Jagex got successfully sued?

Yesterday afternoon in an unprecedented court hearing, a young boy of fifteen successfully won his lawsuit against Jagex, who run an online RPG game. The teenager claimed the game had effectively wasted two years of his life and rendered him unintelligent and unable to communicate with the outside world.

The boy's lawyer yesterday claimed "The game has an unexplainable attraction that convinces the player they are having fun, despite the fact that all they are doing is performing repetitive tasks to increase their statistics." He continued, "The game is actually a graphical nightmare and its gameplay is simple at best. Yet something, perhaps by subliminal means, forces the player - against his will - to play the game, and to believe that they are having fun."

The jury voted unanimously in the teenager's favour, who will receive five thousand pounds in compensation.

Jagex spokesman, Mr. P Hartnell, said "These claims are both ridiculous and embarassing. Clearly the kid needs to get out more - our games maybe fun but we do not force players to take part." When questioned about the alleged subliminal tactics, Hartnell refused to comment.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, explained why the game had such a devastating effect on life: "You kind of get into a daily routine. You get up, you load up runescape, and you play it. You can't go and do anything else because you want to get your stats up higher than anyone else." He elaborated further: "You end up repetitively increasing your stats every day. You want more, and more. You don't even talk to players on the game you're so involved. You end up entirely withdrawn from the world."

His lawyer told us more about how his life had been devasted by the game. "He never went out from his house except on special occasions, for 3 whole years. He didn't even go to school." When asked how his intelligence had been affected, he replied: "What intelligence?"

The future for Jagex Ltd looks bleak, as many more teenagers are already filing lawsuits against the company.

wat

Link to source or it's fake.

Trying to find source

Edit: P hartnell is not on the Jagex staff page. So i call this fake.

This article is true.[citation needed]

paltry sum for mind control

Yeah in USA you could easy win that case and if there are messages hidden in the game, that is just wrong.

An experiment would be to play with no speakers for a month and see if you still have as much drive to play or not. But if it is like naked people images hidden in the graphics that would have no effect on the experiment cause we would all still want to play. Very interesting thought though. lol

I have seen naked lady images in like alcohol ads hidden in the ice. They showed us how it is done in an advertising class I took in college.

lol Article was locked on rsbandb, because no proof was posted. I believe it deserves this..

lol good one RAMBO.

lol this is funny, even if it is fake.

would be better though if the boy won free modship or a j mod crown

oooookaaaaayyy

Absolutely fake without question.

I find this hard to believe.

If this is true, well, then I know how to make some easy cash..

Let's mass sue tbh and get rich

Sounds like it came from TheOnion

Someone could try this out on WoW for a better result. Considering their reputation of destroyed relationships, broken families and even suicides a lawsuit could possibly go through.

If you could class a serious addiction as a mental illness I don't see why you couldn't win if it was strong enough.

Lmao...


Would be funny if Jagex gave him a years subscription to settle.

Fake or whatever, it's old

Funny, but fake :-D!

Of course it's fake lol.
You really think a man high up in the Jagex Company would say "clearly this kid needs to get out more"??