http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Craig-Smallwood-Lawsuit-Lineage-II-Law,11139.html just saw this on palit's facebook.. be funny if he won
Junkie logic. It's always somebody else's fault. God forbid that he should actually take responsibility for his own behaviour. I hope he fails miserably. If he succeeds, we'll have another reinforcement of people not setting boundaries on themselves and not being self-disciplined but a bunch of whiney irresponsible children with a sense of overentitlement.
LOL. What a knob. He's clearly capable of eating, sleeping, going to the toilet etc, so how can the game allow him to do these activities, and not have a quick shower, and sling on a t-shirt. I hope everyone in court just stand up, points, and laughs... that would be funny Funny how someone capable of tearing himself away from the game for long enough to discuss this with a lawyer in enough detail to formulate a lawsuit can't even dress himself or talk to his parents. Nexxo blaims junkie culture; I blame claim culture. People just look for ways to extract cash from others without actually getting off their fat arses to work for it.
Precisely, if he's that bothered about it to try sue someone why not just delete the account, uninstall the game and snap the disc.
This. If he won, he probably would spend his time playing the game as he won't need to work for the money to carry on.
What would be really funny is if NCSoft just banned his IP and then won the case meaning he was charged all court costs for the privilage of being banned. What an idiot.
Yes, he's a knob for trying to sue a games dev for this. You know what makes him an even bigger, gullible knob? 20,000 hours of gaming in 5 years. HE did that, not the game. I've been playing CS:S among other games for almost 6 years now (since release) and have, in that time, logged the vast majority of my playing time on CS:S and other games. I've missed a few hours here and there where Xfire hasn't logged my play time but we're talking 20-30 hours MAX in the whole time I've been playing. There were about two years when I was a very active CS player, 2006 and 2007. When I say very active I mean I tried to play at least two hours per day every day to keep my reactions and aim sharp and quick enough to compete with other players of a higher skill level and to try and stay a the top of the clan. I couldn't do this, obviously. There were weeks when I was away on holiday and couldn't play at all... days when I had a long day at uni or work and was too tired to play. Nights when I went out with friends instead of staying home and practicing for 2-3 hours. I still managed to put in plenty of time on the game though, easily as much and often more than any of the other players in my clan or community at the time. Of course, I am much busier now than I was back then, and I haven't put in 60 hours in a month for about 2 years now... but I can still stand up and admit that I have spent a lot of time gaming. My total gaming hours (including CS:S and all other games) to date? 2393. In SIX years. And I consider that a lot. 20,000 in five years is inconceivable. Especially when it's on the same game. Of course he doesn't have any proof that this is an exact figure... but when you're talking about 5 figure numbers of hours in a 5 year period... It's easy to see that this kid has issues.
Umm. If you do some calculations. 5 years of 365 days is 1825. 20,000 hours divided by 1825 is 10.95 hours a day. I don't really think that it is humanly possible :s
of course its possible if you're an addict i work 8hrs a day, and then game for a couple in the evening assuming he doesnt work and is addicted, he'll only need 8hrs sleep + 2hrs eating, bathing leaves 14hrs of gaming if anything, it shows restraint from an addict
I've known WOW players to do 3 day and 4 day stints on a regular basis, so this is nothing new. However, this does bring up images of the South Park episode of Make Love not Warcraft. What an r-tard. People should be responsible for themselves. Muppet's like this just make me angry. The thing is it took 5 YEARS to get to the point of "What have I done with my life"
more likely took him 5 years of thinking "If only i could get paid for this..." Then one morning a lightbulb went off "aha, sueing people" I get the whole wanting to make money with little effort (hell who doesn't want that) But what happened to doing it cleverly, stockmarkets, buying things cheap and selling them on ebay and stuff. If i was NCsoft, I'd just offer to pay to send him to one of those gamer rehab clinics and leave it at that.
in 20,000 hours he could have gone pro at CS:S and made some money from tournaments and sponsorships, instead of levelling his avatar up for absolutely no reason other than to say he's done it Not an MMO fan Can you tell?
20,000 hours on an MMO? Really? I can't even be bothered with 10. Someone needs to take this guys PC and kick him the **** out of the house
