Blizzard's new W.O.W game could be the first game to kill someone who was playing it?

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pistolpower

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Master Geek

#28110 18-Nov-2008 20:27

Well im not a W.O.W fan but I did find this interseting article here and wondered if anyone else had heard about it. A teenager aged 15 in sweeden collapsed and died in an eptileptic shock from lack of sleep, lack of food, and prolonged concentration after playing the new WOW game for aproximitly 24 hours, 24 hours after the game was released. Now if a game killing someone is not a record then maybe it is a record for computer games. Anyways I thought I would start of the discussion. Who knows maybe someone will find it intresting. Never though a game could kills someone before and I bet Blizzard did not think so either. Anyways post your comments here if you want to.

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Ultimate Geek

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#178669 18-Nov-2008 20:29

Its not the first death by WoW... countries in Asia have multiple reports of people dying from this

bazzer

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#178671 18-Nov-2008 20:32

Try Berzerk, this dates back to 1981!

tony0709

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#178946 19-Nov-2008 22:59

This is CRAZY!

How can someone play so much!??

I get a headache within 2 hours!!!

Ragnor

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#178968 20-Nov-2008 02:03

It's called natural selection, the loss of people stupid enough to play a game consecutively for enough hours to die only strengthens the gene pool.

This may be a controversial attitude but I think the kid should be taught to take personal responsibility for being a dumbass, rather than laying the blame on a game that 11 million other people play and don't have a problem with.

digitaldream

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Master Geek

#179025 20-Nov-2008 11:04

^Agreed

There is always some people that ruin it for the general crowd, just like the shootings that are blamed on violent games.
People need to learn to take care of themselves.

marmel

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#179053 20-Nov-2008 12:43

If you read through the article the link points to the teenager didn't die, he just about died. He is expected to make a full recovery.

superman

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#179087 20-Nov-2008 14:55

haha gross

i thought a few people died playing diablo 2?

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Shooman

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#179798 24-Nov-2008 09:24

Pffffttt..
MMO's in South Korea have been knocking people off left right and centre for years now.

In fact - there's probably some kind of insurance you can get...

Splinta

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#181223 30-Nov-2008 12:52

OMG like how the hell can someone just sit their for that length of time in front of the computer, not saying i don't and not saying i do but their is that space outside of the cyberworld called well OUTSIDE..

I'm a 27 year old dad with 3 kids ( 2 boys and a girl) and after a hard days work i do like to sit in front of the computer either playing wow or CSS but unlike some i guess i know when enough is enough....

I guess what i'm saying is their is a life away from the computer, you just need to see it...

Quidam

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Ultimate Geek

#181247 30-Nov-2008 18:39

It's probably worth while remembering that many people suffer from addictive personalities. No doubt many people game more than they should -but this is just an extreme example. If it's not gaming, it would probably be something else. Perhaps something worse, like drug and alcohol abuse.

"There is no way to Peace -Peace is the Way" (A. J. Muste)

Splinta

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#181258 30-Nov-2008 21:55

Roger that...

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pistolpower

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#182046 4-Dec-2008 15:59

Oh yer aparently he did not die. Sorry about saying he did. After reading the article for the 1st time I was not shure if he had died or not, so I read some more articles about it. And none of the articles I read meantioned anything about the person after the seizure. So I presumed he had died. But recently I found out that he had not died.

jfnz

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#183636 11-Dec-2008 21:43

pistolpower: Oh yer aparently he did not die. Sorry about saying he did. After reading the article for the 1st time I was not shure if he had died or not, so I read some more articles about it. And none of the articles I read meantioned anything about the person after the seizure. So I presumed he had died. But recently I found out that he had not died.

Well I'm glad you read the article and realised he didn't die because you were saying he died and i was like lolwut? but yeah i wasn't shure if he was dead or not i was like 'lol dude are you dead' and he didn't reply probably because i wasn't really with him and i was just sitting in front of the computer reading the geekzone forums. Well I presumed he died. Maybe he lived though? lolnot really shure. if I had to say anything though i would probably say he dead but then again this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down and I liked to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.

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pistolpower

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#183774 12-Dec-2008 20:09

Well I guess that blizzard are really lucky that he did not die. Lol if he had died that would have made their game look really bad. Or maybe they wouldn't have been unlucky as the extra publicity might have increased sales. Guess we won't know eh. :D

rygrass

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#183853 13-Dec-2008 13:05

pistolpower: Well I guess that blizzard are really lucky that he did not die. Lol if he had died that would have made their game look really bad. Or maybe they wouldn't have been unlucky as the extra publicity might have increased sales. Guess we won't know eh. :D

like other's have said there hav been case's in Asia where people have died so i guess it doesn't effect it to much as there is over 11 million that play it ??

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