Man dies after 49 hours of computer games

[Zie Chuckinator]

Originally Posted by fenian

I wonder if he won though... So let this be a lesson, while on a long patrol snack, drink enjoy a meal put the cook to work and I suggest get a cot and submerge and get some shut eye, let the XO get some command time.

Man dies after 49 hours of computer games

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.

Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.

Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.

Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.
Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.

when i was at Choate Rosemarry Hall earlier in the summer, i met a Korean kid who told me that people there play in cafes with little/no sleep and eating nothing but noodles and drinking nothing but soda and energy drinks. this can go on for 12 hours, a day, or he said a kid did it for like 28 hours and fell asleep.

but yea, thats insane.

[kholemann]

I see it clearly now. The press must like Starcraft. Had it been Everquest it would have been all over the headlines. I will have you know I played Everquest and Dungeons and Dragons (or AD&D) before computers were popular and the press was there to point out how AD&D turns people into demented zombies (which Everquest seems to do as well). Funny how these things don't happen when playing other games of the same type. Recently the bad game of the moment is that Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas. It is like having a gun. It ain't the guns fault someone else got killed, its the genius that did the pointing and pulling that caused the deaths. Some folks play chess, checkers and card games waaay to much but you never hear about those because that isn't sexy.

[Seminole]

Let's not pussyfoot around here....he obviously was attempting to make an illegal copy .....and StarForce took him out....

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Seminole

Let's not pussyfoot around here....he obviously was attempting to make an illegal copy .....and StarForce took him out....

No no no.. It only took the hacks 24 hours to crack the SF protection. In spite of SF's claims.

[Glock_17]

Looks more like a Urban legend to me. This story has been around for a few years now and keeps resurfacing bout every year. First ive seen it on the net was about 5 years ago and i think then it was a japanese counterstriker.

Funny that people think everything put on the net is true.

[MonkeyHero]

It's actually not urban legend, but it does happen fairly often, at least in Korea. There was a guy a year ago who went through about the same thing, but he lasted longer. And a month or two ago a Korean couple left their infant child at home while they played WoW at an internet cafe and came home a few hours later to find the child dead.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/PrinterFr...OREA-GAMES.XML
Reuters article about this latest death.

[kiwi_2005]

There was another one i read about 2yrs ago about a korean gamer that died at his keyboard playing Diablo 2 for 26hrs. I also read (and a game i play often) about the First person shooter created by the American army called Armericas army, no guesses there, but anyways, one dedicated americas army clan got so annoyed at a person/persons cheating on there server that they hunted them down in the states and beat them up!

Dont cheat when playing Americas Army!

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

i can't wait till vr comes out and becomes mainstream over there...

.. and over here as well.

imagine if we were playing SH3 'inside the game', in vr, as opposed to being relegated to watching it from a third person perspective, on a flat 2D screen...

and then add the explosion and pain interfaces to the vr setup, and i'm sure you're gonna see a lot more war casualties popping up

--Mike

[Zie Chuckinator]

i think ill just stop playing for a while.

i read somewhere were like some kid was so addicted to DII (diablo II) that when he tried to stop and his mom took the game, he commited suicide.

i think somethign similer happened to a kid who played WoW.

[Abraham]

I would advise game producers to put liability warnings on their products to escape expensive litigation in the future.
Something like:

Gaming can seriously endanger your health!

or:

Continuous gaming without interruptions to sleep, relax and eat can cause sudden death!

Then the problem is solved.

[The Avon Lady]

Also a warning that smoking DVD disks may lead to lung cancer.

[Zie Chuckinator]

aw comon Avon Lady. who in the right mind would frikkin smoke their dvd's??? well except for the sponge-bob ones. those really need to go.