I watched a BBC Panorama program about game addiction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wlmj0/Panorama_Addicted_to_Games/

As a Multimedia Developer I am aware of game addiction but my point of view about this topic is that it's like any other addiction. As human being we all will be come addicted to something.

Some addictions are good like sport activities some are ok like coffee and some are bad like drugs. How ever we look at something as game addiction it is important to be aware about it so that it doesn't happen to you or someone you know.

Make sure you do your everyday tasks before rewarding yourself with some game time. Try to set a side times of the day that you will allow yourself to play and limit this to 1-2 hours per day.

If you have any other tips, advice or stories about gaming addiction please post them here. I would love to hear about them. Take care and happy gaming! :)

I saw it too and totally agree with you.

My advice is stay away from dirty looking men offering you drugs and stick to the Wow.

One of my friends used to play Call of Duty literally 16 hours a day, six days a week. He almost failed his degree as a result.

I remember seeing a father on Yahoo Answers who wanted to know if he should be worried that his five year old son is choosing to wear nappies so he won't have to leave the Xbox to use the toilet.

scionoftea said:
s choosing to wear nappies so he won't have to leave the Xbox to use the toilet.

Sounds normal to me.

It is scary when you look at the BBC2 stats, and work out that the top playing people are averaging 8 hrs a day every day since its release.

Tbh, you have to lead a very lonley life to play any game for 8 hrs a day.

i have a healthy game addiction. i go to work, make tea sit down with the Mrs at night (and watch her SHITTY programs) she nods off and i play most nights.

the point is you have to work gaming arround you life and not your life arround gaming.

I know ppl that play 8 hours a day. But it is hard to get them to stop and see their ways.

I've been known to play for 8 hours in a day. But that's an exception. I mean, 8 hours EVERY day? How do they get anything done?

There are some people who have jobs and some without. Those without jobs are supported by there other halves/they're family or they are on disability support/job seekers allowance/incompacity benifit.
Those with jobs usually work away for upto a year at a time and when they come home they don't have much to do so they play games all day.

There are many different types of people who play games all day every day.

i agree. the you get ppl like me. work sort out shit then manage to play for 5ish hours. i only rly sleep 4hrs a night any way.
might aswell play games

I have played for 8hrs once. I played COD MW2 straight through.

The missus had gone to bed, started playing.
I should go to bed, damn she will be getting up soon, leave it, don't disturb her.
She wakes up, I really should go to bed, but I can tell it is not far from the end.
Stuff keep going and finish it.

But every day, damn there has to be a life in there somewhere.

I think we all have played a full day on our gaming console/pc, especially when it is raining outside.
Also I think we all have stayed up all night at some point playing games.
if you haven't then your not a true hardcore gamer.

Anyway I think what this doc is trying to show ppl is that if gaming changes your normal lifestyle or attitude then you could possible be an addict gamer.

I think that my friends and family comes before me playing computer games. But if I have no work and all my friends and family are busy I will happily have a full days gaming. Or full nights gaming. However I don't like gaming with random gamers I like to make new friends that I can have a good online game with or against.

I just find playing by myself with no communication really boring, pointless and a waste of my life.

I use gaming to enhace my lifestyle and make new friends along with many other activities.

Haha, one of my friends just caught a load of flak from his wife for playing Gran Turismo for nine hours today. Apparently he was meant to be doing housework and buying her a birthday present.

LMFAO. noob, you dont say what you were doing. RULE1!!

then the quick reply. ''I orderd your present onlne and its going to take a couple of day's

SORTED!!! lmao

He doesn't tend to go for subtlety. When she strictly forbade him to buy a 44" tv, he just bought it while she was at work, quickly hustled the old tv out the door and when she got back he basically said "Well it's here now, there's nothing I can do about it. Besides, it's the only tv we've got."

So I think today it was "You were meant to do the housework!" "Well...I didn't. Can't change that now."

lol, just remember boys the girls can use the same reply on us.

I'm free of female burdens at the moment. :p My last girlfriend always wanted to steal my Xbox to play Puzzle Quest.

scionoftea said:
When she strictly forbade him to buy a 44" tv,

Forbade, lovely relationship.

Although I am guuessing by the sounds of it, maybe he needs to be handled like a kid.

Yeah, a bit. It's kind of like Fawlty Towers, but less funny. She wears the trousers and he tries to assert his independence in small, petty ways.

lmao @puzzle quest

DeadlyChimp said:
i agree. the you get ppl like me. work sort out shit then manage to play for 5ish hours. i only rly sleep 4hrs a night any way.
might aswell play games

THIS SOUNDS LIKE ME sort the normal everyday stuff out then reward youreself with some harmless fun

Instead of all these conflicts around the world,, the Allied Forces & opposing forces should all just sit there asses down at a computer & play war games there lol

lol @Ronin I agree. It would save us a hell lot of cash.

@ronin lmfao...but true

i think they go the word Hobbies and addictions mixed up ... o well looks like BBC is addicted to making s*&t document's XD

i watched this docu a few months ago about people who play WOW like all day.
They come together and spend like a week in one room 'questing' together lol

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The chance to play that much in one day would be nice thats my weekly gaming time if im lucky, i.e if the wife and kids have been abducted by aliens

I play two hrs a day every day between 1900 - 2100 hrs with me m8`s so that I spend time before 19.00 with the kids & after 21.00 with the wife between then there's a group of us oldies who can`t be arsed to go down the pub so we av a laugh gaming on our PC`s ,I call it down time to chill out & play , spray & flame :)

agree with gisthegit its my way of chillin out for an hour or two does not make me want to go out and shoot the town up .....or then again