A message to Parents
Parents if ye hear me, Dont ever let your child play Mmorpg games.
*Those games never end. But lead the player to end in reality*
I'm sorry but that is just not true, as all things it can be both a good and bad thing.
I have been playing MMO's since i was 13 I have beta tested multiple ones and have enjoyed many many different MMORPG's over the years, but I have met no one who has become so obsessed with it that it rules their life, I know it can happen but it's very much on the person themselves.
If your child has problems differing fantasy from reality then don't let them as they can harm a child in that case but 95% of the population should be fine.
Hey I am 18 years old,I am talking about some of the people I see(not just this film), anyway it doesnt worth the risk. I like mmorpgs(but I dont play) also I want to develop mmo and rpgs
For example you play 2 hours a day Wow(world of warcraft). You know what that 2 hours is? For example you have been playing that game for 3 years. That means you have played that game for a month without stopping. 2 hours a day can be considered normal(I think its much) how bout 4-5-6-7 hours? I left the calculation for you. This games has no end and encourages the player to play more than everyone to become powerful. So people who dont have self control are defeated by their ambitions. The result is problematic, withdrawn individual.It doesnt worth the risk. I hope you understand my point.
i'm in my mid twenties, and I have met people whom I know should never play games like this, but they should not read fiction, or gamble or a lot of things because they have either addictive personalities or cannot tell the difference between reality and imagination.
I used to read a minimum of 2 hours a day, I have friends who watch a minimum of 6 hours of TV a day, it's all relative we all do things with our time which can be considered a waste.
the key to your point is people who have no self control, parents if your kid has no self control you need to be the ones controlling them, it's not overbearing, it's your responsibility to make sure that they are not doing things excessively, they may hate you for it but it's your job to make sure that they don't.
It is a very individual thing, and it is up to the parents to know whether or not it's a good thing or not for their children to do,
thanks for posting this i just didn't want people to be left thinking that they are evil or anything like that, just as everything in the world they can be both good and bad dependign on the people.
Yes I agree, if the kids dont have self control, parents should interfere.
shareinterfere....how?
If simply to stop them through coercion, then I'm afraid this will only make the case worse.
I dont know every parent and child have their own characteristics, parents should use different methods according to behavior, consulting psychiatrist would not make things worse.
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I agree with wibble all the way. MMORPG's are not a problem in and of itself. But as all things, you can't do it excessively. It's easy to get lost in, but it's also easy to get lost in a good book or television series. I once watched a 26 episode series in one go because it was so good, but I shouldn't have because I couldn't get much sleep and school was quite desastrous the day after. You need to be able to show discipline, and children often don't have that discipline. Parents will need to teach them that, regulate their play time, but that doesn't mean they should not play at all. It just needs to be regulated.
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Yeah overdoing of everything is harm but my point is, A good book or a movie eventually ends but these MMORPG's never end.
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Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?
Erm, don't let your kids have access to a computer whenever they want if they can't handle the responsability?
It's just too easy to say that MMO's, or any other kind of leisure are the problem.
I remember a great teacher I had years ago, and when parents came to him complaining that their child's result where bad, the first thing he asked was if the kid had a TV, videogames, etc in his bedroom.
99% of the time the answer was yes. And the parents never even thought as far as that the distraction available to the kid 24/7 might be part of the problem.
If as an adult you haven't got enough restraint to know what amount of gaming is too much, then that's a problem, but the MMO is certainly not the cause. Most likely the cause can be found in the person's youth and education.
As for the discussion how much gaming is too much gaming, that's not something you can just arbitrarely put a number on. Too much is when the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. And yes, I honestly believe there are benefits to gaming.
Do you know why alcohol is prohibited under 18(21) in most states? Don't the children have self control to prevent themselves from buynig it? It is prohibited because of the parents demands, they dont want their children to use alcohol. But they 'cant' prevent it, so they get government help. But they can interfere with childen's unfavorable hobbies. In my opinion, MMO s are more harmful than cigarettes and alcohol. So, it looks naive in the first glance, but when you are absorbed in the game... And can you please explain more about the benefits of MMO gaming?
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If someone smokes every day for two hours straight they have a huge chance of cancer, get their lungs paved with tar and the cough of a lifetime.
If someone drinks every day for two hours straight their entire life is thrown upside down, they get rash, lack personal hygiene, alienate from friends and family in their drunken haze and in the end could die due to alcohol poisoning.
If someone plays an MMO for two hours everyday... they get some online friends aside from their regular ones and have a nice source of relaxation. At worst, they could get carpal tunnel.
Should I go search for death count caused by smoking, drinking and videogames too?
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2 Hours of MMO huh? I dont believe it... a Massive MMoer player plays more than 5 hours a day. And has a risk of embolism and thus a risk of instant death.
see the link for description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embolism
Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet
That is nonsense. Do YOU actually know why alcohol is prohibited under 18?
It is because chemically alcohol (and drugs and medicine for that matter) would stunt your growth, both in the brain as in the hormones etc. You can become a complete psychopath if you start heavy drinking at age 10. Just because your brain gets hotwired before it`s fully grown.
Which is more or less the reason you should use minimal substances until you`re fully grown.
Drinking still causes brain damage when you pass age 21, but since you`re done growing by then, the damage will not be severe. Actually very minimal.
MMO gaming isn`t harmful. For me it`s more or less a mystery why anyone would endlessly pay for a game without an end. But it doesn`t change anything. It`s just a game, it`s not an LSD injection.
The very perception that MMO games are dangerous is more dangerous than playing them for a while.
The lack of discipline people have is more dangerous. the very mind of the human, THAT is dangerous. "oh, I can have another drink for the road" "oh I can do my homework later, just gotta finish this level" "oh, it`ll be allright, coke isn`t that addictive".
People who can`t tell the difference between a game and reality. Who don`t know that a game is meant to be played when you got nothing better to do, rather than making everything else suck so you can play your damn game all day.
But ofcourse we could always ban MMO`s and see if that solves the problem...
It`s easier than checking out how you can regulate a daily life for people who have trouble with that. or checking what actually IS the problem with those people.