Where Politics And Video Games Collide

I think addiction to games is more like addiction to Television or the like, it's not so much a question of a 'need' for that particular stimulation, and more like the fact that, like TV etc, it becomes a habit, if the person cannot watch TV or play Video games and keep to their regime, then they feel a bit lost as to what to do instead.

Not that this isn't in itself bad, I've seen people base their holiday lodgings based on whether it had a TV or not, which makes no sense whatsoever to me, bad it's not so much a physical addiction as a mental one, and not nearly as strong as many forms of mental addiction.

Mental addiction is very difficult to treat, oddly enough, physical addiction can be targetted down to a particular substance, mental addictions go through fads, someone will be obsessed with one thing for a while and then move onto another, as was mentioned earlier an 'addictive personality' is the common example of this.

So yes, video games are addictive in my opinion, but not through any component that the companies put into them beyond other forms of entertainment, but because of the mental make-up of a certain percentage of people who play them, and if video games did not exist, that percentage would merely hook onto something else and get addicted to that instead.