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Jack Admits He Has a Problem

September 20, 2006 by Foton at 6:21 am • Filed Under Asides 
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From the Houston Chronicle, we learn why Jack’s girlfriend and his mother hate Urukslayer, human mage: Wired in and strung out: My name is Jack, and I’m a Warcraft addict. Also from the Chronicle, more player confessions.



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9 Responses to “Jack Admits He Has a Problem”

  1. Nedthebull on September 20th, 2006 7:13 am

    EL OH EL - The kid is truly among the MAJORITY, not the MINORITY!

    -Nedthebull
    - Convergence Guild
    - Duskwood - Horde

  2. gesikah on September 20th, 2006 9:09 am

    I call bullshit on the second article….there are no real gurlz on the internets.

  3. Relmstein on September 20th, 2006 12:15 pm

    I’m seeing a lot more stories about game addiction and games causing violence. It seems the Montreal Shootings and the recent passing of the CAMRA Act has stirred up the media.

    Here Are My Thoughts on the Matter:

    http://relmstein.blogspot.com/2006/09/difference-between-game-addiction-and.html

    http://relmstein.blogspot.com/2006/09/spin-and-hype-of-game-addiction.html

  4. Kr1mz0n on September 20th, 2006 2:08 pm

    What the kid (from the second article) is, is a quitter. How could he leave his guild high and dry?!? He was a healer for crying out loud… no doubt the guild gave resources for him to get up in levels… then he off and quits for something like “Friends” and “Schoolwork” … bah! those will be there on Tuesday Mornings… Pleanty of time during patches!

    J/k of course :)

  5. Pietoro on September 20th, 2006 11:32 pm

    LOL, ‘World of Warcrack’. A couple years ago it was all about ‘Evercrack’. They act like its a new thing Blizzard invented, that some folks camp out in the basement playing MMOs all the time.

  6. Typhoon on September 21st, 2006 3:38 pm

    Agree with Pietoro.

    Blizzard didnt invent game addicts, but Warcraft certainly has increased the sample size of idiots and basement dwellers that I have to interact with. Next some clock tower loony will shoot somebody with “an epic rifle”, and we’ll see more popular press rants about evils of games. Meh.

    Can we get all these fools to play on the one server, and then close transfers from it? Like Survivor mixed with Jerry Springer.

    Typhoon

  7. Gablaxian on September 25th, 2006 2:57 am

    I agree with Typhoon on this one. We could even vote people onto the server.

    To make it more interesting, we could somehow be able to ‘view’ this server once they’re all on. Laugh at the dialog. Mock the raiding attempts. Somehow they could even integrate betting into it.

    Televised WoW… the beginning to an end…

  8. alex on April 13th, 2007 1:21 pm

    hi nice site.

  9. celerie on April 15th, 2007 8:35 am

    bleh. i wanna read this, but chron.com has moved the story to the archives so you have to register to read it and bugmenot.com doesn’t have any working logins. boo.

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