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Father hires in-game assassins to deter son from online game
Quote:Sick and tired of his son playing video games and not listening to him, a father in China decided to take matters into his own hands... well, sort of. Instead of sending his son off to addiction camp or stripping him of internet and gaming rights, Mr. Feng (冯先生) chose to hire an online "hitman" to school his son.


Feng's 23 year-old son, "Xiao Feng" (小冯) started playing video games in high school. Through his years of playing various online games, he supposedly thought himself a master of Chinese online role playing games. According to his father, Xiao Feng had terrible grades in school because of his gaming habit; he couldn't even land a job. He, however, says he simply couldn't find any work that he liked. Feng was annoyed that his son couldn't even tough it out for three months at a software development company.

Unhappy with his son not finding a job, Feng decided to hire players in his son's favorite online games to hunt down Xiao Feng. It is unknown where or how Feng found the in-game assassins—every one of the players he hired were stronger and higher leveled than Xiao Feng. Feng's idea was that his son would get bored of playing games if he was killed every time he logged on, and that he would start putting more effort into getting a job.
- Source: [Kotaku]

Some interesting logic and certainly a novel solution, though it seems a little... potentially unreliable perhaps...
I suppose it prevents you from being drugged over a ban nonetheless.
04/01/2013 10:25 PM
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I'm pretty sure that won't work. If the story is true and his son is a addict at the game, he would school the assassins. And if not then I think the assassins need to go to addiction camp's.
05/01/2013 12:31 AM
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RE: Father hires in-game assassins to deter son from online game
just because you're an addict with a game doesn't necessarily mean you're the best at it :)

i don't play MMO's but wouldnt PVP's be limited in a certain area or something ?
plus theres also the problem of finding your target
05/01/2013 01:34 AM
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I wonder if they're being paid?

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Sparker Wrote:I wonder if they're being paid?
(04/01/2013 10:25 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  
Quote:Feng decided to hire players
- Source: [Kotaku]

it implies $$$ i thinkzSmokingg

05/01/2013 03:39 PM
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RE: Father hires in-game assassins to deter son from online game
(04/01/2013 10:25 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  
Quote:Feng's idea was that his son would get bored of playing games if he was killed every time he logged on, and that he would start putting more effort into getting a job.
- Source: [Kotaku]

It won't.
It'll give him more motivation to kill the assasins and it'll do the complete opposite of what it was intended to do.

05/01/2013 05:28 PM
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