I have some experience with this. My parents put in a very large investment for my brother in a business he supposed to inheret, but because of some gaming and laziness they weren't sucessful and had to quit. It was very disapointing for me and the rest of the siblings since we had to invest financial and taking large times off, travel between states, to help with the works.
Going to college and living alone gave me less time for gaming. I normaly game in the nighttime before going to bed, around midnight. I still love games, I kinda grew up with it, but lately the only ones I play anymore are quickfix skillbased games, where I can get bored and get off at anytime. Which are racing and online teambased first person shooter. The former is really link to my love of watching motorsport. (see signature's link) So basicly only two games that I've been playing for the past year. The "get off" or "addiction" is that it provide good competition to compare your skill with other players.
Mmorpg doesn't appeal to me for this reason, I've only tried mmorpg once in my life when I was about 16, when the genre wasn't so popular as today. I know they have evolve to be very complex, but for me it seem like the acheivement or satisfaction is to level higher or do something more than other players which require so much time. And worse off you have to pay monthly.
Now that many of the new games aren't very interesting, only proving visual candy, not the intelligent type such as Lucas Arts puzzle adventures where you are force to think hard. I haven't purchased any new games for a while and probably not for a long time, unless there is another Deus Ex or FFVII revolution, but those don't come around very often. So it's starting to wear off and I hope it stays in that trend.
Contrary to gaming, I heard being a game programmer is really tough though, even in majoring for it.
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My younger cousins play a lot of video games and it worries me. They live in a different state and reside in a relatively isolated area, which means little social contact outside of school. They play for hours and swear at people online using derogatory terms. I'm really afraid that they're gonna grow up emo losers. I *have* threatened to kick their asses. (in jest)
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A bit off topic from the original thread, but in my opinion, this is very troublesome. That kind of behavior is found everywhere else in the internet, not just video game. With the internet so many things is presents to the young minds. Sometimes it is better for the parents to let the child go out and do something bad and learn from his experiences, than to sit and learn the 'facts' given from the internet, which for one, couples with those intolerant behaviors lead can to very narrow perspective. Its the unlimited freedom and the lack of consequences which promote this kind of ...lack of respect behavior, no punishment behind the screens.
