Bah. Everyone knows that true sociopaths play EVE.
Is there any opportunity the MSM doesn't take to show their bias and hatred?
LMFAO! I played EVE for over a year and had numerous very curious interactions with other players. It's a VERY different online world than most. I actually had a very hot debate with a co-worker about how EVE promotes "evil hyper-capitalism." Of course, when asked if regular, non-hyper-capitalism was acceptable, his answer was a definitive, "No."
I did a boatload of day trading on EVE and made my corp a TON of money. It's very easy to learn but nearly impossible to master. We have corp directors who were in the game since the beginning who lamented the time lost, but it is truly an immersive universe and requires a lot of maintenance outside of the skill tree growth, which is awesome, I must say.
This Brevik idiot is using WoW as a canard. I've played WoW for years, and I know people who use it to escape reality for a few hours like I used to escape reality in a bottle. I also know people who LIVE in WoW and can do nothing but talk about it in the real world. They LIVE in WoW and simply occupy the real world. They are not, however, psychotic.
Blizzard, at the height of WoW-mania, had over 12 million subscribers. To say that one man out of 12 million is a psychopath would be a pretty comfortable assessment just given the sample size, but to say that there are 12 million Brevik's out there is ludicrous on its face.
Look at South Korea if you want an example of how society is impacted by gaming. StarCraft is a NATIONAL SPORT in South Korea. The best StarCraft/StarCraft II players in the world are from South Korea. If you play against a South Korean in a tournament, you literally face a greater than 99% chance that you WILL lose. The government promotes e-sports.
Video games are not the problem. They weren't the problem 25 years ago when Nintendo released its first console, and they're not a problem now with video games being more prolific than television shows.