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Aibu to be worried about this game son has been sat for days playing this

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Metoodear · 10/06/2018 22:20

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5826465/Girl-nine-rehab-addicted-Fortnite-video-game-wet-herself.html

Just worried my son is gettting hooked is everyone’s kids playing this game Confused my son is 18btw

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Tessliketrees · 10/06/2018 22:25

Don't worry. Video games use well known psychological tricks to hook us but they inevitably wear off. I say this as somebody who gets hooked every single time.

Wolfiefan · 10/06/2018 22:27

Not clicking a Fail link. He's 18. He shouldn't be playing any game for days. Job? College?

Thesearepearls · 10/06/2018 22:27

Yes it was a problem here. Not much of one and not the same game - mine were playing WOW. I took away the playstation and the xbox and there were tantrums but they were better off without them,

The article you linked to showed a 9YO girl playing a 12-rated game. It's worth checking the age ratings and making sure that they are only playing age appropriate games.

Sugarhunnyicedtea · 10/06/2018 22:27

My son plays it too. This isn't about the game, this is bad parenting. She's 9 and it sounds as though she was pretty much left to do what she wanted

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Metoodear · 10/06/2018 22:29

Just he came home from work at 4 he’s still playing and it’s 10:30Confused

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Tessliketrees · 10/06/2018 22:29

@Thesearepearls

Don't know why they were having tantrums as WoW is not available on either of those things.

SilverySurfer · 10/06/2018 22:30

Depends if your son is an adult or a child. If an adult there's not much you can do; if a child you are the parent - you make the rules. Limit his playing time, remove whatever it's played on, if online, turn off internet, last resort, cut off the plug.

DearMrDilkington · 10/06/2018 22:30

His hardly spending days at a time on it then is he? His relaxing after work, leave him be.

DearMrDilkington · 10/06/2018 22:31

ah wait did you come home from work or did he?

RabbityMcRabbit · 10/06/2018 22:32

Just he came home from work at 4 he’s still playing and it’s 10:30

So stop him! Unless your son is over 18 you need to keep track of what he's doing...

Sugarhunnyicedtea · 10/06/2018 22:32

My son has been playing it all day.
Tomorrow he'll be at school, then sports clubs every night in the week. Football at the weekend. He will, however, play for at least 3 hours a night, it's how he relaxes and it doesn't worry me at all.

southbucks77 · 10/06/2018 22:33

I knew a 12 year old who got an abscess on the bottom of his spine after playing a game all day whilst his parents were at work. They were good parents leaving him during the summer holidays for the first time after he started secondary school. These games are addictive!

HicDraconis · 10/06/2018 22:34

Not a Mail link - Sydney Morning Herald

My boys are 10 and 12, I’m not going to let them play it at all. They have plenty of other screen things to do (we play WoW sometimes as a family group) and there’s no need for this to take over their lives.

@Metoodear - according to this article, your son should go 90 days cold turkey. It isn’t likely to be pleasant.

Thesearepearls · 10/06/2018 22:35

YY you are right. WOW was one for the PC wasn't it? There were a number of these games that were worrying. Grand Theft Auto was one

Notcontent · 10/06/2018 22:36

Sugar - out of interest, if your son does sports clubs, homework and then plays for three hours, what time does he go to bed?

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Metoodear · 10/06/2018 22:36

No he’s 18 just wanted to know if I should be worried

He has MH issues and is on anti depressants we had a lot of issues with him not leaving his room for months last year
Not even to go to the toilet 🙁

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Tessliketrees · 10/06/2018 22:37

@Thesearepearls

WoW is not really in the same league as GTA. WoW is very cartoony good vs evil type thing. It is like crack though.

I find some of the posts on this thread to be a tad hysterical (not directed at you Pearl just didn't want to double post).

Tessliketrees · 10/06/2018 22:42

@Metoodear

That's rough, I can understand your concern. I would be wondering if the game was keeping him in his room or if it was just providing him with something to do while he was there.

Hope things get better for you and your DS.

ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo · 10/06/2018 22:44

I knew it would be fortnite before I opened the thread. Massive issue in this house. I got rid of the PS4. Peace has been restored. It’s not coming back. Loads of people having problems with this game. Loads.

Tessliketrees · 10/06/2018 22:46

I just think the novelty will wear off. They will get bored. Same as they did with Pokemon Go, Minecraft, Match Attacks and whatever other thing they were obsessed with.

MargotLovedTom1 · 10/06/2018 22:49

He didn't leave his room to go to the toilet?!

Unfortunately as he's 18 it's harder to impose restrictions and sanctions. I've removed access to the Xbox for my pre-teen dc as they would play this far too much, to the detriment of any other activities.

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Metoodear · 11/06/2018 06:53

MargotLovedTom1

He was weeing into bottles

Hence why he was straight down the GP when we discoved he was doing this amoung other things

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Metoodear · 11/06/2018 06:55

Tessliketrees.

It was a year ago and we have had a massive turn around really the gp chams and the pills worked wonders and it wasn’t the ganging itself but they didn’t help if you see what I mean

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 11/06/2018 06:55

I knew it was this . Before I even read thread . I had a real angry reaction when I took it off my 10 year old last night .

It’s like heroin Sad