I mean I love games as much as the next guy but sometimes I hear stuff like this and I just can't believe it...damn shame...

as long as your kid is going around stomping on turtles and ramming his head into brick walls give them their games and u wont have any problems 

Good article, shows that people are poor and stupid. 

Blaming games for everything? This is pathetic and this is parrental fault.

You're parrent, that's good, your kid plays games 24 hours per day ?

Use parrental control, or simply take computer or console away from them instead of crying

"Stop playing those games" " Omg this is game fault, oh no" 

There should be some kind of lessons for parrents " What to do if your kid turned into game freak"

@ Cyrusnagisa

"I like the article and I agree that some people do get addicted to video games but that isn't as bad as becoming an alcoholic, drug addict, or becoming addicted to nicotine. What I am sayin is whats worse some guy who plays wow 24/7 or a heroin addict?"

Actually since there are people who do indeed turn violent and kill due to videogames, yes it is just as bad.  addiction is addiction, there is no "good or bad" because its an overwhelming obsession.

I don't think I can call mmos a drug as much as access into a lifestyle . It's kind of like saying you like the club experience more than drinking . Either way both can be destructive if abused and there's no age limit on mmos . If more knoledge was spread about mmos fitting into people's life , maybe everyone could be more responsible about allocating time between games , studying/school/work better .

dear video game people could u plz stop making games so good that people want to play them .. alot ... let me know when this is done by email ... as i the father of this child will be at my computer all day using the emails but he should not be ... thank you

It is the parents fault that they bought a pc for their kid or children and allow them access to internet. If parents need pc or notebook for themselves, they should put it in their own room than instead of outside in the living room or other rooms or worse in the kid/children room.

Ok, i'm 17 years old. It may be a gene thing, my dad started playing Games when the first pong came out, got his first computer when quake came out. My father being the oldest of his kin, got all of his brothers started into videos games.  Then my cousins. Then when i was 11 he got me my first PC. Quake was released in June 22, 1996, he's been playing games ever since. As we speak actually. Now needless to say, i am quite addicted to video games the only time i want to do something else is when i find something more appealing, i have been in trouble with school, going to court and such for truency because i layed ou of school to go play video games. But there is always a limit to video games. Your mind just has the capacity to realize it or not. I have been grounded from my PC, well it was always my internet though my Xbox was always me. Lol. But you just have to know ur limits. Trust me when i got grounded from my internet i didn't get all mad or anything i just BEGGED i mean i didnt give him moment to his self without asking for my internet back. But that is addiction, you dont know what you got till its gone.

 Without moderation, games ARE detrimental to your mental and physical health. And those parents are fken crazy for reinstating his account on the game that has ruined their son's life. Send him to rehab, destroy the computer, pronto!

I like the article and I agree that some people do get addicted to video games but that isn't as bad as becoming an alcoholic, drug addict, or becoming addicted to nicotine. What I am sayin is whats worse some guy who plays wow 24/7 or a heroin addict?

i love playin games but i know when there needs to be a break  i work hard in school then i gettin better at the game lol but seriously i know addictions real and all but if i tried to turn over a table or any of the stuff those kids did in the article id be in so much trouble

yea the addiction is real, but i dont know start to think of it, not all people can get addicted this means there are weak people and people that can resist this addiction, the core of the problem is "why some people are to weak to addicting stuff?", the answer might be thats just them, thats in their gene's, so knowing this we cant realy stop the addiction since it ALL depends on the user, but there is a way, lets give the addict a new addiction like fishing for example, or we must make him somehow understand the game he is playing "sucks" when he realize the game he plays sucks, he will try to find something else probably a new game but then is where his parents must get in and make him feel special and important. but my personal opinion is that let them ruin there life, more food and oxygen for others

When I was a kid, parents blamed it on movies, then in cartoons, now in games... but never on their own lack of control or fault in the way they educated their children.  

It just shows them how useless their son would be, once he got out in the real world. His actions while being engrossed in a virtual world reflect what might become a useless person working for society in a negative way.

On the same note.... if your child is foing well in school and never really goes against you. But plays games "alot" leave them alone....

This is sad. Blame this game, blame that game, OH NO MY <Insert family member here> IS ADDICTED TO A GAME! GAMES ARE THE BANE OF THE WORLDDDDDDD! O, WOE IS THIS FATEFUL DAY!

.... Right. Now, come on! Seriously, can't they give them limits from the start? Use the built in Parental Controls, don't let them play for more than two hours a day, four hours a weekend/holiday. No games=Stressed out, Too many games=Retarded mind, that should sum it up. Parents are the people that build your life. They should have done this. Of course, if they sneaked to a cybercafe to do so, it isn't really like they can stay in the cybercafe all day. Also, about the kid throwing a tantrum. Alert him to this fact: Be violent, and you won't be able to recable the computer(If they do know, there are other ways), and thus won't be able to use it. They won't find much point in harming you if that means when your disabled, they don't get to play. And if they sulk, ehhh.. What happened to books?!

u cant blame EVERYTHING on games, the person him shuld have the common sense to do things in moderation, the parents are responsible too, they shuldnt of let him get stuck to the game in long hours in the first place.

my dad wuld prob chop me b4 i try stranglin him

You know what Hyuk? I so agree with you. I feel sad for those parents who have had their r3t@rded kids succumb to gaming addiction. They have spend many decades of their lives and spent so much effort to groom and educate their children so that they can grow up and drown themselves in money and cunts, but end up getting glued to immersive and meaningful (or not) games. Games are evil, they are the cause of disputes and suck the life out of people's (already shitty) lives.

 That's odd... I can hardly find any game addicts who are either violent or commiting suicide when I go out. Something must be wrong here...

The addiction to games, is real, but like any other addiction, its the user not the item...... and really... if a game gets you to comit a crime of any sort, then there was something wrong with you to begin with.

When you play a game, its ok to get mad, or sad, or upset, but once you shut the game off, it should be over, and there is no need to bring that into the real world.  Now with MMORPGs thats alittle diffrent, but I dont feel like going into it right now ;p

Well in cases of crime, I really don't believe games are to blame. In the cases you mentioned, I guess those people need intensive treatment for addiction. And for the guy to get so violent, he probably have some other issues. But it's easier to blame the games, or whatever the source of the addition than to blame the people when it gets to this point. From the moment kids start playing pc games, or even console games, or watching tv, their parents should be by their side, and teach them, from the very beginning that there are limits.
But I do agree that those games really can induce someone to get addicted. Maybe rewarding people with some different things while they are not playing would make it less addictive I don't know. And scheduling events that do not take long to get finished, a 48h 2k exp event really. only induce addiction.
Anyway just my opninion =).

Sometimes in articles with the death of a child with the accusations of games most of the comments are saying that games aren't are at fault and and start speculating other things like that they were bullied or had parental issues but these comments are opinions and I have nothing against it however if  I were to post a comment saying that maybe it was the games fault ill be bombarded with these messages saying that "i'm a retard" or that "you are stupid enough to believe games commit to the deaths of people" or a wierd one on me sucking my own **** by chopping my body in half "<<<<<---- joke. But seriously I have had enough of commenting on deaths related to gaming p.s RIP to MJ

It's the fault of the parents for not being strict enough. They really ought to stop looking to other sources to point fingers and such; instead, take a firm stand and deny the child any and all access to video games or otherwise. Honestly, people are becoming total idiots and pushovers.

Well, its pretty much thesame with me, im "addicted to games"
but its not a real addiction, if i get my comp taken away from me, i won't start seeing hallucinations or start going crazy xD i'm sure all of you will agree with me when i say this: i will just get very very pissed, cuz the most fun thing got taken away from me.

why do we all get so mad? because u might of have missed an important event, you might have missed a promise with your online friend, and the most important one "you don't have anything else to do"

and heres a tip from me, even if u don't want to (like me) go hang out with friends, if u don't have any friends, or if they aren't around at the moment, consoles aren't that bad too, i mean, when i got my computer taken away from me for 3 days, i collected ALL the pokémon in pokémon Pearl, exept the legendary's u have 2 get with events. when i was playing it, didn't miss my computer, cuz u don't notice it.