14 DAY TRIAL // We thought that only Americans and some lonely Europeans are worried about the online gaming influence on the general public, but now it seems that professor Tao Hongkai, from the Huazhong Normal University is joining forces with a study that clearly shows how bad games are for kids.
I have witnessed these reports over the years and they are quite normal. Any movement (and I don't want to give a revolutionary aspect to it) has to have a recoil. It is a fundamental law in physics of action and reaction that governs everything from the simplest things to gaming social studies. This particular study has covered more than a hundred Chinese cities and has "clearly" shown that 70 % of the delinquent behaviors can be blamed on the internet addiction.
The professor has also stated that: "It is a colossal mistake for a few officials from some departments to lend their support to the development of internet games". In other words, all the support Blizzard receives from the Chinese government has not good intentions and should be immediately stopped. Tao Hongkai goes even further comparing the companies with drug dealers that prey on the gamer's addiction: "Unless these providers are out of their businesses, we should probably be prepared for more tales of studies, careers, marriages and lives being ruined by the games".
I don't know about you but I am sick and tired of studies that prove the world is rotating in the wrong direction. Maybe I'm in complete denial of my addiction and this is the drug talking but I'm pretty sure the society is moving toward a bigger dependence on the internet and we probably don't need half-brainers to tell us what we already know. To end this beautiful demagogic initiative he stated that most teenagers will shave off 10 percent of their IQ after playing online games. Damn, I've just lost another one!