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Pandemic Lockdowns Fueled Massive Rise
in Gaming and Addiction, Experts Say

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Posted By: earlybird, 12/15/2021 5:10:04 PM

During the pandemic, nationwide stay-at-home orders handed gaming companies a golden opportunity. Under restrictive nationwide COVID-19 lockdowns, for many people gaming was one of the few active recreations, social activities, and creative outlets available. From 2020 to 2021, revenue for gaming companies skyrocketed. Games corporation Blizzard saw revenues on the first-person shooter game Call of Duty rise by 72 percent, the massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORG) World of Warcraft by 7 percent, and apps by subsidiary company King rise by 22 percent. Chinese gaming company Tencent saw its total revenue rise by 25 percent in the same timeframe.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: LadyHen 12/15/2021 5:39:13 PM (No. 1008314)
As a middle aged female (home schooling mom) gamer of close to 20 years now, I am curious as to why my hobby is somehow worse than sitting on your butt all day watching TV? No one ever writes articles about how people have been sitting in front of the non-interactive boob tube for generations. I guess it is just easier to demonize something YOU don't do. At least while gaming in the evening when I get some free time, I must use my mind while exploring or problem solving, communicating via Discord (that is live rt voice chat) with team mates and long time friends to defeat either bosses or an enemy team of of real live players. Playing games is fun and keeps my brain fresh.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: SALady 12/15/2021 5:42:50 PM (No. 1008319)
A man in his mid-20's at church confessed to a very bad porn addiction that he developed during the lockdowns. He said that he had never watched porn before that, as he had a busy and satisfying life and was really involved at church. But with even churches locked down, the Internet was pretty much all he had for months, since he worked at home and there was nowhere to go when he wasn't working. And Satan is really good at putting that temptation in your face constantly given the opportunity. He was genuinely devastated by what had happened to him, and we have been praying for him. Any time you get Satan and Demon-Rat politicians involved in making the rules, lots of evil is going to happen -- even to good people. FJB!!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JackBurton 12/15/2021 7:09:32 PM (No. 1008394)
There was a preacher in, I think, Alberta who got thrown in jail for violating lockdowns by holding services. I read all the stats. Covid was, and is, less of a threat to my immortal soul than missing church. I thought, at the time, that the problem wasn't that ONE preacher was jailed for doing this... but 10,000 WEREN'T. I'm not the only one to think that. See https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/covid19_and_the_smoke_of_satan.html
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 12/15/2021 7:18:53 PM (No. 1008405)
Been playing World of Warcraft since 2012. I enjoy it but have cut back my game time by at least 50% lately. I have put enough hours in the game. During the lockdown, it was not unusual to have 20-40 other players online at the same time in the guild. It's died off in the last 6 months though since the lockdown is over, and people are waiting for new content. Most of the time. I play solo. It's quite difficult to get ten people to commit to running something at the same time that play well together. World of Warcraft isn't the only game I play. I also play truck driving simulators which I enjoy immensely. Not online. Been playing them longer than World of Warcraft.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 12/15/2021 9:28:54 PM (No. 1008484)
People really need to "get a life".
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Reply 6 - Posted by: chumley 12/16/2021 12:43:22 AM (No. 1008561)
In the late 90's and early 2000's I played a LOT of Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke Nukem, Heretic, and a few others. Started scaring myself with the amount of time I was wasting, with no upside to it at all. Havent played such a game in over a decade and dont miss it. Its very easy to get hooked on it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: YorkieMom 12/16/2021 12:46:16 AM (No. 1008562)
This pandemic has been handled wrong from the beginning. Quarantines should have been only for the older, more vulnerable people and let the rest of us carry on by using common sense. It would have been over before now. Thanks Lord Fauci. FTF
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Reply 8 - Posted by: columba 12/16/2021 11:38:25 AM (No. 1009055)
With a pretend President and criminal appointees we as a nation went ahead as usual. What we found was that a "bad tree produces no good fruit." Look it up on the net and find the source of the saying.
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