http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/08/08/wo ... _addicted/
Myself i doubt WoW is addictive until i see a diagnose of research
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WoW addiction discuss thread
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Item aquisition and upgrading is addictive; it ties into basic human nature imo.
IIRC highschool correctly, Humanity started off being hunter-gatherer cavemen/nomands, then developed agriculture and settled and only then started to do complicated stuff like thinking about wheels, buildings and high-speed internet.
So Hunting for Items and Gathering Items is basic human nature that appeals more to some then others.
Some can see the eternal treadmill and say "thanks but no thanks, Ragnaros was fun and a challenge but everything after that is been-there-done-that."
Others however, can't.
*cough*
IIRC highschool correctly, Humanity started off being hunter-gatherer cavemen/nomands, then developed agriculture and settled and only then started to do complicated stuff like thinking about wheels, buildings and high-speed internet.
So Hunting for Items and Gathering Items is basic human nature that appeals more to some then others.
Some can see the eternal treadmill and say "thanks but no thanks, Ragnaros was fun and a challenge but everything after that is been-there-done-that."
Others however, can't.
*cough*
ofc you can be addictvie to a game just like you can be addictvie to any thing else. A swedish news paper claimed that 40.000 swedes in the age 12-16 would be computer game addicts. Game addiction is the lastest thing to write about before games its was tv before tv it was violent movies and before that it was rock music and so on......
It sells in the media that is what is all about
It sells in the media that is what is all about
Meek wrote:im looking at the pic of Dr. Maressa Orzack and it gives me a feeling that she too is very addictive to something...
haha lol.I don't think we have a right to make Blizzard or other game companies change their products, but that may be what this comes to, down the road.
Strike first. Strike hard. Cobra Kai!
Give the gamemarket 50 or 60 years to develope and we´ll have serious psychological dissorders as consequence of insane gaming.. 
.. Hell, just look at us now.. 6 million ppl play WoW everyday.. thats more than the entire country of Finland.....
.. Hell, just look at us now.. 6 million ppl play WoW everyday.. thats more than the entire country of Finland.....Character is what you do in the dark. In gloom i work.
