Have you ever gotten a similar message in the latest array of games?
I saw this first in ‘Metal Gear Solid 4‘, and then in some other MMO games like ‘EverQuest 2‘ and ‘Aion‘. For some reason the game companies think they know better than us. How long we should play? I vote no, except if you’re into the extremes like the japanese gamer that died from cardiac arrest, for sitting a week straight, only moving when he had to use the lavatory, eat or call for food. During the week, he didn’t do anything else but have a non-stop World of Warcraft game, and some random games on a console like PS3. He died, so that makes everyone else in the danger group for playing for an hour?
I’ve been sitting on my, not-very-comfy-chair for approx 12 hours straight, playing ‘Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2‘, and it didn’t cause me any harm, the game doesn’t even post any messages with “You’ve played x hours, take a break.’, I do believe this is on par with the annoying labels on cigarettes saying how dangerous it is to anyones health to smoke. Well it is dangerous to smoke, but is it really that dangerous to play a video game for 1 or 2 hours straight? I doubt it, actually if you’re playing an action game, your average heart rate would go up about 5-10% during any high-peaked action scenes, particularly if you’re either having a huge sound-system or using headset, particularly FPS games play good role for your heart, adding up heart rate from the hectic war game you’re participating in. Thus I wouldn’t say playing Aion for an hour is bad for anyones health, albeit it would be better if you spent 1 hour outside picking flowers, or beating someone up. The latter being worse than 1 hour of gaming I suppose.
Supposedly China have made time restraint for how many hours you can play online MMORPG games, max hour a day is 6 or 8 as far I can investigate, I find that – relatively absurd, average chinese gamers play MMORPG for 6-12 hours, the more hardcore does it 24 hours a day, and the REALLY hardcore extreme individuals does stretch it alot, pumping up with caffeine drinks, like Red Bull, Monster and more, thus their eating habits are screwed as well, which leads to poor blood circulation, and that leads to a higher risk of death if you strain your personal endurance, sitting for +24 hours playing an MMORPG!
So! Why do we that plays video games for approx 5-12 hours on an everyday, due to work, personal life etc. have to read this bullock line everytime we’ve played for x amount of hours? Most would ignore the messages, most wouldn’t, it does appeal to parents as well, trying to control the amount of hours their children spend behind the screen/television, however isn’t that what “Parental Control” is for? ‘World of Warcraft‘ does have a great parental control, which the parents can actually control whichs hours of the day the children can play on their account, supposedly Xbox 360 will have an update containing a such control panel, Playstation 3 already have it!
In the end, it won’t help against people dying from themselves being utterly stupid, or having absolutely no life, why not waste it then if you don’t have a life? I myself ignores it, or finds a way to bypass it, I found out that by a simple file search a few presses on the ‘Delete’ key, I could remove the messages from any MMORPG for the PC containing such messages, they’re extremely easy to find, and there’s more than enough sites on the web, posting how to find and delete it.
Also for that jackass of an lawyer trying to put taxes, and shit on gaming, and actually banning the shit out of it. He lost the game, there’s nothing he can do since video games is a gazillion dollar industry that won’t ever go away.
Accept the fact that there will be jerkoffs out in the world trying to put limiters on our freedom to play as much and what we want, all we can do, is show our dis-appreciation towards any of those suggestions, and pray they get their dicks out of their own assholes and look at how it really is.
