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Old Aug 22, 2010, 12:42 AM   #1
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3 Million lawsuit against addictive game [NC Soft]

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"20,000 hours in the last 5 years, unable to function normally, like getting dressed, communicate.."
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Old Aug 22, 2010, 12:47 AM   #2
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think i can open a lawsuit against wizzard and the staff for making me come here every day to read up on tech news?
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think i can open a lawsuit against wizzard and the staff for making me come here every day to read up on tech news?
Im in on that one. Class action lawsuit now. I want millions, so I can buy more games.
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Old Aug 22, 2010, 12:53 AM   #5
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"Violent Television and video games are why we have so much violence today, again, not the unsupervised person who has pre-existing issues with violence."

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think i can open a lawsuit against wizzard and the staff for making me come here every day to read up on tech news?
+4 we get a few more and we can class action.
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You guys will be bribed with coke, and hookers before you ever get to make your case.

It's best to go after Dan; his beer time will keep him busy untill it's too late!
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People just averting the blame from themselves because they realize they are complete failures in life and can't even muster the willpower to get dressed nevermind go work and live like a regular person, they should probably just wither and die than leech off the company's success.
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There seems to be an epidemic of people choosing not to take responsibility for their own actions this past decade in particular. Why? What can we do to change it?
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People just averting the blame from themselves because they realize they are complete failures in life and can't even muster the willpower to get dressed nevermind go work and live like a regular person, they should probably just wither and die than leech off the company's success.
umm no, clearly you missed the part where the company was using some magic*not approved by the FDA* to hold this guy in a trance for 5 years
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People just averting the blame from themselves because they realize they are complete failures in life and can't even muster the willpower to get dressed nevermind go work and live like a regular person, they should probably just wither and die than leech off the company's success.
i avert no blame. TPU is my home page TPU keeps me up at night, iv blocked all sites except TPU, TPU is my wifi name. I named my cat TPU I dont get dressed because TPU is closer than my dresser. When i converse no one converses with me because i only talk about TPU and they have never been. Everyone calls outside RL but i dont see how, outside is just a bunch of trees and shit. TPU IS life. I once blew a ton of coke and I thought i was IN TPU. im goin for the million on this.
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He's lying. At 16 hours a day (figure 8 for sleeping), that adds up to just under 30,000 hours. He has been playing approximately 11 hours a day. In other words, he was productive for 5 hours every day. Warren Buffet makes millions every hour, even if he isn't working...

Since 11 hours a day for 5 years is very excessive, I'd conclude he has an addictive personality and, well, that's his own damn fault. There's no way he'll get a cent out of ncsoft. The court should (will) order him to attend addiction conseling with no monetary compensation.
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Actually guys some game devs hire psychologists and human behaviour experts to implement deliberate addictive game mechanics.

If this game was one of them then fair game, I don't think deliberately addictive is a good thing.
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umm no, clearly you missed the part where the company was using some magic*not approved by the FDA* to hold this guy in a trance for 5 years
For a second I was like "WTF HE CAN'T BE SERIOUS" then I lold

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i avert no blame. TPU is my home page TPU keeps me up at night, iv blocked all sites except TPU, TPU is my wifi name. I named my cat TPU I dont get dressed because TPU is closer than my dresser. Whne i converse no one converses with me because i only talk about TPU and they have never been. Everyone calls outside RL but TPU IS life. I once blew a ton of coke and I thought i was IN TPU. im goin for the million on this.
I cut tpu up into RSS feeds and snort lines of it.
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I cut tpu up into RSS feeds and snort lines of it.
! i never thought of that omfg sweet. now i can get my fix. I even upgraded from a 19" monitor to a 50" plasma so i could see TPU BIGGER
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+4 we get a few more and we can class action.
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i would be just fine with that
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! i never thought of that omfg sweet. now i can get my fix. I even upgraded from a 19" monitor to a 50" plasma so i could see TPU BIGGER
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Funny how this came about (from what I can tell) after he got banned from the game..
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BS.... Nonsense...... Frivilicious..... Stupid..... Yadda Yadda

You can't even win lawsuits against beer companies and that is addictive. You can't sue a cigarette company even if you die from lung cancer and they are addictive. You can't sue a porn company if you become addicted to porn. You are responsible for your own behavior and any injury that might occur by participating in said event is your own problem.
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Actually guys some game devs hire psychologists and human behaviour experts to implement deliberate addictive game mechanics.

If this game was one of them then fair game, I don't think deliberately addictive is a good thing.
Doesn't the military use similar things when training soldiers? Shoot the target and it makes a little "ding". I'm not trying to undermine the psychological validity of game addiction but I'm pretty sure the basis is really the reward mechanism and it is often disturbingly simplistic. Hit the buzzer, win a cookie. Keeps me coming back...

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I cut tpu up into RSS feeds and snort lines of it.
Wow dude, you really have a problem. Makes me feel better about soliciting prostitutes to play WoW with me. Oh god I'm so lonely....

I have never played WoW I swear!
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Doesn't the military use similar things when training soldiers? Shoot the target and it makes a little "ding". I'm not trying to undermine the psychological validity of game addiction but I'm pretty sure the basis is really the reward mechanism and it is often disturbingly simplistic. Hit the buzzer, win a cookie. Keeps me coming back...



Wow dude, you really have a problem. Makes me feel better about soliciting prostitutes to play WoW with me. Oh god I'm so lonely....

I have never played WoW I swear!
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11 hours a day. Hmm, I should be able to sue my employer as I am addicted to the money they give me for working 10 or so hours a day, and without it I am unable to function normally.
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He can blame himself for playing it too many times,its his own fault and his own action and who still plays lineage II these days i mean its really old MMORPG now. =/ i'm pretty sure community is near dead or something but if its not then cool.
But still it is the guy's own fault for playing for so long.
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