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spuddyt :
I never played diablo of any sort 
whats it like? just like WoW?
whats it like? just like WoW?
dont ever call any game just like WoW, just like WoW = my dog poo.
Diablo was and is the greatest hack and slash top down rpg ever! Titan Quest and all those wannabes can stay under a rock!
I have started playing WoW since Feb 2005 and before the expansion was out, I have 7 level 60s of different classes and a few of others. Looking back, the number of hours I have put in, I could easily pick up a new hobby (like painting) and be good at it. The game affected my career, my family, and the friendship I have. I have tried many ways to quit or moderate. Playing other games just won't do. I simply can't get hooked onto any of these games.
Then something happened. The guild I was with sort of died down. And I realized that mostly it is the social aspect that kept me in the game.
From then on, I started to take things easy with WoW. Even when the expansion was out, I was taking it easy and set my own pace in the way I want to play my game.
I have to say, till today, I am still playing WoW. But definitely not anywhere close to the number of hours I spent back in 2005/6.
If you want to quit WoW, just quit paying the account.
If you want to moderate your game play, leave your guild or get transfered into another server? That's my 5 cents.
Then something happened. The guild I was with sort of died down. And I realized that mostly it is the social aspect that kept me in the game.
From then on, I started to take things easy with WoW. Even when the expansion was out, I was taking it easy and set my own pace in the way I want to play my game.
I have to say, till today, I am still playing WoW. But definitely not anywhere close to the number of hours I spent back in 2005/6.
If you want to quit WoW, just quit paying the account.
If you want to moderate your game play, leave your guild or get transfered into another server? That's my 5 cents.
Interesting discussion, i gave up WoW... actually can't remember when i gave it up ive been that busy since. A bit of background for you, im 30, im married, ive got a baby due erm... sometime in the next 24 hours!!!! eek! I started from Closed Beta 1 and was addicted within days of playing it. My Xfire profile shows a final play time of 1390 hours but thats nothing like close as I eventually turned Xfire off so i couldnt see how much i was playing. I quit once, sold my account, bought another one and started from scratch again, I quit again, then went back to it a couple of months later. Ive been a guild officer twice, i had 3 level 60s BWL equipped when i sold my first account and 2 level 70s Karazhan equipped when I quit last.
The key to getting off WoW is to establish a life outside of WoW bit by bit. I began first by regularly meeting up with friends on a Thursday night to do sword fighting (any hobby will do!). The key is to mentally block out Thursdays as a WoW playing day. After a few weeks I settled into that routine, next I began to arrange things on weekends, either visiting friends or going away somewhere, even just going for a walk with my wife, something to get me out of the house for 3 hours or more. The hardest part was the next bit. I quit raiding. I stopped signing up to raids, I said id be available if I was online but I refused to guarantee my attendance. After a short while I stopped getting invited to raids, once you stop raiding, you stop playing. Seriously try it. There really is nothing else worth doing in that game if you don't raid regularly.
This is where the earlier gradual building of the hobbies came in. Once I quit I had a life I could turn to, I had friends, hobbies, things to do, places to be and at no point since have I felt the addiction kick in. I get the odd twinge, for example the Southpark WoW episode was on the other night and I got that warm WoW fuzzy feeling but not a burning urge to play. I just recently got into Enemy Territory Quake Wars (i was previously a mad FPS gamer) and ive got back into the routine of playing for an hour or so then logging off and doing something else.
With a baby due any hour now the fact im off WoW is in my opinion immensely important to me, ive seen courses failed, families broken, jobs lost, even houses lost from guild members during my 2.5years playing it and I swore that person wouldn't be me.
So, there is hope out there you just really need to focus on your "REAL" life before quitting then eventually you just find that quitting is a natural progression as you have better things to be doing than sat at your PC grinding the same thing over and over and over and over.
Good luck
The key to getting off WoW is to establish a life outside of WoW bit by bit. I began first by regularly meeting up with friends on a Thursday night to do sword fighting (any hobby will do!). The key is to mentally block out Thursdays as a WoW playing day. After a few weeks I settled into that routine, next I began to arrange things on weekends, either visiting friends or going away somewhere, even just going for a walk with my wife, something to get me out of the house for 3 hours or more. The hardest part was the next bit. I quit raiding. I stopped signing up to raids, I said id be available if I was online but I refused to guarantee my attendance. After a short while I stopped getting invited to raids, once you stop raiding, you stop playing. Seriously try it. There really is nothing else worth doing in that game if you don't raid regularly.
This is where the earlier gradual building of the hobbies came in. Once I quit I had a life I could turn to, I had friends, hobbies, things to do, places to be and at no point since have I felt the addiction kick in. I get the odd twinge, for example the Southpark WoW episode was on the other night and I got that warm WoW fuzzy feeling but not a burning urge to play. I just recently got into Enemy Territory Quake Wars (i was previously a mad FPS gamer) and ive got back into the routine of playing for an hour or so then logging off and doing something else.
With a baby due any hour now the fact im off WoW is in my opinion immensely important to me, ive seen courses failed, families broken, jobs lost, even houses lost from guild members during my 2.5years playing it and I swore that person wouldn't be me.
So, there is hope out there you just really need to focus on your "REAL" life before quitting then eventually you just find that quitting is a natural progression as you have better things to be doing than sat at your PC grinding the same thing over and over and over and over.
Good luck
Same way I quit EQ1 after five years, and EQ2, Vanguard and that other MMOG I was playing for a while (what the heck was it?)... cancel your account and stop logging on. Too many people seem to fall into the 'look at the time I've invested, now I have to keep going' trap; the fun you had playing the game should be the reward, not some Phat Lewt that you might get in the future from years of raiding.
Guild Wars is the only MMOG I still play, and then only intermittently; since it's free to play once you buy the game, they have no need to get you into boring grinds that require you to play eight hours a day. Plus I'm now living with my girlfriend, so I don't have much time to play games.
Guild Wars is the only MMOG I still play, and then only intermittently; since it's free to play once you buy the game, they have no need to get you into boring grinds that require you to play eight hours a day. Plus I'm now living with my girlfriend, so I don't have much time to play games.
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I was addicted to WoW for awhile... I had 2x60s, a 37, and some lowbies. I was averaging around 7 hours a day and what do I have to show for all that invested time? Nadda. It took and took and took, and never gave back.
One day I decided it wasn't worth my time, and so I cut it off cold turkey. Sold my account for really cheap, and took up a much more productive hobby - reading. I tried to keep up the same schedule of 7 hours a day, but man that's a lot of reading. I was finishing entire textbooks in a week, and novels in a day. All in all, within a months time, I had read at least a dozen books, some of which were theoretical engineering textbooks.
Obviously 7 hours a day for any hobby is excessive, unless that hobby is also your job. I try to limit my reading to an average of 2 hours a day now. It is a much better way to invest your time.
One day I decided it wasn't worth my time, and so I cut it off cold turkey. Sold my account for really cheap, and took up a much more productive hobby - reading. I tried to keep up the same schedule of 7 hours a day, but man that's a lot of reading. I was finishing entire textbooks in a week, and novels in a day. All in all, within a months time, I had read at least a dozen books, some of which were theoretical engineering textbooks.
Obviously 7 hours a day for any hobby is excessive, unless that hobby is also your job. I try to limit my reading to an average of 2 hours a day now. It is a much better way to invest your time.
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I played until level 47 which took approximately 6-8 weeks at the schedule I played. I bought it when it first came out, realized there really wasn't much going on in the game that was fun.
I couldn't play as much as others and they often surpassed me in a day or two. The PvP wasn't all that fun unless I went out on my own to pick people off. I played a dark elf hunter if I recall. The hunter sucked, the thief had too much going for it. That I know because my brother has a fricking entire thread about his playing style people created about him. He's one of the most powerful thieves in the game based on his playing style and has received offers of over $2,000 for his account.
Needless to say, I grew bored with the game. I couldn't invest the time things happened to slow, and I had better things to do. One day I just quit playing and never looked back. I didn't replace the game with another. I had other priorities that I wanted to do over gaming.
Too many people use gaming as there "need to do" instead of their "in my free time."
Go outside, exercise, socialize with people, hang out with friends and for everyone's sake, shower. My friend played so much when it first came out he didn't shower for 3 days because it wasn't efficient - he wasted too much time showering when he could have been playing.
The only game I currently play is BF2 because I don't need to dedicate endless hours to pace with where the game is going.
I couldn't play as much as others and they often surpassed me in a day or two. The PvP wasn't all that fun unless I went out on my own to pick people off. I played a dark elf hunter if I recall. The hunter sucked, the thief had too much going for it. That I know because my brother has a fricking entire thread about his playing style people created about him. He's one of the most powerful thieves in the game based on his playing style and has received offers of over $2,000 for his account.
Needless to say, I grew bored with the game. I couldn't invest the time things happened to slow, and I had better things to do. One day I just quit playing and never looked back. I didn't replace the game with another. I had other priorities that I wanted to do over gaming.
Too many people use gaming as there "need to do" instead of their "in my free time."
Go outside, exercise, socialize with people, hang out with friends and for everyone's sake, shower. My friend played so much when it first came out he didn't shower for 3 days because it wasn't efficient - he wasted too much time showering when he could have been playing.
The only game I currently play is BF2 because I don't need to dedicate endless hours to pace with where the game is going.
Hello!
I've been playing World of Warcraft now for two and a half years. I got two level 70s, a level 58 and a level 78. It's soon been two weeks since wotlk got realised and I've been playing it twelve hours per day atleast. I have only been to school two times since. I think it's about time I quit playing now, since it is really **** UP when it is taking over my life like this. I once were the most populer kid on my school with the hottest girlfriend. I had hobbys like soccer and bandy. Since I started I have lost my girlfriend, all of my friends exept the once that are playing, and my grades really suck. I got no hobbys exept playing WoW. I've had depressions when I've quited and now I have really big issues about getting my ass to school each day.
And the scary part is that I think it's all worth it. "Do the things you love and **** the rest." Yes, you all have probably heard of that one. Being addicted to WoW gotta be the thing in life you get the most" Crack " out of. You know, the crack you get when you have acheived something..
World of Warcraft is a **** addiction and I dont want anyone to say anything else. If you've been addicted to WoW as I have been you will probably agree with me if you arent a total dumbass. When you use drugs you get this good feeling. When you are playing WoW you get this good feeling aswell. Drug addiction, you will always haunt for more. The same way with WoW, you always haunt for better gear and so, and it is no possible way to get the best gear either and be truly satisfied cause Blizzard always adds more to it.
Dont blame Blizzard btw, they are the best! Cause not everyone get addicted, some manage to play without getting addicted even toh they arent that skilled as the rest. So why should they stop adding more to it when there's someone that dosent have the need to stop? And they do earn alot on it so. Would you do anything else if you could be the head cheif of Blizzard?
My world of Warcraft addiction has done more to me than just the regular stuff like losing friends, killing grades and so.. I feel I dont get the pleasure out of stuff like I used to do before I got addicted. Not like sex and eating and stuff, but more like hanging out with friends, go shop something, get an A+ on a test, things, like that. Sometimes I feel that its not nearly as fun being out with friends bowling and stuff as it is to do a new raid instance/getting new gear and so..
Does anyone know of a site were you can read some psycology stuff about this and how to get ride of the addiction?
Thanks
I've been playing World of Warcraft now for two and a half years. I got two level 70s, a level 58 and a level 78. It's soon been two weeks since wotlk got realised and I've been playing it twelve hours per day atleast. I have only been to school two times since. I think it's about time I quit playing now, since it is really **** UP when it is taking over my life like this. I once were the most populer kid on my school with the hottest girlfriend. I had hobbys like soccer and bandy. Since I started I have lost my girlfriend, all of my friends exept the once that are playing, and my grades really suck. I got no hobbys exept playing WoW. I've had depressions when I've quited and now I have really big issues about getting my ass to school each day.
And the scary part is that I think it's all worth it. "Do the things you love and **** the rest." Yes, you all have probably heard of that one. Being addicted to WoW gotta be the thing in life you get the most" Crack " out of. You know, the crack you get when you have acheived something..
World of Warcraft is a **** addiction and I dont want anyone to say anything else. If you've been addicted to WoW as I have been you will probably agree with me if you arent a total dumbass. When you use drugs you get this good feeling. When you are playing WoW you get this good feeling aswell. Drug addiction, you will always haunt for more. The same way with WoW, you always haunt for better gear and so, and it is no possible way to get the best gear either and be truly satisfied cause Blizzard always adds more to it.
Dont blame Blizzard btw, they are the best! Cause not everyone get addicted, some manage to play without getting addicted even toh they arent that skilled as the rest. So why should they stop adding more to it when there's someone that dosent have the need to stop? And they do earn alot on it so. Would you do anything else if you could be the head cheif of Blizzard?
My world of Warcraft addiction has done more to me than just the regular stuff like losing friends, killing grades and so.. I feel I dont get the pleasure out of stuff like I used to do before I got addicted. Not like sex and eating and stuff, but more like hanging out with friends, go shop something, get an A+ on a test, things, like that. Sometimes I feel that its not nearly as fun being out with friends bowling and stuff as it is to do a new raid instance/getting new gear and so..
Does anyone know of a site were you can read some psycology stuff about this and how to get ride of the addiction?
Thanks
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Whats up with that? I'm talking about the gear. I hear the jokes 'World of Farmcraft' etc but is that honostly all that makes up a char in WoW? Meaning if you had an apple vs apple, but one apple had better gear, but the other had better combo's/tactics, the apple with better gear wins? This is why I'm a big fan of Warhammer, items aren't the focus, rather the use of many skills to follow up combos, awesomely depending on the situation it changes so it feels like 'doing' something other than pressing '1' over and over.
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Find another game that can occupy your time instead of wold of warcraft
try to play non mmo rpg like fallout 3, Oblivan, Mass Effect, or for older games KOTOR
this is what i did but now im playing Age of Conan
try to play non mmo rpg like fallout 3, Oblivan, Mass Effect, or for older games KOTOR
this is what i did but now im playing Age of Conan
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I played WoW from release up until mid level black temple, I had 1-character ( a druid ) that had ... well it had well over 275 days played on it over 3 years and plenty of items.
I never really had a problem juggling my life with the game, what I had a problem with is that I simply wanted to do other things with my time (including different games) and MMORPG's basically get in the way of any other recreation time you might want to have.
I never really had a problem juggling my life with the game, what I had a problem with is that I simply wanted to do other things with my time (including different games) and MMORPG's basically get in the way of any other recreation time you might want to have.
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Its easy.
You just need to find something more addctive, like heroin or crack.
Other than that, get a life.
-Join a local club (im in a photography club)
-Join a gym (excersise is good, i go ~4 times a week)
-Take up a sport (I love cycling)
-Get a new hobby (scuba diving is awesome, get involved with vehicles etc)
Do that, and pretty soon you wont have time for wow/gaming bs. Playing games is all good, as long as you do everything you need to BEFORE.
My week for example (i work full time obviously)...
Mon - Gym, study (us navy and rescue scuba atm, next year its dive master, just finished senior first aid cert this week)
Tues - Gym, study, games woteva
Wed - Photography club (NOT a camera club where nerds jerk off over their cameras and talk about megapixels all night... think art. If u dont have women in ur life, they LOVE art)
Thursday - Gym, motorbike ride and dinner with friends.
Friday - Cycling, piss up, see girls, run from the cops, woteva
Staurday - Work, study, chill, pissup, woteva
Sunday - Ride/stunt, bbq, photography excursion, house work 😡
I see my grls 2-3 times a week when i have time or dont feel like doing the usual.
Point is... get a LIFE and pretty soon ur like... world of WHAT? What craft??
Start with one thing at a time, it will grow from there. Remember, guys are human-doings, not beings, we are defined by WHAT we do.
****... i forgot about boating... summer is here, not i gotta find time to get out on the water :s
You just need to find something more addctive, like heroin or crack.
Other than that, get a life.
-Join a local club (im in a photography club)
-Join a gym (excersise is good, i go ~4 times a week)
-Take up a sport (I love cycling)
-Get a new hobby (scuba diving is awesome, get involved with vehicles etc)
Do that, and pretty soon you wont have time for wow/gaming bs. Playing games is all good, as long as you do everything you need to BEFORE.
My week for example (i work full time obviously)...
Mon - Gym, study (us navy and rescue scuba atm, next year its dive master, just finished senior first aid cert this week)
Tues - Gym, study, games woteva
Wed - Photography club (NOT a camera club where nerds jerk off over their cameras and talk about megapixels all night... think art. If u dont have women in ur life, they LOVE art)
Thursday - Gym, motorbike ride and dinner with friends.
Friday - Cycling, piss up, see girls, run from the cops, woteva
Staurday - Work, study, chill, pissup, woteva
Sunday - Ride/stunt, bbq, photography excursion, house work 😡
I see my grls 2-3 times a week when i have time or dont feel like doing the usual.
Point is... get a LIFE and pretty soon ur like... world of WHAT? What craft??
Start with one thing at a time, it will grow from there. Remember, guys are human-doings, not beings, we are defined by WHAT we do.
****... i forgot about boating... summer is here, not i gotta find time to get out on the water :s
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to malveux-> if i saw someone with a t-shirt like that in RL i would have to high five them straight away. funny stuff
I was self employed last year for about 8 months or so. friend got me into wow and same old "addict" story i was playing crazy hours. I was putting off seeing mates, cutting nights out short because i was "tired" then hitting it til early hours of the morning. I worked from home so my actual days consisted of 30 mins "work" and playing WoW the rest of the time. I had little time for my girlfriend and i can be honest in the fact i didnt treat her very well which is part of the reason she is now an ex!
I quit for 4 months or so and have now been back about a month! Ive got an awsome new girlfriend and having learnt lessons from before everything i do now comes before wow! seeing the girlfriend tonight and even though she doesnt mind if i play i still say no. out with mates tomo night on the booze until the wee hours!
In heinsight i think its easy to get carried away in your own little world but theres definately levels of addiction. im still only level 76 and dont really mind for now as its back to being a hobby for me rather than an addiction.
When i worked from home id fob people off just so i could turn on wow then when i logged in i was back in my own little world. Everything about em switched off as i got immersed and when i wasnt playing all i could think about was playing!
So from personal experience if you are too addicted and dont like it take a break or try another game and if you go back to wow you know to take it easier!
It annoys me hearing guildies talking about wow>sex, wow>family, wow>relationships.
I like what a guy on the first page said about lack of goals. I dont have a bad job but i hate it really. it could just be me being a lazy ass but im lazy with things i dont like doing. If i knew what i wanted to do with my life i might be more ambitious but i dont. maybe if i had a goal i would quick wow and focus on that.
and guys you know your too addicted if your hot, horny gf wants some "raiding" and you fob her off to wow. get some balls ffs! lol
p.s then maybe play wow afterwards 😛
I was self employed last year for about 8 months or so. friend got me into wow and same old "addict" story i was playing crazy hours. I was putting off seeing mates, cutting nights out short because i was "tired" then hitting it til early hours of the morning. I worked from home so my actual days consisted of 30 mins "work" and playing WoW the rest of the time. I had little time for my girlfriend and i can be honest in the fact i didnt treat her very well which is part of the reason she is now an ex!
I quit for 4 months or so and have now been back about a month! Ive got an awsome new girlfriend and having learnt lessons from before everything i do now comes before wow! seeing the girlfriend tonight and even though she doesnt mind if i play i still say no. out with mates tomo night on the booze until the wee hours!
In heinsight i think its easy to get carried away in your own little world but theres definately levels of addiction. im still only level 76 and dont really mind for now as its back to being a hobby for me rather than an addiction.
When i worked from home id fob people off just so i could turn on wow then when i logged in i was back in my own little world. Everything about em switched off as i got immersed and when i wasnt playing all i could think about was playing!
So from personal experience if you are too addicted and dont like it take a break or try another game and if you go back to wow you know to take it easier!
It annoys me hearing guildies talking about wow>sex, wow>family, wow>relationships.
I like what a guy on the first page said about lack of goals. I dont have a bad job but i hate it really. it could just be me being a lazy ass but im lazy with things i dont like doing. If i knew what i wanted to do with my life i might be more ambitious but i dont. maybe if i had a goal i would quick wow and focus on that.
and guys you know your too addicted if your hot, horny gf wants some "raiding" and you fob her off to wow. get some balls ffs! lol
p.s then maybe play wow afterwards 😛
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btw i tried getting back into guld wars and couldnt enjoy it the same, cod4 absorbed alot of time.....for a while. warhammer online was great to start with then just lacked something and lost my enjoyment with it.
theres no game for me that can give as much enjoyment as wow can
theres no game for me that can give as much enjoyment as wow can
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63 DK and 71 Rogue as of last night, xpac has been out 2 weeks and my old guild is on the 2nd 25man afer clearing Naxx...im so outta touch i dont even know what its called >.<
6 months ago I'd be wearing my "Realms First xxxx" hat like a tropy right about now 😱
On the plus side....omg Howling Fjord is a hoot! Borean Tundra is a bit crappy though - try and gank a hordie and 3 more pop up 🙁
6 months ago I'd be wearing my "Realms First xxxx" hat like a tropy right about now 😱
On the plus side....omg Howling Fjord is a hoot! Borean Tundra is a bit crappy though - try and gank a hordie and 3 more pop up 🙁
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ya i miss pvp servers. when i get to 80 i think im gonna switch once i find a server i wana move to.
I just went from dragonblight to solazar basar (or something like that) which looks very much like ungoro crater. Im 76 and still had quests in dragonblight i could have done!
I consider it a good thing not to have a "realm first" or alot of great gear already because it shows you do other stuff than play wow!
I just went from dragonblight to solazar basar (or something like that) which looks very much like ungoro crater. Im 76 and still had quests in dragonblight i could have done!
I consider it a good thing not to have a "realm first" or alot of great gear already because it shows you do other stuff than play wow!
As I person who has been addicted to mmorpg (not wow because I learned my lesson before it came out) I can tell you that the hardest part is letting go, of your "progress". Tell yourself "It doesn't matter anymore because I don't play that game anymore"
deleting your account can help, so can getting scammed.
deleting your account can help, so can getting scammed.
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im an ex MMORPG addict, and i know i cant play these games cuz i cant play if im not the best, and in order to be the best, you need to play 10hrs a day, so i fixed the problem, sold all my gears, money, and character, now im free... only play FPS and single players.... its never as fun as the MMORPGs, but i got a life a live... btw the game was Ragnarok online... far superior than WoW IMHO... but we aint gonna start argueing over that please!
I quit WoW about 6-8 months ago and the game developers is what helped me quit. Spending hours waiting in Queues for PvP, not because there were to few people to play but that there were to many and the game could only host a certain amount of PvP instances at the same time. Constant nerfing of classes to create "balance" that will never exist in an MMORPG also caused me to lose interest.
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