This year's award for most creative parenting goes to one Mr. Feng of China, who, apparently disappointed in his son's lack of professional ambition, took to hiring a crew of virtual assassins in order to dispose of the younger Feng's online avatar.
To hear it from the father, he younger Feng, aged 23, owed his lack of professional prospects to online gaming, citing the son's habit for his poor grades in school. How the father met this ragtag crew willing to engage in virtual wetwork isn't known, but they all outranked the son in virtually every way. The idea was that the son's continued online slaughter would eventually frustrate him to the point that he would quit the game alltogether, and hopefully find some form of gainful employment.
Apparently the younger Feng somehow found out that his father was behind the continued virtual onslaught, and finally gave his father a piece of his mind. He was quoted as saying "I can play or I can not play, it doesn't bother me. I'm not looking for any job-I want to take some time to find one that suits me." So everything seemed to work out fine in the end, the father admitting he was relieved at hearing his son's plea.
First reported by Kotaku East earlier this month, the story was eventually picked up by the BBC. Cultural differences aside, in an age where continents away, parents buy their children games, only to worry about what kind of games, and the potential effect they're having on their children, but are too afraid to talk to them about, parents stateside could take a lesson from Mr. Feng, instead of rounding them up to be destroyed.
