Beware Side Effects of MMORPG

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IN the middle of rapid industrial growth MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), did not want to catch cyber criminals take advantage of momentum. Therefore, a worm named Taterf emerged.

Microsoft Corp. presented, Taterf spread to steal information from MMORPG players. Not only worms, MMORPG growth also triggers other side effects. Research Professor Syracuse University, United States, Joshua Smyth revealed the presence of major risk MMORPG upsets the balance of human life. Players are now spending more time for the MMORPG. Cause, the latest MMORPG able to present better interactivity and flow of the story is more challenging.

As a result, become more and more MMORPG players rarely slept for game addiction.

"Interactivity is the main attraction MMORPG. At present, MMORPG players become less and less sleep, so life is interrupted, due to increasing the quality of the latest MMORPG games and interaction," said Smyth.

Games like MMORPG just a game. But if someone is addicted to gaming, serious effects can occur in everyday life. For example, in South Korea there are parents who would let their baby was three months of starvation because it is too busy to play MMORPG.

Still in South Korea, a young 15-year-old man attacked the mother bear just because it reminds the teen mother is not too old to play MMORPG. The South Korean government estimates that, at present there are approximately two million residents of South Korean MMORPG addiction. In fact, South Korea's total population is only 49 million people. Therefore, the South Korean government takes seriously the problem of MMORPG addiction. To overcome these problems, the South Korean government ordered the operators MMORPG at night, so players can rest.

"Three out of ten adults in South Korea's gaming addicts. In addition, approximately 26 percent of teens are also addicted to the game. In South Korea, the children began playing game on fourth or fifth grade elementary school," explained the President of the Korea Computer Life Institute Eo Gee-jun, told The Korea Times

In South Korea, have dropped the MMORPG addiction problems casualties. In February 2010, a 22-year-old boy kills his biological mother because warned against playing too many MMORPG. The young man paid the MMORPG game with his mother's credit card.

American Medical Association (AMA) has warned, people who are addicted to the game really suffered a nervous breakdown. AMA rate, the game took a huge threat if played excessively. AMA revealed the game has strong links with psychiatric disorders such as increased aggressiveness and violent behavior. Worse, the game even considered risky trigger epilepsy.

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