NCsoft faces lawsuit from player claiming "addiction" to Lineage 2
Wired reports that Craig Smallwood of Hawaii claims that NCsoft failed to warn him that playing its fantasy MMO game Lineage II would be addicting. He says he played the game between 2004 and 2009 and during that time he claims he could not function in his real life including doing simple things like "getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and friends." So far a judge made the decision to not dismiss Smallwood's case entirely which means a trial could be in the works. NCsoft has urged the judge to dismiss the case.
[Via Massively]
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Idiotic lawsuits like this show what's wrong with this country, a complete lack of personal responsibility. The judge should have tossed this out immediately.Posted at 1:30PM on Aug 20th 2010 by lokar82
Craig 'Smallwood'.
I don't believe anything else needs to be said.Posted at 1:42PM on Aug 20th 2010 by Wulf
Aye... the judge handling this case has to be mental. No one with any common sense would support this. I feel bad for the guys lawyer, he'll be forced to try and make it sound true, unless this guy is representing himself, then obviously he just deserves losing even more...Posted at 1:52PM on Aug 20th 2010 by devilsei
So will he make it to court or will he just play lineage 2Posted at 9:05AM on Aug 21st 2010 by Thor
The only reason I can see for the Judge to let this go forward is to set a legal precedence to reduce future frivolous lawsuits of this type.Posted at 7:55PM on Oct 2nd 2010 by Freeblast



Seriously...? He is suing a game company because he played the game non-stop and let his life get out of control? The judge should have dismissed this case immediately. Just think about, if this goes to trail, how may WoW addicts will be trying to sue Blizzard.Posted at 1:07PM on Aug 20th 2010 by Zaeed