Fortnite Addiction Is Forcing Kids Into Video-Game Rehab

What can we do to solve the vidyajew problem?
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Eh I don't really care. The whole reason this is happening is because of shitty parenting. It's the parents jobs to make sure their retarded kid doesn't spend all his time playing video games

Give them a choice: Fortnite or food.

This happened at WoW’s peak too. People over react

I've watched streamers play Fortnite and it seems very unremarkable. Was their marketing just insanely good or are peoples' taste in entertainment rapidly worsening?

Of course, but a lot of parents are just fucking retarded. Prehaps we should just ban it, that includes me.

they don't even 'parent' anymore

I opened Fortnite once and thought "what the fuck is this shit". I don't understand how anyone could become addicted to a few pixels on a screen.

sad.

Most boring fucking online game Ive ever played out of my 25+ years of gaming, not even kidding. Tried it for about an hour and dropped shortly after.

What is the fucking appeal?

What is it with zoomers and this game?
Even Minecraft didnt have this level of kiddies playing it like this
Why does every kid awkwardly floss all the time? We didnt do that stupid shit

>video games
>addiction

fuck off. anyone who has dealt with a real physical addicton knows this is just horseshit.

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Parents don't know how to parent. News at 11.

parents barely spend time with their kids. I think they just do whatever the fuck they want to do.

There is no appeal, Drake played it once and it has bright colors. Its for kids. It would be the same as me saying "Whats appealing about Sesame Street?".

These freemium online games truly are addictive. They hire specialists to help them develop the game specifically to get you hooked, and paying. Kids really have no business playing games like these.

Overwatch was kiddie looking too but Overwatch was actually a shit ton of fun.

Im not some edgy contrarian Doomer, I can enjoy mainstream type of games too, but I literally cannot understand Fortnites appeal.

Or they just have shit parents who can't get there kids to stop playing a game.

...its not even a good game lmao

>Merme TV
FORTNITE IS STEALING OUR YOUTH AWAY FROM THE GLORY OF ALLAH.

these normified games are all cancer and scams.
The funniest scam is destiny 2. everytime they add new stuff they demand the full price of the game again just so you,can keep playing. Its extortion.

My son plays that game non-stop.
What is it about that game?
Coworkers at work say the same thing, all kids lately are obsessed with it.

Congratulations on being a worthless parent

Fpbp
Single mother with whom I work said to me "i just give him my ipad so i can relax". I told her that was terrible parenting and she should get him doing a martial art. Fortunately she did.

From watching the kids i teach it seems to be a combination of minecraft and COD with memes. I can see the popularity but i never got into minecraft so it doesnt do much for me.

It's like minecraft. Every kid plays it and eventually they will get bored once they grow up or has played it alot.

you're just a shit parent.
when I was a kid i was only allowed one hour of nintendo per day, the rest was spent outside

>Halo 3, now that was a game
>Get shot first turn around and out BR the guy teabag his dead body and call him a nigger
>Friend call out "one shot my X" pull out the sniper and miss the noscope get booted from fire team
>Guy shooting me in the back jump over him and assinate him
>Shitter on my team picks up snipe after I call it, betray him and get booted.

I installed fortnite and played it for a few hours, did decent placed in the top 10 a few times but, I really don't see the appeal to the kids besides the hypebeast skins and men dances. The gunplay feels pretty shitty.

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how often do you come here?

it was because of those big cash prizes the company was offering. i started seeing ads on craigslist where parents were looking for tutors to teach their kids how to be really good at fortnight. i think they were offering like $35/hour. it seemed weird af

Wait a minute. Aren't we seeing an increasing number of people become professional gamers? There are people who make a living off of video games and I'm sure there is an obvious relationship between how much time they spend playing games and how much income they earn. So following this logic are we supposed to assume professional gamers are addicted to video games? This sounds like a bunch of bullshit. It's like saying an NBA player is addicted to basketball.

and now you spend all your time here like the rest of the faggots. good job, parents.

touche

>halo 3
that really wasnt that long ago. that shows how much of a young faggot you ate

News is really out of stuff to talk about eh

Why are we pretending kids playing games all day is new

>git gud
>tutor lil timmy
>make $35 hourly
>unlimited tendies
>possible Milf puss

Sounds pretty based to me.

Halo 2 was better. Remember SWAT magnums?

Those were fun playlists. I used to get fucked but all the cheaters and button cancels though. 3 felt more fair and competitive

>I literally cannot understand Fortnites appeal.

Same, I hear people calling it fun but the game is kinda shallow both to play and as an spectator.
I guess it's a case of it being popular and being in as a topic of conversation, newer generations seem to be more scared of being out of the new fad in a scale I just can't comprehend.
Take my opinion with a grain of salt, I was quakefag, a rustfag and I am still a Dotard, I like to create my own fun and making everyone else miserable.

You don't know addicts