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Old 11-07-2008, 02:57 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Kane Knight View Post
I'm curious as to whether or not there are actually professionals out there who believe this issue of addiction to games to be a real issue. The statement that "front-line counselors" makes me wonder how many would agree, and how many of them are legit. I'm yet to see a single counselor say anything like that, and the mental health community thus far have rarely backed up the claims against video games. More often, they show little or no effect on gamers, so I wonder what they'd say in this case.

I'm guessing that video games are addictive only in the sense that almost anything pleasurable can be addictive. And if that's the case, I'm betting extreme sports are probably a bigger killer in terms of addictions.
In this case is CoD4, a very popular online game. I'm betting the kid didn't spend hours beating it over and over again. So infact this 'addiction' was really the kid being social over XBLive, and perhaps the father didn't understand how that could work.

This leads to the broader state of today's social network in young people and we don't have time to discuss that. But yeah, just wanna say its the father's fault again.
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