Too Much Online Gaming Is Bad For You

[nicholas282]

Check this out

Gamer Collapses After 24hr Stint - Yahoo! News UK

Does anyone on here do that sort of thing with FIFA???

[gcooley]

used to with GT1&2

Not with fifa tho.

[DOA KappaTango]

I was addicted To Gran Turismo.

I was addicted to Rainbow Six Black Arrow.

I love FIFA, but not past 1 am as I work early and have a young family too.

[nicholas282]

Yeah me too, I just cannot see it after 11pm, so just stop lol.

I have a kid and my wife is disabled and so just lots of work but I could not do a 24 hour stint like that

[DOA KappaTango]

Blalalahats nothing, check this:

Online Gamer Dies After 3 Day Online Marathon | Weird Asia News

[gcooley]

i usually stop when i have had enough beer......so 12/1 is about right.

Although I play alot if im not working on the w/e

[XAPHS OLE]

I was playing last night till 2:30am and my wife got up and told me "your-sick" )

I'm here at work and have been here since 8:30am.... Can't wait to get home to play again..

[Danny Taylor]

Originally Posted by nicholas282

Check this out

Gamer Collapses After 24hr Stint - Yahoo! News UK

Does anyone on here do that sort of thing with FIFA???

And I used to get called sad for playing for more than 2 hours a day of fifa 08

[wirito]

I've heard of different cases before. there was this chinese dude who died in a cafe after playing also for 24 hours straight.

I couldn't do that for 1 reason only:

I get tired and somewhat bored. there have been games that had me glued to the tv for hours yes, like resident evil for ps...the best resident evil series ever !! then gta, for ps2 , mario kart for snes and n64, goldeneye , mario 64 , there are several.
but I can't play for longer than 3 hours without resting a couple of hours, I mean after 20 minutes I feel fine but the game gets boring to me if I play it for too long in one sitting.

[DOA KappaTango]

Originally Posted by wirito

I've heard of different cases before. there was this chinese dude who died in a cafe after playing also for 24 hours straight.

I am guessing you didnt read my post:

Originally Posted by DOA KappaTango

Blalalahats nothing, check this:

Online Gamer Dies After 3 Day Online Marathon | Weird Asia News

And then there was this poor guy.....http://www.mmoginfo.com/general/MMOR...gnews_288.html

[wirito]

Originally Posted by DOA KappaTango

I am guessing you didnt read my post:

I did but after I posted mine

[nicholas282]

Consoles and online games should have an auto time lock off which they only let you play it for a certain times and for a length of time before you are locked out for a certain period

[QuikZilver]

fifa online is to frustruating to play more than 4 hours straight. These things are common in MMORPGs rather than in competive online gaming,

[ColtsFan182129]

Maybe I'm sad, but on the weekends I sometimes play for 12+ hours straight. Usually I am sleeping the other 12 hours.

[lennonfa]

I would play for days , but have a young family 2, so i just wait till my kid is asleep,, but not pass 12 am i play.... haha my wife always complaining, :S

[vg88roland]

Had a 56 hour maraton on Goal! back in 1993. Fell asleep in the final match and lost 0-1. Won't do that again.

[Trigglebeef]

The only game where i've come close to this kind of stint is Football Manager. You get too fatigued playing action games and your performance level drops, so you naturally want to stop playing. FM is another beast though. I used to play for up to 20 hours straight on occasions while at Uni. When i think about that now i'm like, "Ooph. Ze dark!". No way i'm touching FM again, it'll ruin my marriage.

[lennonfa]

Hahaha, yeah games will ruin marriages,,,, believe me,

[gcooley]

Originally Posted by lennonfa

Hahaha, yeah games will ruin marriages,,,, believe me,

My wife says the same thing when i creep in to bed (like a naughty school boy) at 1/2 in the morning

[Lishman]

this is just so sad playing a game for so long at one time

[ImperialGendarme]

I can't play for more then 4 hours on Fifa, after that I will start to lose and get frustuate easily.

[gcooley]

Originally Posted by Lishman

this is just so sad playing a game for so long at one time

I play 3/4 hours every few nights. When I was your age I wouldnt think nothing of doing an 8 hour endurance race on GT2 or getting some mates round for sensi soccer till we dropped.

But heres the thing its because people my age and older love games is that we have all these excellent games to play. If they had just said yeah this is good for 2 hours we wouldnt have the immersive or intense games we do today.

[vg88roland]

Originally Posted by gcooley

I play 3/4 hours every few nights. When I was your age I wouldnt think nothing of doing an 8 hour endurance race on GT2 or getting some mates round for sensi soccer till we dropped.

But heres the thing its because people my age and older love games is that we have all these excellent games to play. If they had just said yeah this is good for 2 hours we wouldnt have the immersive or intense games we do today.

^ If I play for more than 3/4 of an hour for 2 days a week, my wife calls me addicted, and think I should seek help.

[Cfiftie7]

24 hours straight is wayyy too much. 12 is the max you should be doin...

[nicholas282]

My experiences are as follows.

Me and my wife had just met, she came over to England and I sat playing FIFA 2003 on the PS2 for 7 hours non-stop. We were nearly divorced before we were engaged lol

The other one was when I was playing GT3, I had a 76 lap game to do and I passed out on the 70th lap drooling on my controller of my ps2 and my wife hitting me to wake me up at 4am.

I can tell you now, I did not break any lap times lol

We still laugh about that now but with having a kid, I could not imagine doing it now lol