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I don't blame the game really , it is my own fault that i got so hooked with the game , i can blame only myself for that so i am not saying that the game is evil or dangerous.It is in fact a fun game and should be played at a reasonable amount daily but for me it went to far.
This is my story of which i am not proud of but i think it should be told to warn some new people who are willing to try out the game so they don't fall in the same trap as i did , i am not saying that you all are as weak as i was but nobody deserves to get into that kind of shitty life as i did from 2005 till 2008. ( i don't know the exact date because i lost time of it after playing so much WoW).
It really started way back in 2004 when i first played the warcraft 3 demo and after being so amazed of it i decided to get the full version i played the original and the expansion about 5x times and i loved the characters the story the world , everything about it really i felt great just playing that game no matter which mission i played. For me to be in that kind of world was just so magical and something different from my daily boring life.
So than in 2005 when i got something we all call the internetz it was not long until i bought World of warcraft.And than it started , the race for level 60.
I wanted to get to lvl 60 fast and that required to be awake till 2 am at first and my mom (may she rest in peace) wasn't happy with that so she turned the internet off always when i didn't want to go to bed and so i started to pretend to be asleep just so i could 30min later go out into the living room and turn the internet back on and go quietly back to my room and play till 3 am , 4 am .5 am ect ect .
I been doing that for a while until my father figured it out and caught me in the middle of the act. So i was in big trouble he started calling me a crackhead that i could not be without the computer for a week and the sad thing about is....he was right i was hooked on that game. I came home from school , ate went to the bathroom and jumped on the PC and started playing world of warcraft ,locking myself inside that beautiful world forgetting about the troubles outside of it, I got very mad if someone got into my room and i couldn't wait until they left so i could continue to play that awesome game.
I started going out less and less , i did not care about my rl friends anymore and that is when it started , my social part started to suffer , i never liked going into the cities because there were so many people , i had trouble talking to other people , i was a very shy person , i was very blank when it came to conversations , i had no real personality really i was like a freaking living corps i think you call that a zombie so yeah that would be me.
So after the fact that my father caught me i had to think of something else , i switched some cables so he thought the internet was off but in truth it wasn't and i was able to play without interruption.
I believe it took me 4 months to get from 1-60 on my first character ( yeah go ahead and laugh) my English was good back than but not that great and i had a lot of trouble completing them ,in short it took me fucking hours to do just a few.
When i finally reached level 60 i geared up a bit and joined a guild which was raiding 5x a week and oooooooooh boy that's when all hell broke lose.
A raid took 4 hours from 20:00 to 24:00. 5 times a week and that's really a lot of dedication to a game and it would not be so bad if i only played 4 hours a day really but i played from 16:00 when i got home until 1-3am when i was going to school when summer came it went damn crazy.
I remember one summer where i spent every day only inside and i am not kidding there were maybe 3 days when i went outside for a few hours the rest was just wow , wow , wow , wow , wow for 3 freaking months.I was insane and i didn't even realise back than how much time i spent playing this game.
I remember when we went out with my family for dinner or to see grandmother or any other kind of thing i kept thinking in my head how i would get home and log in and see my awesome purple character again and go grind me some gold or go raid or chat to my wow friends (which honestly the only 2 things that wow gave me was new cool friends and English skillz)
I was like this from WoW vanilla and till the very end of WoW TBC than i finally quit because i was so damn bored of the game , i spent like 4 hours every day hanging around in Iron Forge and doing nothing.So after i quit i was so used to the "daily routine" that i had sooooo much free time and i had no god damn clue what to do whit it , it took me like a month to figure out what else i could be doing and thankfully it was nothing involving the PC ,i started playing some soccer and basketball and hiking but it didnt last for long, My stupid friend convinced me to come back to WoW when wrath of the lich king came out. I came back but i never played as much as i did and somewhere in the middle of it i quit it and never came back.
Things got back to normal , i go out more now and people don't think of me as a zombie anymore.Life is good now as it should be and the past 6 months have been really great for me , i lost 40 pounds , able to run 15km and i am singing up for a marathon in a week, Life is good now and i am glad i got out of that sad life i lived back than.
Its amazing what can a video game do to you but than again its my own fault.
Anyway thanks for reading i hope you enjoyed reading it and if not sorry i sadly cant give you back those 10minutes of your life sadly  .
  
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Yeah War of Warcrack will do that, just like every other MMO.
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It's important to focus on the happiness that you got from the game while you played in my opinion, and not look back on the time in such a negative fashion. This happened to my dad when he played FFXI, he type /played and saw that he had 220 days or something like that, and he said something along the lines of "wow what a waste of time." In hindsight it may seem like it was a waste of time, but if it made you happy then I don't think it was a waste at all! Good job getting into running though and not another MMO, not many WoW players would!
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Welcome back to the living!!
I did the same rofl. outside 30degrees and i was playing 12hours a day inside
Feels good to not be forced into a rhythm anymore
I have exactly the same stories. It was the same, took me some time to get to 60, joined a casual guild which was fine. After that went to a hardcore guild and it went nuts. Only 5months ago i stopped raiding and stopped my subscription. Thankfully blizzard helped me by poor design of this expansion so i didnt enjoy it that much anymore.
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ever wished you were in a car crash or was elderly so you could play 24/7 coz there would be nothing else to get in your way
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Glad that you managed to break your WoW addiction and get back to real world :D.
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My circle of friends in middle school was pretty much all geeks playing video games. Then one day after watching THAT episode of South Park, I bought WoW and convinced them all to get it as well.
Those were some fun times, but it ruined my grades and as a result I didn't get accepted into a magnet high school. Looking back at it, WoW was fucking STUPID and i would of been better off playing BW.
Dammit why didn't i have friends that played RTS games!!
Sorry, thinking about WoW gets me worked up.
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On August 08 2011 04:14 LMPeaches wrote:
My circle of friends in middle school was pretty much all geeks playing video games. Then one day after watching THAT episode of South Park, I bought WoW and convinced them all to get it as well.
Those were some fun times, but it ruined my grades and as a result I didn't get accepted into a magnet high school. Looking back at it, WoW was fucking STUPID and i would of been better off playing BW.
Dammit why didn't i have friends that played RTS games!!
Sorry, thinking about WoW gets me worked up.
Ahhh yes school and grades , that fucked me up as well , i had to redo a class because of WoW  .
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Had the same problem, although I had IRL friends most of the time, then I got sick of one of them, the other one had new friends and the last one stopped @ WoW.
Whoop-di-doo, "zombie mode" as you call it for half a year was fun
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On August 08 2011 03:58 Endymion wrote:
It's important to focus on the happiness that you got from the game while you played in my opinion, and not look back on the time in such a negative fashion. This happened to my dad when he played FFXI, he type /played and saw that he had 220 days or something like that, and he said something along the lines of "wow what a waste of time." In hindsight it may seem like it was a waste of time, but if it made you happy then I don't think it was a waste at all! Good job getting into running though and not another MMO, not many WoW players would!
I don't know if it's like this in the US but when I was younger a LOT of my friends (including me) played WoW a lot, but I don't think any of them are addicted to computer games of any sort (except this one guy who I just knew was playing the game but never really talked to because he was kinda weird and loud) and most of them are physically active (a lot of us were back then too) and doing well in school etc. etc.
There is one guy that just I started to know only recently though and he's quite addicted to WoW, but I think that's more because he's had a lot on his mind lately.
When I say a lot of my friends playing WoW I mean like 20+.
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it took me like 2 years to get to lvl 60 lol. or however long it was until BWL or so and BGs. I think I've got more than 400 days played across all characters. I failed about 6 classes in high school due to WoW not to mention never having a job or girlfriend or being kissed(although some drunk slut at a club kissing everyone who was also sick doesn't really count) I'm one of those with an addictive personality, so I don't think there's going to be any getting over it. It's probably best to just come back to the game once in a while and get that serotonin high I felt all those years.
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This is why my older brother told me never to play WoW. People argue it owns Star Craft. I say it does not. People then argue it owns life. I say indeed, indeed it does. 
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I'm just addicted to computers, it doesn't matter what I play, I just can't get off the computer, aka just go home and stay on comp all day long. WoW is the game I playED because most MMO's actually put me to sleep faster than a dedicated pill. I could stay on the computer 8 hours a day doing nothing but reading forums (A lot of Teamliquid...  )
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Oh man, WoW is one of the best games of all time. OF ALL TIME!!! I don't care what you say, I will always think that (even though Starcraft is better and Cataclysm is not that great). Good thing I stopped right when I got super addicted :D
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On August 08 2011 05:09 TerraTron wrote:I'm just addicted to computers, it doesn't matter what I play, I just can't get off the computer, aka just go home and stay on comp all day long. WoW is the game I playED because most MMO's actually put me to sleep faster than a dedicated pill. I could stay on the computer 8 hours a day doing nothing but reading forums (A lot of Teamliquid... )
this seems to be what i do a lot....is this not good?
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This was basically the story of my life as well from around 7th grade till 11th grade, my friends in middle school got me into runescape, which I became addicted too and they didn't, i stayed on that and made a bunch of friends on it which I later transitioned to Wow with towards the start of TBC. From then on, my first 3 years of high school had basically no social life present, I struggled to work in groups, had trouble finding a table at lunch, and basically never spoke at all unless it was to ask a question to someone about what we were doing.
Then my senior year, I gave up the game, similarly to how you did, Wotlk was about halfway through, and it was boring as shit, and i picked up console gaming with the friends I had a long time ago that I wasn't close to anymore. But after that, I found a common ground with them, and became really close, and we are still close even now, going on my second year of college.
It's amazing what games like this can do to you, I'm glad to see you got over your addiction as well, no matter what happens do not resubscribe, there have been a few times over the past 3 years of being "nonaddicted" where I came back to it for like 3 months at a time, big mistake.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention, there was one real life friend that played wow with me, he dropped out of high school when he was 16 just to play the game, and he's on my battle.net, and is always online at all parts of the day, and hes almost 20 now.
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I play an MMO I can never escape from in this day and age. It's called the Internet.
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I had exactly the same problem with wow, 300+ days played later I discovered sc2 which I now play instead. Not as much, but I still put a lot of hours practice in.
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There are a lot of things in this post that reminds me of my own relation to WoW and gaming in general. I also used to pretend to go to bed just to stay up late playing. When I heard somebody come down the stairs to the computer room I flicked the power switch to the computer and tried to hide. Eventually I got my own computer and my mom started accepting me playing it though.
I played WoW for a couple years but in the back of my head I always felt that it was bad and I should be doing other things. It was that feeling that eventually made me quit playing, and it has definately been a good thing for me.
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I was the same way with Ultima Online back in the day. This story seems more common than people would like to admit.
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