Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Discourage Son's Gaming Habit

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Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Discourage Son's Gaming Habit

Frustrated by his adult son's incessant gaming habit, a man in China reportedly hired a number of in-game master "hitmen" to annihilate his son's avatar over and over again in an attempt to deter him from playing.

Quoting China's Sanqin Daily, Kotaku reports that the fed-up father, identified only as "Mr. Feng," decided to embark on this cyber murder plot as his son seemed incapable of pulling himself away from the computer long enough to find a job.

The man's 23-year-old son, referred to in reports as "Xiao Feng," is said to have left his job at a software development company; he had been there three months but said that he was unhappy with the work.

Upset that his son has been playing games instead of looking for employment, the father reportedly concocted a scheme to discourage the young man's love for games. He hired a number of online assassins -- always more accomplished and stronger than his son's avatar -- to kill off the young man every time he logged on to play.

Xiao Feng, who had been confident of his game playing ability, told the Guangzhou Daily that he was initially shocked and disgruntled that his character kept getting killed after he would log on, but soon he began to suspect that something was amiss.

"There was never any bad blood or animosity between me and [the master game players who were killing me], so I knew there was something strange going on," he said.

After questioning a number of players, Xiao Feng soon learned of his father's plot. But instead of quitting his game playing, Sanqin Daily reports that the young man, who claims his father exaggerated the extent of his gaming habits, confronted his dad and told him he wanted to find a job he truly enjoyed.

Xiao Feng's dad is not the only parent in China who has resorted to extreme measures to respond to an overzealous gaming habit.

According to a Popular Science report from 2009, video game addiction bootcamps have become popular among some Chinese parents who believe that sending their kids to treatment programs staffed by soldiers of the People's Liberation Army will help them overcome their Internet addictions.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Kids need to play outside. Games have ruined imagination on a lot of levels.

 

[iLLusoYuN_Da_Adidas_King]

hahhaha

 

[Dwolf]

at that parenting.

 

[CJ]

to that Dad. Would love to hear the other extreme measures that the Chinese parents take. Creative ones.

 

[One4Deuce]

LMAO, hilarious. I imagine this strategy would have worked on me as a youth. Just picture logging into play some CoD and every time you play there's dudes on the opposing team that are just far superior to you and repeatedly kill you. You leave the lobby, they follow you to the next one. Hilarious.

 

[ThatKidBlackHippy]

put a bounty on his son's heeaaaad

 

[SmoothOperator88]

Spoiler

 

[Methodical]

 

[Methodical]

wrong post.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

to that Dad. Would love to hear the other extreme measures that the Chinese parents take. Creative ones.

I know a young man who told his father.

"im not doing that shyt"

After being told to take out the garbage. He told his son. Tell your friend to go home.

Ol boy did not come to school for another 2 weeks.

Apparently his father kicked him at some point during the evening and broke one of his ribs.

He eventually came back to school and continued being a good student.

 

[CJ]

I know a young man who told his father.

"im not doing that shyt"

After being told to take out the garbage. He told his son. Tell your friend to go home.

Ol boy did not come to school for another 2 weeks.

Apparently his father kicked him at some point during the evening and broke one of his ribs.

He eventually came back to school and continued being a good student.

I meant non-physical abuse shyt though

 

[Mr. Somebody]

I meant non-physical abuse shyt though

Thats how they get things done. Violence. No time out. No im taking away your trust fund. A bad child will be disciplined with force. Blunt force. Daughters get slapped up like its nothing for talking in aggressive tones that are not the 4 tones of Mandarin. Sons get chopped like wooden blocks for coming home with grades like an American. Pain is a good teacher. Time out, is not.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

The ingenuity

 

[Bud Bundy]