EverQuest Lawsuit

I read over at RPGDot that the Milwaukee Journal has published a story about a man who committed suicide last Thanksgiving, and that the unfortunate occurence may be potentially related to his EverQuest addiction. His mother is now filing a lawsuit against Sony Online Entertainment to get warnings printed on these types of games, which you can read below:

Shawn Woolley loved an online computer game so much that he played it just minutes before his suicide.

The 21-year-old Hudson man was addicted to EverQuest, says his mother, Elizabeth Woolley of Osceola. He sacrificed everything so he could play for hours, ignoring his family, quitting his job and losing himself in a 3-D virtual world where more than 400,000 people worldwide adventure in a never-ending fantasy.

On Thanksgiving morning last year, Shawn Woolley shot himself to death at his apartment in Hudson. His mother blames the game for her son’s suicide. She is angry that Sony Online Entertainment, which owns EverQuest, won’t give her the answers she desires. She has hired an attorney who plans to sue the company in an effort to get warning labels put on the games.