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Time, money limits in online games help curb addictive behaviour: Study

The study, conducted based on data provided by gaming companies, analysed the gaming habits of more than 8,000 gamers

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Aashish Aryan Delhi

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The adoption of voluntary self-exclusion tools, as well as ‘time and money limit’ policies by online gaming platforms helps in containing addictive behaviour of players, a joint study conducted by researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi has shown.
 
The study, conducted based on the data provided by gaming companies, took into consideration the gaming habits of more than 8,000 gamers. Most of the data, however, was non-personal and looked at parameters such as the deposit amounts, game counts, daily play amounts per player, and daily winnings per game