EPTOn October 05 2010 06:34 Manifesto7 wrote:
- Read George R R Martin's series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Big books that will hook you for life.
- Read George R R Martin's series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Big books that will hook you for life.
Seriously.
Don't Know How to Quit WoW for Good - Page 2
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JadeFist
United States1225 Posts
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
If you've played WoW for so long, chances are you might be amenable to other games as ways to spend your time. Try some, or try anything else you've heard about that might've sounded interesting (I'm assuming your guild-mates talked about non-WoW topics from time to time too.) Though from the tone of your OP I feel that WoW mainly filled social needs before activity needs, so you'll need to attack the perhaps more deep seated issue of becoming comfortable socially. | ||
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shmay
United States1091 Posts
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n3gative
Canada369 Posts
Remove pants. Go nuts. Endless hours of entertainment. Acquire Chloroform. Visit a Blizzard convention. Kidnap WoW cosplayer, female/male, of your choice. Remove pants. Go nuts. 1 minute to hours of possible entertainment followed by prison time. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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frogmelter
United States971 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
BW, hell even SC2, is more competitive, society and literature are more emotionally stimulating, art is prettier, most anything else is more cognitive and challenging (unless perhaps if you're on the cutting edge of WoW coding spreadsheets, designing and debating weights, and pioneering firsts). On that note, you should participate in TL community events if theres one near where you live. Go out, meet new, like minded people. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=37 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=123571 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=149088 | ||
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Lexpar
1813 Posts
On October 05 2010 06:51 n3gative wrote: Buy a giant bottle of lotion from Costco. Remove pants. Go nuts. Endless hours of entertainment. Acquire Chloroform. Visit a Blizzard convention. Kidnap WoW cosplayer, female/male, of your choice. Remove pants. Go nuts. 1 minute to hours of possible entertainment followed by prison time. That's an awful and pathetic attempt at humor. To OP: Delete all your guys, cancel your subscription, uninstall wow and break the discs. "But all that effort and money is wasted!" No. The amount of time you wasted playing wow is worth far more than the 100 bucks you payed for the game. That time is gone, you can't get it back. At this point you're in a deep hole and you've got to stop digging at the very least. Mani listed a bunch of great ways to find hobbies. I'd also suggest forcing yourself to exercise everyday. Exercise puts you in a great state of mind, and is of course very good for you. Cut off all your social ties to WoW. You had good times withe those friends, but I promise you they'll forget you quickly once you're gone. It's the sad fact of online relationships. As genuine and real as they can feel to be, they just aren't. You'll both be bummed about not hanging out anymore, but you can take your life in a brighter new direction and your old friends will meet new people addicted to wow. It's the 21st century circle of life. | ||
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CheAse
Canada919 Posts
just to gauge how addicting wow is, one of my friends quit smoking because wow was more addicting then it. You are actually more along then you think, now that you understand that you do in fact have a problem you can properly address it. Get distractions, anything you can get passionate about like a hobby. Try to sell your account, I know that did the trick for many people. Join a sports team, from there social connections well become easy. best of luck man | ||
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jjun212
Canada2208 Posts
some say obsession is bad; but when you ask a footballer(soccer player) if he's obsessed with soccer; he'll say yes. but to them and to sports fans, that is to be expected of them. it's not a bad thing. wow combines what? dueling? competitiveness? take up fencing, tennis, something 1v1. or do you like the ability to do raids/dungeons do a team activity; whether it's creating art projects around the city/town or joining a sports team or intermural league or community centre league, whatever. the frist step... reformat your computer and don't install wow. the rest is up to you. | ||
swanized
Canada2480 Posts
after playing online go to your local go club and try to make friends there I guess... On October 05 2010 06:34 Manifesto7 wrote: I don't think the answer is as simple as "find one thing to replace WoW". It sounds like you have been missing out on a lot of things. My ideas are based on the fact that you have played WoW rather than learn other useful skills in life. Time to play catchup! -Delete everything, uninstall everything. Make sure that it takes a lot of time to get back into the game (similar to the credit card frozen in a block of ice theory for spenders). - Make a list of things that, if you could go back a few years, you would like to have tried / started / seen. - Get out of the house. Take a bus somewhere. You live close to the greatest city in the world. Go take some pictures. Develop them. Put them on your wall to show yourself where you can go. - Find a free or cheap class at a community center. Learn something random and new, even for just a few lessons. I took Aikido once for a few months before losing interest. It was still fun. You don't have to be pro at everything, just dabble! - Learn to cook three new meals. Your family will appreciate you doing something to help them (rather than having to call you away from your computer) and in the future you can cook for girls. Having a go-to dinner is a must-have skill. - Learn to fix something. Find one thing in your house that needs fixing. Recently I painted over a tag someone sprayed on our garage. It gave me a sense of accomplishment. - Write down what you did today, and what you want to do tomorrow. I personally don't remember so much of my youth, I wish I had kept a journal of things. You will appreciate it so much when you are older. - Read George R R Martin's series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Big books that will hook you for life. good ideas especially the last one /blatant ASOIAF fanboyism off | ||
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piroko139
United States261 Posts
Did it suck? Yeah, I had a tremendous amount of spare time I have no idea what to do with. I spent it playing Console RPGs and starting up on the beta, when it came out. However, the first step to quitting is definately not to post about it, even if it is how to quit. Putting your mind on the topic isn't helping your cause when you want to forget. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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Asdkmoga
United States496 Posts
i always liked pvp, but i hated the class imbalances and the fact that i got outgeared, not out skilled made me quit and never look back. during the first 2 months or so afterwards, i just kinda of constantly downloaded new games (largely mmorpg's), free to play, and other games to fill the time til i found something i liked and never really got attached to that, other than that realize, its a stupid game that rewards time spent, not skill learned. Also, watch that video that talks about how Big gaming companies test their theories on how to hook people onto video games by toying with rats, and making them do something similiar to grinding to get food and stuff. its sick. | ||
Xxio
Canada5565 Posts
So my 2cents worth is, explore and immerse yourself in the things you already interested in. From those new interests may arise as well. As for the social aspect, I'm not sure. Internet forums are good, and once you get to know people through that medium you can move to Ventrilo or the like. But if it's socializing in general that's lacking then you could try joining a school club or something along those lines. You could also join a clan or form a group of practice partners for StarCraft, which would be really easy to do. There's a lot to talk about with StarCraft so it would work well as an icebreaker, as well as getting you more involved in the game and community. | ||
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Jugan
United States1566 Posts
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trancey
United States430 Posts
- Working out and learning a sport: Go download some P90X tapes and try to look good, it's professionally and socially awesome to be in shape while looking attractive to the opposite sex is a super plus. - Read a book: I particularly have some side interests in Fantasy Football and night life (I have a side-gig as a DJ for parties). I found "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" to be one of the most entertaining books I've ever read (the movie was terrible, it did not do the book or Max Tucker justice at all). Facts about this author: after publishing this book, Duke's Law Schools National Ranking dropped from #6 -> #11 because about parts with him spending an entire semester in Cancun while also passing his classes. - Get a job: You're fairly young, but playing WoW from 6th grade -> 12th grade seems like it may have effected your school and career pathing. Getting a job is great ways to meet people and learn how the real world works at the earliest age possible. It might suck at first since you probably have no experience and will probably have to do low-tier jobs, but it's part of a molding process that'll make you a better person in the future. - Learn how to fix things around the house: Recently, I installed hardwood floors in my house with my roommates and it felt like one of the most rewarding projects ever. We started with no experience and looked up YouTube guides to tell us what to do. The first day we didn't know to stagger the wood but eventually we re-did everything and it looks amazing now. - Make goals and do them: I really really wanted a new computer badly recently for SC2, as my current one was a Core Duo with an AGP slot that I bought to play WoW. It's terrible to play on low settings, so I figured out the cheapest way possible. I've built computers throughout my life since I was 14, mostly through looking up guides on the internet. I was lucky enough to have a friend at Best Buy, made a deal with him to build his computer and mine to use his employee discount (employees get to buy everything at manufacturer price) was able to build a top of the line computer for about $500 (worth roughly $1100~). - Get a girlfriend: I'm fairly bad at keeping them since I've had a tendency to prioritize gaming over their needs sometimes, but I still manage to somehow meet ladies all the time. If you really really want to quit a time-sink like WoW, a girl will be the easiest way to tell you to shut it off. I've had so many girlfriends try to pry me away from the computer, in my profession and standing, I would rather dedicate my time to gaming and I've met a few ladies recently that respect it (and they too acknowledge my passion for something). - Learn to have fun: I was a fairly big drinker high school and the navy, but really, it's fun as hell to get drunk with your friends and it's even more fun to get drunk with gamers. Gamers love to play drinking games: beer pong, beer hockey, flip cup, card games, land mines, etc... These are games you should learn and drinking tends to "loosen" up people to socializing. One of the best ways to meet people at social gatherings / parties is to start a drinking game or teach people one. | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
wow combines what? dueling? competitiveness? take up fencing, tennis, something 1v1. Accomplishment and accomplishing nothing. | ||
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Trumpet
United States1935 Posts
I've tried to go back just to screw around with some friends, but I just can't find the time to burn on it so I end up chatting with people through sc2 =P Man, if I had just spent that high school free time on mvc2 or 3s instead of wow I'd be such a beast by now 8[ something else easy might just be to go replay all your favorite old games or rewatch old tv series / movies. Or just take most guys approach to inactivity: bored and not sure what to do? fapfapfapfap | ||
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vnlegend
United States1389 Posts
The best way is to sell/delete your character and find things to replace Wow. Being addicted to wow makes you a candidate for addictive behavior so you're gonna have to replace one addiction for another. Hopefully it will be a more positive thing that you'll be addicted to next. | ||
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Kishkumen
United States650 Posts
I've never been good with people, I only have a few friends. WoW was an easy way for me to socialize and interact with people in ways I could never do in real life. This is an example of a non-constructive thought process. If you tell yourself you can't get along with others or use words like "never in real life" you're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. A lot of my problems came from having problems making friends my first year of college. Those problems were compounded and made far worse because I thought I couldn't make friends and couldn't get along with others. Over the summer, I realized that that way of thinking not only isn't helpful or constructive, but in my case it wasn't even true. I can tell you, if you believe you won't get along with others, you probably won't. If you give yourself credit for your good qualities and start valuing yourself, others will value you too. In my case, I eventually realized that I actually do get along well with others, which was something I just needed to convince myself of. So my advice to you is to give yourself credit for your own good qualities and be positive about yourself. You say you could never make the connections IRL that you made in WoW. To me, that just seems like you're being illogical. You've proven in WoW that you can make connections with others, but you're limiting yourself by saying that those qualities could never transfer into real life. You've set up this artificial barrier between real life and WoW that's reinforcing this non-constructive thought process about how you can't make friends. You made friends in WoW, can it really be that much different IRL? I'm sure most of the reasons you made friends in WoW, such as being friendly, or humorous, or whatever can translate to the relationships you try to make now IRL. Really, you just want to identify when your thought processes aren't helpful or are illogical. It's tough to do at first, but if you practice it gets much easier. Counseling can also really help, and I'd recommend it if you really are feeling depressed and addicted. Finding a good counsellor can really change your life. As far as some of the comments in this thread go: Cocaine isn't physically addicting but it has physical withdrawal symptoms because of anxiety. [citation needed] I've always understood that cocaine is rather physically addictive because of the way it affects the dopamine receptors in your brain. Still, I agree that a WoW addiction can only be psychological. Also there are less time consuming addictions that exist that are social too...like weed. Replacing one addiction with another less harmful (and more fun) addiction can help you. You are probably used to your life revolving around an addiction. The notion that you need to fight addiction with addiction is stupid. Don't listen to it. You can find ways to enjoy your life that are addiction-free. There's no need to sell yourself short and resign yourself to always being controlled by something. | ||
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