Quit Warcraft.

Edinho said:
...and when you are raiding you need to concentrate 100% and be there everything else takes 2nd place yes even kids, GF, mates.

Ive been there and quit before it got to that stage because I knew it was me or the game. Its nothing to do with willpower, the game is designed to suck you in and keep you there.
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Most games are designed to be immersive but saying your inability to turn off a video game is nothing to do with willpower and all about the game is laughable.

If certain players deem WoW to be more important than kids, girlfriends and mates then that says far more about their character than it does about the game.

I used to play WoW a long time ago and I do understand that it has a 'pull' stronger than some other games but I also worry about those who see it as anything more than just another video game.
 
i have played wow for over 2 years! first 6 month learning 1 year half hard core and last year it died on me!! i think the new expention will be the fall of wow!
 
I've been playing for a month - WoW rocks bells. It really does. Best game I've ever played with the exception of the first 2 weeks of CS when grenades still made me jump.

Gaming is uber-fun. Not time wasted, time enjoyed!

That said I did live without the internet in my 3rd yr at uni as I made a consious decision my life would be fuller without it - still played a little X-Com though.

All depends on where you are in your life and what you want I guess but commiting to a raid when you have other commitments or considering it more important than emergancies in real life is a bit intence. Also if a game isn't fun any more and is like work then you're addicted to keep playing. You can seek help for game addiction and probably should.
 
I just quit last month after 2 years of playing, shame you're not really allowed to sell characters, i've got 4 level 70's :( would be worth a fortune. :P
 
theres nothing wrong with a game being addictive, it when you realise that you planning your life around raids which is the really bad thing about wow.. imo
 
Hedge said:
Im sure its only a minority who take it the way you have. So take your crap comments elsewhere.
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meh, i played wow for a month or two, got bored, ain't played anymore. but frankly he's completely right. its fine for you to spend 1.5 years playing, then give up and now you're doing the best thing.

each to his own, someone watches 4 footie games a week, someone spends 20 hours in the gym, someone spends 20 hours on wow. but you're trying to make it sound like WoW is a waste, when this guy enjoys it, and what you do isn't a waste. Everything we ALL do is a waste, we waste our time doing what we enjoy most and its really not for anyone to ever tell anyone else that they are wasting their time more than anyone else, or to try to impose your view its sad to play WOW seeing as you've seen the light now.

as for the rest of the points, some valid some not. What makes it worse to plan your life around your next wow raid than not being able to see your family because you've got tickets to a footie match, or can't go out with the lads because you got roped into going to the ballet with the mrs's.

everyones entitled to do what they enjoy most without feeling guilty about it, and without other people trying to induce guilt by giving out lists of what they deem to be socially acceptable wastes of time, and whats not acceptable.
 
Edinho said:
Well I still maintain and will maintain until my dying day that you CAN NOT raid part-time. Guilds just simply dont pick part-timers for raids, you need to get to know your guild, share in the farming, crafting, farm resist gear and generally to get in there you have to be seen to there A LOT even if your just online doing nothing, and you need to develop a reputation for knowing your class, and when you are raiding you need to concentrate 100% and be there everything else takes 2nd place yes even kids, GF, mates.

Ive been there and quit before it got to that stage because I knew it was me or the game. Its nothing to do with willpower, the game is designed to suck you in and keep you there.
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I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but if you really think that and allow a game to control you in such a way then its really quite pathetic, allowing a game to take precedence over kids or wife’s/girlfriends….. Sad state of affairs.

Like I said I raided once maybe twice a week at most so I completely disagree with your comments about having to raid full time, maybe part of your problem lies with the fact that you join guilds full of loot hungry kids. Find a like minded bunch of guys/gals your own age and play when you want to, not when some snot nosed GM dictates. I played my class very well as did the other guys in my guild and we took a very casual laid back approach to it all, it was a laugh and some fun, exactly what a game is intended to be. Real life most definitely took priority over it.

Of course it’s all to do with willpower, it’s everything to do with willpower. It’s the same principle as any other form of addiction, how you can say otherwise baffles me. People that are addicted to wow have nobody to blame but themselves, they went out and bought the game, they pay the monthly subs and sit on there butts for hours on end and get so involved it takes over. How is that anyone else’s fault but their own?
 
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Chris Beard said:
Addiction is a serious and delicate subject. The addicted are not going to benifit from abuse.
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No but neither are they going to benefit from being encouraged to externalise and offload the problem. I'd also seriously question how many are genuinely addicted and how many just have skewed life priorities.

Still, only a game eh? ;)
 
Its mad how World of Warcraft never reeled me in, i installed and played it for about 3 hours before quitting, never gone back since. I am tempted to try it out again but i'm afraid my life will go. :rolleyes:
 
Hedge said:
After playing for 1.5years i decided to quit. Went back to occasional CS games, and less PC time.

Get yourselves away from the life draining game. When it all comes to an end you will realise, like i have now.. That you spend weeks playing for an item, to wear on an imaginary character.. Its actually quite sad when ya think about it.

Join a gym guys, get out the house more. But whatever you do, Dont let it drain ya life! :D

Just a bit of friendly advice :)
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im there atm (bar quiting wow) but im at a gym , and i have not much in terms of job post uni (dispite me trying) so i have plenty of time to fill
 
Thiras said:
I just quit last month after 2 years of playing, shame you're not really allowed to sell characters, i've got 4 level 70's :( would be worth a fortune. :P
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i know someone who sold his char for £200 on ebay. made back all the money he had paid blizzard. if some guy wants to buy a char its not your fault, its the free market!!

:)
 
I've quit the warcrack about 4 times now, but I've been clean for almost a week now.

My names Matthew, and I'm an addict

thanks for listening
 
Vixen said:
Over the weekend, we had our first attempts in Gruuls lair, and I dread to think what the combined repair bill must have been (mine was just under 50g, and that's for a priest). We had plenty of stupid wipes, like when a mage got too close to Maulgar when testing where to stand, or a hunter ran right into Gruul, and they cost us huge amounts of time and gold, but not one person complained. We don't keep track of healing or dps meters, and no-one gets blamed for anything they do, we just laugh and move on.
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50g repair bill on cloth? that just means you must be full epic, and there is no way in hell you can be that well geared unless you play on a pretty hardcore level.

My mage has full spellstrike, shadoweave etc, and some kara epics and i never get any more than maybe 20g repair and thats when everything is broke.
 
Hedge said:
50g repair bill on cloth? that just means you must be full epic, and there is no way in hell you can be that well geared unless you play on a pretty hardcore level.

My mage has full spellstrike, shadoweave etc, and some kara epics and i never get any more than maybe 20g repair and thats when everything is broke.
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Three trips to the vendor, just over 15g each time - we died a lot. Yes, I'm in full epics, but I have full whitemend and primal mooncloth. The rest of my gear is kara level, and I think I've maybe been 10 times in total.
 
I think the thing that put me off WoW in a way to playing more casually, was the guild i played with, merging with a stupidly hardcore pve guild, i like to play, i'll go do arenas/bg's, maybe do a kara raid once a week, twice if they need extra help on the latter part of the run, but seeing rhese people, looking on the forums of the new guild and seeing "Every other saturday is a day off from raiding" made me think F-that!

I have a life, a girlfriend, a job and i enjoy wow, i enjoy the challenges, but mostly the bg's/arenas and this suits a less hardcre stylee well, and also managed to net my Hunter about 1600 gold this week to save grinding dailies by selling the stuff i was saving for my priest who i was going to take to 70, but now, really don't think i'll bother doing so!

Long and short fo it, WoW is very addicting, i played Jan06-May 06, cancelled, Made a new toon in July06-oct o6, then played jan07-march 07 and for the last 6-8 weeks too, i play it in spurts, but each time i have come or gone, the same people are there and that makes you think "god, they never get bored of it?"

I have been "bitten" by WoW fever, a lot, but i'm not going to let it rule me. :)
 
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