1. Video Game Addiction Does Exist!
By : Spates, Kelly

3. Main Points: Determine the different levels of game playing
Games that are more likely to addicting
Signs of addiction
Reasons why video game addiction is bad
Controlling the problem

4. The different levels of game playing
How long does someone have to play in order to become addicted?
Everyone’s different

5. Game types that are more likely to addicting
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG)
Never Ending
“With more than 11.5 million monthly subscriptions, World of Warcraft is currently the world's most-subscribed MMORPG and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG by subscribers.”
“In a 2005 Tom's Games interview, Dr. Maressa Orzack estimated that 40% of the players of World of Warcraft (an MMORPG) were addicted”

6. Signs of addiction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBSvZMkjic
Starting at (5:02)

7. Reasons why video game addiction is bad
“In 2008, one of the 5 FCC Commissioners, Deborah Taylor Tate, stated that online gaming addiction was ‘one of the top reasons for college drop-outs’.”
Diablo 2 Addiction…

8. Controlling the problem
Limit the amount of time you play.
One example:
“The government of the People's Republic of China, where more than 20 million people play online games, introduced an online gaming restriction limiting playing time to 3 hours, after which the player would be expelled from whichever game they were playing.”

9. Main Idea Different Levels game playing Addictive traits in games
Signs of addiction
Reasons why video game addiction is bad
Ways to control the problem
Overall Point
Video game addiction does happen to people all over the world.

10. Works Cited
"Video Game Addiction." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 06 Nov <
Video game addiction." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 04 Nov <
YouTube/ World of Warcraft Video Game Addiction Documentary. Vroxitsa. Web. 6 Nov <