Breaking free of WoW addiction

Are you spending long hours trapped in front of your computer memorizing by the game that is World of Warcraft?


mesmerized?

My summer of 2005 was spent mostly inside and I usually surf and do outside stuff, so I stopped immediately. In the next few weeks I boosted up my portfolio and got a killer job. End of story.

Funny story, I've never even PLAYED WoW!

someone should made this for FF11 4 years ago...

but great video! :D

Wow!, I mean, Awesome video!

Although, you replaced game addiction to replace it for another... good for you!

THIS IS XBOX! (that part was great)

i just typed two paragraphs about FXII, but was afraid it'd change the topic.

so i typed that instead^

LMAO - I play WoW but Im not addicted... why has this turned into a drug? Then when someone says "Yeah man, I quit my addiction to WoW" then others respond as if this guy just had a near death experience. "GREAT MAN! GOOD JOB!" are you so weak you get addicted to a video game? MAN UP. People hate the game as if its pure evil, its not the game that got you addicted its yourself. Breaking the disc and pretending the game doesn't exist isn't a cure, its a way not to deal with a problem.

actually dr. doom you're right about wow not being the problem, it's the person playing.

but breaking the discs, uninstalling it, and breaking all ties to the game is a way solve your problem as far as the wow aspect is concerned.

did the same thing with smoking and it worked just fine. I guess now you're going to tell me that quitting smoking cold turkey didn't solve my problem?

deiga, your avatar creeps the fuck out of me.

give vegeta his face back!

i sent this in this morning but it didn't get put up as quick b/c i wasn't furious while writing it.

WoW is like pregnancy. Complete abstanince is the only way to guarantee your life won't be ruined. Except the chance isn't nearly as fun to take.

Woohoo! I have never played WoW evvaar! That is the best way to avoid addiction. The only MMO I've ever played was Star Wars Galaxies and that turned me right off the genre...which is probably a good thing.

MMORPG's I think are highly overrated. I've played my share and all have the same damn thing happening. People level, raid, group, attack low levels for pitiful reasons, rinse and repeat. There is just nothing fun about MMORPG's I can find. That and there is just so many out there trying to copy WoW and shit so now it's just a cash crop.

Funny ass video. Its not that hard to quit. Just have a couple of kids. That way you cant afford to play nor will you have the time. Now I just have time to play a little xbox or wii now and then, but at least I get a kick ass tax refund. WOOT! /train /dance!

Good video, it's pretty much what happened to me. I was hooked for about 6 months until after the 12th Scholo run my whatever it was still didn't drop. So I vendored all my equipment, gave the gold to my guild, told Orgrimmar to STFU and GBTW, and canceled my account. That was one year, six months, and 28 days ago.

Every word of this story is true, I swear it!

I played WoW for about 10 months, not very long but I had several lvl 60 friends that i power leveled with and began raiding after only a few weeks. This all happened towards the end of first semester last year, in which i had a 3.4 GPA.

Christmas break i got used to playing about 8 hours a day (for two weeks) and i was completely hooked. I think i went to class for a total of 2 weeks second semester. I really didn't think anything of it. I went home for the summer and continued my strict WoW schedule straight through it.

Finally, when I was about a week away from going back to school, my mother asked me about my report card. My school has this policy where paper reports are only sent out upon request, so you're to check your grades online. I did. My GPA was a 0.0, and surprisingly I was shocked. My mother immediately told me that she wouldn't be paying for my education anymore. I couldn't blame her. I immediately uninstalled the game (after a /played of over 90 days in 8 months) and gave the discs to my cousin the next day.

I don't know his whole story, but he did end up getting fired from his job (not a career or anything, but a job), getting kicked out of his apartment, and losing his GF of one year.

He gave the game back to me and told me he hated me (OK, i threw that in there for humour). I've been debating giving it to someone else and having it ruin a small part of their life, or trying to get back into it casually, if that's possible.

And that's my story!

300 ftw

I thought it was a 360 commercial...but why Heavenly Sword and MSG4?

Seriously.. WoW wouldn't be near as bad if it had graphics that looked like the opening FMVs. I tried playing, but I just couldn't stay interested in the cartoony look and such.

Oh I have. When I say cartoony I mean the whole style. WoW uses exaggerated armor (I mean look at the damn spaulders on the high level plate raid sets. They are FAR larger than they should be.) and highly vibrant colors. When I sit down to play a game that is designed to keep me on my ass as long as possible, like an MMO, I at least look for a game that looks pleasing to the eyes... like EQ2. There is no MMO on the market today that can look as good EQ2, except MABYE Vanguard (but Vanguard has its moments.). This old Ctrl+Alt+Del comic describes my viewpoint perfectly

sorry but MMOs that go for a realistic "art style" are boring.

ragnarok online was visually more pleasing than vanguard.

eq2 is just as un-inspired as eq