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As some of you might know, i read forums a lot espcially the ones with are completely silly/retarded. Anyway, there's this video game forum and people started talking about MMO (massive multiplayer online) game addictions and strangely this forum allows and encourage the posters to post anonymously so it was kind of like, a video game addict anonymous (i got to come up with a better name lol). Anyway, let me explain what WOW is first; WOW stands for World of Warcraft and came out i think in 04 or 05, it's extremely addictive and what i consider to be the bastard child of Evercrack I and II (everquest but all gamers knows it as evercrack, that's how addictive it was). Here are some posts that were done:
Anonymous # 1 (thread starter):
Have you or anyone you've known been addicted to a video game? Not like plays it every day addicted, playing a game for like 3 to 4 hours every day is healthy. I am talking about like you NEVER see them away from the game. I have a friend whos addicted to world of warcraft. He has 6 60s over 2 months play time solid on his newest character and all he talks about is wow.
He can sell his account for more then 6k yet he won't. He knows every quest in the game and even comes over my house and plays wow when I hate the fucking game! Anyone else have storys?
Note this is driving me fucking nuts cause I hate everything world and or warcraft.
Anonymous # 2:
Yes indeed. A friend of mine almost ruined his entire life because of it. Almost lost his scholarship, lost his girlfriend, and played it whenever he came over. Couldn't do anything after work because he was raiding.
After his girlfriend Left him, he sold his account for lots of cash, and shunned the game wholesale.
Of course, he became a christian afterwards. Out of the frying pan into the fire, I guess.
Anonymous # 3:
I've personally just broke away from WoW after a year and a half, and it's a refreshing feeling to be able to not feel the need to be home at a certain time, to have that freedom. I've sworn off MMOs again, just like I did after I stopped playing Everquest four years ago. I fill the time I spent on WoW with other video games and forums, so it's not like I'm completely free of it all. I've basically just traded in one way to spend the time with another, but there isn't any obligation to anyone else in me playing and I can turn it off when I actually want. This is a relief.
Anonymous # 4:
I joined WoW with my best friend, and another friend who regarded my best friend as his own, as well. We all had lots of fun, doing quests, exploring areas and the like. Then after we hit 60, things started to change.
My friend and I, we still love to play and raid with the guild and just have a blast, but we would also spend plenty of time outside of the game... doing other things. But our other friend, he's become consumed in it. We started our characters on the same hour of the same day, yet he has over a week more of actual time spent on his main, and has several als all making a steady grind to 60. He won't talk to either of us with the exception of time in between battlegrounds, which is basically an IM with "ok", "yeah", or "what can I can do to make you leave me alone?", causing my best friend to become greatly depressed at times, because she's losing one of her closest friends for several years to a video game.
Addiction to games is real, I play WoW a lot, but I spent almost all of this week not playing, without really caring. I still love the game, but... it's not absorbing me.
Anonymous # 5:
I got mildly addicted to City of Heroes for a while. I'd play 2-3 hours a day, over the course of about 15 months. It doesnt sound as bad as real hardcore gamers, but when you have a wife, kid and career, its a fuckload.
I got sick of the game and eventually quit, thanks in no small part to the actions of the developers. But I still had the itch to play SOMETHING.
My solution - and this will prolly sound queer- I made my bank account my RPG. Dollars = experience. Earn money, go up in levels. Real life grinding, basiclly. Yeah yeah, money's not everything, but with that money I could now afford things like family vacations, new furniture. Upgrades, basiclly. Plus I now had a SHITLOAD of free time to read, get caught up on my Netflix, and play some FPS, which aren't NEARLY as addictive.
And it goes on for about 60+ posts, keep in mind that this forum is a rapid type where a thread do not live longer than 5 hours (this one probably hits 5 hours while i was reading it because it was "marked for deletion" because it was old).
Anonymous # 1 (thread starter):
Have you or anyone you've known been addicted to a video game? Not like plays it every day addicted, playing a game for like 3 to 4 hours every day is healthy. I am talking about like you NEVER see them away from the game. I have a friend whos addicted to world of warcraft. He has 6 60s over 2 months play time solid on his newest character and all he talks about is wow.
He can sell his account for more then 6k yet he won't. He knows every quest in the game and even comes over my house and plays wow when I hate the fucking game! Anyone else have storys?
Note this is driving me fucking nuts cause I hate everything world and or warcraft.
Anonymous # 2:
Yes indeed. A friend of mine almost ruined his entire life because of it. Almost lost his scholarship, lost his girlfriend, and played it whenever he came over. Couldn't do anything after work because he was raiding.
After his girlfriend Left him, he sold his account for lots of cash, and shunned the game wholesale.
Of course, he became a christian afterwards. Out of the frying pan into the fire, I guess.
Anonymous # 3:
I've personally just broke away from WoW after a year and a half, and it's a refreshing feeling to be able to not feel the need to be home at a certain time, to have that freedom. I've sworn off MMOs again, just like I did after I stopped playing Everquest four years ago. I fill the time I spent on WoW with other video games and forums, so it's not like I'm completely free of it all. I've basically just traded in one way to spend the time with another, but there isn't any obligation to anyone else in me playing and I can turn it off when I actually want. This is a relief.
Anonymous # 4:
I joined WoW with my best friend, and another friend who regarded my best friend as his own, as well. We all had lots of fun, doing quests, exploring areas and the like. Then after we hit 60, things started to change.
My friend and I, we still love to play and raid with the guild and just have a blast, but we would also spend plenty of time outside of the game... doing other things. But our other friend, he's become consumed in it. We started our characters on the same hour of the same day, yet he has over a week more of actual time spent on his main, and has several als all making a steady grind to 60. He won't talk to either of us with the exception of time in between battlegrounds, which is basically an IM with "ok", "yeah", or "what can I can do to make you leave me alone?", causing my best friend to become greatly depressed at times, because she's losing one of her closest friends for several years to a video game.
Addiction to games is real, I play WoW a lot, but I spent almost all of this week not playing, without really caring. I still love the game, but... it's not absorbing me.
Anonymous # 5:
I got mildly addicted to City of Heroes for a while. I'd play 2-3 hours a day, over the course of about 15 months. It doesnt sound as bad as real hardcore gamers, but when you have a wife, kid and career, its a fuckload.
I got sick of the game and eventually quit, thanks in no small part to the actions of the developers. But I still had the itch to play SOMETHING.
My solution - and this will prolly sound queer- I made my bank account my RPG. Dollars = experience. Earn money, go up in levels. Real life grinding, basiclly. Yeah yeah, money's not everything, but with that money I could now afford things like family vacations, new furniture. Upgrades, basiclly. Plus I now had a SHITLOAD of free time to read, get caught up on my Netflix, and play some FPS, which aren't NEARLY as addictive.
And it goes on for about 60+ posts, keep in mind that this forum is a rapid type where a thread do not live longer than 5 hours (this one probably hits 5 hours while i was reading it because it was "marked for deletion" because it was old).