Wrath of the Lich King binge causes kid to collapse

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. ^_^

indestructable? more like gullible and senstive...what a loser...god I wish jack thompson would attack this gay MMO instead of gta4 or others....like I said before, I saw some kid on youtube hit his mother over world of warcraft...wasn't even fake or planned...she was crying, cuz that kid is a loser....lol but hey, we all have to move on someday...yea right, who am I kidding here, you can't take the warcraft out of the loser

The crazy part is this happened to me too on saturday....I WAS playing lich king...but it was for different reasons haha

If he didn't die, its weak. Caucasians pass out, Asians commit wowbuku.

Damn Swedish kids these days...oh wait...

Why race through the expansion to the cap. Enjoy the game and take your time.

I love how all the news sites reports this as the main issue being that he was playing World of Warcraft. Even you Jim.

What we should be rabbling about is that the father let his teenage son sit and play at his computer without eating or drinking properly for 24 hours, which in turned probably triggered a dormant epilepsy attack.

He then went to the newspapers and blatantly blamed a videogame. Whether he was playing World of Warcraft, Call of Duty 4 or Super Mario Brothers is entirely irrelevant.

If anything this proves that some parents are irresponsible and those same parents like to blame videogames when they know full well that they are at fault.

@ Qwikstreet: Apparently you get a title by your name if you're the first on the server to reach the cap. Whoopee.

Actually, Tascar, there are 'first x on server' achivement notices. If you're the first of whatever race or class to reach 80, the entire server knows. I'm guessing they'll do the same for stuff like downing Arthas too.

I wonder how long will be before Evangelical Pastor Josue Yrion says that boy was bedeviled, BE.DEVILED!.

For those who don't understand my comment, here's Yrion's preach about the "evils" of videogames

Josue Yrion vs Videogames

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Me pregunto cúanto tiempo pasará antes de que el Pastor Evangélico Josué Yrion diga que ese niño estaba endemoniado, ¡EN.DE.MO.NIADO!

Para quienes no entendieron el comentario, aquí está el sermón de Yrion sobre el "mal" que causan los videojuegos.

Josue Yrion contra los Videojuegos

@MultiJoe, I know that there are titles that are linked with first boss kills. I also know that there are indeed achievements for first to hit 80, etc and I also know that such achievements are broadcasted to everyone on the server that is online at the moment. However, I wasn't responding to that. I was simply responding to the question of whether or not there was a title for getting first to 80 and the answer is no.

Okay, fair enough Tascar.

Actually on topic, I don't think you can solely blame a single party. The parents were obviously at fault, the north european countries are known for their liberal attitudes. No child (I know he is 15) should have such a wrecklessly free rein over what can be potentially such a destructive activity. Coming to which, Blizzard has it's share of blame in any such story which comes up. The game is deliberately designed to be as time consuming as possible, especially so with reputation grinding and top tier gear aquisition. Fair enough, they need to keep people coming back, but their business model does damage their most vulnerable players.

I don't care!

I got my Magical Crawdad!

But seriously... Out of 11 million, there's bound to be idiots and freaks.

I don't understand why gamers can't relate to being stereo-typed in such manner, and go on the attack of other gamers just because of some morons that do stupid stuff.

Shame on you!

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.