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EscPlan9
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2777 Posts
March 25 2011 22:01 GMT
#41
On March 26 2011 04:20 proot wrote:
I played for three years, got five gladiator titles and one rank 1 title, ended up being the best player of my class on my server with the best gear score pretty much every season. I look back at that now and realize how fucking stupid I was to invest that much time into something so useless. My GPA was around 2.8-3.2 as I was playing WoW and skyrocketed to 3.8-4.0 when I started playing less and eventually quit.

I felt REALLY bad when I quit. I was pretty much on the verge of depression because I was leaving all my e-buddies behind. I realized it wasn't so bad when I switched to SC2 because of real ID and skype from time to time, and the real life improvements after quitting are completely worth it.

WoW is the worst possible game to get into as a competitive player. You end up being better than everyone for a few months, then you're back down to the level with casuals that are playing 30 min a day or raiding one hour a week. So, you end up spending even more time getting to the top and the cycle starts over after six months. If I could restart my life, I would stay the hell away from WoW. It's identical to being on a drug.


^^ the truth there. I also wish I never started playing.
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Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
March 26 2011 02:31 GMT
#42
I certainly relate to the negativity some of you feel about the game. On balance, I feel that my time spent playing was a great experience -- I was lucky enough to meet some really interesting people, found and run a guild that was successful for a time, and experience the raiding game (which was not that easy to get into when I started.) That said, I really feel like there's not much new to experience. I'll probably level up again when there's a new expansion, but I don't plan to
raid again.
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Tegin
Profile Joined November 2010
United States840 Posts
March 26 2011 12:14 GMT
#43
I quit roughly 4 or 5 months before Cataclysm was released and I don't regret it for a second. I had about 200 hours on my warrior, and about 50 each on my Druid and Hunter. WoW almost took over my life for those 4 years I played, so giving it up along with the monthly fee is an amazing feeling. I do miss my friends but I know it isn't worth being convinced to come back.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Shettle
Profile Joined March 2011
United States9 Posts
March 27 2011 03:00 GMT
#44
Yeah, I just quit last week myself, and picked back up SC2. One of the hardest things has been finding friends to play with in SC2. With WOW just throw up a /2 lf guild, but finding people in starcraft has proved much more difficult. :/
Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
March 27 2011 03:31 GMT
#45
On March 27 2011 12:00 Shettle wrote:
Yeah, I just quit last week myself, and picked back up SC2. One of the hardest things has been finding friends to play with in SC2. With WOW just throw up a /2 lf guild, but finding people in starcraft has proved much more difficult. :/


Hang out here enough, check the practice partners thread, we'll get you hooked up
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Silentness
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2821 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-28 07:08:56
March 28 2011 07:04 GMT
#46
haha yeah WoW ruined me in University. I was more focused on Molten Core/BWL/AQ40/NAXX40 raids (prior to Burning Crusade) than studying for my Biology exams. So my parents stopped paying for my University tuition fees and I went into the Air Force. WoW was my GF. Now I'm almost 24 in a serious relationship and I embrace the title "casual" player.

WoW was definitely good times, but I am definitely glad that the grind is over. It becomes too repetitive after a while. Starcraft 2 you can play a game and be happy after just one match, but in WoW it felt like I didn't accomplish something if I wasn't on the computer for at least 2 hours lolz


PS: I did meet a guild member in Seoul though. It was totally random... We met up and had dinner and ice cream together. He taught me some Korean haha. First and only time I met a person from a computer game in real life.
GL HF... YOLO..lololollol.
BenKen
Profile Joined August 2009
United States860 Posts
March 28 2011 08:04 GMT
#47
Congrats man. I got up to well over 8k hours played too before I quit for good. Coincidentally my life got so much fucking better! I still have fond memories of hanging out with the guildies on Vent, but man, it's not worth it. Don't go back.

I'm sure a lot of us here can rattle off our server firsts/high arena ranks/legendary weapons owned etc... But that stuff isn't worth shit anywhere except in Azeroth, and that stuff costs a lot (a whole lot) of time. And really, what's more important than your time? Nothing, actually, and when people realize this is when people quit WoW.

It's just like everyone else in the thread is saying. Some weeks I'll sit in front of a computer for about the same amount of time that I would have spent raiding/grinding/farming in WoW. The difference is I'm not committed for several hours, and scheduled for several nights a week. I can play one game of SC2, and if someone calls with something fun to do, I can just go do it. With WoW, i'm letting anywhere between 5 to 25 (or 40 back in the day) people down if I dip out after 20 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun in WoW, but I'm glad I quit.
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