The damn fools already got a bunch of game companies to implement a 'fatigue' system to where you were only allowed to do a certain amount of rewarding in game actions per day, like kill enemies, run dungeons, etc. My friend and I avoided these games because if we sat down for a night of gaming, it would last all of two hours (usually less) before we couldn't advance our characters in game any more for the next 24 hours. The kicker is that actual Koreans would just start new characters rather than just giving up for the day, so it wasn't even helping then either.

If I recall, some companies got into deep shiat because they were selling in game items (for real money, of course) that would reset the fatigue counters.

They must be taking a page from my wife's playbook.

On the other hand, I do know I've played too much when I'm lying in bed strategizing instead of sleeping.

WordyGrrl: Rather than a clock, I'd like to have a reminder pop up: "You have an Accounting exam in 26 hours. There is no 'Enchanted Ring of Unadjusted Trial Balance Preparation', so put down the mace and go study."

"Damnit, where's the "auto hire" button? WHERE'S THE DAMN AUTO HIRE BUTTON? You go tell HR that I have personally whacked about 40 level 4 Orcs!

cgraves67: Don't most MMO's have that "Rest XP" feature to give you incentive to get up from the chair for a few hours? If you log off for a while, you get bonus XP for playing when you return.

I recall that either DAOC or WAR had a Protip on a load screen that encouraged you to go find something to eat and get some sleep.

While it's true, and of course certain games are different, but with WoW, you get 1.5 levels rested XP for every week. With the way things are now in WoW, you can get almost two levels with about two-three hours of efficient game play.

/fell back on the WOW bandwagon after seeing how bad Star Wars MMO is, and i was free from MMOs for nearly four years.

When I read this all I could hear in my head is "I'm so ronery so very ronery a ritter ronery"

l3randon: Freschel: nekom: Maybe someone can jog my memory here, wasn't there a game or two in the U.S. market way back when (NES or maybe SNES days) that would remind you "Hey, you've been playing for 6 hours now, would you like to take a break? But then you could just say "Shut up" and the game would continue on. An RPG or two I seem to recall doing that.

/Mrs. Simpsons, don't you think you've gambled enough? NO. Haha ok then, we're required to ask every 72 hours.

Earthbound AKA Mother 2. Only game I can think of.

Hi, it's your dad. You've been out there for awhile, don't you think you should take a break?


\loved that game.

Seriously need to port it to the 3ds.....3d functionality not required

/or the regular ds
//or xbox live
///slashies

baufan2005: I played FF7 for 12-15 hours a day one Summer when I was young.

My one room mate in college played one of the FF games for 27 hours strait. Minus bathroom and sandwich breaks.

I can do about 8-10 comfortably. But 2 hours? That's just a warmup.

They need that for SurvivalCraft.

/damned game is addicting.

nekom: Maybe someone can jog my memory here, wasn't there a game or two in the U.S. market way back when (NES or maybe SNES days) that would remind you "Hey, you've been playing for 6 hours now, would you like to take a break? But then you could just say "Shut up" and the game would continue on. An RPG or two I seem to recall doing that.

/Mrs. Simpsons, don't you think you've gambled enough? NO. Haha ok then, we're required to ask every 72 hours.

Every Virtual Boy game had a default setting that would stop the game after about 30 minutes for break time. Of course, it could be turned off.

beta_plus: You can have my Starcraft II when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

No one is going to take your starcraft from you, everyone already owns it.

scottydoesntknow: LockeOak: Most games, even at the pro level, are settled in less than half an hour, often in 7-8 minutes.

KEKEKEKEKEKEKE

/Zerg rush douchebags

Cannon rushes and 2 gateway zealot+probe pushes make zergling rushes feel legit.


Kyro: LockeOak: No. I've never seen (professional or amateur) or played a game that lasted past 70 minutes

I've played in games that made it to the three hour mark.

The shame doesn't kick in until after you sign off and look at the clock.

How? The map should be nearly mined out in about 45 minutes.

So the purpose "is to prevent school bullying and suicides". Seems like a noble enough cause, although I certainly can't speak to the legitimacy of the proposed solution. But aren't the Korean kids too busy studying and being tested like crazy to get stressed out by gaming?

I farking hate people that play games for more than a couple hours. What a waste of farking time. I want Korea to hire me as the man that cuts you off at the 2 hour mark. Except I get to see a direct cam feed just as I cut them off from a raid.

When will we start the war on gaming?

How about you pathetic wankers get up off your ass and go for a walk....right into the demilitarized zone.

Are we are unable to teach new generations moderation?

guardian_devil: I farking hate people that play games for more than a couple hours. What a waste of farking time. I want Korea to hire me as the man that cuts you off at the 2 hour mark. Except I get to see a direct cam feed just as I cut them off from a raid.

When will we start the war on gaming?

How about you pathetic wankers get up off your ass and go for a walk....right into the demilitarized zone.

Are we are unable to teach new generations moderation?

Are you my ex girlfriend?

LockeOak: Cannon rushes and 2 gateway zealot+probe pushes make zergling rushes feel legit.

CR's and proxy gates against a fast-expand zerg are just mean

/and necessary lessons for the zerg player to learn

guardian_devil: I farking hate people that play games for more than a couple hours. What a waste of farking time. I want Korea to hire me as the man that cuts you off at the 2 hour mark. Except I get to see a direct cam feed just as I cut them off from a raid.

When will we start the war on gaming?

How about you pathetic wankers get up off your ass and go for a walk....right into the demilitarized zone.

Are we are unable to teach new generations moderation?



You should log off FARK and play a game or two for a few hours, it really helps me when I'm an angry prick.

I'm far from the biggest gamer out there, but i can definitely admit that get too sucked into the computer. Though i complain when she does it, i'm glad the girlfriend biatches at me to turn off and do something real every hour or two.

It's kinda pathetic things have gone so far people want/need laws to curb the trend.... but the lowest common denominator does tend to be pretty damn stupid.

ObscureNameHere: I think the manual for "Baldur's Gate 2" had some comment to the effect of:
"Your character does not need to eat -- but you do!"


Also get annoyed at the Wii popping up every 15 minutes in some games saying "Time for a break?"

Civ IV had an option to put the clock time on screen.

I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

You lightweight! I don't even start up the computer until 11:30pm, work night or otherwise!

Also, you know, you can put a clock next to your monitor. They have those now.

I know some gamers...I don't 'get' gaming. It's full of meaningless accomplishments and goals that will even less meaningfull when the new version of the game comes out.

Heck, I know people that spend more time playing (insert latest FPS or RPG here) than with their families...call in sick to play more games...it's odd really.

I can play the occasional game, have fun, etc...but some people take it to an extreme degree.

THAT being said...let 'em do it if they want, it's their choice. If they want to waste their lives playing games, let 'em.

Back during the COD UO days, I once spent 8 hours playing a one round of Base Assault. It was an untimed server and if I remember right, the longest single game was around 12 hours.

ihatedumbpeople: I know some gamers...I don't 'get' gaming. It's full of meaningless accomplishments and goals that will even less meaningfull when the new version of the game comes out.

Heck, I know people that spend more time playing (insert latest FPS or RPG here) than with their families...call in sick to play more games...it's odd really.

I can play the occasional game, have fun, etc...but some people take it to an extreme degree.

THAT being said...let 'em do it if they want, it's their choice. If they want to waste their lives playing games, let 'em.

The only people worse then those playing games is those who spend their lives watching other people play games. They are truly pathetic.

RexTalionis: ObscureNameHere: RexTalionis: I once had an 18 hour long Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri marathon.

Won't be doing that again.

Seriously? Who would want to spend 2/3rds of a day hearing the monotonous incantation 'Drone riots'. :)

/Gonna nerve staple them all, lousy rioting drones.

Just remember the most important part from the most important faction:

"Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed has followed us to the stars and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"

you_idiot: ObscureNameHere: I think the manual for "Baldur's Gate 2" had some comment to the effect of:
"Your character does not need to eat -- but you do!"


Also get annoyed at the Wii popping up every 15 minutes in some games saying "Time for a break?"

Civ IV had an option to put the clock time on screen.

I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

You lightweight! I don't even start up the computer until 11:30pm, work night or otherwise!

Also, you know, you can put a clock next to your monitor. They have those now.

I used to have a wall clock right about the PC, but then I got the new PC for Skyrim and re-arranged the computer space so that I no longer have the clock in convenient line of sight.

/lazy gamer is lazy

bunner: Huh, what fools. In America, you can whack your little button festooned plasticine pud 'til your eyeballs sue for damages and we lead the WORLD in...


in...


um...


: /

Music, movies, and microcode?

ObscureNameHere: you_idiot: ObscureNameHere: I think the manual for "Baldur's Gate 2" had some comment to the effect of:
"Your character does not need to eat -- but you do!"


Also get annoyed at the Wii popping up every 15 minutes in some games saying "Time for a break?"

Civ IV had an option to put the clock time on screen.

I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

You lightweight! I don't even start up the computer until 11:30pm, work night or otherwise!

Also, you know, you can put a clock next to your monitor. They have those now.

I used to have a wall clock right about the PC, but then I got the new PC for Skyrim and re-arranged the computer space so that I no longer have the clock in convenient line of sight.

/lazy gamer is lazy

I just use EVGA Precision.

/and ignore it.

You know what I hate? Things other people like, but I don't. It's just that I care, you know? Caring. I do it.

ObscureNameHere: I used to have a wall clock right about the PC, but then I got the new PC for Skyrim and re-arranged the computer space so that I no longer have the clock in convenient line of sight.

Why not just keep your phone next to you and check it between dungeons? That's what I do.

I probably only game for an hour or two a day now (Skyrim and Disgaea 4 at the moment), but in the early 90s I was a true addict.

During summer break there were days I'd wake up, start playing Star Control 2 or Final Fantasy 3 (6 to purists), break only to fetch more junk food and use the bathroom, and then go to bed. That was my day.

I'll be honest...I kinda miss it. Not enough that I'll ever play like that again, but it's remarkable that I actually have fond memories of doing something that barely even qualifies as "doing something".

Age of discovery had a feature like that, after 2 hours a pop up would appear and a voice would say "hey, how about a little rest" and every additional hour past that it would remind you "You have been playing for 4 hours, take a break"

We all know this: For most games which are causing the "problem" they are trying to "solve," you can't get farkall done in two hours.

I wasn't lucky enough to be in a top-notch raiding guild that could churn out raid kills like a well-oiled machine, when I was part of the raiding scene. We blocked four hours at a time, minimum.

I get what they're trying to do, but the people in charge of making these laws probably have no clue how these games operate. Not that that has ever stopped any lawmaker, anywhere.

ihatedumbpeople: I know some gamers...I don't 'get' gaming. It's full of meaningless accomplishments and goals that will even less meaningfull when the new version of the game comes out.

Heck, I know people that spend more time playing (insert latest FPS or RPG here) than with their families...call in sick to play more games...it's odd really.

I can play the occasional game, have fun, etc...but some people take it to an extreme degree.

THAT being said...let 'em do it if they want, it's their choice. If they want to waste their lives playing games, let 'em.

What do you do that is so fulfilling?

Watch sports? Spend 6 hours over two days watching football games?

Running, playing sports, TV, movies, gardening, music, reading, cooking...

What hobby do you have that is so fulfilling? The people who are good at this stuff are paid to do it. Everyone else is doing it to enjoy it.

Meh. As short as WoW raids are now, I could knock out two in that time.

/plays about 4 hours a week

Arkanaut: bunner: Huh, what fools. In America, you can whack your little button festooned plasticine pud 'til your eyeballs sue for damages and we lead the WORLD in...


in...


um...


: /

Music, movies, and microcode?

How sweet!

"I don't understand gaming"

I don't understand hiking, its just walking in the woods and seeing some trees and rocks...with a weird sense of accomplishment, when all you did was walk in the woods and see some rocks.

I don't understand drinking, its just opening your mouth and pouring fermented liquid in, with a weird sense of accomplishment when you have a stack of beer cans, but all you did was pour stuff in your mouth.

I don't understand etc... over simplified assumption with stated dislike of achieved goals, but all you do is repeated function that is extremely simple.

Perhaps another relevant Alpha Centauri quote:

"I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine - just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Man and Machine"

Kyro: nekom: Maybe someone can jog my memory here, wasn't there a game or two in the U.S. market way back when (NES or maybe SNES days) that would remind you "Hey, you've been playing for 6 hours now, would you like to take a break?

The only one I remember doing that was Lineage 2. I believe that alerted you every hour.

Which was silly as all hell, because it took a good 2 hours just to make it to level 2.

I think every NCSoft title does this. Aion for me.

ObscureNameHere:
I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

This ^

/up til midnight last night two nights
//probably a mod somewhere for that very thing. I'll have to look.

Seth'n'Spectrum: ObscureNameHere: I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

I found it mildly hilarious that one of the earliest popular mods on Skyrim Nexus was one that added a realtime clock to the loading screens.

Kyro: South Korea's primary title is StarCraft - a round of which can easily shoot past two hours.

Ok, I'm not a big competitive gaming guru by any means, but as far as I know 2 hours would be way too long for a competitive match, no?

Oh. There it is. Thanks. :)

And Lineage2 sieges last 2 hours. Granted, it's usually two hours of waiting for the other side to get their act together and actually attack, but you kinda gotta hang around for it...

tseven7: ObscureNameHere:
I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

This ^

/up til midnight last night two nights
//probably a mod somewhere for that very thing. I'll have to look.

Yup. Well sorta, on the loading screen. :P

Oh, hey, now is a good place to request this pic, because it's completely apropos and because I have been trying to find it again for ages.

Guy sits down at computer. Caption: "I'll just play Civ IV for an hour before bed..."

Next panel: A desiccated mummy.

Help a Farker out!

BumpInTheNight: tseven7: ObscureNameHere:
I sometimes wish Skyrim had a very faint watermarked 'real time' clock somewhere on the screen just to remind me that it is a 11:30pm on a work night.

This ^

/up til midnight last night two nights
//probably a mod somewhere for that very thing. I'll have to look.

Yup. Well sorta, on the loading screen. :P

As long as I don't have to go to the Cloud District to get it. Have you been to the Cloud Dist--- oh, what am I saying? Of course you haven't.

Nothing wrong with hours and hours of gaming, as long as you don't mind living life in a Skinner box.

Tax the games, use the money to fund addiction treatment. Same as we do for other vices.

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Oh, hey, now is a good place to request this pic, because it's completely apropos and because I have been trying to find it again for ages.

Guy sits down at computer. Caption: "I'll just play Civ IV for an hour before bed..."

Next panel: A desiccated mummy.

Help a Farker out!

"Well, just one more turn then that's IT! ..... Whoa, hey? Why is Ghandi floating a transport over there? Hmmm.....better move some tanks up just in case.....gotta change the production here to get some more infantry... yeah, better speed up that carrier production...."

Elf needs food.

Btw, you guys that brought up Alpha Centauri: You're dicks. My reading week just started a little early and I can hear this strange calling from the CD binder...

The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat. I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say.
- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "See How They Run"