Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Kazard — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:18 GMT

rofl, I wonder what he was playing.

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Pharoth — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:17 GMT

Kazard, most likely a Blizzard game, eh?

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Gx3 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:15 GMT

old news?

this also happened (if the case is really NOT the same) ... when Honor Patch came ingame... i can remember reading it on a spanish newspaper.

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Kody — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:14 GMT

No it's not old news. Check the date on the Yahoo article. :)

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

souliisoul — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:13 GMT

Kazard, someone died and you write rofl???

We are sad, if we have a laugh because someone died, whatever the situation.

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Stromson — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:12 GMT

While it's always a tragedy to hear about this kind of thing, I find it to be excessively overblown whenever it involves gaming. People die all the time from exhaustion (which is more than likely what triggered this man's death), but you never hear about it. Only when the cause of that exhaustion was a video game, does the entire world seem to flip out about it. Sad yes, unexpected no. You can hardly blame the game industry for some guy refusing to sleep (plus, how many millions of us play these games, with no issues?).

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Indelible — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:11 GMT

I'm sorry but this isn't the fault of the game. This is the fault of the man and the cafe that allowed him to use the faciliies for more than a few hours. You can't just take an inncidient where human intervention could have prevented this and then say, "MMORPGs ARE BAD! LOOK! CHINA MAN DIES WHILST PLAYING ONE! OMGWTF?!" because that is just ignorant.

I might make politics my thing. Spin some crap abotu some other crpa and get some random crap banned so I can use it as a way of boosting my political career and not actually doing anything of importance :-)

Man in China Dies, Played Online for 3 Days Straight

Darahbi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:04:10 GMT

He was playing Harvest Moon. *duh* Had to keep his chickens from being stolen.... takes a lot of time and concentration.

But it seems that through China's tough policy on video game restrictions, they have the most video game related deaths in the world. Is it just me or are China's policies failing?