Name: 澳洲的 "隱藏人群"--遊戲成癮者 - BTN High (Australia’s ‘Hidden Population’ of Gaming Addicts - BTN High)
Uploaded: 2025-10-30T15:38:01.000Z
Duration: 10 min 24 s

I think gaming has become an integrated part of my life.

我覺得 gaming 已經變成我生活的一部分了。

I think I really like the social aspect of it.

我覺得我真的很喜歡 social media 的社交性。

I've met a ton of people on there, both the good and bad.

我在那裡認識了好多人，有好有壞。

I've seen gaming as a way to see how far I can push myself without my age restricting me.

我把 gaming 當作一種方式，看看在不被年齡限制的情況下，我能挑戰自己到什麼程度。

But like a lot of people, she really got into it during the pandemic.

但跟很多人一樣，她在 pandemic 期間才真正投入進去。

I was so young, during that time, most of my friends didn't have access to social media where I could talk to them.

那時候我還很小，我大部分的朋友都沒有 social media 可以讓我跟他們哈拉。

So I really did turn to gaming to just look for that connection with people.

所以我真的轉向 gaming，只是為了尋找那種人與人的連結。

很快地，這個 hobby 就變成了一種 addiction。

Oh, during that time I might have averaged like 8 to 10 hours a day.

喔，那時候我一天可能平均玩 8 到 10 個小時。

I definitely found myself being closed off, so I would often just stay in my room and game.

我發現自己變得越來越封閉，所以經常就待在房間裡 gaming。

I wouldn't interact with my friends out of school or, or really my family either.

我不會跟學校的朋友互動，或者說，真的也不太跟家人互動。

So I would often find myself not wanting to go to school and instead just stay home and play games.

所以我常常會不想去上學，而是待在家裡玩 game。

It was during the end of year eight when my attendance rate dropped to like 64% and that's when I realized, ooh, this is probably not the best idea.

那是在八年級快結束的時候，我的出席率掉到大概 64%，那時候我才意識到，嗯，這可能不是個好主意。

Over the past 10 years, there's been a video game revolution.

在過去的 10 年裡，出現了一場 video game revolution。

Since 2015, the industry has more than doubled in both money made and the number of players playing.

自從 2015 年以來，這個 industry 在賺的錢和玩遊戲的人數上都翻了一倍多。

Last year, almost 3.5 billion people were playing video games in Australia.

去年，澳洲有將近 35 億人在玩 video games。

92% 的 5 到 24 歲年輕人都在玩 game。

But for some, that time spent gaming is becoming a problem.

不過對某些人來說，花在 gaming 的時間已經變成一個問題了。

In 2018, the World Health Organization listed gaming addiction as a mental health condition.

2018 年，世界衛生組織將 gaming addiction 列為一種心理健康狀況。

And today, research estimates about 100,000 Aussie teenagers are clinically addicted to gaming.

而今天，研究估計大約有 10 萬名澳洲青少年臨床上成癮於 gaming。

But experts reckon that number could be even higher.

不過 experts 認為這個數字可能還更高。

The data that we have is based on surveys that we're giving out to the community or to online populations.

我們擁有的數據是根據我們提供給 community 或 online populations 的 surveys。

And so we don't tap into the people who are the most severely affected by problem gaming.

所以我們沒有接觸到那些 severely affected by problem gaming 的人。

And this can include teenagers who have stopped going to school, they're spending all their time at home.

這可能包含那些已經停止上學的青少年，他們把所有時間都花在家裡。

They're like a hidden population, very hard to reach.

他們就像一個 hidden population，非常難接觸到。

So the problem may actually be bigger than what we think.

所以這個問題實際上可能比我們想像的還要大。

Daniel King is an associate professor of psychology at Flinders University.

Daniel King 是 Flinders University 的心理學副教授。

His research focuses on digital based addiction.

The gaming behaviour falls along a spectrum where we recognise that most people are playing games in a very healthy way.

gaming 行為是沿著一個光譜發展的，我們知道大多數人都是以非常健康的方式在玩 game。

Then we start to see people who are spending or starting to spend too much time involved in their gaming.

接著我們開始看到有些人花費或開始花費過多時間在 gaming 上。

And we might call this hazardous gaming where there's risks associated with how much time they spend.

這可能被稱為危險 gaming，與他們花費的時間有關聯的風險。

A very small number of people who we estimate are about 1% of the population are meeting some of those addiction criteria.

我們估計大約 1% 的人口符合某些成癮標準。

Professor King says when it comes to addiction, it's not about the time spent playing.

King 教授表示，談到成癮，重點不在於花費的時間。

Instead it's about the control the player has over their habit.

而是玩家對他們的 hobby 的控制力。

This is what we call the boundary with normality when we're distinguishing between gaming that is fun and enjoyable and gaming that is starting to have problems for a person's life.

這就是我們在區分好玩又享受的 gaming 和開始對個人生活造成問題的 gaming 時，所稱的與正常狀態的界線。

So in terms of when we start to see gaming become a problem, it's when it's a person starting to over prioritise gaming and doing it instead of the other things that they should be doing and it's impacting on their life.

所以當我們開始看到 gaming 變成一個問題時，就是當一個人開始過度重視 gaming，而忽略了他們應該做的事情，並且影響到他們的生活。

Hello and welcome to Goodgame Spawn Point, the show for gamers by gamers.

哈囉，歡迎來到 Goodgame Spawn Point，一個由玩家為玩家打造的節目。

There's so many benefits to playing video games.

It's how I found my friends, you know, all the way through primary school and secondary school and then through uni and then in adult life.

這就是我認識我朋友的方式，你知道的，從國小、國中到大學，然後到成人生活。

Some of my best moments in my life have been in a video game.

我生命中一些最美好的時刻都發生在 video game 裡。

Stephen o', Donnell, who is better known as Bajo, used to be one of the hosts of Good Game on the ABC and now is a full time streamer.

Stephen o' Donnell，也就是大家熟知的 Bajo，曾經是 ABC 電視臺 Good Game 的主持人之一，現在是全職實況主。

This is worth everybody's time here on Twitch.

這在 Twitch 上絕對值得大家花時間觀看。

What a joy to be able to experience a great game with friends and make friends while doing it.

能跟朋友一起玩很棒的 game，還能交到朋友，這真是太棒了。

It's always been about a community of some sort.

一直以來都是關於某種 community。

He says even though gaming is now his job, there have been times where he's taken it too far.

他說，雖然 gaming 現在是他的工作，但有時候他還是會做得太過頭。

There has been moments where it's been a challenge, you know, and

有些時候確實是個挑戰，你知道的，而且

not just because my whole job has revolved around video games for 17 years.

不僅僅是因為我 17 年來的工作都圍繞著 video games。

There have been times in my life where games have taken over and I've neglected more important things in my life such as hanging out with my friends or partner or doing other work or just, you know, getting enough sleep.

我生命中有時候 game 佔據了我，而我忽略了生活中更重要的事，像是跟朋友或伴侶出去玩、做其他工作，或是好好睡覺。

And I can't, I can't imagine how hard it must be for young people now because when I was a kid, games weren't that great.

我無法想像現在的年輕人會有多辛苦，因為我小時候，game 還沒那麼好玩。

Dr. Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Adelaide, has seen firsthand what this looks like.

來自阿德雷德的兒童青少年精神科醫師 Kim Lee 醫師，親眼見證了這一切的樣貌。

Well, I've had people collapse from playing video games.

嗯，我遇過有人因為玩 video games 而昏倒。

I've seen people who have suffered medical episodes and collapsed or suffered like a mini stroke.

我看過有人出現醫療急症而昏倒，或是像輕微中風一樣。

I'm seeing kids who are ignoring the urge to sleep and Then in the morning when their parents are waking them up, they just can't even show them to get awake to go to school.

我看到有些小孩會忽略睡覺的衝動，然後早上爸媽叫他們起床時，他們根本起不來去上學。

Over the last few years, the number of kids refusing to go to school has increased.

過去幾年，拒絕上學的小孩人數增加了。

And Dr. Lee says excessive gaming during the pandemic is one reason why.

而 Lee 醫師表示，pandemic 期間過度 gaming 是其中一個原因。

But it's also no surprise they got hooked in the first place.

但他們一開始就上癮，這點也不讓人意外。

Everyone needs to be aware that these are simply not just video games anymore.

大家都需要知道，這些已經不只是單純的 video games 了。

These are very sophisticated, highly polished games which are designed to keep people hooked, keep people engaged, keep people gaming every day.

這些是非常精緻、高度打磨的 games，它們的設計就是要讓大家沉迷其中、保持參與、每天都在 gaming。

One of the ways they do that is firstly by making, making them endless so you can't actually reach a natural end point in the game and feel that you've got some satisfaction from that.

其中一種方法是，首先讓它們「無止盡」，所以你無法真正達到一個自然的終點，並從中獲得滿足感。

The other way is through using what we call variable ratio rewards.

另一種方法是利用我們稱之為「變動比例獎勵」的機制。

You've probably heard of these rewards, they're better known as loot boxes.

你可能聽過這些獎勵，它們更廣為人知的名字是「開箱」。

Heaps of games have loot boxes and they're a bit like a mystery box.

很多 games 都有開箱，它們有點像神祕盒子。

Often they contain common or useless items within the game, but

裡面常常是遊戲裡很普通或沒用的物品，但

sometimes they can reward you with a super rare item and it's all down to chance.

有時候你會得到一個超級稀有的物品，這全都是看運氣。

It feeds that type of once again gambling addiction where you feel, where you reach the high of will I get something special?

這又再次餵養了那種賭博成癮，讓你感覺，讓你體驗到「我會不會拿到特別的東西？」的興奮感。

然後是「沒有，我沒有」的失落感。

Games are there to make money for the game publishers and at the moment their model is free to play, to get people in the door and then keeping them there.

遊戲的存在是為了讓遊戲發行商賺錢，而目前他們的模式是免費遊玩，把玩家吸引進來，然後留住他們。

So keeping them there with fresh, new, surprising novelty things and then using tactics called persuasive design.

所以透過新鮮、新奇、令人驚喜的事物來留住他們，然後使用一種叫做「說服式設計」的策略。

Loot boxes are really just one small way that video games try and hook its players in.

開箱只是 video games 試圖吸引玩家的一種小方法。

This 20 minute video on YouTube goes into detail about all the ways games try to make you spend money and lock you into their product.

這支 YouTube 上的 20 分鐘影片詳細介紹了 games 試圖讓你花錢並鎖定在你產品中的各種方法。

Some of you will probably be slightly shocked by all the tricks I have listed here.

這裡列出的所有手法，可能會讓你們有些人有點驚訝。

There are ways where you can stop the addiction.

有些方法可以讓你停止 addiction。

Definitely the one way I found is that I just made more plans with my friends.

我找到的一個方法是，我會多安排跟朋友見面的時間。

You want to kind of book out your time to just do the things that you enjoy doing in real life.

你要試著把時間預留下來，去做你在現實生活中真正喜歡做的事。

both the experts I spoke to said one of the first steps to break a gaming addiction is to take a break from the game itself.

我訪談的 experts 都說，要戒掉 gaming addiction 的第一步，就是先暫停玩 game 本身。

Schedule a break of a week to two weeks to try to identify what it is that they're trying to get out of their gaming.

安排一到兩週的休息時間，試著找出他們從 gaming 中到底想獲得什麼。

How does it make you feel when you're not playing?

當你沒有在玩 game 的時候，感覺怎麼樣？

Then we start to look at what are their real goals, what are their values, what do they want to achieve in their life.

然後我們開始探討，他們真正的目標是什麼，他們的價值觀是什麼，他們想在生活中達成什麼。

And if the game isn't serving their goals, then we start to try to adjust their behaviours, try to have days off gaming, give them a break.

如果 game 無法幫助他們達成目標，我們就會開始試著調整他們的行為，試著安排幾天不用 gaming，讓他們休息一下。

Research from the University of Adelaide and Flinders University has found that even just taking a weekend off gaming has helped gamers to stop thinking about the game as being an irreplaceable part of their life.

澳洲阿德雷德大學和弗林德斯大學的研究發現，即使只是週末不玩 game，也能幫助玩家停止認為 game 是生活中不可或缺的一部分。

How I dealt with managing that personally was taking a break, you know, taking a step back and looking at how many hours I was putting into a game.

我個人處理管理的方式是休息一下，你知道的，退一步看看我花了多少時間在玩 game 上。

Instead of doing other things in my life, uninstall it.

與其做生活中其他事情，不如把它移除。

You know, it's hard, it's hard to do, but

你知道的，這很難，真的很難做到，但是

it's the only thing that's helped me personally is to actually just get away from it for a while and realize what else you can do with your time.

這是我個人唯一覺得有幫助的就是暫時遠離它，然後意識到你的時間還能做些什麼。

But experts say the responsibility shouldn't be just on the gamer.

但 experts 說，責任不應該只在玩家身上。

I think games need to be redesigned to eliminate some of those what we call gambling mechanics in video games that keep us hooked.

我認為 game 需要重新設計，來消除我們稱之為 video games 中那些讓我們沉迷的 gambling mechanics。

We want games to be healthy, to promote other activities other than gaming, and

我們希望 game 是健康的，能鼓勵 gaming 以外的其他活動，而不是

not just to try and keep people playing mindlessly.

只是試圖讓玩家無意識地一直玩下去。