Online Gamer Dies After 3 Day Online Marathon
A 30 year-old Chinese internet user dropped dead after a three day online marathon at a local cybercafe.
The man collapsed at his computer and medical personnel were not able to revive him.
“According to preliminary findings, the length of time this man spent online might have triggered heart problems,” the paper quoted a local hospital emergency medic in the city of Zhongshan as saying.
China’s government has taken steps to combat the online problem by offering warnings within the games as well as asking online gaming sites to deduct points from gamers who play too long.
Although with companies willing to let their players pay their monthly fees by donating blood, it is likely to get worse before getting better.
Earlier this year in February, a 26 year-old obese gamer died in a similar situation and caused an outbreak of concern in China.
(Yahoo)
Did he drop any good loot?
holy crap… thats the best comment i’ve seen all day… nice haxor
Brilliant…. Cool,…. Legend…. The Sword of a thousand truths ;ð_ð:
give me the sword!
Hahahahahah!
That has got to be the best comment I have ever seen.
I almost peed my pants laughing
He dropped an Epic Ramen Cooker of Leetsauce. Quite rare.
Aye, but it was Bind on Pickup. FTL ;-(
But it is totally sad that someone has to die from this type of addiction.
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How can you not know?
comment of the year.. definitly!
Been done on the WoW forums soooo long ago.
so have you!
unoriginal comment. there was a myspace page of a gamer who died, awhile back, his brother put up a message notifying the gamers friends of his demise, the first reply post said the same thing.
This is the internet, we don’t take kindly to the word ‘unoriginal’ (just look at the swathes of pathetic inbred blogs out there).
We call ‘em memes.
Still, hella funny!!!
The “drop any good loot?” comment was ripped from the WoW forums.
LOL
I heard he dropped SOJS
ROFL LMAO!
grats you copied someone and pretended like its your own….. seriously faggot wtf.
ack!
dye –> die
Tell us what game he was playing, or it didn’t happen.
And I’m also interested in what epics would make one stay online for 3 days.
LOL, Can you be effing serious? this has GOT to be the funniest thing ive seen in months. i mean, dont get me wrong, death isnt cool. but you mean to tell me that this guy played video games for 3 days strait, then keeled over at his keyboard dead? maybe he took the blue pill…….
Another Darwin Award Winner!
What they didn’t tell you…
He was playing FreeCell.
he was playing pacman!!
It could happen. From sitting so long, there is chance of a thrombosis to occur and it blocks an artery and then your going to have a heart attack or stroke. Its the reason that you see suggestions of walking on a plane if your going to be on there for a long flight.
Any nurses or doctors around to enlighten us.
its likely that he could have had a deep venous thrombosis, leading to a pulmonary embolism…less likely to actually cause an MI or stroke…but i’ve seen stranger things happen.
I agree that we need the name of what he was playing, otherwise the title of “Online Gamer” is bunk.
I don’t understand the goal of a gaming marathon.
obviously AV weekend
he wasnt playing a game…. he was a myspace whore.
prolly from the radiation off those old crts
Screenshot or it didn´t happend…
Man, I would love to be the person has to come up with what to say on that gravestone. The possibilities are endless!
ROFLSKATES!!!!!!11
damn n000b sausage got pwned by h34r7 pr0bl3m5 eh…
hahah
NOT SO L33T NOW ARE YA LAMESAUCE
chinese ppl have no life .. and halo sucks
i’m in ur internet cafez, lootin all ur corpsez
roflpwnd!
Heres the original that haxor ripped the comment.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8026/cccccccccccuo2.gif
Game Over
“He died doing what he loved, “pwnzoring nooobs.”
I bet he died from playing minesweeper, I died during that game once, But my friend came over and used revive on me, so it was ok.
Another Chinese Farmer Bites the Dust! One less ad being spammed in game Woohoo!
Now back to ganking the farmers.
the blue screen of death.
drops came from diablo, noonbobnobnbo
diablo 4 lyfe
Talk about hardcore gamer….
Sum Dum Guy
Man, they gotta do something about this online addiction thing. Still, what game was it? The article didn’t say anything.
Crazy man…. =(
/afk permanently
gg
sheez
I’m more unimpressed with the comments here than the actual article, because people look at this thing in a very ignorant way. Deaths due to gaming are already getting common, and is a problem in that nation as people seek for virtual worlds as a refuge from life and work pressure. It’s already an ugly aspect of the Internet already and you guys keep on making fun out of it.
Oh my god. ppl make fun out of it cos its a dawin award winner, who cares what game, idiots that sit in front of a comp for that long are………well, due to drop some loot…..fuckin great line
ive stayed up 2 days, on the second around the afternoon you feel really really weird, like when you pick something up your riding on a roller coaster and you can see around your head idk its just really weird.
Who knows what really caused it. Maybe that Immortal Kings Soul Cage eventually dropped from Baal. :shrug:
GAME OVER
New Highscore!!
hmm shoulda shouted something like “reviving potion”
maybe the guy will jump back up
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LMAO. these otakus freak me out!! O_O
He’s noob! Probably forgot to buy pots and were out of them….
or he played the world and met aura 0.0 I wonder…
What the hell??? a game is no more then a life…