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Gogan

01-08-2014 02:25 PM

Clash of Clans

Interesting article about the (former) #1 player in Clash of Clans, but could easily apply to PAD or Hello Hero, etc:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/te...pagewanted=all

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Looking back, I think I must have been insane

Blake

01-08-2014 04:24 PM

good read. sounds familiar.

i liked this part

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When a guy like George Yao can plow through an anesthetizing day of mortgage regulations only to return at night to a digital fraternity where he is loved and celebrated, with friends who share his daily experience, who’s to say which is real and which is illusory? If a game can make you famous, if it can yield genuine friendships and even a new career, then why shouldn’t it become, at least for a time, the epicenter of your life?

Gogan

01-08-2014 05:01 PM

Yeah, that's a good quote. I of course agree with it. George Yao definitely took it to another level though. Clash wasn't just at the "epicenter" of his life; it was a full-fledged obsession/addiction:

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At one point, he was bringing five iPads into the shower with him, each wrapped in a plastic bag, so that none of his accounts would go inactive.

LOL

Yooxra

01-08-2014 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Gogan (Post 85843)

Sounds like the good ole days.

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