BBC Documentary - Panorama, Addicted to Games

[-HP-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3kQqLduuPw

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front ... 254946.stm

Fucking hell... I wonder if they're even going to touch the good things about video games, after all it is a "documentary"

[FrieChamp]

With all these lifes that WoW claimed I don't see anything wrong with making a documentary about people who fell for this kind of addiction. This of course only applies to what I've seen in the trailer...

[-HP-]

Oh trust me, this documentary will not be about WoW only.

I just feel that their beating a dead horse, "video games are bad, they plant little bugs on your little indefensible kids", do they really need to keep painting Video Games as something dark that sucks you over and turns you into an addicted and someone who loves violence?

Yeah let's blame it on the games, or game developers. Not the parents and their lack of “parenting skills”, or how spoil their kids are, it's always great to have an excuse to fall back on, right?

This kind of stuff was made back in 1990

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCwqIAqSE_k

Happened the same with movies, and comics, I guess It's how society works with "new" trends.

[D3ads]

I was going to post about this, already set to record! I feel that it will be the same sort of argument that's been going on for ages though with interviews with people who have no fucking clue what they're talking about.

The mother was right to stop her son playing WoW though, because it's shit and he might actually have a chance of learning social skills...

[Sentura]

it's funny, one of my friends recently wrote a master thesis about video game addiction. in his results, he finds that there is no such thing as video game addiction...

[Buddy]

1990 - 30h/week

2010 - 20h/day

[-HP-]

http://www.develop-online.net/news/3651 ... -addictive

ahahahh aha ah ah ..

“The games that we do are family-based, they’re not about traditional firearms, the games are about using your brain.”

They really don't get it!

[Furyo]

Traditional media is fighting for market share every day and the rise of a new media will always be seen as a threat to them. Every second you're playing a game is a second you're not watching commercials on TV, so they of course will try and lobby against games.

[Vilham]

BBC isn't funded by adverts, although viewing figures do effect them, but only in relation to other TV channels and not other mediums.

[Taylor]

Everytime something like this happens I watch Gameswipe or the Penn and Teller games episode.

[dux]

Everytime something like this happens I watch Gameswipe or the Penn and Teller games episode.

[Psy]

I watched it and it wasn't that bad. It seemed a lot fairer then I thought it would be.

[dux]

HP likes to over react, it's a portugal thing :santahurg:

[st0lve]

it's funny, one of my friends recently wrote a master thesis about video game addiction. in his results, he finds that there is no such thing as video game addiction...

Did he pass the course?

Everything can be addictive, even videogames...

[Vilham]

Mental addiction != Physical addiction.

Mental addiction is what people with weak will power suffer. Physical addiction is your body suffering withdrawal symptoms.