RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| A Video Game Addict Takes His Life Mom Blames Game |
 Liz Woolley the mother of a kid that killed himself is suing Sony Online Entertainment claiming that ”Sony intentionally added features to Everquest to keep players online for hours at a time.”
David Greenfield, a psychologist in Hartford, Connecticut., said that when it comes to games, he and others say EverQuest seems to be particularly difficult to resist -- so much so that some call it "EverCrack."
The average Everquest subscriber plays about 20 hours a week because apparently logging off the game hurts your chances of advancing your character.
Sounds like Sony did their job.
Although she admits that shortly before her son decided to take his own life her son was jilted by some “online” relationship that he had, she has chosen to blame Sony Online Entertainment for making EverQuest the game that her son was “addicted” to before he took his life.
How does this make Sony responsible for this guy’s suicide?
Hell if I know?
Evidently she is going to try to prove it.
Sony’s official statement is basically, “the game is fucking entertainment it is your responsibility to use it like you have some fucking sense.”
How can you argue with that?
His mother recalls a time when her son broke down and cried when another EverQuest player stole the online treasures he'd collected in the game
Yeah, he sounds pretty normal.
More and more mental health professionals are saying that they are getting calls from family members and “online junkies” themselves who find themselves neglecting friends and family, skipping school, work and even a daily shower to get more time on the computer.
You can’t blame the game for that. Not bathing, neglecting leaving the house and not having any resemblance of a life is a fucking sub-culture in America.
It has long since graduated from being just a phenomenon.
Do you think the bastards that start waiting in line to see Star Wars 6 months prior to opening day are worrying about neglecting family, friends or personal hygiene?
To further stress how screwed up this guy was evidently the guy suffered from Epileptic seizures which playing the game online only made it worse… but that didn’t even stop him from playing.
Once again that sounds pretty normal doesn’t it?
Liz Woolley just started setting up an organization called Online Gamers Anonymous and a Web site to help people like Shawn (her son) -- with plans to use any money she might get from a lawsuit to help fund the organization.
"I can't just sit here," she says. "I cannot let him die in vain."
Liz Woolley isn't fighting the good fight just for her nappy geeky son…she is fighting the fight for all of the anti-social, non-bathing, xxx Anime watching, Star Wars action figure collecting computer junkies all over the world. |
