Quit Warcraft.

I played warcraft loads since its launch but usually for a coupple of months at a time in spurts.

I quit completely a few weeks ago for this following reason. I was running a guild of 80 people (as the other GM had stood back), most of the guild members (50s and 60s) had a problem with this or that person etc etc. Managing this and keeping the guild happy was frustrating.

I was actually finding that instead of playing the game to relax and enjoy myself, I was having to take time off playing to relax and enjoy myself. Which was absoultely crazy.

Its always interested me why people played the game though. In our guild alone there was a real mix of poeple.

1)Several people in their 50s (women and men)who had always been into computer gaming and Dungeons and Dragons, games workshop type play. It seems odd to think of people at this age playing but then these people were in ther 30s or late 20s when computer gaming at home really started and I guess they never got away from it. Most of their kids played too.

2)One person retired in their 60s.^^

3)Mix of sudents from school/ college to uni who seemed to live in the game and occasionally go to lectures or classes.

4)Fair few working people who fitted in arround their job or who had got a job to fit in round WOW.

5)The odd few who were hardcore players and well did nothing but play. These were the ones with the worst attitude and least communicative.

6)What was really sad was when we were on vent voip you could here some of the guys with their families in the background, where their kids were given second place to the game.

I am waiting till the expansion to play again, if I bother although I doubt I will.
 
I only target warcraft because its the only game that hooked me in this way. I played CS a lot, started in beta 5.2 and yes i can spend a lot of time on that.. but i think warcraft is a good scapegoat for addiction right now, so im using it :p

I actually worked in someones house when i was plumbing and he was sat in the kitchen on a pc. The house was a bombsite and his wife was sat in a tip nursing her young baby. I swear warcraft musta had a big effect in there. He didnt move from the pc even when we were working around him.

Its not healthy unless you just play casually folks. and i will say thats a fact :P
 
Dj_Jestar said:
One of my friends from a different forum made me laugh.. we were discussing addictiveness to games and he was the one to pipe up about "I'm not addicted to any game." only later to admit he has had several 12-20hour stints at WoW.. he face must have been a picture when he realised he is addicted. (My addiction at the time was CS.. now I'm addicted to making crap pictures because I bought a graphics tablet :D)
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20 HOURS?! :eek:

If I play a game for more than 3 hours in a row my body starts to physically reject it!
 
I've been temporarily banned for 72 hours :(

Had a dodgy name.. 'Rapemachine' isn't that bad is it??!! :eek:

I was getting pretty hooked on it. But why have they suspended it today and not monday. I have today and the weekend off work :( :( :(
 
pretty stupid name really yes........good job blizzard for a change! just think about what that name really means, the game is about fun, but having a name like that is pretty nasty.




rotters
 
If you don't realise that a name like that is bad then you need more than a 72 hour ban, you need some serious therapy.

If it's a windup then it's not a very funny one.
 
my point of view is that not all poeple who play games espeically epic warcraft veterns such as myself are not fat and unhealthy and unsocialble. I go to the gym, 4 times a week, have a great social life and everything else, i play wow, about 10 hours a week, still play it becuase its always exciting and the voice chat is better than stupid kidz on xbox live, plus halo2 is dated now, looking forward to gears but even that might proove to be a disspointment.
 
Danzla said:
my point of view is that not all poeple who play games espeically epic warcraft veterns such as myself are not fat and unhealthy and unsocialble. I go to the gym, 4 times a week, have a great social life and everything else, i play wow, about 10 hours a week, still play it becuase its always exciting and the voice chat is better than stupid kidz on xbox live, plus halo2 is dated now, looking forward to gears but even that might proove to be a disspointment.
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10 hours a week is nothing mate. I had odd stints of 9-12hours in a day occasionally. Some people do 10hrs DAILY.

You are totally casual as far as warcraft gamers go.
 
The easiest way to stop playing is not being able to play. My computer died recently and i'm now on a crap computer with on-board graphics etc, my subscription runs out in 2 days also and I have no money. Strangely i'm not having withdrawl, I thought I would :D
 
Easiest way is to look at others and not play at all. I remember when I was addicted to runescape. Man that was bad.
 
Hedge said:
10 hours a week is nothing mate. I had odd stints of 9-12hours in a day occasionally. Some people do 10hrs DAILY.

You are totally casual as far as warcraft gamers go.
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Spent 20 hours in AV once. My back still reminds me sometimes :(
 
Kamerad said:
Do not take up Mountain biking if you want to have any money :D
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lol, just because you do Mountain Biking doesn't mean you have to spend every penny you have on it...
only most of them.
 
Edinho said:
Its a bit difficult though when the game pretty much demands you play it 24/7 to have any chance of getting the best gear. Dont have the best gear or even kitted out in good blues and your looked on like your a fumbling idiot. Once your in it its difficult to get out, you've spent all that time on a character so dont want to throw it all away, so you carry on some more, and put even more hours in making it yet harder to quit.
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Yeah but again with the new exspansion you don't need to invest tonnes of time to get the best gear. The new honor system will allow you to get the pvp gear as no ranks and no decay therefore in time you'll be on par with everyone else. But you won't get it as quickly as them, but then again you shouldn't do if your the more casual. It's a good new set up which i think blizz needed to introduce.
 
I played wow for a few months, i loved it up to lvl 60. I could see myself slowly getting addicted to the pvp side mainly.

I've quit now diddnt play it for long but can see how addictive it is.

Wasn't this on the news?
 
I would feel cheated paying the same subscription rate if I only played this style of game at reduced hours a week.

No idea what I considering the magic number for hours played/subs paid. But 10 hours would seem pretty low for me personally.

As WoW is mentioned often. Any of you seen the South Park episode concerning it? Think the ending scenes sum up it nicely with the original post.
 
You have got to do something in your sparetime so it should be something you enjoy. If you like WoW then play it.

I suppose I could go and watch coronation street with my mum and be sociable but if I find it less fun then imo it is sad to do what you don't like all the time.

You can still play WoW and have relationships with people and a normal life. It wastes less time than going to work every day does! (OK obviously you get paid for work).
 
Time to resurrect this thread. Just to say....

I started playing the damn game again! hahahaha.

Although i wanna quit again too! :D
 
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