover this issue, too, but I haven't seen it, yet.

It's an interesting subject that I only hear and read about. Being really into games myself, I find it kind of hard to see a point where it'll actually take over my life *and* have such a negative effect (unless there is something wrong, for example, coming here everyday ;-P). Money is an obvious one, but as for anything else... I think I'm past that part of video games being a threat.