What the hell is wrong with this kid, what the hell is wrong with this kid's father?!

Yes I will say the kid is to blame, but I can't help but point a second finger at the boy's father. He knew what the kid was doing, and how long he was playing for and he did nothing to prevent it? I'm surprised he knows how to use a phone, let alone call emergency services. Then again, it is the western world and the majority of parents are fucking stupid.

I think a new classification should be given to people like this; "WoWer", not only does this happen more often with WoW then most other games (or at least its more publicized for WoW)but it also makes just about everyone say 'wow' as their face collapses into a rising palm completing the face palm.

I play WoW, yes its a fun game. But heck I cannot play that game for more then a few hours before I need to stop. Maybe that makes me weak,

This is why I don't start MMO's.

He's obviously not a true WoW gamer. Else he woulda lasted a week. ^_^

Detox needs a detox.

Seriously what the hell.

What else is there to do in Sweden... aside from head banging at metal concerts?

YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!

Parents to blame!

Dad's fault, the tool knew what his son was doing, what he was playing. and still did nothing about it.

It's also the sons fault as well, both are to blame.

Lawsuit from idiot parents in 3..2..1..

@Mxyzptlk, that is not the case.

All you get is an achievement that won't be visible to others unless they go out of their way to inspect your achievements and look for the "first to 80" achievement.

There used to be titles for first to X but they were removed in beta. So sadly I won't get the title of "Doctor" for being server first to 450 first aid. :(

You guys can point fingers at the kid or the parents, I point mine at the warcraft population.

/point
/laugh

Play monkeys! PLAY UNTIL YOU DDDDIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!

And what exactly were the parents doing while they watched their son waste away in front of his PC?

I might try this game, well it must be good.

I agree, it's the kids fault but the parent alos carries a huge load in this. What sensible parent lets his 15 year old spend his whole day AND night playing a videogame non stop? They even sent him his food to the computer FFS. And blaming blizzard is also useless, it's the parents task to control what their kid is playing and how it's being administered. If you don't want to take part in a kids education get a dog allready! And yeah Blizzard's business model is just there to milk the cow all it can, but if people keep on swallowing all that blizzard throws at them you can't blame them entirely. If it were so wrong the people would have woken up allready.

Whenever I hear these reports of wow-gaming addicts I always notice that there's never a mention of the account perental controls, you know, the ones that are designed so that the account can only be played between hours set by the people who set up the account. Small but important fact's like this are glossed in the news as it doesn't help the story.