Gaming is addictive and this bad

Is gaming addictive?

Is this a bad thing?

Booze is addictive. This has been known for some time now. Is all booze bad? People can argue for and against wine's benefits all day but when it comes down to it, too many drinks will kill you.


This article declares some 40% of all players of world of warcraft are addicted, and ends the piece with the following: "people who spend too much time on these activities to the exclusion of all others risk negative real-world consequences." Makes sense to me.





Jane McGonigal in this TED talk from 2010 states that us earthlings (approximately 7.06 Billion and counting), spend three billion hours each week playing video games.

She argues we need players who are ready and willing to save the proxy worlds they inhabit to save our real one.

If we do a little math and take answers.com's figure on how many people have access to a computer at 15%; then on average, three hours a week are spent gaming by one billion people.

Hardly a number I would equate to being addicted.

Should you find yourself addicted to gaming, Professor Maressa Hecht Orzack is here to help! She is pictured above touching her chin.

The Professor lists some symptoms below:

Let us check and see if we know anybody who may fit the bill.

A child that does not want to do chores.

Let us get serious now, we were all like this.

An unhappy husband starts calling on-line services?

Let us not dwell on this one too long.

Connecting with the internet from 9pm.

Let us not reveal what time of the morning we check our e-mails, or Facebook over our morning coffees and cigarettes.


By the good Professor's reasoning, all silly children, unhappy Husbands, and users of a computer late in the day are ADDICTED TO COMPUTERS.

Again: Ye Gads.


The reason as to why World of Warcraft (World’s largest game) is so big is that people are "...addicted to the game because it's fun, and you can't beat it."


Fair enough.

The argument that gaming is a bad addiction seems an invalid one.