Replies to '06/03 Virtual Chaos'

I'm glad you did this show! When he said it didn't cost him anything to play, that's not completely true either. You have to pay either a monthly fee or pay for pre-paid minutes to play....the game he is playing is World of Warcraft and my husband played for about a year and a half.

Actuallt when I saw the preview for this show last week I actually thought to myself "I wonder if they're talking about WOW" and sure enough that's the game he was playing. World of Warcraft is horrible. I know a family that was just like this and maybe even worse. I understand that gaming in general isn't really that bad but the thing about WOW and some of the other games is that people feel the need to play hours on end to actually get great gain, it's part of this competetive nature of the online community, and when they enter raids and big battles you are usually playing at least 3 hours just to complete a main task, and they can do these every night. There would have to be en emergency to be able to just get up and walk away from the computer...

I personally think that games like these should have a component that the characters need so many hours of rest and if they do not get it, they take more damage and are less productive so that people have to take a night off every 3-4 nights. I think it would help. Also the fact that WOW actually has a button you can order food with so you don't HAVE to get up and order a pizza is ridiculous.