Excessive gaming can certainly be a problem if your school and work life start to evaporate in the face of these games. But it is important to understand that addiction is a characteristic of the Internet as a whole and not just gaming alone. Endlessly pulling up your Twitter timeline or binging on Netflix at the expense of your offline life is an equally unhealthy problem that requires addressing. Teenagers who don’t have the critical faculty to understand excess can’t be expected to cross such a labyrinth. But that doesn’t mean you forcefully pull them out of it. By depriving them, we only inspire them further to find innovative ways around such bans.