With one child mentioned in the Fortnite lawsuit having racked up over 320 days-worth of gaming hours in the space of less than two years, debates continue about how much responsibility parents should accept in cases of extreme gaming addiction. If 4% of these are addicted or are developing addictions, that’s 5.64 million potential Minecraft addicts and 10.02 million potential Candy Crush addicts at the time of writing.
This pales in comparison to Minecraft, which currently has over 141 million active monthly players worldwide, and Candy Crush with a vast 255 million monthly players. “Once you are hooked, it’s hard to get unhooked.”Marer says.įortnite is estimated to have over 83 million active players each month, meaning around 3.32 million potential Fortnite addicts globally.
Lorrine Marer, a British behavioural specialist who works with children and young people battling game addiction, describes Fortnite as “like heroin”. They’re aware that the video game is causing them to neglect their family, friends, work, and education, but they keep playing anyway because they feel best behind the screen.” The World’s Most Addictive Games “A person might have an addiction to a video game if they can’t stop playing it even though they know they should. “When someone ‘needs’ to play video games to be happy, and feels miserable when they’re not playing, they may have a disorder which is just as real as alcoholism or dependence on prescription drugs.” Says Rehabs UK founder and director Lester Morse. Studies in Japan, Norway and South Korea have revealed similar statistics. In Canada, a large-scale study in 2017 found that 13% of Ontario teenagers showed symptoms of video game addiction, while in the UK the figure is estimated to be around 8% of children and teens. In the UK, there are 15% more help-related searches for gaming addiction each month than for cocaine addictionĪn estimated 3 billion people worldwide play video games, with the World Health Organisation suggesting that as many as 4% of those who play – around 120 million people – are addicted.League of Legends and Candy Crush are also in the top 5 games driving searches for support online, across UK, USA and global data.Minecraft and World of Warcraft currently fuel more searches for addiction help and support each month than Fortnite.
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