http://www.outquib.com/debates/view/mmorpgs-heaven-or-hell Are MMO's a gaming blight, or social haven? en-us Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:33:15 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.outquib.com/debates/posts/view/358 When you stop making friends in a face-to-face way, you lose a great deal of social awareness of what you should and shouldn't do. MMOs can be a great way to waste some time, but often, they become all-consuming (speaking as a former MMO player myself) and devour the rest of your life. This isn't a new trend, and it isn't isolated. Ctrl+Alt+Del, a popular gaming comic has one character who isn't allowed to play MMORPGs, for obvious reasons. (The beginning of the current story arc here: http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20071208)

Admittedly, CAD (as it's called) takes it to an extreme, but it's not so unthinkable that people can't relate to it.

Maybe if we had an MMO that required you to stop and go off once in a while. Something simple, entertaining, but limited. Oh yeah, it already exists.

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com

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I think the people who we refer to that lose their lives to these games are usually the type of people who don't have well developed social lives in the first place.

But that's just my two-cents...it's not like we've done studies on this or anything....

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