By MICHAEL OVERALL Staff Writer on Jan 7, 2013, at 3:58 PM Updated on 1/07 at 3:59 PM
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Worried that his son was wasting too much time with video games, a father allegedly paid other gamers to hunt him down and kill him – over and over again, if necessary.
The son’s avatar, that is.
Unemployed and 23 years old, the son was supposed to get so frustrated at dying all the time that he would quit the on-line gaming world and find something productive to do. But it didn’t work out that way.
The son apparently got suspicious when random gamers kept ganging up on him, virtually speaking. And he uncovered his father’s plot.
The BBC story quotes Prof Mark Griffiths, a gambling and addictions expert at Nottingham Trent University, who suggested that the father shouldn’t have been so worried.
"I've spent 25 years studying excessive video-game playing," Griffiths said.
"I've come across very excessive players -- playing for 10 to 14 hours a day -- but for a lot of these people, it causes no detrimental problems if they are not employed, aren't in relationships and don't have children.”
Then again, professor, maybe there’s a reason they don’t have jobs, don’t have relationships and don’t have children.
You can read the BBC report HERE.
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