Father Hires In-Game ?Hitmen? To Deter Son From Playing

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Didn't know where to put this and I hope it hasn't been posted.


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 (???) chose to hire an online "hitman" to school his son.


Feng's 23 year-old son, "Xiao Feng" (??) 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.

Despite being sick of getting killed every time, Xiao Feng decided to stick up to his father and tell him how he felt. He was quoted as saying, "I can play or I can not play, it doesn't bother me. I'm not looking for any job?I want to take some time to find one that suits me."

Hearing his son's earnest plea, Feng said that he was "relieved". It's unsure if Feng has called off his assassins or if Xiao Feng has found a job. One thing's for sure; Feng's way of deterring his son from playing games might be one of the best ideas to come out of China recently, particularly as reactions to "gaming and internet addiction" have been very extreme.

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http://kotaku.com/5972406/father-hir...n-from-playing
 

Tmac

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Why doesn't he get a job as a chinese gold farmer.

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It definitely meets his criteria. But, then, this kid sounds like a little bitch. If I was his dad I'd just take a 3 week vacation into the woods.
 

Kuro

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That, and if all the "assassins" were higher level/better at the game that he plays.... all day every day instead of working.... he is probably fucking terrible at games and couldn't meet his gold farming quotas.
 

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What kind of article is that? They didn't even say what game he was playing?
 

Malakriss

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This only works in games that are PVP oriented. And likely doesn't even work.
 

xzi

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Or he could you know, save some money and just fucking unplug his internet.
 

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This is the dumbest fuckin shit ever. The story I read, on an external news site said the game was Black Ops 2...