by MetalDragon

Created on: May 03, 2009

Wow. When I saw the title I thought, finally someone else is standing up to the real problem. I have been trying to stand up for myself when playing many games and people just don't seem to get it. I play the game World of Warcraft and other games like it. When people talk to me they talk to me like a normal person and then when they find out that I play this game they treat me like an idiot. They start saying things like I'm going to end up living in my mother's basement. Well, I already live on my own so they were wrong. I only play like maybe three hours a week at most.

I have seen many of my friends or many of my family members get addicted to things and a lot of them have been addicted to video games. They get addicted to these games and then when people intervene with this, they take away the game. When these people have lost their game, if watched closely enough, they turn to something else. Some of them in my experience have turned to drugs or gambling. It really goes to show it was just in their personalities not in the game.

The biggest scenario that I had gone through with one of my friends was when he got into one of the online Call of Duty games. He played this game quite a bit before he got online with it and then once it was online he almost never left the house. He would use his computer to keep in contact with everyone and to get groceries brought to his house and what-not. You had to go to his house to hang out with him playing his game. I played this game a couple of times and I admit it was fun but I never got stuck on it. Eventually I got him to realize that he was wasting all of his time on this game. He stopped playing and within a week he was at it again. So I thought it was the game and tried to get him off of it again. After trying to get him off and him refusing to do so I stopped hanging out with him. Well it turns out that he is now hooked on cocaine and drinking a lot. So, it really was just in him all along, to become addicted to something, no matter what it was.

Really, it does come down to whether or not the person has an addictive personality. If they are addicted to a game and you go and blame the game then you might miss out on a game that you might like. The game is not at fault, the person is to blame for this addiction. When you look at game addiction though, you might want to think of this: Would you rather they play the game or would you rather they were doing something else like drugs or spending all of their money gambling?

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