Hardcore gamers, the brain, and MRIs.

[Deleted]

did you read it or what? it states 30 mins per day over 8 weeks, not hours at a time.

The study points towards minimum gameplay per day, while the thread is about hardcore gamers. The OP made very little sense to begin with, so there's no need to get butthurt over nothing.

[Bigbazz]

30 mins per day is not a hardcore gamer though, that is a very casual gamer and very common among everyday non gamer folks (phone games). I know a lot of people who don't consider them gamers at all, but who play games on their phone on a daily basis for some ammount of time. A hardcore gamer is someone who often plays for hours daily. I've never had an MRI scan so can't help with the OP.

[Deleted]

A lot of hardcore gamers make 10x more money than the regular shmuck who works a job he doesn't care about, just by playing games, being good at them, and having a charismatic personality. How is that not smart?

By "A lot" you mean "a very few", dont you?

Only a few make money with hardcore gaming. The rest is just the typical nolifer who plays all day and who doesnt care about social responsibility, often even not really successfull in playing games.

Hardcore gamers infact often are antisocial. They demand every content for theirself, and see a virtual reality as real life replacement.

Hardcore gaming creates social darwinists, who pollute the gaming communities with their rediculous demands to base every single achievement in games on time effort.

Hardcore gamers also are parasites often, as they get special content which is paid by a lot who never would play hardcore gamer content.

Hardcore gamers are a small but vocal disgusting minority. They use much more resources than casual gamers ever should. If i was a game development company, i would shit on hardcore gamers, and create games for casual gamers only, to prevent the community of my game from getting polluted by their attitudes.

Content for the masses, and not for elitist special snowflakes.

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[Bigbazz]

By "A lot" you mean "a very few", dont you?

Only a few make money with hardcore gaming. The rest is just the typical nolifer who plays all day and who doesnt care about social responsibility, often even not really successfull in playing games.

Hardcore gamers infact often are antisocial. They demand every content for theirself, and see a virtual reality as real life replacement.

Hardcore gaming creates social darwinists, who pollute the gaming communities with their rediculous demands to base every single achievement in games on time effort.

Hardcore gamers also are parasites often, as they get special content which is paid by a lot who never would play hardcore gamer content.

Hardcore gamers are a small but vocal disgusting minority. They use much more resources than casual gamers ever should. If i was a game development company, i would shit on hardcore gamers, and create games for casual gamers only, to prevent the community of my game from getting polluted by their attitudes.

Content for the masses, and not for elitist special snowflakes.

You're not making a very good arguement for your case with that attitude, you're coming across as a pretty vile and self-entitled person.

[TEHPALLYTANK]

By "A lot" you mean "a very few", dont you?

Only a few make money with hardcore gaming. The rest is just the typical nolifer who plays all day and who doesnt care about social responsibility, often even not really successfull in playing games.

Hardcore gamers infact often are antisocial. They demand every content for theirself, and see a virtual reality as real life replacement.

Hardcore gaming creates social darwinists, who pollute the gaming communities with their rediculous demands to base every single achievement in games on time effort.

Hardcore gamers also are parasites often, as they get special content which is paid by a lot who never would play hardcore gamer content.

Hardcore gamers are a small but vocal disgusting minority. They use much more resources than casual gamers ever should. If i was a game development company, i would shit on hardcore gamers, and create games for casual gamers only, to prevent the community of my game from getting polluted by their attitudes.

Content for the masses, and not for elitist special snowflakes.

Are you shooting for most generalizations in one post? Cause I think you've won it for today.

[Thes]

social responsibility

What the fuck is social responsibility?

I don't really think the average or even the hardcore gamer is all that intelligent compared to most of the population. And I don't mean they're less intelligent, just.. normal. We all know few very intelligent and charismatic gamers but what do you expect on a website like MMOC?

[Glaziola]

social life?

You screw your eyes up and your back.

[Raphtheone]

Only a few make money with hardcore gaming. The rest is just the typical nolifer who plays all day and who doesnt care about social responsibility
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Hardcore gamers infact often are antisocial. They demand every content for theirself, and see a virtual reality as real life replacement.

Hardcore gaming creates social darwinists, who pollute the gaming communities with their rediculous demands
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Hardcore gamers also are parasites
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Hardcore gamers are a small but vocal disgusting minority.
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i would shit on hardcore gamers
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prevent the community of my game from getting polluted by their attitudes.
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elitist special snowflakes.

As a former hardcore gamer, and having known plenty of hardcore gamers throughout the years, you've got no clue what you're talking about. Most of the extremely successful hardcore players that has made a very successful career playing games that I've gotten to know through my "career" have all been very friendly, social and outgoing. People who value friendship, honors agreements, and who thinks there's no "I" in teamwork. Frankly, from my experience, you can't be successful AND match your criteria.

The only thing I see when I read your opinions of successful gamers is that you've no idea what you're talking about, to the point you're on the outside looking in and basing your conclusions on nothing but guesswork. Frankly, your entire post is extremely offensive.

[Kurioxan]

The brain adapts to its environment, if pathing and eye-hand coordination is suddenly stimulated quite a lot, it will enhance those functions, it is not that surprising.
However i do suspect that as with many other examples of adaptation to livestyle, it wont have much benefit after a certain threshold.

Another i recall as of right now is knowing more than one language has beneficial cognitive effects and it has a fairly high effect on reducing some mental illnesses effects, such as dementia, as it forces the brain to learn how to "switch" from one language to another and it appears to have good effects, however this effecs are far more reduced on a 3rd language for example.

The trick is to help the brain learn a new "task", once it has learned it, it doesnt really benefit from super high amounts of exposure as much as it did from just learning it.
Does that make sense?

[fungisfeer]

Wow this is a very interesting topic I need to look into it more!!!

[Deleted]

In a nut shell... Mental stimulation is good for the brain.

Who the fuck would of guessed eh?

[Apexis]

A lot of hardcore gamers make 10x more money than the regular shmuck who works a job he doesn't care about, just by playing games, being good at them, and having a charismatic personality. How is that not smart?

Problem with this notion is that very few get to make money and someone can always come along and beat you and then you lose your gravy train job playing games. What do you do then, since you decided to spend all your time playing game and not learning to do anything else, you would be SOL. Just because someone can play a game well does not mean the intellectually intelligent or even social for that matter. You take the game way from most of these people and they could not hold stick to most people, because they have the inability to do so. Gaming is an artificial mean of stimulation, it should be correlated with learning some from a book or a classroom.

Sure your short term memory goes through the roof, but in the long run someone playing 30 hours or more a week could just as easily be compared to a alcoholic or a heroin addict. Gaming like drink should be done in moderation, way to many gamers are overly obsessed, that is just fact. Even the study here is based on 30 minutes a day for an 8 week period, which most gamers do more than that. The brain can only absorb so much information and store it permanently in long term memory. This is where most gamer end up having issues and is so why many of them are inept to function socially outside a small group of people.

[Aktillum]

In a nut shell... Mental stimulation is good for the brain.

Who the fuck would of guessed eh?

Pretty much this. And some dude who has some anger issues about hardcore gamers. I'm thinking he's a BADDY who can't get past 1500 elo. Yup definite baddy.

[Blur4stuff]

I suffered a head injury when I was a teenager. It severely affected my memory and concentration. I picked up video games and it helped me get back to normal. I kept the routine obviously.