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)
By Aki Nakimura on 16-09-2007
Comment by PC Haxor
September 17th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Did he drop any good loot?
Comment by logan
September 17th, 2007 at 11:45 am
ack!
dye –> die
Comment by Jesse
September 17th, 2007 at 11:46 am
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.
Comment by klix
September 17th, 2007 at 11:56 am
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…….
Comment by Paul M
September 17th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Another Darwin Award Winner!
Comment by The Reaper
September 17th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
What they didn’t tell you…
He was playing FreeCell.
Comment by Andres
September 17th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
he was playing pacman!!
Comment by Kevin
September 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
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.
Comment by Monk
September 17th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I agree that we need the name of what he was playing, otherwise the title of “Online Gamer” is bunk.
Comment by Charles
September 17th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I don’t understand the goal of a gaming marathon.
Comment by hyphycore
September 17th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
he wasnt playing a game…. he was a myspace whore.
Comment by ogg
September 17th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
prolly from the radiation off those old crts
Comment by zomg1334
September 17th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
holy crap… thats the best comment i’ve seen all day… nice haxor
Comment by Siriquelle
September 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Brilliant…. Cool,…. Legend…. The Sword of a thousand truths ;ð_ð:
Comment by Random Passerby
September 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Hahahahahah!
Comment by segway
September 17th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Screenshot or it didn´t happend…
Comment by MattyC
September 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Man, I would love to be the person has to come up with what to say on that gravestone. The possibilities are endless!
Comment by The Lone Iguana
September 17th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
ROFLSKATES!!!!!!11
Comment by DANK SUCKSMYBALLS
September 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
damn n000b sausage got pwned by h34r7 pr0bl3m5 eh…
hahah
NOT SO L33T NOW ARE YA LAMESAUCE
Comment by ablumablagada abuhaituishwasha
September 17th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
chinese ppl have no life .. and halo sucks
Comment by Spiro
September 17th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
That has got to be the best comment I have ever seen.
Comment by Spiro
September 17th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I almost peed my pants laughing
Comment by Frag0holic
September 17th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
He dropped an Epic Ramen Cooker of Leetsauce. Quite rare.
Comment by logan
September 17th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
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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Comment by stephen
September 17th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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.
Comment by XeLL
September 17th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
comment of the year.. definitly!
Comment by Etrigan
September 17th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
i’m in ur internet cafez, lootin all ur corpsez
Comment by Magdelene
September 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
roflpwnd!
Comment by john
September 17th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Been done on the WoW forums soooo long ago.
Comment by me
September 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
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.
Comment by Kryhs
September 17th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
The “drop any good loot?” comment was ripped from the WoW forums.
Comment by The Internet
September 17th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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!!!
Comment by Kevinin
September 17th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
LOL
Comment by Kata
September 17th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I heard he dropped SOJS
Comment by zap
September 17th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Heres the original that haxor ripped the comment.
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8026/cccccccccccuo2.gif
Comment by Thoosje
September 17th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Game Over
Comment by Funsize
September 17th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
“He died doing what he loved, “pwnzoring nooobs.”
Comment by Kurt
September 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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.
Comment by Apollyon
September 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Another Chinese Farmer Bites the Dust! One less ad being spammed in game Woohoo!
Now back to ganking the farmers.
Comment by darkwing duck
September 17th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
the blue screen of death.
Comment by mike
September 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
obviously AV weekend
Comment by killgore
September 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
drops came from diablo, noonbobnobnbo
diablo 4 lyfe
Comment by Halo 3 Blog
September 17th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Talk about hardcore gamer….
Comment by Dave Greiman
September 17th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Sum Dum Guy
Comment by gee-man
September 18th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Man, they gotta do something about this online addiction thing. Still, what game was it? The article didn’t say anything.
Comment by sensesFail
September 18th, 2007 at 6:18 am
ROFL LMAO!
Comment by mikolka
September 18th, 2007 at 6:46 am
Crazy man…. =(
Comment by deadsilence
September 18th, 2007 at 7:52 am
/afk permanently
Comment by Dave
September 18th, 2007 at 9:48 am
gg
Comment by aldrin
September 18th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
sheez
Comment by HolyRoman
September 18th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
give me the sword!
Comment by jayne
September 19th, 2007 at 4:36 am
so have you!
Comment by Q
September 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
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.
Comment by Vegas_man
September 19th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
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
Comment by mixand
September 19th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
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.
Comment by madHatter001
September 19th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Who knows what really caused it. Maybe that Immortal Kings Soul Cage eventually dropped from Baal. :shrug:
Comment by sp3ct0r
September 20th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
GAME OVER
New Highscore!!
Comment by jkjk
September 21st, 2007 at 10:25 am
hmm shoulda shouted something like “reviving potion”
maybe the guy will jump back up
Comment by jhzgmu vltpzixsb
October 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
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Comment by anonymousgirl
October 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
LMAO. these otakus freak me out!! O_O
Comment by nekoboy
November 6th, 2007 at 8:08 am
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…
Comment by vernes
November 14th, 2007 at 4:24 am
First sign:
Not clicking on a “Top Ten Signs You need a break from gaming” link because you already know you’re addicted.
In my opinion, Tests for checking if you’re addicted to gaming is like doing a test to check you’re on fire or not.
How can you not know?
Comment by raj
January 8th, 2008 at 5:07 am
What the hell??? a game is no more then a life…
Comment by krud
June 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
grats you copied someone and pretended like its your own….. seriously faggot wtf.
Comment by werk
July 19th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Natural selection. Improving the gene pool – one idiot at a time.