Swedish Teen Collapses After Too Much Lich King
Hot on the heels of stories that it took just over a day for the first reach level 80 [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/] comes news that it took less than a week for Wrath of the Lich King to just about kill its first player.
So says the English-language Swedish news site WoW [http://www.thelocal.se/15742/20081117/]-fest, but the experience proved too much for him; around 2:00 pm on Sunday he collapsed and went into convulsions in what looked like an epileptic seizure.
"They played all day and all night," the boy's father said. "Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers."
The teenager was taken to hospital by ambulance, where doctors determined that his body had been thrown of out of whack by "a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food, and too long a stretch of concentrated game playing." He is expected to make a complete recovery, although his gaming time might not bounce back so quickly; his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son can spend playing the game. Reports that World of Warcraft players from France are laughing and pointing in the general direction of Sweden remain unconfirmed.
via: GamePolitics [http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/11/17/swedish-teen-collapses-after-lich-king-binge]
Permalink
Hot on the heels of stories that it took just over a day for the first reach level 80 [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/] comes news that it took less than a week for Wrath of the Lich King to just about kill its first player.
So says the English-language Swedish news site WoW [http://www.thelocal.se/15742/20081117/]-fest, but the experience proved too much for him; around 2:00 pm on Sunday he collapsed and went into convulsions in what looked like an epileptic seizure.
"They played all day and all night," the boy's father said. "Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers."
The teenager was taken to hospital by ambulance, where doctors determined that his body had been thrown of out of whack by "a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food, and too long a stretch of concentrated game playing." He is expected to make a complete recovery, although his gaming time might not bounce back so quickly; his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son can spend playing the game. Reports that World of Warcraft players from France are laughing and pointing in the general direction of Sweden remain unconfirmed.
via: GamePolitics [http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/11/17/swedish-teen-collapses-after-lich-king-binge]
Permalink
Notice how none of his mates collapsed, this guy is obviously not built for hardcore gaming 
