WoW really does screw your life...

Efour · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:35

Some people just have overly addictive personality traits.

PC games is just one of em.

it seems funny and novel cos its quite a modern thing to be addicted to but i can understand why and how.

Running away from home is just another one of them rebelious teenage things people do, as is getting engaged at such a silly age.

they will grow up and look back at it all and wonder what the heck they were doing.

Things change I've changed · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:36

karoshi said:
just means that you know morons

uh, no, it means that I know people, good people I might add that have a few problems in life, it does'nt make them morons, infact if you want an example of a moron then look for people with your kind of attitude.

Hedge · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:39

deadkomodo said:
WOW is lame how can anyone even take it seriously??? Let alone be addicted!!!

If you play it for a good few hours you soon get hooked. Well most people i know do anyway. My main had 70 days played on it before i quit.. and thats pretty low compared to some

MiGSY · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:39

deadkomodo said:
I LOVE ONLINE GAMING BUT WOW IS JUST GAY!!!! Fear Combat, Ghost Recon AW, COD 2, CS S, BF2, 2142, PREY, QUAKE4 all are decent games to play with ya mates and but the best fun is always over LAN with real people that u can slap Even on BF2 some of me mates were obsesesed with there BF2 accounts and it was taken over there lives so me and my other mates hacked their accounts and changed the password and never gave it back, (yeah i know what you're thinking sly ***** but they thanks us for it and then began to play for FUN and not cos they have to get more point and awards ect. also all that lame shouting at the screen ended and they all stopped taking it so seriously

Dj_Jestar · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:46

lowrider007 said:
ummmm, I'm not saying it is WoW's fault, but if WoW did'nt exist would they be in the same situation ?, I don't think that they would be, the game is supposed to get you hooked, why are there so many stories of people ruining their lives b-cos of this game yet you hardly ever here the same in regards to any other online game/games, yes ok we should all have self control and 'the world would be a better' place but I'm afraid that's going to happen, not anytime soon anyway, I'm not saying it's completly WoW's fault becuase in any addiction there is practicly allways an underlying problem but non the less it's still part of the equation,

I really think people underestimate the addictiveness of this game, in any addiction the person ultimately has only his/her self to blame not the substance that he/she is addicted too but that does'nt change the fact many people are addicted to this game and it is contributing to their downfall and thus effecting thier loved ones.

If guns didn't exist, no one would get shot. BAN GUNS!!!11 IT'S THE GUNS FAULT!! BURN THEM, BURN THEM ALL AT THE STAKE LIKE THE HERETICS THEY ARE!!1

/bored.

Things change I've changed · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:49

Dj_Jestar said:
If guns didn't exist, no one would get shot. BAN GUNS!!!11 IT'S THE GUNS FAULT!! BURN THEM, BURN THEM ALL AT THE STAKE LIKE THE HERETICS THEY ARE!!1

/bored.

if guns did'nt exist no one 'would' get shot would they :confused:

, and anyway I'm not saying to ban WoW, I'm just saying that it is an addictive game.

Murf · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:53

If your two friends hadn't gotten addicted to WoW, it would have been something else. WoW in itself is not addictive, but it lends itself quite nicely to people with addictive personalities.

I play pretty much every night now, only occasionally passing it up to go out. However, I'm skint and can't afford to be going out a lot although I do occasionally make the effort. I try and compensate by playing with RL friends and having them on skype while we play. When push comes to shove though, if I could afford to go out I'd take that over WoW most days.

Supercow · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:53

seek said:
they'll go crawling back to thier parents soon enough.

Indeed.
Can't blame a game for these kiddie's behaviour

jas72 · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:55

nice story

I didn't wonder about the mini as the new ones cost serious cash and are made by BMW.

they guys sound young and have run away to mcdo's with 700 quid hardly likely to have a new mini...

Whitestar · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:58

Just because they are young and have run away to maccers with 700 quid, doesn't mean they can't have a new mini.

hardc0re_tid · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:02

i can remember doing something similar, think i was about 10 at the time, i packed my Sega MegaDrive in a grip bag and left home....

left home meaning stood round the side of the house for 15mins in the pouring rain.

meh, things you do when your a kid!

agw_01 · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:05

Sounds like they're having a mini adventure to me.

karoshi · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:06

lowrider007 said:
ummmm, I'm not saying it is WoW's fault, but if WoW did'nt exist would they be in the same situation ?

so you're saying that you don't think WoW is the reason they're in their current situation, but is is the reason they're in their current situation?

that aside (as i might well be reading it wrong, afterall i'm a moron?) i'd say yes, they'd still be in their current situation if WoW didn't exist, as they'd have just picked any one of another dozen online rpgs.

lowrider007 said:
I don't think that they would be, the game is supposed to get you hooked, why are there so many stories of people ruining their lives b-cos of this game yet you hardly ever here the same in regards to any other online game/games

you don't remember the "EQ killed my baby" story then? there have been loads of this kind of story about every online rpg over the years, WoW has them now because it's new, not because it's worse / more addictive than it competition or predecessors.

lowrider007 said:
uh, no, it means that I know people, good people I might add that have a few problems in life, it does'nt make them morons

ok probably a bad choice of words, for that i'm sorry.. i shouldn't have called two people who've alienated their parents and ran away from home with a couple of mains powered computers and £700 to their name morons, in this day and age i'm probably supposed to call them graduates?

lowrider007 said:
infact if you want an example of a moron then look for people with your kind of attitude.

well thanks, i do try

Whitestar · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:08

hardc0re_tid said:
meh, things you do when your a kid!

Yeah, but they ain't kids.

At 17 they are classed a young adults. They should be getting their lives sorted, not sitting on WoW 24/7 and then running away. Unless they have some serious problems at home, this is just stupid.

BFCTom · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:09

tbh he is kind of right.

I played WoW hardcore for a year or so. Allthough it didn't effect me quite to the extent of his 2 friends

p), I would sometimes decide to stop at home and raid to make sure I got an item I wanted, rather than go out with my mates.

That's when I knew it was time to stop. It's addictive for sure.

JohnnyG · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:09

Are they selling their PCs as whole units or will they split them?

Andelusion · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:11

They can't be that addicted to WoW if they're prepared to sell their PCs for money. I mean surely body parts would come before that?

Whitestar · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:20

Andelusion said:
They can't be that addicted to WoW if they're prepared to sell their PCs for money. I mean surely body parts would come before that?

Nope. Parts of the mini would come first lol.

They could park up outside the drive thru window, and start taking the car apart bit by bit.

z0mbi3 · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:21

This has next to nothing to do with WoW.

Mate is depressed, takes his pc to another mates house (having just finished a lan party of sorts), other mate argues with parents over his blatant lack of ninja porn skills and as a result packs up his pc and goes off with other mate to another mates house whom they just had a good time at?

Just one way of looking at it.

Also, I don't pretend to know your friends very well, quite obviously I don't, but going by the weight of your posts their acting like morons.

With any luck they'll suck it up, go home with their tails between their legs and get on with things.

Things change I've changed · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:39

karoshi said:
so you're saying that you don't think WoW is the reason they're in their current situation, but is is the reason they're in their current situation?

yes and no, I'm saying that WoW is not entirly too blame but is a contruibuting factor.

that aside (as i might well be reading it wrong, afterall i'm a moron?) i'd say yes, they'd still be in their current situation if WoW didn't exist, as they'd have just picked any one of another dozen online rpgs.

I disagree, many of the people that I know that are addicted to this game have been playing pc games most of ther lives including other mmorpg's and it was'nt until they played WoW they never had a problem, WoW is enginered in a way to make you spend more than a normal amount of time you should spend on a game to complete quests and missions etc, there are also many other factors of this game that make this game uniquely more addictive compared to other mmorpg's.

you don't remember the "EQ killed my baby" story then? there have been loads of this kind of story about every online rpg over the years, WoW has them now because it's new, not because it's worse / more addictive than it competition or predecessors.

yes I do but you only have to look around the net and speak to people that are into this game to know that this is different, I've been playing games for more than 20 years and have allways kept a keen eye on the gaming community and have been online for over 10 years and yes I have read stories of other online games becoming addictive but NON as addictive as WoW and in noway as many stories.

ok probably a bad choice of words, for that i'm sorry.. i shouldn't have called two people who've alienated their parents and ran away from home with a couple of mains powered computers and £700 to their name morons, in this day and age i'm probably supposed to call them graduates?

look how ever you try to word it to try and justify calling people with problem's morons It don't wash i'm sorry, and any how you said that in reply to my post not the OP'er.