Other "Addicting Games

Ultima Online (most likely first of them all)
Anarchy Online
DAoC
Many more, dont take it out on SoE, do what that fat guy did about eating fast food, sue em all.... (personally i'm on thier side)
I feel sorry for any one who feels addicted, but if you have people around you, they should be helping you. I'm not addicted, I do play, i havn't played in a week.

If everytime someone died, and you sued the "producer" of their favorite activity, then our economy would be in the dumps.

I hate to relate this to the story of your child, and i hate to place blame, but if you knew he was addicted, you should have forced action, unplug his computer, take out his video card, break something, life is more important than less then $200 moniter.

You say "Take on our challenge: break your game CDs today!" But it wont help, i've known people who did this, and went out on bought more, feeding the addiction, because now they feel they have to get the worth out of it.

In the news report they only show you the extremes... they show a woman, who talks about her character in the third person, they show a guy playing 2 accounts from when he gets home untill he sleeps, and then before work. They show a famous person mad at his son for it. Why dont they show a responsible person, and say something like "Some people feel EQ can be a fine game, if you take responsability, and set limits."

What makes me mad, is that yes, the game does take effort to keep up with it, you do have to focus, when they do these intervies, they tell them to just play normally, or explain what they are doing, and of course they are staring at the screen, if you look away in ANY "real time" game you could loose in an instant. And normal people that dont talk for a living, cant explain things quickly enough that it sounds good to anyone. For example when they said in one of hte interviews "Now were going through a tunnel" of course, its called transportation, you have to get around, it makes it more real. of course he couldn't respond in the real world if some one said, now were going through a tunnel, why, where to, while you were driving, what would you say, (to an adult) maybe "oh yes, its a tunnel, thats how we get through mountain ranges that we dont want to walk over" Without being rude.

I feel this post is going to be deleted. I am on thier side in the lawsuit. I am on your side in life. I dont feel i'm addicted. If some one is, or feels they are, then yes seek help, talk to you friends (non gaming friends), family, any one who will listen. You look stupider dead in your living room sitting at the computer, then you do talking to a random person on the street, in a bus on the way to work. If your express concern then people will help, if some one asked me on the way to work/school/other activity, i would take the time to help them.

In closing, i wish all of you the best of luck, and i think this bored is an Awesome way of helping people. (the ones that need help, dont go recruiting people just because they play.)

Brilidar 58 Enchanter of The Shadow Order