PS2 Video Games Make Great Gifts for Many People

If you are trying to think of what would be a great gift, you might want to consider some PS2 video games. Think about it. It shows that you know that they love their PS2 and that you were really trying to make sure that they got something that they could enjoy, time and time again. People can only get so many bathrobes and picture frames before they start to mock the holidays. You wart to make sure that the people you are buying gifts for will remember your gift and truly be thankful for what they are receiving. Out of all of the gift options you have, the PS2 video games are less likely to become one of the gifts that end up being re-gifted.

Now, if you are purchasing for an adult or maybe even a mature teen, your options are really endless. However, if you plan on giving a child some PS2 video games for Christmas or for a birthday, you better make sure that you are clearing this with the parents first. You want to make sure that just the type of gift itself is okay and what types of games they are allowed to have and which ones they are not allowed to have. This will be a simple conversation to have, as you would probably already be ready to call to check if there are any games wanted or games that the child already has.

Besides being a popular gift, the PS2 video games are generally very easy to find when it comes to saving money. You might be able to get two or three games for a fairly reasonable price. Not only will you save money, but also the gift itself will look rather impressive. They will assume you spent good money on the gifts. The key here is to actually get great deals so that you an afford a nice card, since it does seem as though the birthday cards are starting to become just as expensive as some gifts.

If you know the people really well, you could always seek out used PS2 video games. As long as they look brand new and they play perfectly, it should not matter, especially since you would then be able to afford to get them several additional games. You might be uneasy with that and maybe you think that the gift recipient wouldn't appreciate the used gift as much. Still though, there are plenty of places online where you can purchase brand new PS2 video games for a small fraction of what you would be asked to pay at the mall.

Now that you are a little more prepared to purchase these PS2 video games as gifts, it is time to get the shopping started. The sooner you start, the more time you will have to find incredible deals and bargains.

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Millions of video game lovers, many of whom were devoted to the widely popular Sims video games, waited anxiously for Electronic Arts newest video game release called Spore. Electronics Arts did not disappoint it's many fans as the $49.99 regular version of Spore, the $9.99 Spore Creature Creator and the $79.99 Galactic version of Spore were released without a hitch and were quickly snatched off the retail stores shelves. Although Spore's sales didn't quite match the volume of sales of video game monoliths Guitar Hero III or Grand Theft Auto IV, it did very well. It is usually about a week after a video game release when the people who bought the game begin flooding the Internet with either their personal praise or damnation of the video game. They talk about things like game play, graphics speed and resolution, end game, online play, character building etc. Not this time! With Spore, the talk was all about its DRM!

What is DRM? The copyright protection called DRM is an acronym for Digital Rights Management, a term used to describe the different techniques for restricting the free use and transfer of digital content. DRM is used in a number of media, but is found most often in music and video files. Many of people believe that DRM should stand for Digital Restrictions Manager being that it manages users restrictions while taking away their rights. Companies like Apple began using DRM under the auspices of fighting piracy. Has it worked? You tell me. After the news of the type of severe DRM Electronics Arts put on Spore spread to future buyers, it took only days for over 500,000 illegal copies of the Spore video game (without DRM) to be downloaded from P2P BitTorrent sites on the Internet. Does DRM work? No! It ticks people off. If you don't believe it, ask Amazon.com, where thousands of people unhappy with Spore's DRM restrictions gave the new video game a lowly one star rating. Thanks to DRM, Spore has become the most pirated game ever.

So, what was so bad about Spore's DRM to get so many people in an uproar? Here is what it is all about and I am going to tell you from first hand experience because I purchased the $79.99 Galactic version of Spore and after one more download, the game will be worthless. Because my video card was not set perfectly to run Spore, I received a warning message after the first installation that I needed to change my video card settings and reinstall Spore again or the game would not work. One installation used. I did what was required and reinstalled Spore again. No error messages this time, the game works wonderfully. Two installations used. So why am I counting installations? You see, with Spore's DRM restrictions, the purchaser can only install the game three times. After the third installation, your bought and paid for game of Spore will be nothing but a worthless piece of plastic. You can play it, but you will never be able to install it again. So you pray nothing goes wrong with your computer because you won't be able to install Spore to a new one. If I would have known about Electronic Arts DRM restrictions for Spore, I never would have purchased it and I may have gone as far as joining the other 500,000 so-called pirates visiting a free game downloads site to download a DRM-less version.

Some folks say that a company should be allowed to protect their copyrighted products, and I agree as long as they don't take the rights away from the new owners, the people who have purchased those copyrighted products. I want to first say that I don't necessarily hate the idea of copyright protection but I do hate the way DRM is being abused by the companies. When a person buys a copyrighted product, the copyright should now belong to the new owner along with the product. As far as I am concerned, when I purchase something it should be mine to do with as I please. As long as it does not involve harming, torturing or killing a living creature, I should have complete and total rights to do what I want with that product. Here are some examples of what I mean. If I were to purchase a German Shepherd dog ($800), it is mine. If I want to either sell or give my dog away to someone else, I have every right to do so. If I buy a car ($25,000) and a week later feel like selling it or giving it away, I can because I have the every right to do so. If I were to buy a house ($200,000) outright for cash (I wish), that house would be completely mine to sell or even give it away if I choose. If I have complete and total rights to do what I want with my dog, my car and my house, will somebody please tell me why can I face criminal charges and punishment for doing what I want with my $79.99 game of Spore or any other video game for that matter. Heck, with EA's new DRM restrictions imposed on my Spore video game, I can't even install it more than three times. In truth, Spore still belongs to Electronic Arts even though I forked out my hard earned cash for the rights of ownership. Therein lies the true crime my friends. And the video game industry is wondering why more and more normally honest folks have turned to pirating.

Sadly, video game companies like Electronic Arts are unwittingly causing the downfall of the video game industry with their abuse of DRM restrictions. Piracy paranoia has already taken a huge bite out of the PC and Mac game industry. Remember when stores like Egghead and Electronics Boutique used to be stocked wall to wall with computer games for your PC or Mac. Then they come up with all of these unjust anti-piracy rules that if you open the games packaging there will be no exchanges or refunds allowed. Are you kidding me. With all of the different computer configurations out there due to lack of standards within the industry, you were lucky not to run into a conflict when installing or playing the game. How many of you remember buying a $50 computer game only to have it not work when you installed it. Remember how you felt when you tried to get your money back for a $50 game that you never even got to play only to be told by the suspicious salesman at the stores counter, Too Bad, No Refund, No Exchange Policy Here! A lot of people remember. That is the main reason good honest folk turned to P2P download sites for their computer games in the first place. No risk of losing their money through no fault of their own. Thus began the downfall of the video game industry for PC's and Mac's. Now when you go into a store looking to purchase a game for your PC, all you will find is a little rack of about fifteen computer games tucked away somewhere in the back of a video game store.

Don't look now, but the video game industry is following that same path of self destruction as before, and the DRM restrictions they are putting on games like Spore will be their undoing. If the fact that the Spore DRM policy has caused it to become the most pirated video game in history does not bring about changes in copyright policies, then they will be in deep trouble as an industry. I realize I am ranting but I tend to get ticked off when I am being ripped off and I am not alone here. Head over to CNet or Amazon.com to see what people are saying about the Spore DRM policy. The video game makers had better listen too, because they are on the path of causing their own demise with such a draconic DRM policy. Electronic Arts, the maker of Spore especially had better open up its ears, because over 500,000 people downloading DRM free versions of the video game from Free Game Downloads sites in only a few days makes a thunderous sound. The release of Spore was supposed to be a happy day for all. Instead, EA's punishing DRM policy may have begun the downfall of the video game industry, and that would be a sad day for everyone.

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Hordes of video game lovers, many of whom were devoted to the widely popular Sims video games, waited anxiously for Electronic Arts newest video game release called Spore. Electronics Arts did not disappoint it's many fans as the $49.99 regular version of Spore, the $9.99 Spore Creature Creator and the $79.99 Galactic version of Spore were released without a hitch and were quickly snatched off the retail stores shelves. Although Spore's sales didn't quite match the volume of sales of video game monoliths Guitar Hero III or Grand Theft Auto IV, it did very well. It is usually about a week after a video game release when the people who bought the game begin flooding the Internet with either their personal praise or damnation of the video game. They talk about things like game play, graphics speed and resolution, end game, online play, character building etc. Not this time! With Spore, the talk was all about its DRM!

What is DRM? The copyright protection called DRM is an acronym for Digital Rights Management, a term used to describe the different techniques for restricting the free use and transfer of digital content. DRM is used in a number of media, but is found most often in music and video files. Many of people believe that DRM should stand for Digital Restrictions Manager being that it manages users restrictions while taking away their rights. Companies like Apple began using DRM under the auspices of fighting piracy. Has it worked? You tell me. After the news of the type of severe DRM Electronics Arts put on Spore spread to future buyers, it took only days for over 500,000 illegal copies of the Spore video game (without DRM) to be downloaded from P2P BitTorrent sites on the Internet. Does DRM work? No! It ticks people off. If you don't believe it, ask Amazon.com, where thousands of people unhappy with Spore's DRM restrictions gave the new video game a lowly one star rating. Thanks to DRM, Spore has become the most pirated game ever.

So, what was so bad about Spore's DRM to get so many people in an uproar? Here is what it is all about and I am going to tell you from first hand experience because I purchased the $79.99 Galactic version of Spore and after one more download, the game will be worthless. Because my video card was not set perfectly to run Spore, I received a warning message after the first installation that I needed to change my video card settings and reinstall Spore again or the game would not work. One installation used. I did what was required and reinstalled Spore again. No error messages this time, the game works wonderfully. Two installations used. So why am I counting installations? You see, with Spore's DRM restrictions, the purchaser can only install the game three times. After the third installation, your bought and paid for game of Spore will be nothing but a worthless piece of plastic. You can play it, but you will never be able to install it again. So you pray nothing goes wrong with your computer because you won't be able to install Spore to a new one. If I would have known about Electronic Arts DRM restrictions for Spore, I never would have purchased it and I may have gone as far as joining the other 500,000 so-called pirates visiting a free game downloads site to download a DRM-less version.

Some folks say that a company should be allowed to protect their copyrighted products, and I agree as long as they don't take the rights away from the new owners, the people who have purchased those copyrighted products. I want to first say that I don't necessarily hate the idea of copyright protection but I do hate the way DRM is being abused by the companies. When a person buys a copyrighted product, the copyright should now belong to the new owner along with the product. As far as I am concerned, when I purchase something it should be mine to do with as I please. As long as it does not involve harming, torturing or killing a living creature, I should have complete and total rights to do what I want with that product. Here are some examples of what I mean. If I were to purchase a German Shepherd dog ($800), it is mine. If I want to either sell or give my dog away to someone else, I have every right to do so. If I buy a car ($25,000) and a week later feel like selling it or giving it away, I can because I have the every right to do so. If I were to buy a house ($200,000) outright for cash (I wish), that house would be completely mine to sell or even give it away if I choose. If I have complete and total rights to do what I want with my dog, my car and my house, will somebody please tell me why can I face criminal charges and punishment for doing what I want with my $79.99 game of Spore or any other video game for that matter. Heck, with EA's new DRM restrictions imposed on my Spore video game, I can't even install it more than three times. In truth, Spore still belongs to Electronic Arts even though I forked out my hard earned cash for the rights of ownership. Therein lies the true crime my friends. And the video game industry is wondering why more and more normally honest folks have turned to pirating.

Sadly, video game companies like Electronic Arts are unwittingly causing the downfall of the video game industry with their abuse of DRM restrictions. Piracy paranoia has already taken a huge bite out of the PC and Mac game industry. Remember when stores like Egghead and Electronics Boutique used to be stocked wall to wall with computer games for your PC or Mac. Then they come up with all of these unjust anti-piracy rules that if you open the games packaging there will be no exchanges or refunds allowed. Are you kidding me. With all of the different computer configurations out there due to lack of standards within the industry, you were lucky not to run into a conflict when installing or playing the game. How many of you remember buying a $50 computer game only to have it not work when you installed it. Remember how you felt when you tried to get your money back for a $50 game that you never even got to play only to be told by the suspicious salesman at the stores counter, Too Bad, No Refund, No Exchange Policy Here! A lot of people remember. That is the main reason good honest folk turned to P2P download sites for their computer games in the first place. No risk of losing their money through no fault of their own. Thus began the downfall of the video game industry for PC's and Mac's. Now when you go into a store looking to purchase a game for your PC, all you will find is a little rack of about fifteen computer games tucked away somewhere in the back of a video game store.

Don't look now, but the video game industry is following that same path of self destruction as before, and the DRM restrictions they are putting on games like Spore will be their undoing. If the fact that the Spore DRM policy has caused it to become the most pirated video game in history does not bring about changes in copyright policies, then they will be in deep trouble as an industry. I realize I am ranting but I tend to get ticked off when I am being ripped off and I am not alone here. Head over to CNet or Amazon.com to see what people are saying about the Spore DRM policy. The video game makers had better listen too, because they are on the path of causing their own demise with such a draconic DRM policy. Electronic Arts, the maker of Spore especially had better open up its ears, because over 500,000 people downloading DRM free versions of the video game from Free Game Downloads sites in only a few days makes a thunderous sound. The release of Spore was supposed to be a happy day for all. Instead, EA's punishing DRM policy may have begun the downfall of the video game industry, and that would be a sad day for everyone.

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Our 2009 year had already started and most of us had hopefully a January month with a so long, good-bye and a good what is coming next in schedule. In a quick and precise review: we had a new president that makes history for good. Many of you have already written your new year resolutions and started achieving the goals required to meet the destiny you ultimately want to be.

Shane Mosley hits an incredible boxing TKO upset, that is surely good positive news if you are part of the US, and we have February coming in racing speed! Are you surprisingly shocked and in complete awe restating to yourself how fast the month already has passed? If you have honestly answered yes to such point, you did not accomplish many or all your goals that you initially proposed on a daily basis. That is outright simple.

But good, great or magnificent news being for you are that if you want to adjust and improve there surely room for another try in month of February if this happens to be your case.

If you forgot to write your goals for at least one day of the entire month, you probably had a pretty good mind relapse on how fast our 2009 year was also already for your life. If this is so, you have room for improvement. Re-evaluate your commitment to your goals, adjust if you need to in order to accomplish what you had initially planned and set yourself for and gather your new results by either winning or gather new experiences.

We all have room for fast paced improvements. Whether we have our wholesale store on video games, electronics, hammocks, DVDs, musical instruments or whatever it is that you are currently offering, make sure to execute to either gain new experience or accomplish the in-deadline goals. This month of January 2009 was probably your best year ever, could had already been one of your best ones, a good one or your worst one.

Whatever the answer is, it does not count anymore. February is the new rule of business as January is very likely long gone by the time you get to read this article. And that is good news!

If you achieved your month of January goals before deadline, congrats! Keep it up. If you had difficulties, delays or just could not finish: ask yourself the same questions you asked to yourself when your past year ending was celebrated. Hopefully there were questions similar to; what did I accomplish and what did I not?

Why did I not accomplish and what can I do to improve it? How am I going to accomplish this new set of goals for the month of February and what do I need to do in order to accomplish my goals to get closer to the ultimate long term dream? If you probably laughing about the ultimate dream reminder, clearly, as an old time top gun maverick entertainment would sing: you have lost that love and feeling, woe that love and feeling, but now is gone, gone, gone- ah, ah, ah?

If this happens to be you right now, you probably are stuck in a dead-end job, not entirely happy or probably lost without higher senses of purpose. Either be it any of them, or the countless of other possibilities on why you did not accomplish your goals on January 2009, the consequences will back fire at you in the short term and potentially in the overall effects of the long term results.

But the ending facts being, you still have a choice to either start a new business, improve current ones or do nothing at all. You will dictate how successful your personal life and your career are for you.

No matter what your life ultimate achievement may be, the choices for change are available. How is February going to look for you? Start deciding. Surely January was surely a fine one indeed for many of us, but if it was not for you, make sure to think about what is February going to be for me like. Kind of simple, you might get addicted once you get the hang of it!

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Sometimes video games get bad press. It's true you can overuse them, but if you play them judiciously you can learn a few things:

1. You succeed if you have a plan. You can't get past a room of aliens or enemy soldiers shooting at you if you don't look at the situation and work out a strategy of victory for that particular scenario. It may not come in an instant but as you study the situation the path of success will become clear.

2. You can't be a "hero". You can't rush out guns blazing like the movies because you're going to get cut down right away and you'll be dead. You have to economize your ammunition, you can't waste a shot. You have to let the enemy come to you, where you are at the advantage. It will take some time, but you win not by your guns but by your wits and ability to remain calm.

3. You have to press forward vigorously. At the same time standing still will allow your enemies to surround and overwhelm you. It keeps them from organizing and forces them into a reactive mode. Dominance in the field is as much an attitude as it is a physical position. You don't move laterally (from side to side) but advance by vectors forward, and never without a safe landing place.

4. You don't show your enemies your backside. You just can't turn and run in the face of a difficult situation, you make your backside one big target and you will pay the price. Retreat is sometimes inevitable, so you have to have your escape route planned out as well.

5. You have to try and try and try and try again. It may take you 20 or 30 times before before you can get past that level of the game without "dying". There is a reset, yes; and some people say that is a bad thing ("If I die, no problem, I'll just start again"); but you do get a second chance and it allows you eventually win.

6. Failure is not failure; it is a process of elimination of different ways to attack a certain problem. As I said above: there is a reset, yes. However, failure is a better teacher than success, but you must never give up. Least of all you must never give up hope about yourself and your ability to manage through any situation. You have the ability to surmount any problem.

7. At times all hope may seem lost, you have no ammunition, your life points are at near-death levels, and the enemy may be swarming. If you accept your demise at that point it most surely will come. If you bide your time however; energy, ammunition, and opportunity will present itself and you'll be in fit form soon again. You are a winner.

8. Objectives are never attained in one sweeping move. You get to your goal by bits and pieces, one manageable chunk at a time. You take it one move at a time, you just focus on that and as you persevere on eventually you are taken to your end goal.

The game never ends. There is always a continuation. The names may change but the enemy remains the same. The story moves to another planet, another location; and you through it slowly evolve and improve.

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This movie to video game adaptation is done very well. It is a mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game) that has a unique combat system where you attack directionally instead of click and lock on like most mmos. You perform combo by hitting the directional attack buttons in sequence. This can lead to cool fatalities and more damage.

It is set in the Robert E. Howard universe which has its own races and cultures besides that of Conan's Cimmeria. You can choose to start in Cimmeria; a barbaric cold world. Stygia; an Egyptian like world with Pyramids and snake worshipers. There is also Aquilonia which is like an advanced society like the Romans or Byzantium.

There are many guilds in the game some with over 300 people others with 50-60 people. They are going to add Guild Alliances and Alliance Battle Keeps. There are plenty of servers to choose from as well. They have PvE (player vs environment) or PVP servers or culture PvP where you fight different race classes.

The leveling system goes as such; from 1-20 you play in Tortage a pirate island so you can learn the game and system. Then from 20-80 you essentially play in the full world and can engage in PvP anywhere outside of cities. There are some solo instances(zones) where you can only fight by yourself against monsters. There are also raid instances where you need large groups to defeat epic monsters. Sometime you need from 6-12 players depending on the instance. These zones will yield better loot such as swords or armor with better stats.

The game's initial release had so much hype that it had trouble living up to it in the first few months. Now, they have PVP (player versus player) experience and have fixed a lot of the errors and bugs that occurred in the early months. They have ironed out almost all of the bug and game play problems. They have smoothed over some of the class differences as well. There may still be a gap between some classes, but each one is needed to fill out a good team.

You can siege other player made Battle Keeps or fight in other PVP skirmishes and mini games. There are catapults and War Mammoths that can take down the enemies walls. You can defend you keep with Archers and guards from inside and out. The graphics are very good so make sure you have the latest requirements before buying the game. I give it a 9/10.

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Looking to start a profitable business, and making it profitable online fast can be a challenge. If it's anything relating to wholesale -especially, wholesale video games and other general electronics, it can be a rough mountain to climb for profits in its entirety. However, still achievable depending on your experience!

If you think you don't have time for building your own website, your own web store, and yet want to start as quickly and efficiently as possible for profit and on-going revenue success you do have numerous alternatives. Among your options are the most traffic sites on the internet, these are websites that have been established for years and running successfully for extended times. Google, Yahoo and MSN are obvious choices, but clearly they are not the best options if you don't own your own website commercial business mall.

Without a website, you're not getting indexed or listed in popular directories for traffic. Without traffic, no matter how professional and capital invested in your website overall system, everyone would be a seating duck with clueless entries in unforeseen rivers. So, where do you immediately go if you want an acceptable short-cut of traffic that can manage to make you reasonable profits in times like this? You go where the traffic and money is flowing if you yet don't have your own site!

Where exactly? If you want to offer and successfully sell wholesale video games, you go to eBay and other high traffic auction sites that already have thousands, if not millions of visitors a day for millions of searched keywords. Not only does it work if you make irresistible offers, it should put money on the bank.

However, the reality for the average small business start-up and for many other people wanting to start a business is the reluctant feeling to short-cut. That is usually good if thinking long term traffic strategies. However, when you deeply analyze the short term traffic purposes and outcomes, fast strategy for fast resale profits and a quick plan for right now moments usually alleviates a problem - it seldom cures it.

In personal opinion, long term plans and strategies are just the best irresistible money making venture you can plan for revenue success. That is, whether it ends up being in an up-hill battle for eBay glory or for the never ending interesting, yet competitive plans for beating and outsmarting your competitors on search engines.

Knowing that short-cuts are not the best possible answer for long term revenue success for your business; do consider greatly getting along with eBay resale opportunities, however, make sure to start building your very first asset with your own e-commerce store, with your own private domain name and with your own company name! There are times since 2006 that eBay has had more searches in their website, than Google actually has received in a given day.

Fact being, that's because one third of North American with internet connection hit searches on per hour and per minute basis than at times most people do with Google and other search engines.

So in short and quick in-a-nutshell answers; if you want short-cuts you assure yourself of getting the best sources for resale, both domestically and internationally to bring quick profits for the items that you're planning to sell. Do know or remember that getting the lowest price will always be a challenge; it would often be your overall irresistible auction that can beat any power seller on auctions site even if you think you can't sell at the prices a power seller is actually selling on auction sites.

These are other interesting facts to keep diligently looking for when it comes to resale and wholesale profits. Whether it ends up being a list of items in the wholesale video games market, general electronics or other market, make an assessment and decide whether short-cuts or long term planning will bring the best pleasure for you and yours. If you already have the answer, you most likely are ready for even more answers!

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The PlayStation 2 is Sony's second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. Its development was announced in March 1999, and it was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000 and in Europe on November 24, 2000.

The PS2 is part of the sixth generation era, and has become the fastest selling and arguably the most dominant home console of video game history, with over 115 million units shipped worldwide by December 2006.

Only a few million people had obtained consoles by the end of 2000 due to manufacturing delays. The PlayStation 2 was so popular after its release that it was difficult to find units on retailer shelves. Another popular option was purchasing the console online through auction websites.

Many analysts predicted a close 3-way matchup between the PS2 and competitors Microsoft's Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube (which was the cheapest of the three consoles and had an open market of games). However, the release of several blockbuster games during the 2001 holiday season pushed the PS2 in order to maintain momentum and hold off its rivals.

Games

The brand strength has led to strong third-party support for the system. Although the launch titles for the Playstation2 were unimpressive in 2000, the Christmas season of 2001 saw the release of several best-selling and critically acclaimed games. These games helped the PS2 maintain and extend its lead in the video game console market, despite increased competition from the launches of the Microsoft Xbox and GameCube. In several cases, Sony made exclusivity deals with publishers in order to pre-empt its competitors.

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Hooked on video games

The onset of video game addiction is insidious. It creeps up and grabs hold of the victim before they may even recognize the symptoms. Symptoms include: agitation, anxiety, loss of friends, loss of alternative activities, diminished self-care and limited attendance to everyday responsibilities.

With the advent of modern technology and the availability of the Internet, children, youth and young adults are the first generation raised on a diet of electric media where alternate realities run like water. Therein gamers not only find virtual friends, stories and plot lines, but real sentient beings; other gamers with whom to collaborate in an on-line maze of intrigue, death, destruction and counter culture activities.

Together, real gamers come to rely on each other in a virtual world as they encounter situations designed to form group cohesion and mutual dependency. Particularly enticing to many are games of war and destruction. Here, the death of a colleague translates into really losing that player. The player is off-line. Death is dreaded because you go from insider to nothing… in a heartbeat.

Like being picked last when choosing teams for a game of pick-up basketball or football, no one wants to be in that despised position and certainly no one wants to die first. The game is on and the players develop a sense of loyalty to each other in order to survive and thus they are hooked.

These are often games without end and so to leave the game is tantamount to letting down the team, breaking the chain and undermining the participation of everyone involved. You will be responsible for he death of your collaborators. A group consciousness develops and no player wants to be blamed for letting the others down or in this reality, killing them off. The gamer letting down the team is a pariah, a traitor, someone to avoid in future games. The gamer who lets down the team is someone to be shunned. The one who blinks first by going to dinner or doing homework becomes the one to be avoided by this group. You lose real friends, social connections and your on-line identity. Concurrent to the game, gamers relate to each other; they discuss everything from strategy to how to keep real life from intruding on their play. They support each other’s dependency and participation.

As the grip of the group development and co-dependence strengthens; grades, sleep, friends and self-care slip away.

As a society we prize loyalty, determination and honour. These qualities are perverted to hook players deeper. The uninitiated just doesn’t understand. These virtues hold gamers hostage to the play.

From the outside, as parents, family or friends attempt to withdraw the gamer from on-line life to the activities and demands of everyday life, the gamer resists, feeling increasingly anxious in view of the tugs and pulls away from the game. Conflict ensues between the gamer and loved ones. Attendance to non-gaming life deteriorates. The gamer looks more and more like a crack addict.

Parents and loved ones are well advised to seek professional help and intervention in view of the above scenario. The gamer is hooked to gaming with a ferociousness as seen in any other kind of behavioural addiction. Withdrawal will be a hard fought endeavour and supports will have to be in place to manage anxiety, depression and threats of harm to self or others. For help, speak with your family physician, local community counselling agency or addiction services provider.

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW
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Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert on child development, parent-child relations, marital and family therapy, custody and access recommendations, social work and an expert for the purpose of giving a critique on a Section 112 (social work) report. Call him for your next conference and for expert opinion on family matters. Services include counselling, mediation, assessment, assessment critiques and workshops.

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The reason of it. Many of the wholesale sources being advertised on general wholesale list trading sites are middleman sites. Which means, more frustrated students on wholesale walking out with a lame distributor or supplier that can only make him or she a 10-20% average profit margin from the moment they purchase.

So what are the easiest and correct ways to get wholesale distributors, suppliers and wholesalers for merchandise that you can resale for big profits? The old tradition of small business success still prevails as a success. You buy low and you sell at a higher price. How can you make sure the distributors that you'll contact are the real deal?

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The exciting part of selling is when you buy the product and combine it with other products of low-cost that are perceived as worth-while purchases. A recent example I gave to a client was with his celular resale on eBay.

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The more added value you can get out of a distributor or discount supplier, the better it should be for your bottom-line! Keep the work on, non-stop. There's a lot more to learn when it comes to wholesale, just make sure to keep adding that dilligence until you get what you want out of sourcing for wholesalers, distributors and suppliers.

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