What is it like to be addicted to video games? Most people don't understand how powerful and life changing video game addiction can be and think people who are playing 2,4,6 hours a day are already addicted. This is far from the truth. Playing that little won't change your life the way a real addiction will.
For most people who get addicted, it usually means getting addicted to one game, usually massively multiplayer, hardly is it ever single player. Massively multiplayer games are games such as World of Warcraft, Eve Online, League of Legends, and Dota 2. These games involve putting in a lot of time and effort to get good. At some point in this journey there are people who cross a line where the game becomes more important than real life. No one really knows where the line is but one thing is for sure there are certain people who are predisposed to becoming addicted. And it isn’t a particular game, it is the person in question, as a person like this can stop playing their favorite game because they feel it is contributing negatively to their life but once they find another (usually multiplayer) game that fulfills the same need for them they go right back to it.
Gaming addiction isn’t what most people think though. It’s severe. It’s not like how people jokingly say they are addicted and it’s past a simple hobby. It’s when you don’t go to the bathroom because you want to keep playing. If you read stories online of people who become addicted they talk about what state their room is in. A popular WOW streamer recently shared themselves cleaning up their room. The whole floor was covered in bottles and trash. Unpleasant info ahead. Some people get to the point where they go to the bathroom in a bottle and the room starts getting covered up in those bottles. A common picture on Reddit's r/neckbeardnests. People stop eating and won’t leave the room for 8, 10 hours a day. Sometimes the entire day. That is addiction. Failing every single college class because the game is more important, or calling in to work so many times that you get fired. To be an addiction it has to severely negatively impact your life. If it doesn’t it’s not an addiction. Gaming Disorder has recently been made or classified as a disease by the World Health Organization. Whether it is or not a disorder is up in the air but there needs to be a large negative effect on the person's life to be an addiction. This is the life of a video game addict.
For most people who get addicted, it usually means getting addicted to one game, usually massively multiplayer, hardly is it ever single player. Massively multiplayer games are games such as World of Warcraft, Eve Online, League of Legends, and Dota 2. These games involve putting in a lot of time and effort to get good. At some point in this journey there are people who cross a line where the game becomes more important than real life. No one really knows where the line is but one thing is for sure there are certain people who are predisposed to becoming addicted. And it isn’t a particular game, it is the person in question, as a person like this can stop playing their favorite game because they feel it is contributing negatively to their life but once they find another (usually multiplayer) game that fulfills the same need for them they go right back to it.
Gaming addiction isn’t what most people think though. It’s severe. It’s not like how people jokingly say they are addicted and it’s past a simple hobby. It’s when you don’t go to the bathroom because you want to keep playing. If you read stories online of people who become addicted they talk about what state their room is in. A popular WOW streamer recently shared themselves cleaning up their room. The whole floor was covered in bottles and trash. Unpleasant info ahead. Some people get to the point where they go to the bathroom in a bottle and the room starts getting covered up in those bottles. A common picture on Reddit's r/neckbeardnests. People stop eating and won’t leave the room for 8, 10 hours a day. Sometimes the entire day. That is addiction. Failing every single college class because the game is more important, or calling in to work so many times that you get fired. To be an addiction it has to severely negatively impact your life. If it doesn’t it’s not an addiction. Gaming Disorder has recently been made or classified as a disease by the World Health Organization. Whether it is or not a disorder is up in the air but there needs to be a large negative effect on the person's life to be an addiction. This is the life of a video game addict.
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