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How often does this happen in the western countries? I just find it amazing how much more seriously gaming is taken in Asia. | |
Can he still go back and collect his loot? | |
He was probably playing Hardcore mode, so probably not. OT: It's a little alarming that he was playing in a public space and no one seemed to notice him there in that span of time. You would think that internet cafes would have messures or something to keep this sort of thing from happening since that's wher ethey seem to take place. | |
Seriously of all the games to died from, Diablo 3 is not one of them. Ok any deaths from gaming too much are bad but Diablo 3 isn't a good games to worth spending that many hours on! In another word he wasted his life over that game. Also I didn't know Taiwan got the game since I thought that game isn't available in Asia? | |
how would that make any sense, you cannot even imagine the amount of potential sales you lose if you not go for the asian market as well. O.o OT: | |
Well I don't know (yes it make sense in hindsight). I just remember that news about some people in Asia (I think it was in China) fall for a scam for buying the game online from this site claiming it was in partnership with Blizzard. | |
He was playing in a private room. OT:It's very weird how this always happens in Asian countries.I wonder if there's any research on the matter, there must be some reason for this. | |
Yeah I know that, but just because it's private doesn't mean that the staff can't make sure that he's still in there and okay if it's such a problem over there. | |
It just goes to show that doing something for that long is not good for your health. Especially when it involves sitting because that can cause blood clots. Everybody get up and do a few jumping jacks! | |
Obviously, the best way for the Asian governments to respond to this is to ban this sick filth called videogaming, and sentencing people to at least 5 years in prison if they dont obey. :rolleyes: | |
I know it's cold to say so, but Darwin wins again. I know there's an allure to games. I know I've spent some time devoting unhealthy levels of time into a game I really enjoyed. But I also know how to listen to my own body. Diablo will still be there for me tomorrow, if I choose. Now, I know Gold Farming is an issue (in general) in asia, and I wonder if that has anything to do with matters. | |
Cause of Death, Could it be... | |
There are too many people in Eastern Asian countries dying from playing video games too much... How does a person get so absorbed into something that they don't notice when their bodies cease to FUNCTION PROPERLY? wtfman.jpg Whoever it was that died, they must have had a miserable existence. | |
i would actually like an answer to this. cause it doesn't seem to happen in the west and, whats probably worse. i don't feel bad for him, like, at all, but this is why Asian MMOs have in game play limiters, that get yanked out or, made useless with the state side release | |
i think the cause of death was that one syndrome (cant remember the name) where if you sit down for too long, your blood cant circulate and blah blah blah | |
I don't think "the west" has the same kind of setups to enable it much of the time. Playing at home, parents check up on their kids (one would hope, at least), and I don't think we have the equivalent of net cafes with private gaming spaces sealed off from all human contact...do we? Though it could be simpler: we bitch about games too much to get absorbed in them. I mean come on, this is Diablo 3 we're talking about here. A westerner would've hit a lag spike at some point in those 40 hours, thrown the table over and raged about it, and voila, he's taking a circulation-encouraging break. | |
My suspicion is that one or more dangerous stimulants were involved (and I don't mean caffeine, which isn't all that dangerous). | |
>.> you know, you make a vary good point there. | |
I'm amazed anyone would want to play Diablo 3 for 40 hours total let alone straight. Once you get halfway through Nightmare difficulty, it starts to suck and that's only like 25-30 hours in. | |
Of all the games to kill yourself playing...why Diablo 3? | |
There are certainly worse ways to die if nothing else... | |
Actually some dude in Germany died after a Diablo III binge semi-recently. According to the police he played for roughly 50 hours straight and died. | |
40 hours? Lightweight. Why do these things always happen in Asia? | |
The sad thing is, it's not a good enough game to die over. I mean, it's okay, but it's not worth a life. If he'd done a 40 hour binge on gaming's equivalent of Picasso or Shakespeare, then that's something at least. | |
It's not available (legally) in China at the moment due to censorship by the Chinese government. Not because Blizzard don't want all of that delicious Chinese money. I haven't heard of any problem in Taiwan (or other Asian territories). | |
Possibly for the same reason that a lot of attacks on pet cats and dogs seem to happen in the UK. People in Britain go nuts over cruelty-to-animals cases. A women who was filmed putting a cat in a wheelie bin got death threats! So newspapers (particularly the tabloids) vastly over-report and exaggerate any especially juicy animal-related crimes that come up, blowing them out of proportion. It's possible that - in some Asian territories - the potential negative impact of gaming is something that a lot of people have a real paranoia about. (It's certainly something that the Chinese government spends a lot of thought on - to the point that they insist on closely reviewing all games before release.) This means that the media in those countries is likely to over-report and exaggerate any gaming-related deaths/crimes that occur. In this example, we have no idea whether or not this guy had some sort of medical condition that caused his death, and just happened to have been playing a video game for a long time when it happened. I doubt the result of the autopsy will make the news (especially if it does show that there was nothing gaming-related about his death). I'm not saying this is the case, but it's worth keeping in mind before jumping to conclusions about whether Asian people are somehow inherently fragile. | |
Whether it's admitted or not there has to be more to this than is being said. 40 hours of gaming isn't going to kill anyone, especially at the age of 18. Two entire days without sleep and little food or water? Anyone who thinks that is unusual has apparently never been in college or done much in the way of power gaming with PnP RPGs (where a bunch of nerds will lock themselves in a room with a bunch of D&D books and then find out three days have passed.. lol). 40 hours of gaming, reading, cramming for tests, etc... is not unusual. What's more, having worked at a casino I can tell you that people get REALLY into gambling and will frequently camp on slot machines for days on end. You'll sometimes go by with people stinking of feces and urine, or even having it oozing out of the leg of their pants, and still be playing the machines because "they need to catch up" or "will hit any minute now". I can say from personal experience that people collapsing from exposure, lack of sleep, dehydration, etc... while not common, happens with enough frequency to not be all that noteworthy either. Indeed problem gambling groups are full of people who tell each other stories like that. :) If an 18 year old died after 40 hours of video gaming there was another cause. The guy who died after a mere 23 hours is a case where it's even more obvious. The human body is pretty resiliant, and this basically doesn't happen. My immediate thoughts here are something wrong with the ventilation system in that private room the guy was in (fungus, mould, insulation) which could in theory do this after 40 hours of constant exposure if the person ignored the signs. I'll also say that I lack much faith in the Taiwanese authorities to figure this out, so I imagine it will remain anti-gaming rhetoric for a long time to come. | |
That thought crossed my mind. And I don't ever recall saying that I'd come to that conclusion. | |
I have never played one game that is worth playing for 40 hours in a row. After 5 or 6 hours i get bored and want to do something else. Even had this with WOW, no idea how people play that game for days on end....but i guess thats what addiction is all about. | |
East Asian person dies from spending too much time at an internet cafe, stop the fucking presses! | |
I can't tell what's sicker, the fact that you said that or the fact that I laughed. OT: What is it with asia and games? I thought the US was the worst with this stuff. | |
I think part of the reason you don't see this happening as much in western countries is mainly because of the differences in population. | |
Hmm, not really. Binge behavior is part of being human. I actually feel sorry for you that you've never found anything that has interested you to the point of binging, which, reading between the lines I'm guessing is a general thing for you, rather than just with video games. To be honest I'd actually suspect you might have ADHD or some other problem, albiet not a bad case of it. Pretty much everyone has say sat down and watched 10 or 12 episodes of a TV series or a couple trilogies of movies back to back, or done 20-40 hour sessions of reading, gaming (pnP or video games), or whatever else. For some people it's drinking or gambling, and all kinds of other things. It becomes a problem when someone wants to binge constantly. Heading out and drinking almost non-stop for a weekend does not make someone an alcoholic, but when they do it every day that's an addictive behavior. The same can be said of video games, TV, or whatever else. Of course other factors (like what else a person has to do) come to mind. Someone who has a lot of time might display addictive symtoms, without being an addict, it all comes down to how they react when someone else comes along. That said I'm posting this not so much about you, so much as to say that I don't think this guy was displaying addictive behavior just from what was said. A gaming binge is no big deal, and most people have done that (or similar things) more than a few times. 40 hours of something like gaming isn't going to do much to someone who is 18. Heck, young, active kids hve been known to go 2-3 days without much sleep without many problems at all. If playing video games for 40 hours was lethal "addictive" behavior that could stop the heart from sedimentary behavior, we'd have an epidemic of deaths every year before midterms, SATS, and major tests at academic institutions where cram sessions frequently go that long. | |
You're using Darwinism wrong. Useless facts 1#: Taiwan is not officially a country. | |
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Taiwanese Teen Dies Following Diablo III Binge
An 18-year-old Taiwanese teenager has died after playing Diablo III for 40-hours.
If reports from the local media are to be believed, an 18-year-old male identified only by his surname, Chuang, died after spending nearly two days playing Diablo III in a private room of an internet cafe in Tainan, southern Taiwan. He entered the room at around noon on July 13th. He then spent the next 40 hours gaming. Eventually, an attendant found him asleep on a table on the morning of July 15th. When the attendant woke him, the teen stood, took a few steps, then collapsed.
He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a local hospital.
The police are currently investigating the cause of death, and an autopsy is to be carried out. They speculate that numerous hours spent hunched over the keyboard created cardiovascular problems which, when combined with fatigue, proved too much for the young gamer.
Tales of death and misery following insane gaming binges seem to be becoming increasingly common in Asian territories. Assuming Chuang's gaming marathon did directly contribute to his death, this will be the second such case in Taiwan this year. Back in February, a man in New Taipei was found dead of cardiac arrest following a 23-hour gaming session.
Source: The United Daily via The Australian
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