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Geek Culture / Are games addictive?

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dacloo
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Hi,
I'm Jeroen de Cloe, 4th grade EMMA Gaming student. I'm researching 'addiction' and 'addictive gameplay' for my thesis, and I'd like to know about your experiences with addiction.

This survey will help me understand how you think of 'game addiction' in general, and your experience with this phenomenon. Every submission will be received and treated anonymously This will only take a few minutes of your time, thank you!

http://wobbles.hku.nl/index.php?id=14
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Jimmy
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I'm only addicted to fast cars and slow women.

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TheAbomb12
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Posted: 14th May 2004 02:38 Edited at: 14th May 2004 02:39
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im addicted to food.

Really, I am; I can't stop eating.
I can only go a day or so without food before I go through withdrawls; pretty bad huh?

Amist the Blue Skies...
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code master
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Posted: 14th May 2004 03:30
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im not addicted to games just game progaming

dbc 1.13 non enhanced oh and im 11 didnt know that did ya?
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Pincho Paxton
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I'm addicted to everything except drugs, cigarettes, and alchohol. Actually that's true???

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Dave J
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Posted: 14th May 2004 09:53
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Quote: "Are games addictive?"


If they're good, they are.


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
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Arkheii
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Posted: 14th May 2004 10:05
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I consider it addiction when you play the game "seriously," like focusing on being better than everyone else at it. Like, starting to turn down the game's visuals so you can improve the game's performance and help you improve your game (ie. turning off lightmapping and switching to vertex mode so you can see enemies clearly even in the dark )


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Manticore Night
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I'm addicted to everything including drugs. (Joke)

It's amazing how much TV has raised us. (Bart Simpson)
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KC27
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I am addicted to putting exlax in my Arch-Enemy's chocolate pudding.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 15th May 2004 16:34 Edited at: 15th May 2004 16:34
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some of my addictions:

(AM 2 cups - a must or )
(computers)
(cigarettes unfortunately)
(beer. aren't we all?)
(I am the Rustler after all)
(gaming/games)
(hi honey )
(music)

oh yeah, and programming is my biggest addiction


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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 15th May 2004 16:38
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If a game is good enough to make you think about startegies/tactics/how to get to the next level when you aren't even playing the game then i'd say it was addictive. I rememeber some games i'd go to sleep thinking of how to play them.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 15th May 2004 16:51
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I was addicted to Team Fortress when I first got it, and also NFS 3.
I played so much nfs3 that when I would finally go to bed, and close my eyes, the winding track movement was etched and replayed on the inside of my eyelids blackness - if you follow


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Peter H
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i was "addicted" to DDR(dance dance revoulution) for awhile(1 week) and i played it constantly...at night i would see arrows floating up the "screen"(my field of vision) and my feet would twitch accordingly .......very scary


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Mentor
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Posted: 15th May 2004 17:30
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not addicted, nothing is that good as a game, but you can spend long hours trying to crack a level just because it annoys you to be stopped (games with steep learning curves have this effect on me...or I download a cheat or trainer), don`t like being stopped by something when I am on a roll, bad level design makes me drop a game, stupid levels like the current one in Farcry (end of ship level) annoy me so much, I spend ages trying to crack it, get annoyed, do something else, go back, spend ages, etc, then finaly I download a cheat or trainer just to get past that level since I have invested a lot of time already, I want to see the end of it by now.

Mentor.

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Ian T
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There's no physical addiction, obviously, and any mental addiction comes from serious lack of other things to do. Games are not addictive IMO.

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Manticore Night
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I was addicted to the SIMS. Played for 3 days straight(No sleep).

It's amazing how much TV has raised us. (Bart Simpson)
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Arkheii
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Hopefully most of you actually took his survey. I know I did, though I submitted as anonymous. Let's help the dude.


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Ian T
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Posted: 15th May 2004 18:57
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I did .

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flibX0r
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me too


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