Quote Originally Posted by ArkenaeuxBelmont View Post
Take what jab? How is a VIDEO GAME responsible for someone not being able to control their own basic health and upkeep? That's a deeper, individualistic problem that is NOT the game's fault. That's an addictive personality that needs help. A well balanced grown adult would not forgo showering, eating, sleeping, and all the things that are basic and fundamental to *living* to play a video game. If they are, they have so many deeper issues and desperately need intervention and to seek the proper healthcare that they need.

The game is not forcing you, strapped to your chair, to play it. You do not HAVE to sit in the queue. You could choose to walk away. You could choose to play at different times when the queue isn't bad. You have CHOICE.

That can 100% be a game's fault lmao, how many companies have spent millions in research to human behaviour. To see how people work and how exactly they can keep you addicted to their game and milk you for everything you are worth, EA conducted research to see how they could use matchmaking to reduce churn they found that letting you win too much was bad for them so you can get games that are doomed to fail because they WANT you to lose so you keep playing for that next win, they will keep you as close to 50/50 win rate as they can.
You see predatory game practice's everywhere nowadays. Plenty perfectly functioning adults can find themselves addicted without realising due to game's and the companies behind them purposefully doing everything they can to condition you to play everyday without fail. Korean MMO's such as BDO have log in rewards per hour and if you want every one then enjoy being logged in a MINIMUM 5 hours a day. The pressure is even more intense in a game like that since it is vastly more competitve.
To say a game cannot cause such behaviour is ignorant, predatory companies literally design them to hook you in without care for any negatives to yourself be it financial or physical.

SE is not forcing anyone to sit in queue or stay on for prolonged periods but the conditions we are currently under promote such bad behaviour as you are essentially punished for taking a break with a long long queue. So it is no shock that players will try and make the best use of the time that they CAN get. Spoilers from content creators are just a ticking time bomb as is social media, holidays where people have family commitments are otw. Many many other pressures can be at play coupled with the long queue to make people make poorer choices for their health. And I am sure the devs are well aware of this.