According the information found from the Internet; a significant number of respondents considered themselves to be addicted to the game. Female players below the age of 23 were more likely than male players of the same age range to consider themselves addicted to the game. There is the chart.
I also consider myself addicted to online games. When I am still in secondary school, class finished at 1330, once I got home I turned on the computer and started to play World Of Warcraft (a very famous online game) for more than 9 hours; if it were not for having dinner, I could played until 1 or 2 am on next day. During that time, I was extremely addicted to online game. I felt I got nothing to do other than play games. I have tried to quit, however, it was so hard that every time I saw computer; I could not control myself. There must be a lot of teenagers have the same experience. And there is a research on quitting the addition.
During that period, my academic result declined rapidly. I had been the top 5 in the class, since I was so addicted to online games, when term test came out, I realized that my position has drop to 10+. In the beginning, I did not think much of it and continued to play online game every day. At the end of the year, final year examination came; my position became 20+ already. I just knew that it was so serious. Some players brush this issue aside and trivialize it, arguing that gaming addiction cannot be as serious as substance addiction. Some players deny their own addiction by claiming "it's just a game". However, it’s not just a game, being addicted to game will surely affect your real life. It is just how much or how serious you have been influenced.There are some real events happened. That's see how online gaming affect people.
2003, in China, a fifteen-year old boy was too addicted to online games, he killed his mother for just few dollars to go to Internet bar. It is amazing that, a fifteen-year old child could hold a knife to stab his own mother to death. And the motive seems to be so negligible.
In China, there is a guy, he flunked out the school and moved his "house" into a Internet bar, he has no bath and no clean cloth for more than 2 month. You can image that how dirty could he be. However, he was doing so was to see a "boss" of a online game to be killed. You may think he might be a psychopath, but there are a lot of people same as him in the world.
We can see that, gaming addition is so powerful that it can make people crazy-like drugs. Some people call "online game" as "electric-drug".
Appropriate gaming is good for us. Gaming can let us relax and enjoy, making us feeling happy and joyful. Being addicted to gaming is very different, in that situation, it is not people playing games but games are "playing" people.
Lastly, let me ask you a question you are playing or being played?
