Retiring at 33 to play MMOPRGs, am I mad?

You could probably do it, if you found a way to make enough money to live on, such as your own business but I assume your pension is sorted out as once you get to 65 you will still need to retire.

Would be fun for a few months but I am unsure how long it will last. My brother (MMORPG ADDICT) has been playing Lineage2 for hours and hours every day for the last 2 years and still has no full time job. :D So I know what I am talking about. Remember to play Eve or Lineage2. Or maybe save a bit more money for Lineage3 cos it will rock. Or Eve Online. WoW isn't hard enough.

If it all goes wrong just get your job back a few months down the line. Don't do anything too extreme.

I can see where you are comming from, with a full time job it is hard to put the required amount of time into these games.

Good luck. :)
 
mcast123 said:
As for "willy waving", you obviously haven't lived and worked in London before, I was actually refering to the fact I don't have or earn much money.
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£60k is a good wage even in London is it not? I realise £140k doesn't go far where flats are concerned but you could move to a cheaper part of the country if you wished. Needless to say that to fulfill your plans you would need to make sacrifices of some sort.
 
Bloody hell, there I was thinking I was doing allright at £25kpa at 24 with no career path and a mundane mind numbing job in London with a crazy mortgage on a 2 bed flat. I should go into tech support. Didnt realise you could earn £60k by the time your 33!

If I was earning £60k I could afford to let my wife quit her cack job and stay at home and make babies!

Mate, how about you pass on my details to your boss so I could take over your job once you've quit? I know a little about computers. Ram, cpu, transistor, i can name all these things. :D
 
There's more to life than grinding on MMORPGs. Instead of making your online character better, how about improving your own life situation?

Start a family, travel the world... get some new hobbies?

No one is saying give up the gameplaying, but playing games is not a substitute for real life.
 
If you're good at this MMORPG you can "sell" things from it on t'auction site, when I say "sell" I mean people pay you for your time to acquire these things which still remain the property of whoever made the game (such as Blizzard, etc.).



LOL at most of the posts thus far, can people not live life their own way anymore? :confused:
 
The thing is, it takes so much time to make and sell the money, you would do better working at Burger King. Most MMORPG sales companies get the game currency from Chinese businesses who pay people probably very low wages. such wages wouldn't be enough in the UK.
 
Whitewater said:
LOL at most of the posts thus far, can people not live life their own way anymore? :confused:
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Of course they can :p But he did ask in the thread title whether he was mad, hence people responded.
 
benneh said:
I say do it.. Set up a VERY small home business dealing with some sort of remote tech support. Should pay for food and bills. Then play on!. Maybe look at online gambling as a source of income too.
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That's what I did.

I set up a small IT business, buying cheap computer parts and selling on complete base units to the local populace. I now do mostly remote-support either via telephone or actually dialing into their computers (programs like PC Anywhere etc) and solving problems that way. Nowadays I am fairly quiet, but still manage to rake in £400/week on average. Not bad for 2-3 hours work/day for 3-4 days/week!

I spend most of my time hunting, fishing, playing games, dismantling the old microwave in the garage, and so on.

Life is good.
 
Whitewater said:
LOL at most of the posts thus far, can people not live life their own way anymore? :confused:
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Sure you can, but getting addicted to MMORPGs to the detriment of your own life is a serious business and should be treated as any other serious addiction. There are numerous cases involving the original Everquest of serious addictions.

If that's what you want to do though, for the sake of your sanity to break up the time I'd recommend a part time job to cover your various outgoings. Working just three days a week should be enough to cover your bills... and at least you'll get a chance to talk to people face-to-face too.
 
Why not just work a few more years and save up all the cash you can and then take a long break from working, say a year or two? In this time you can play all the games you like and then return to work after your "time-out" and build back your capital, and avoid going mad. :)
 
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Who are you to say it's a detriment, if he enjoys it, whats the problem?

I actually did very similar to Cueball, I repair/install/build PC's. For family, friends, local people(I live in a village). Brings in enough for me to live well enough on. Not having a mortgage helps though.

I don't live on the PC though, but who am I to say what he should and shouldn't do.
 
Don't you love a country where a tech support guy earns twice that of a teacher? Shows what we value in this country.

As for quitting life to play games, this reminds me of that guy a few years ago in america that played Everquest, or something, all day until it took over his life and he killed himself when something went wrong on his computer game.

Surely there's some sort of compromise? Like saving up for a few years then getting a job requiring low hours?....I still think you're a bit crazy though.
 
I think you have a few options with £140k in equity, but it requires careful planning and it will require moving somewhere cheaper, e.g. South America ..

1) Rent the flat and live on the proceeds

2) Sell the flat, put the money into the Stockmarket and live off of the Interest.

£140k is about $244,328 at todays rates. 7.5% on that per annum is about $18K. That will go a long way in South America. It's more than most of them earn per year thats for sure.

Somewhere like Brazil, Chile, Paraguay .. All nice places to live with Broadband, on the same timezone as the U.S. and, of course, Hot babes. :)
 
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