It's free, so it's probably mostly poor kids with trash parents with this problem.

This happening over corny Fortnite?? LOL!!! Smh.

They also blame video games for violence, while its clearly the unique american military industry complex that has warped Americans. If your country solves every problem with violence and has been at war for almost every year of its existence... what do you expect from people? Hell people get all upset about helping foreign countries but they have no problem having bombs thrown on them, it wasnt video games that did that.

I'll never get this Fortnite fad. In my opinion, battle royal games really aren't all that fun. I guess I'm just getting old.

Thats honestly pretty sad

Spank them, there's you rehab.

A game doing this is pitiful in itself, the fact that it's a shit game like fortnite only salts that wound

I've got a simple fix. Take the device they are gaming in away, or set parental controls. Simple as that. If the kid has more power over the parents, then its the parents fault.

I'm seriously surprised people aren't bored of the game. All you get are skins and there is only 1 game mode that people play.

When our 12 year old thought he could sit in his room all summer, ( best uk summer in many decades), with the curtains closed, playing fortnight ( on the back of all winter), We knew it was time to get tough. The wifi router is now assigned times to their ps4 for when they can play. Shame to see it happen tbh, but it's wrecking the boys future.

Well, Fortnite is not the problem. The problem is those people and their unbalanced lives.

Whatever happened to some good ole crack???

Time to whip out the belts.

What the heck is the allure to this game where you could become addicted???? Been gaming about 32 years and I love the hobby to death but I couldn't see spending more than a couple of hours playing a day

*still playing Devil May Cry 1*

Fortnite isn't the reason, just the catalyst. Whatever gets them help

Poor support systems = addiction, problem is not with the kids.

They get so angry it's funny..

Wow lol I don't even care for this game or even this genre at all. Meh. Just playing Overwatch and Paladins now, but that is getting stale to me as well. I miss the old days with real hard core FPS games not this crap. Quake 3 as an example.

we've reached the point of ridiculousness with this game. it's worse than the Minecraft craze. I could understand if it were "Save the World" and it was actually a really good Pve co-op game but it's just Battle Royale, and it isn't that amazing.

What about childrens AND parents Netflix addiction? Surely that would be a bigger issue.

Just imagine if these dumb kids actually discovered good videogames, then there would be REAL trouble.

Fortnite is so overrated.

bad parenting.

their gaming addictions are merely a syndrome of some bigger issues. maybe, just a thought, raise your kids properly (as in don’t misuse and abuse them, pass on proper values) and no such problem will ensue. it‘s not the games it‘s the parents.

So are these parents too scared to take away their kids gaming device or something?

just like fortnite is the reason marriages fall apart? i think ive read something like that weeks ago. ridiculous haha.

I seriously don't get the hype for Fortnite. I guess FREE is the addiction because as a game it failed for my taste. But I was born in the 80's so what do I know about good games? LMAO

the h3ll lmao.

Kids staying up late all kinds of hours isn't exclusive to Fortnite. Anyone with a controller has been doing this since the 80s onward.

Stop giving the game so much damn credit.

So does gambling, sex, alcohol, drug, etc... addictions. Pretty much anything can be abused and wreck someone. I know people addicted to their work. Just have to stay in control and moderate.

Fortnite’s still a thing?