TAPEI: A Taiwan teen collapsed and died at an internet cafe after playing Diablo 3, a popular online video game, for 40 consecutive hours, local media reported Tuesday.
The 18 year old identified only by his surname, Chuang, booked a private room at the cafe in Tainan, southern Taiwan, around noon on July 13 and played for nearly two days without eating, the United Daily News reported.
On the morning of July 15, an attendant entered the room and found Chuang resting on a table. After the attendant woke him, he stood, took a few steps and then collapsed, the report said.
He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a local hospital. Police were investigating the cause of death and an autopsy was being carried out, the newspaper reported.
They speculated the long hours in a sedentary position created cardiovascular problems for Chuang the report said. The deceased had been playing the latest installments of the role playing game developed by US based Activision Blizzard Inc.
This is the second death in Taiwan from playing video games this year.

RIP.
One less man at AH.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Jul 19 2012, 09:09 AM

RIP.. Can i get your lewt???

Another fella died playing this game? OMG why people would die for games...
RIP.

fixd

40 hours without food? wow ~

after a few hours i would be hungry as hell...can eat every demon in the black soulstone

1 word for him....stupid

Does he drop any good loot ?

say no to food skipping

I LoL. Sorry for the losses.

No legendary drops.

Probably died due to stress from not getting any good drops.

40 hours without food....and good loot.

blizz forum once said this


The game is so bad that player die for!

Any possible SET items?

I can't even play for 3 hours straight without getting bored and tired, let alone 40 hours lol.

RIP to that boy.
Some said he skip food and sit for 40 hours in that cyber cafe.
We shouldnt make fun of his death.

RIP.

Can book private room....wow...better do something else

40 hrs? oh man, at least take 1 - 2 hrs go Da Bin Lo, than Diablo.

i rather go B2B massage than book cyber cafe private room

Hardcore mode IRL

RIP.

still got 18 ACT to go , more exciting

Cybercafe promotion. 1 week - USD10. Too bad he can't make it.

YOUR DEEDS OF VALOR WILL BE REMEMBERED

Doesn't eat food = sohai

You don't earn my respect.

He didn't ask for respect.
He camped for so many hours for more golds and cheap god-like gears at AH.

No what i meant was i won't wish those RIP blabla things.

He already don't appreciate his life, why still wish him those thing?

This post has been edited by kEazYc: Jul 19 2012, 03:45 PM

we the one who play games

but in this case its game who plays you

RIP...

hopefully this will be e last one...

i still dont get it why ppl would instead go to cyber cafe (take up private room summore)...tot when broadband hits home those cybercafe days are over..play at home better ma, can smoke, eat, play naked also if u wish, but why the need to still go CC...taiwan home internet expensive arr?

It reminds me of this:



veri hot ler

LOL

Yes I agree at home private room most comfortable...

You have died.

Your body will lose 10% durability a day.

This one lar...

Some countries average personal living space is very small compared to ours e.g. Hongkong super small size apartments. If got family, then even more crowded.
So these people would usually go out somewhere for entertainment rather than stay at home.

he finished nightmare mode, now going to Hell

He will have problem in Inferno A2/A3/A4.
He needs to gear up.

Real life hardcore achievement awarded by blizzard lord of greed

come on guys ...
sing to the tune of this


♪♫   If I die young
      Bury me in vomit
      Lay me down on a bed failures
      Sink me in the gutter at dawn
      Send me away with the curse of a butt song ♪♫

probably pulmonary embolism

Private room and forty hours at cc. Play one month better buy new pc.

any loot dropped?

This is sad. There are times we need to control our addiction and obsession.

the longest time i non stop playing game was 8 hrs only, then I'll still stop and rest.
I was playing bf3

but now where got so much free time play games, don't have such energy to play game for longer than 5 hrs lol

cant imagine how come those ppl can stand to play so long time, dont even need to eat and drink one, just crazy

i wonder why so hardcore since it took less then 40hours to hit lvl 60...and the game just repeating itself countless of time....