Playing video games is supposed to be fun, not life threatening.
Not so for a gamer in China, who died after going without food, water or rest in order to spend three days playing an on-line video game.
BBC News reports that the 30-year-old unidentified male lost consciousness in an internet cafe on the outskirts of Beijing.
Local reports claimed that the victim was rushed to hospital but couldn’t be revived. It added that he had spent more than £900 on gaming in the month prior to his death.
In 2005, a 28-year-old man died in South Korea in similar circumstances when he played online games for 50 hours without taking a break.
This is why I quit playing World of Warcraft!
How does one not end up sitting in a pile of their own filth way before the point of death? You’d think the smell of one wetting themselves would’ve alerted any bystanders to a problem way before that.
Now that’s an addiction.
Something tells me I’m still within healthy boundaries.
I am pretty sure I’m going to pull through. And the fetish for Diablo II is waning anyway…
What do you mean they’re coming out with Diablo III?
LIES! I’ll believe in Diablo III when/if it actually gets done. 🙂
I thought Diablo III was already out; been out for awhile now.
The guy wasn’t a gamer he was a gambler, the “online game” wasn’t Starcraft 2 it was a online casino.
Zergonapal, can you confirm please?