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Posted in mmorpg, psychoanalysis on Jun 15th, 2008
in Lacanian psychoanalysis objet a (objet petit a) ”stands for the unattainable object of desire” or in plain english an object that is supposed to fill our fundamental lack. in our fantasy objet a makes us whole (again) and translated to the setting of an mmorpg that could mean that we want to own a certain piece [...]
Posted in mmorpg on May 4th, 2008
every once in a while the mmorpg scene is in a buzz because the next big (preferably World of Warcraft killer) mmorpg is about to hit the shelves. this time the game in question is Age of Conan (AoC) that is going to be released at the end of may. the current hype is enourmous [...]
granted, the issue of “internet addiction” is not new but it is gaining significance. this article in the recent edition of “The American Journal of Psychiatry” calls for the inclusion of “internet addiction” as a disorder in the DSM-V. one subtype of “internet addiction according to this editorial is ”excessive gaming”. the author lists statictics and cases from the asian region where the issue seems [...]
Posted in mmorpg on Nov 27th, 2007
having a real life couple in your mmorpg guild is asking for trouble. i have reached that simple conclusion after over three years of experience in different mmorpgs. i have met several couples in various games and had a few couples in my guilds but all had one thing in common: they were a good source of [...]
i have a confession to make: i am playing a mmorpg again (*sigh*). it’s “Lord of the Rings Online“. before jumping to fast conclusions, hear me out. i strongly believe that playing an online game is – like almost everything in life – about self-control. you do not have to let the game “get you”. [...]
not surprisingly i have stumbled across an article that deals with the question “Why are people leaving WoW?” well, i can only speak for myself here and what i experienced in my “WoW life” in over two years; for me the expansion ruined the game. true, it added some content and new areas to explore, [...]
as mentioned below i stopped blogging pretty much exactly two years ago. you may wonder why and let me try to explain what happened. it all started at the beginning of 2005. i had just finished writing my PhD thesis and was in a sort of “no man’s land”: nothing to do but to wait [...]