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This true story is about a boy called Jamie. Some years ago his story appeared in the international press as a warning to parents and our company worked with the young man in question to help him kick the habit. We helped him it was a problem, and ha he would have to learn his way through his addiction. A Minecraft addiction that lasted than a decade from the age of 14.

Serious Blood Clot

He suffered a serious blood clot, which he said was mainly linked to spending eight hours a day at a desk for his studies in the entertainment industry and compounded his inactivity by excessively playing video games for hours (days) on end in his free time. 

He required surgery to remove the potentially fatal clot and stop it from spreading to his heart or brain.  He has since altered his sedentary lifestyle. “That clot nearly finished me off, so I've had to change the way I live to avoid those risks," Jamie said. 

Thankfully he had a full recovery, now keeps his gaming in check, and started his business helping kids and parents deal with a gaming obsession, he has since moved to the movie business.  He was badly infected, with the same conditions sometimes experienced by frequent long-haul flyers: deep vein thrombosis.

Jamie's guidelines for gamers

He brings his huge experience witnessing first-hand the bullying and "griefing" that has accompanied the surge in popularity of online gaming, as well as the physical risks associated with excessive gaming. He advises users to take a break and take a short walk every hour, doing regular exercise and spending no more than an hour or two playing games at a time. This is a must, non-negotiable.  He remains a devotee of gaming - he has pulled back from his past as a "pro-gamer" ranked third in Europe for his abilities, which he said led to him neglecting his final school year studies and had a disastrous effect on his life. His business helps control and moderate large Minecraft games, especially for young kids. Kids are welcomed to the game, overseen, then gently logged out when time is up. Parental Control

Parents can be overwhelmed by kids gaming online which is why we strongly recommend always on parental control for gamers. 

End of Manchester United?

Games have overtaken the music and movie industries in global sales and importance to the young. In the UK, twice the number of young men play online games then follow TV sport like the premier league. So much so, Fortnite is being seriously pushed as a potential Olympic sport. Anyone for dressage?  "They can be so creative, it's like an interactive work of art that lets you play a part in a movie," he said. 

Parental control helps

Parental control comes would help here, using online internet safety rules and guidelines to help Jamie here. We could have chopped his game time up into little bits prevening from sitting still for hours on end. Check out Nord VPN for gamer protection

time limits can be imposed on players of all ages which great for digital wellbeing, great for online gaming and necessary physical outdoors activity. Roblox has confirmed the numbers since COVID19.

Since the start of coronavirus;

• No. of Players 150 million, up 50 million
• Daily Users 40 million up from 10 million in 2018
• Average time per day per player 3.7 hours up 70%
• Sales in 2020 $928ml up from $47ml in 2017
   

Most Popular Worlds

Adopt Me!        20.5 billion users
Tower of Hell  10.3 billion users

Switch off In-App Purchasing

Switch off In-App purchasing today on all devices in the house as Roblox has got a lot better at selling stuff to its gamers and it is not a fair fight. All of this is also true for Fortnite, Minecraft, Nintendo.

VPN protects gamers

We recommend Nord VPN for gamers,  Gamers can improve performance, shield their identity protecting their online privacy. Also, a VPN can prevent so-called DDoS attacks which will knock out your WiFi for days unless you know how to re-instal a router, gamers often engineer attacks on each other o knock the other guy out of the game.

Comment:

Sitting is the new smoking, that’s what they say, and this story is the perfect explanation, this boy’s gaming addiction destroyed his school years, denying him college, addicted to online gaming as it took over his life.  

We need gaming protection for gamers, with time limits for kids,  time blocked off for study, sleep and other things. As well as the regular stuff like preventing kids from visiting sites that show violence, adult content, cruelty or inappropriate content. 

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