Dad Hires In-Game ‘Assassins” to Discourage Son’s Gaming Habit
Frustrated by his adult son’s incessant gaming habit, a man in China reportedly hired a number of in-game master “hitmen” to annihilate his son’s avatar over and over again in an attempt to deter him from playing.
Upset that his son, 23, has been playing games instead of looking for employment, the father concocted a scheme to discourage the young man’s love for games. He hired a number of online assassins — always more accomplished and stronger than his son’s avatar — to kill off the young man every time he logged on to play.
Apparently this dad is not the only parent in China who has resorted to extreme measures to respond to an overzealous gaming habit.
According to a 2009 Popular Science report, video game addiction bootcamps have become popular among some Chinese parents who believe that sending their kids to treatment programs staffed by soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army will help them overcome their Internet addictions.
Ingenious or overkill? What do you think of this dad’s plot to get his son off the computer?
Source: Huffingtonpost.com
