Man dies in Taiwan after 40-hour Diablo III marathon
By Tim Colwill on July 18, 2012 at 7:16 pm
A 18-year old man entered an internet cafe in southern Taiwan around noon on Friday, booked a private room to play Diablo III, and then sat down and played the game for 40 hours straight. Upon being roused by a cafe employee some time on Sunday morning, he promptly collapsed and was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Blizzard has released a statement on the matter, saying “We’re saddened to hear this news, and our thoughts are with his family and friends during this difficult time. We don’t feel it would be appropriate for us to comment further without knowing all of the circumstances involved.”
“While we recognize that it’s ultimately up to each individual or their parent or guardian to determine playing habits, we feel that moderation is clearly important, and that a person’s day-to-day life should take precedence over any form of entertainment.”
The AAP is reporting that this is the second death in Taiwan from unhealthy videogaming habits this year. If you’re reading this and you haven’t stood up and moved around in a few hours, maybe you should consider doing that. We’ll be here when you get back.
Source: Gamespot
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I suspect sitting in a chair and not sleeping for 40 hours straight for any reason, not just video games, isn’t a good idea.
must’ve been playing hardcore mode.
Ah video gaming, good ole scapegoat.
The global gene pool gets one person healthier
Doing most things for 40 hours straight would kill you.
darknode,
They weren’t really blaming Video Games but just said what he was doing.
his body decided to error 37
As bad as it sounds, hopefully things like this help kill D3 faster because it was one hell of a failure…
an 18year old man? more like an 18 year old wuss, who the hell dies from only 40hrs of sitting in a chair…
makena,
This is nothing, a mate and i set a personal record of 75hours straight :3 We had a Halo legendary marathon when Halo Anniversary came out. Oddly enough we played the series backwards and when at Halo2 i stopped and said “Wait why are we playing halo2? we don’t get any achievements” mate just shrugged and we continued.
I’m glad i managed to break off from Achievement hunting and convert fully to PC gaming, honestly feels better for my health… That’s not saying much though Lol.
theoriginaldaniel,
That’s not really countering my point lol :D
I’ve done some long stupid sessions in my time, but I guess I always stopped before I did permanent harm to myself.
Lots of people do… blood clots and all that.
I think shlaimon is either trolling or completely ignorant. Can’t tell which one though…
Marius,
bloodclots to their feet?
Please tell me you’ve heard of deep vein thrombosis…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis
I came in here to say that.
Damn you.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m so glad that I got over the whole grind-a-thon flavour of gaming. Life is too short to be dedicating so much time to something that in the end yields very little merit. I guess in some cases your life can become even shorter…
Jeez, talk about an unhealthy lifestyle. I mean I’m not exactly a healthy person myself, but 40+ hours of just sitting there playing? thank god i have low attention span.
Heard this on Triple J this morning too, apparently he stood up, took 3 steps then just collapsed. I’m going with the blood clot on that.
Apparently way too short for this guy. I can imagine much more entertaining ways of dieing. And at a much older age… <_<
As Ralph pointed out, it’s DVT. What happens is if you don’t move for a long period of time, your veins can clot up. The clot moves from the legs to the lungs resulting in death.
He would be lucky if it was a blood clot to his lungs. Lungs will kill you, brain or heart will just give you a massive stroke. You’d be alive but no more responsive then a vegetable.
Still, DVT or not I would say this man had some other underlying condition. 40 hours would mean he had to have gone to the bathroom at some stage unless he was imitating the Sniper from TF2 with his own jarate jar.
Just because the cafe staff didn’t seem him move doesn’t mean he didn’t get up for pee breaks, it’s the old tree in a forest situation.
I assume we’re all clear on the fact that a man died, aren’t we? While we’re all hear cracking jokes at his expense, that is.
huh. i didn’t even know this was here and made a post about it this morning in the diablo forum :P
Bicketybam,
It’s almost impossible for a blood clot to move from the legs into the coronary arteries or the brain. It would first have to pass through the pulmonary circulation in which the vessels become very small before opening again into the left side of the heart. This is why lung clots (pulmonary embolisms) are far more common and likely.
Emboli that affect the heart or brain more commonly form in the left side of the heart itself, usually due disturbed flow secondary to valvular problems or arrhythmias.
What a shitty game to die to. Very sad.
Tell that to my sister whom was hospitalised for several months after getting a clot from the lower thigh all the way up to around about the middle of her stomach
It can and occasionally very well start in the legs and travel upwards.
What’s entertaining to one man is boring to another.
As if you die playing a fuckin’ video game… to play for 40 hours your life must not be that great in the first place, but to die playing it ? Man god hated that guy when he created him…. LOL