Girl “Nine” In Rehab after Aggressive Obsession with “Fortnite” Game

6She gave up all her sporting activity

Before her addiction, the girl was a keen sportswoman but soon her parents noticed she was always tired and stopped her gym and ballet classes. She even avoided going to church every Sunday with her family. The parents soon got worried about her behavior when they were called to the school. Her teacher reported that she had started getting bad grades and falling off to sleep in school.

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7She started spending money from her father’s credit card

As if her addiction to gaming wasn’t enough, she also started spending money because of it. Her father started receiving notifications of credit card payments to Microsoft for playing the game. It seems they had finally reached the end of their patience and decided to do something about it. She was son placed in intensive therapy to help her get out of the obsession.

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8What is Fortnite?

Fortnite is a popular multiplayer shooter game with high end photorealistic animation. Launched by epic games in 2017, it also doled out a free version in 2018. Since then the game has seen 40 million downloads with children as young as 6 and seven being targeted as an audience.

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9Multiplayer gaming that is hooking youngsters into spending huge sums of money

The most popular gaming format in Fortnite is the battle Royale where almost 100 players combat each other until there is one winner. While youngsters are going into therapy because of it, the owners are reaping exceptional profits to the tune if almost 500,000 pounds a month from live streams for children to watch. Can you believe that?? It’s like a milder version of the movie death race. Culture secretary Matt Hancock has also issued a warning saying that online shooting games are damaging children.

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