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Chinese Man Dies Playing Online Games

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Beijing, China (AHN) - A Chinese man died of sheer "exhaustion" after apparently playing an online game for three consecutive days.

The 30 year-old man from the south China province of Guangzhou suddenly collapsed in front of his computer and was rushed to hospital, reports in Beijing News said, adding that doctors were unable to recover him.

"According to preliminary findings, the length of time this man spent online might have triggered heart problems," the newspaper paper said without revealing the name of the man or the Internet cafe from where he was playing.

"Police have ruled out the possibility of suicide," the newspaper said. The paper also blamed "exhaustion" as the most likely cause of death.

It is not the first case of death linked to prolonged Internet use in China. Earlier this year Xu Yan, a local teacher from Jinzhou in Liaoning province, collapsed after spending almost 15 days playing online games.

The Chinese government is taking strict steps to control the Internet addiction in the country. One such step included a "game fatigue system" introduced in April that docks gamers under the age of 18 who remain online for longer than three hours per session.

Also, a ban has been issued on the opening of new Internet cafes in China including orders to limit the time Internet users can spend gaming online.

Beijing News didn't report what game he was playing at the time of his death.

Online gaming in China represents one of the largest and fasted growing Internet business sectors in the country. With 137 million Internet users currently active in the PRC, the country now has the second largest online user base in world, second only to the United States of America.

According to statistics provided by the China Internet Network Information Center, as of January 2007 31 million Chinese Internet users engage in some form of online game play.

The average online gamer in China is relatively young (18 to 30 years old), male, and has at least completed a secondary level of education. Demographically the online gaming user base in China is very similar to base of China Internet users, most of whom live in larger cities.

I'm sorry if this has has been brought up before. It's the first I've heard of anything like it. I mean, who plays a game so long that they literally die of exhaustion? Wouldn't your bodies's basic physical needs get the better of you at some point? Hunger? Dehydration? The need for sleep? How does one just ignore those things?

Whatever game he was playing, it must have been damn amazing.

It happened again! Yay!

In all seriousness, they're addicted. They're obsessed. When you put it in those terms, it's not that far-fetched.

In the words of a particular Winchester boy, it's "like the rat that keeps hitting the pleasure button instead of the food button until it dies."

I can firmly believe that's happened.

If people in Korea will get the crap beaten out of them over a game, then someone else in the world can die from just playing a game too much.
No matter what the game, the people just need to learn how to control themselves and realize that in the end - IT'S JUST A GAME.

See we got Video games in moderation...they got them all at once...the key is moderation.

and after fifteen days of playing you'd think that they'd have leveled up enough...right? Time for a break

The thing that bothers me so much is how much you hear about these stories. It seems like every couple months, someone keels over because they were playing too long. You'd think that people would take the hint.

I laugh at the obbsesed people for their idoicy, then feel bad for their family. Not the dead obssed gamer, but his family if he has one. People need to seriously get a hint.

Makes my recent re-addiction to Neopets seem okay. :o

Yeah, I can't imagine there being any game that I would want to play for three straight days. But everyone knows that Americans have no attention spans these days.

I have spent many a weekend just sitting on my ass, deep in the bowels of my keep, but even I know to sleep for a few hours and eat every now and then... and bathe...

hmm, this one isn't as bad as the north american 16 year old who killed himself by playing starcraft for 16 days. I understand he was at the point of pissing into Mountain dew bottles to avoid having to leave the computer.