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TV News Offers Balanced Look at MMO Addiction


Submitted by thankeeka on May 24, 2007 - 11:13am. General News

MMOs can be addicting. I wouldn't go so far as to say they are addicting as things like cigarettes, drugs, alcohol or the like, but after having just bought Lord of the Rings Online this week, I find myself wanting work done as quickly as possible so I can get to working on my characters. My highest is a level 9 Elf Lore-master Scholar right now. Anyways, yeah for balanced reporting.

From the article:

Here’s something you don’t see very often on the T.V. news - a balanced report on a video game topic.

Philadelphia’s 6-ABC has a video report on MMO addiction via interviews with an adolescent World of Warcraft gamer, his mother, a psychologist and Liz Woolley, who blames her son’s suicide on his play of Everquest and who started the Online Gamers Anonymous website.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com


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