Limiting gaming hours, a good idea?
 

China is thinking of implementing a limit on the hours teenagers can spend gaming, this would effect games mostly like WoW etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6544759.stm

This smacks 'big brother', but it's got to be a healthy thing right? Would games like WoW which is a huge success because it feeds on addiction, will it suffer to the point of not worth buying / playing, so would that must be bad for gaming as a whole? The industry would take a hit for sure.

Would it ever happen here? Would it be a bad thing? I don't think so, the amount of people I know that play wow (I'm an ex player) that are basically wasting their lives away, this would surely help those 'types'

Re: Limiting gaming hours, a good idea?
 

I had one player on my server who played for 18 hours solid in the end I put a temp ban on them for a 36 hour period, there's too many people playing long hours above 3 on online games especially those games that build skill as you go on.

He is now an admin and I respect the time he has played but a few words to him and he comes on for a couple of hours a time instead of full out.

Re: Limiting gaming hours, a good idea?
 

It is a good idea though, that after x amount of hours you don't get rep, points or anything like that, but you can still play. After a while you would curb the amount of time you play.

And it wouldn't have much impact of games that are just 'fun' either.

Re: Limiting gaming hours, a good idea?
 

That would will be one of the things I will be looking into when I get the new server built to limit the XP over a set amount of time.

I remember reading somewhere where a player played in one of those gaming marathon's where by you play in rounds until there's only two players left and then they battle it out for the winner.

But one of the two players during a 20 minute break went to the toilet to freshen up and collapsed and died from heart failure after gaming for something like 17 hours striaght.