Comments on: Break Your Video Gaming Addiction The Easy Way

By: luvieere

luvieere — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:59:26 +0000

I think the best way to cure an addiction is to replace it with another, more tempting one. The only way I give an addictive game up is by replacing it with a worthier successor.

Take the GTA series, for example: walkthroughs, cheats, trainers, they all are mere steps towards a more addictive gaming experience, that make me enjoy the game more and more, in different ways than the day before using them. The only cure for this addiction is the moment I find a new, more appealing game to play. To me, only when a game becomes obsolete compared to another, more recent and more attractive one, do I give it up.

So the funny thing is, not only do I like having a gaming addiction, I actually like improving the experience, as to get even more kick from the same amount of play time, by using walkthroughs, cheats, trainers and constantly upgrading the game, in order to explore it in different ways than before.

In my opinion, using cheats doesn’t at all ruin the gaming experience, it actually enhances it – it’s just like turbocharging a car – makes it twice more fun!

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:26:39 +0000

Lol im addicted to combat arms

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:46:04 +0000

Weaning yourself off gaming slowly is certainly sound advice. This doesn’t just apply to gaming, it is an age-old method that works well when you need to give something up. All it requires is a little willpower, but certainly much less than going cold turkey.

By: unkown

unkown — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:40:15 +0000

well there is no cure for multi-player games like lets say combat arms i was addicted to that game just recently but i had to stop and i did by lowering the hours of how much i played each day, it was hard but i did it even though i stopped in a couple weeks so it was a fast method but now I’m in high school and hang out with friends and went back to my hobby of being a programmer and now i play around with adobe flash and photoshop a couple hours a day which is fun for me. try lowering how much you play a day by half an hour each day and hopefully you’ll stop playing eventually. :)

By: Mido

Mido — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:37:50 +0000

only cure for MMORPGs (example: Tales of Pirates) is will power…
not sure about others.

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:09:24 +0000

I don’t have a problem.

I can quit anytime I want to.

*twitch, twitch*

It’ll be an interesting reading when I find a MMOPRG cure.

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:32:10 +0000

More like cure for work addiction ;)

By: Priest

Priest — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:29:29 +0000

There is no cure for World of Warcraft. None.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:46:20 +0000

There’s another method I’ve found that works very well – but it relies on willpower (something which is often lacking when it comes to any addiction). The following 2 step program has worked for me on a number of occasions:

Uninstall the game – the purpose of this step is to make playing the game harder. Unless you’re willing to wait an hour waiting for a re-install, you’ll be less likely to start playing the game. But there’s still incentive to do this, and that’s where step 2 saves the day
Delete your progress/saved games – often the greatest part of the addiction is that you are getting near the end, and you’ve already progressed so far. Take that away, and you’ve removed much of your motivation to keep going back to the game. Unless your addiction is very bad, you’re not going to reinvest another 100 hours of your life to just get back to where you were before. (for multi-player online games, the equivalent step 2 action is to cancel your account)

So far this has saved me from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and more recently, Spore, which was not quite an addiction, but half way there.

And though you only touched on it in your post Al, getting an account banned for “cheating” has broken the addiction of many a WoW-crack addiction.

By: Sayz Lim

Sayz Lim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:35:32 +0000

LOL, the discoverer stumbled this post down, but most of the people like it.

And I like it too, good post…