Is gaming addictive?
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18 Nov 2008, 15:53
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jN0 thinks it's obvious, and with one gamer dead after a 24 hour stint maybe it is? Who hasn’t started to game early evening, lost track of time, looked outside and seen it's 5am?
But does that really constitute addiction? When does enjoyment end and dependence begin?
But does that really constitute addiction? When does enjoyment end and dependence begin?
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1)yes
2)yes
3)jawohl
100%
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if you dont want to be you wont be
some people want to be addicted to something just as a means to end boredom which is why games like WoW are so popular
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I'm not sure. I think addiction is a tad strong, though gaming can be destructive.
wanting to stop is merely an illusion until you choose not to anymore, which basically is the start of the end of the addiction
but there is still a choice to stop even if you get headaches and shit
you don't want it enough to stop if you can't make the good choice imo, therefore you don't want to be not addicted
My experience is that this isn't true for all, some, but not the majority. But without the right stats I wouldn't make such a presumption!
See ati's comment; smoking, alcohol, crack, heroin, amphetamine.
I've forced myself to become addicted to certain games in the past because while addicted you can enjoy something far easier. It's only recently I learnt to enjoy things without becoming enthralled in them. ET isn't one of them I just literally have nothing better to do than watch series or space out in front of my monitor.
An hour or two for four/five days a week doesn't seem like much but it's better than doing nothing. Now that EC is over I haven't figured out how I'm going to do anything in my evenings.
I guess I’d want to figure out whether gaming creates the reclusiveness and other traits you see associated, or whether people with these kind of personalities simply find a haven in gaming?
for me it is isn't gaming that creates my issues but my issues led me to gaming - and even then only in a competitive sense, i find it hard to focus in even the worlds most brilliant games like Monkey Island, Deus Ex, System Shock, in single player, I don't even try and play generic Gears of War/Halo style games because I know it would be impossible
Well, I'm currently studying applied psychology in my senior year. We have however seen gaming as a part of the 'addictions' in the course 'Recent developments in Pathology'.
Just like every other drugs the game you play gives a certain pleasant feeling (OH YEAH I TOTALLY PWNED THAT NOOB!) which leads to playing the game more often (this is called operant conditioning, visit this link if you want to know more)
So basically playing the game and having a good feeling gives you a chemical rush, which you get addicted to.
My opine would be of the general theme that addiction to most things, computer gaming no exception, is generally seen predominantly in those with an 'addictive personality'. In other words, those with weak wills. I think these people can get just as hooked on grinding WoW as they can on narcotics.
I know I've got relatively weak willpower, so I choose to avoid MMORPGs in general purely because I know I wouldn't be able to restrict my playing to an extent where it didn't adversely impact the rest of my life.
(Do you know how hard it is to construct a sentence where you can use 'opine' without 'opinion' obviously being preferable?)
I do have a strong will but it's really easy for me to become addicted to something i really enjoy doing. i would never do drugs except smoking pot from time to time heeh :P but when it comes to fun things it's easy for me to go all out in it.
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but diablo 3 will change that
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there are some periods for me when it is and others i dont care much about it
He collapsed?
and btw look @ china / japan, thats the real shit..
created an amazone / bowa early in the evening and in the morning i was lvl 90 ^-^
ofc on some level, like I was @ some point addicted to travian xD I skipped school lessons because of that and woke in the middle of the night to play etc... but it's not what I consider 'addictive' and never lasts long.
people have different hobbies and different levels of dedication for them but 'addictive' in psychological way is reel hard to define when compared to physical / chemical addiction, taking smoking and nicotine as the easiest and most obvious example.
for example, some old grannies could have not found anythign better to do than knit sweaters all days long and just do that but that doesn't make knitting addictive
or as another example some people are sex-addicts but that doesn't make having sex addictive, neither does 1 guy collapsing in front of PC gaming addictive -,-
some people will be completely drawn into games and have nothing to stop them from playing night and day. other people either have a more controlled environment or just play casually for temporary entertainment
drugs, cigarettes, sex, gaming... etc
i haven't ever been so addicted to a game that i would start skipping all sorts of things to play a game (it didnt have such an influence on my life/daily schedule)
I ALMOST GOT THE DRAGON!!!!!!!!!1111111
I think it can be addictive to outsiders, but I think it's another kind of addiction than for example smoking. With smoking there's a rush of happiness when you finally get the cigarette you've been craving for all day (I've been told). I think gaming is more like a sport and being crazy about a sport. People do the most crazy things for sports, but is it an addiction? I don't think so.
So to conclude I think a "no" would be right (though I voted yes, but didn't put much thought in it).
and lets edit the mistakes.
and i know only one cure on it
Alcohols + girlz! (seriously it cured me)
Well..just the girlz can help ur addiction already ;D
I think people mostly play games, because they don't have anything else to do.
Ofcourse you can like it, but whats better then hanging around with some friends
and since then i play max 2 hours per week
"a. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something"
"b. Compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal ; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. "
Most of the people in this community will find themselves in definition A, if definition B is possible is open for discussion although I've seen people undergo changes in their behavior when they are not allowed to play games for a longer time. I myself have never found any trouble with going away from gaming for a longer period of time but i see some children (like my neighbors kid) or students at college who get really cranky when they don't find time to play jack the rabbit or world of warcraft respectively.
My answer is: Can be.
if you have other things to do like sports, friends, makin your gf happy etc you cant get addicted to computer games... but if so, you deserve pity :<
but to die. it depends on the person imo.
ET? not really, sometimes when im bored I force myself to play it, sometimes I want to play it but thats usually when I dont have much better things to do.
I'm sure there is some scale for determining how addicted you are to something out there.
With that being said one can only wonder how to determine addictiveness and being addicted imho. Ofcourse i'm only refering to the not so obvious cases as physical signs can atleast be graded wich is not so clear with mental signs.
I wouldn't presume science has an answer for everything.
There are doctors/psychiatrists who specialize in addiction, and I'm pretty sure they have some method of determining if their client is or isn't addicted and needs looking at.
The people who visit a professional must know they have some sort of problem, verified them selves or by others.
Saying "is it addictive" and answering yes, to me is saying that you will always become addictive if you do it. I'm saying it doesn't always end with addiction but it CAN.
Also, you replied to the wrong comment which made me go..eh o.0
The answers are direct, they don’t allow for nuance – therefore neither can the question.
(That said dare say I don’t dwell over the wording of a poll!)
Any thing can be addictive because people let it be, everything that can be done has addictive properties independent of who does it. So going by what you said; "If something can be addictive, it must hold addictive properties, ergo it is addictive."
The question is redundant and the poll useless, as the answer is already Yes.
Besides gaming, I think the internet is an addiction to most people. There are very few people here who can easily do without it for a fair amount of time.
but no gaming isn't one of mine!
Everybody is addicted to something including the do-gooders who a good portion of are addicted to church. Pretty sure theres been enough people who have died in church but you won't see anybody making a big deal about it.
My comment was in response to an article saying that gaming can be addicitve.
My response was more of a sarcastic retort aimed at that statement.
I agree actually with fusen. Gaming is not generically addictive, I am not going to say more as he's said exactly what I would have.
like you get addicted to food, drugs, alchohol, smoking & last but not least GAMES
=DDDDDDDD
That just means your an alcoholic as well as a gaming addict.
;D
In games like ET most of the times you are not addicted to the game but to the competition and you want to keep playing to get better, so it is not an escape from reality it is more like a sport that you can do at home at any time. Difference between real sports and online gaming, your body doesnt obligate you to stop..
But overall people have become addicted to real sports so it is fair to say that you can get addicted to online gaming.. it is not a big issue..
ass comment, lame comment!
Take the example of soccerfans for example, they'd rearrange their schedule especially to watch that particular match, and in gaming it's done likewise; when you want to play, you're going to play as far as it's possible ofc.
Difference with fysical addictions is that your body isn't exactly craving after it. The only thing that makes you play over and over again is your state of mind. Since you enjoy the game, you'll play it more often; not because your body is showing signs of withdrawal.
So in my opinion there's a difference in gaming and for e.g smoking. I'd say yes it's addictive, to some degree, and that degree is the line between psychological and fysical addictions.
(reason) they where all playing runescape, i gues that 1 little small kid was richer than those guys
so they where pounding him and kicking him, and walked to his home, so they threathed him.
and said give us you're password and username, or we will fvck up you're life (something like that i gues)
it's even been on Journal
My opinion, it's addictive & impossible to change it.
i told the man: im just bored when i got other things to do i love it.
psychiatrist said: bullshit you are not addicted bibuy!
and i told my mom: HAHA