This is why we don't play videogames for too long, kiddies.

[Orion]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/8888579/

Basically, some 28-year-old South Korean guy played a game in a cafe for 50 hours straight, finished, keeled over, and died. Goes to show you that moderation is key, I guess.

[MacWeirdo42]

Is it just me, or does it seem suspicious that these kinds of stories always seem to come from Asia? The murder over the virtual property. The divorce battle over virtual property. The rehab clinics for addicted gamers. JUst doesn't seem right to me. My personal opinion is that it's all anti-video-game propaganda, but you never know.

[Starkist]

Here in Washington a few months ago we had a suicide over an online RPG. I doubt it's propoganda.

[Rainman]

It's south korea. Most likely he was a bit too fat for his heart.

[*b*]

played for FIFTY HOURS!? I'm lucky if I can play for twenty-four hours at once. didn't he have to leave when the cafe closed? or did it? that's insane...

[Darth Marsden]

What amazes me is that anyone can play Starcraft (for that is the guilty game, ladies and gentlemen) for that long. Surely he must have gotten bored at some point..?

[Lilith]

Lol@South Korean gaming culture.

[MANDRAG GANON]

LoL yeah I found about this through my mom, she read it and was like "look you see what happens when you play too much videogames?!!?"

[Brasel]

Good lord. I can barely play 4 or 5 hours at a time anymore...and Star Craft? Wow...thats just lame.

[Darth Marsden]

Well, I suppose it depends on what game you're playing. I could easily play a GTA game for hours (Having recently got San Andreas, that is in fact what's been happening!), but I get tired of Starcraft after about 30 minutes. Some people, of course, have to push it to extremes, and Asia certainly seems to have the edge in that department. What I want it know is why no-one stopped him. Surely the staff must have noticed he'd been there for ages?

[Brasel]

The staff probably didn't care, they were making money off of him weren't they? They probably loved him until he died...

[Cloral]

Unfortunately that is the modern world. People don't care if you're hurting yourself if they are making money off of it.
Also, I could understand if the staff had a bit of disbelief that he could hurt himself. They probably figured that he'd eventually just fall asleep. Also you have to remember that the staff would work in shifts, it is very possible that as each new shift came on, the new staff had no idea just how long he had been there - although even 8 hours is far too long for someone to be sitting at a computer.

[Beldaran]

- although even 8 hours is far too long for someone to be sitting at a computer.


Aren't you a game programmer? :D

[Linkafier]

Hooray! Now even more people get the impression that video games are the spawn of satan.

"Come on man, you've gotta' stop."
"Not until I get revenge on this n00b who's spawn killing my team!"
"The guy's hacking, bro! It's impossible."
"Auughh!!! Heart....hurts!!!" *keel*.

[Cloral]

Aren't you a game programmer? :D
Yes, but you don't work 8 hours straight as a programmer just like you wouldn't work 8 hours straight at any other job. You take breaks, have lunch, talk to people, that kind of thing.

[Breaker]

So where's the connection that he died from playing a computer game for 50+ hours? Staying awake doesn't cause heart attacks. He most likely had a history of heart problems and it was a coincidence that he died when he did.

[Master Ghaleon]

I guess he died doing something he liked to do/