Gaming Injuries

Mario Party was an evil game for destroying hands. Rotate analog stick faster! FASTER! FASTE-oh god my skin.

Nowadays it's all about the RSI, tendonitis ftw.

And witht he total war series, if a certain battle is pissing me off i will spend some of my freetime sat down thinking how to nail that sod, without losing too many men. Stuff like that.

ive thought about games in real life, like when i was an SWG addict, i would think constantly about what to do with my city or guild, and how to get new people etc.

And witht he total war series, if a certain battle is pissing me off i will spend some of my freetime sat down thinking how to nail that sod, without losing too many men. Stuff like that.

Never thought i was in a game.... but thought somethings would be great, such as ctrl+f and save points to reload if u cock something up!

Sometimes when I've played a game for ages, I start to think about it in real life. So do a lot of people. Like, imagining things in isometric view, thinking of using CTRL+F when looking in a book, pressing tab for third person, and such. Does this happen to anyone else?

When me and my housemates played loads of the crash events from Burnout, I later found myself trying to work out the best approach to cause the most damage at a traffic jam I saw whilst walking into uni . Fortunetly that hasn't happened whilst I've been behind the wheel

I find it crazy, I mean I've been addicted to games before but I doubt I've ever played more than 6 hours straight. Imagine playing a game so long you get dehydrated, or your muscles atrophy (don't know if that's the right term). I agree with UoL, developers can't just ignore this.

No, developers can ignore it. Play a game for 50 hours straight...do pretty much ANYTHING for 50 hours straight...and you're gonna get ill. People just need to be less stupid. What's to stop people logging off for 20 seconds and logging straight back in anyway?

And in the same way as beer companies come under pressure to ensure that their clients do not drink too much there is no excuse for these gaming companies to put in simple safeguards when they know that their games are addictive.

On the practical point - given the huge amount of programming (and data storage) in a game like WoW how hard would it be to keep track of how long someone has been playing and kick them for a while if they've been playing too long?

It's still entirely at the end-user's discretion in both cases. While a landlord may stop serving someone if they are totally sodden, this is only because he has a certain amount of responsibility for his patrons. As far as actually buying alcohol is concerned, the only limit is someone's common sense and if they happen to lack this then it is their problem. Same for games, at the end of the day it is up to you how long you play for.