I have recently started playing Dragonica Online, an MMORPG. I don't think that I am addicted to the game, but then again, I started playing it so that I could review it for class. I enjoy playing it casually which is great, because it isn't like EVE or WoW, were things are in realtime. I think the thing I like best isn't the community of players, I have never really been into forums and the like, but that it is really casual for being an MMO. I used to play Asheron's Call with my friend when we were 13 and that was rediculous, because there were all kinds of daily things and there were pets and you could purchase houses, and all of these needed to be maintained and it took a lot of time and energy. Her parents would stay up till 3 A.M. on weekends playing and now, since Asheron's Call has been long since gone, they stay up playing Facebook games, many of which are realtime. They (and my friend, their daughter), set special alarms in the middle of the night to make sure that they can get up and make sure that their Castle Age dragons are winning battles and their pet society houses and pets are taken care of. That is addicting, but they don't let it get in the way of their jobs or school, just sleep.
I greatly disturbs me when people take video games seriously. Especially if their is life threatening involved. Its one thing to yell at the moniter while playing an MMO, but to actually message someone and threaten them, that is seriously disturbing. The things that I get mad about are like spending time trying to level up and you don't get the experience, becuase someone else comes up and takes your kill. That makes me angry. But reading about City of Heroes/Villains, I felt like yea Twixt was being annoying as all Hell, but he was just doing what is allowed in the game.
I think that if I had more time, I would spend it more on video games, especially on Dragonica or Pokemon (which is now realtime based and you can only catch certain Pokemon at night or at dawn, etc), but I work fulltime, go to school fulltime, and I try to stay healthy, which obviously isn't working out too well since it is 3:30 A.M. and I took a 7 hour nap from lack of sleep. Not because of video games, but because of homework and work.
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Wow, even I've never been that bad about a game, and I've been bad before (back to back civ2 games on epic). I'm glad you aren't that bad about Pet Society, hon. I agree, however, that threatening someone's life is going a little too far, no matter what game you're playing.
ReplyDeleteWow! I don't think anyone could pay me to get up in the middle of the night to check on a video game. Like you stated that's not a healthy way to live your life. I can understand really enjoying a game and even spending a decent amount of time playing it bey there needs to be that seperation of fully functioning in the real world. It doesn't seem taht everyone is able to find that and that's where the problem arises.
ReplyDeleteI do not play games as much as I would like either because I am busy with work and school as well. I believe the issue of game obsession starts up when people get so into the game that they ignore everything else, it just confuses me when do that though. I do not know of any game that is that much fun that I would devote all of my time (definately not if I'm sleeping) to it.
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