Friend given up job to play WoW

Thegoon84 said:
I have no idea if he is claiming the dole or not, i'm out this Friday and pretty sure he's coming out as its for his best mates bday so i will quiz the bleep out of him!!

On another note.... i never paid any rent at all EVER to my parents. They just made me pass my driving test, buy a car and pay for the up keep... Pretty cool parents actualy lol! Never did me any harm... i'm married now, 3 month old baby girl, have a new 3 bedroom house with garage etc ;)
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Whilst controlling a naked char on Age of Conan :p.
 
Thegoon84 said:
As the title says... only found out last week a good mate of mine plays wow to the extreme..... When i stopped and thought he actually hasn't bothered coming out much to town etc over the passed few years.... anyways i spoke to him this week and he decided to give up his job as it was getting in the way of his gaming time!!

Gobsmacked.... his job was pretty good, he lives with his parents etc so rent and monthly bill’s isn’t an issue!

If i'm honest i'd love to be able to do it but in the real world i need my job to of course pay for the more important things. I think the gaming industry as a whole could makes us all work shy once we get the bug… SHOCKING!
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Anyone who wants to give up their job to play WoW need to see a psychiatrist. It is seriously screwed up on so many levels I wouldn't really know where to begin.
 
Thegoon84 said:
He doesn't pay anything to his parents. They live in a faily big house so must be ok money wise.

I suppose £80 every 2 weeks will easily cover the subscription and half a weeks dole money will buy the expansion + Mammy and Daddy could always lend him i suppose!

Lets be honest tho wes personally i could easily pull the wool over my parents eyes and make it look like i'm actively looking for work... we're in the middle of a recession which makes it even easier to hide from work!

SHOCKING.

The worst thing of all tbh tho is like in 5 - 10 years down the line when he thinks "hmmm i now want a wife/kids etc" he'll have the shock of his life with no job, no savings, no passed experience.... just has to start from the bottom and work up!!
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I was expecting a punchline, but you're actually being serious. :/
 
Holy crap, thats ridiculous. I know I've sat up late some nights playing and been knackered in work the next day, but to give up your job, no matter what your financial situation, to play a game, is just ridiculous.

As someone posted earlier in the thread, he needs referred to a psychiatrist. He's clearly seriously addicted, and I suspect on the road to pretty serious depression - which is no laughing matter.
 
The worrying things is the news i've seen which is about people who get addicted to games and end up causing serious harm to the people around them, like the guy who stabbed a knife in someones head for hacking on Camperstrike, or the kid who killed his dad or injured his dad for confiscating his keyboard or something.
 
Tombstone said:
Who paid for your driving lessons and the car?

Sponging little gits. .
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Oi i resent that comment. I bought the lessons and car myself. If my parents had been "getting by" to right i'd have helped out no questions asked... no normal human being wouldn't. However i think my parents thought the best early money lesson they could teach me was to buy a car.... that way i learnt that... a: Loans are BAD news, b: Insurance is a *****, c: no matter how skint i am i've still got to pay for fuel, insurance, loan, tax, repairs etc.... Because of those early lessons i have no car loans or loans of any kind despite the obvious, i put a few quid each month back for emergencies and have an appreciation for saving.

So for that reason i'm glad my parents made me go independent mobility wise (that and my dad wants lifts back and fore the rugby club) haha.


I'm going to tell my daughter when she's working that she either pays rent each month which i'l save for her or get her self mobile.
 
Thegoon84 said:
Oi i resent that comment. I bought the lessons and car myself. If my parents had been "getting by" to right i'd have helped out no questions asked... no normal human being wouldn't. However i think my parents thought the best early money lesson they could teach me was to buy a car.... that way i learnt that... a: Loans are BAD news, b: Insurance is a *****, c: no matter how skint i am i've still got to pay for fuel, insurance, loan, tax, repairs etc.... Because of those early lessons i have no car loans or loans of any kind despite the obvious, i put a few quid each month back for emergencies and have an appreciation for saving.

So for that reason i'm glad my parents made me go independent mobility wise (that and my dad wants lifts back and fore the rugby club) haha.


I'm going to tell my daughter when she's working that she either pays rent each month which i'l save for her or get her self mobile.
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If you bought the car and paid for the lessons yourself then thats good, for a moment I thought that on top of not paying anything towards upkeep , your parents were also paying for your lessons and car. Which is why I asked.

Still think you should have paid some form of upkeep to your parents whether questions were asked or not, but good to see that you will be making your own kid pay upkeep.

As for your rather immature mate, well...not much to say in his regard is there. A hopeless case I fear. With a bit of luck it will come back and bite him in the backside and leave him destitute in the gutter with not a penny or friend to his name.
 
Tombstone said:
If you bought the car and paid for the lessons yourself then thats good, for a moment I thought that on top of not paying anything towards upkeep , your parents were also paying for your lessons and car. Which is why I asked.

Still think you should have paid some form of upkeep to your parents whether questions were asked or not, but good to see that you will be making your own kid pay upkeep.

As for your rather immature mate, well...not much to say in his regard is there. A hopeless case I fear. With a bit of luck it will come back and bite him in the backside and leave him destitute in the gutter with not a penny or friend to his name.
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Lol of course i paid for everything, i used to get so much stick of people as i'm an only child and the rents were pretty well off, people always used to say "daddy bought that is it?"...NO FUDGE OFF I'M SKINT EACH MONTH TO DRIVE THIS POXY THING ROUND... I WISH DAD HAD BOUGHT IT BUT HE DIDN'T AGGGGRRRHHHH.... i can remember my dad saying to me when i bought the new "S" reg corsa SPORT "Are you sure you want to take a loan out for this"... YES i'm sure...... EPIC FAIL FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS..... End of every month i can still hear him saying "Haha need to lend some money... TOUGH HA" ********!

But yeah my daugher will have 2 options pay rent or get a car, if she pays rent i'l save it for her and match it without her knowing so when she buys her first house or has her wedding etc i'l say "here".
 
I cant believe so many people play that game it's not even any good ? has 10 year old graphics and gameplay it's so laughable all these people pay for it lmao let alone even like the game.
It's the bottled water of gaming I could understand it if the game were amazing but it's dated and boring just don't understand why people play it.
 
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C64 said:
I cant believe so many people play that game it's not even any good ? has 10 year old graphics and gameplay it's so laughable all these people pay for it lmao let alone even like the game.
It's the bottled water of gaming I could understand it if the game were amazing but it's dated and boring just don't understand why people play it.
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I was of the exact same opinion as i'd previously tried it and jumped on the WoW beater bandwagon... however i think the key thing about any MMO is your guild friends or who you play it with... I've just started it and can honestly say i am absolutely loving it... the content is years ahead of anything else out there... and as someone said... if you base your PC experience on GFX alone expect disappointment.
 
Which content is years ahead then ? the gameplay is dated too it's basically addicted to levelling up and loot because it sure as hell isn't amazing gameplay to point a mouse on a box and click.
 
C64 said:
I cant believe so many people play that game it's not even any good ? has 10 year old graphics and gameplay it's so laughable all these people pay for it lmao let alone even like the game.
It's the bottled water of gaming I could understand it if the game were amazing but it's dated and boring just don't understand why people play it.
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Some people play it because they enjoy it and find it fun. Thats fair enough.

Its the others that baffle me, the people who play it, but dont like the game, dont find it particularly fun and whine about the game. Yet they continue paying monthly for it, continue logging in day after day, week after week, only to moan that its too easy/boring/etc etc. Then even more peculiarly buy expansion number X when it comes out, rave about it for 14 days, then moan again that its too easy/boring/etc etc ...yet STILL continue paying for it monthly and logging in day after day, week after week.

Those are the people who baffle me. They strike me as the people who play not because they actually enjoy it but because friends play it so they feel they should too (ie.. a sheep), or play it simply out of habit (ie... weak-willed), or because they need something in life (ie...low self esteem/ego)
 
Sad sad man, he needs his head reading.

"How do you kill that which has no life?"

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C64 said:
I cant believe so many people play that game it's not even any good ? has 10 year old graphics and gameplay it's so laughable all these people pay for it lmao let alone even like the game.
It's the bottled water of gaming I could understand it if the game were amazing but it's dated and boring just don't understand why people play it.
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Its one of the most "complete" MMO's (along with EvE).

I no longer play it, as the end game grind of doing the same **** over and over for months grew massively tiresome, but when I gave up playing it and went looking for another MMO to play I found that a lot of the time I was thinking "this is good, but I wish it had X feature from WoW".

Addons are a big part of it, a lot of other MMO's have clunky interfaces and such that I wish I could do something about, but cant, and it just irritates me to the point of not bothering. I know addons are a huge thorn in the side for Blizzard now, but its become part of what WoW is.

On top of that, its easily accessable for casual gamers, so that draws a lot of subs too.

Anyway, as for myself, its not for me, and I've went and re-subbed EvE, and thought I'd have a go at scamming people to get a bit of ISK in....can't do that in WoW! :D
 
Anyway there's no talking to wow people they are too far gone.

that star wars mmo will be the same old repetitive level grinding rubbish too.
 
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C64 said:
Which content is years ahead then ? the gameplay is dated too it's basically addicted to levelling up and loot because it sure as hell isn't amazing gameplay to point a mouse on a box and click.
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As a level 35 with no end game charc's, i play it for the social aspect, also the game draws you in... i mean one min i'm standing in stormwind with loads of players... then next thing i'm standing on some harbour in the middle of god knows where on my own.... and just marvil in the beauty and size of the game.

Game play wise, i enjoy learning the class and getting the gear, the fact they've made it so only a select few actually get mega drops is great! I've played AoC to level 80 and it is nowhere near Wow gameplay wise... each to there own.... the fact 11 million people pay £8 must mean there is something about it!

Whats the name of that guy who is supposed to be the best wow player in the world he's a paladin or sumin?

Sum1 post the video of him.... what a toss pot!
 
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