A Chinese guy from about thirty years old died last Saturday after three days of non-stop gaming in a cybercafé. The hospital that took care of the gamenerd after 72 hours of gaming said that he was exhausted and died of a heart attack. China has a lot of problems with gamers that game too long without taking a break. Two years ago the Chinese government decided that a Chinese gamer shouldn’t be playing longer than three hours.
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I wonder why anybody would want to go over 24 hours without any sleep. Being alert makes the game more fun.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 am
Puffles: They were probably doing it to sell the character, whatever. Not for fun.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:17 am
Yeah, there are a lot of World of Warcraft slaves in China: they game for a living…
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
This has been round and round and round. This news has popped up at least once a year in the past 5-6 years. Its all in the aid to help make people be aware they should not play more than X amount of hours at any one time.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Guess what, a lot of people get heart attack while taking a dump. Is that proof going to the bathroom can be deadly? Its probably way more hazardous for a weak heart to play soccer than sit in front of the computer.
It just proves if enough people are doing something, some of them are just bound to die while doing it.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hey, if he was too damn stupid to take care of important things like eating, he deserves it.