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My school life didnt really suffer tbh, probably because im not a PVE playerHow World oF Warcraft destroyed my real life - Page 5
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thoradycus
Malaysia3262 Posts
My school life didnt really suffer tbh, probably because im not a PVE player | ||
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Riku
United States1064 Posts
While I played the shit out of WoW, I would be more than happy to end my Saturday night raid early to go paarrrtttyyyy! Not that that is any more helpful to my grades. :D | ||
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RPR_Tempest
Australia7798 Posts
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novabossa
United States350 Posts
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Gatsbi
United States1134 Posts
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simfarm
Ireland75 Posts
Thanks for sharing. | ||
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Dante08
Singapore4128 Posts
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Dante08
Singapore4128 Posts
On August 09 2011 08:50 novabossa wrote: World of Warcrap. I never understood why people get so hooked on that game. It's just mindless grinding as opposed to an RTS game where you get adrenaline rushes. It's pretty hard to understand unless you play it yourself. Its like immersing yourself into a virtual world where you can do all sorts of activities with your friends. People feel good playing in RPGs as you're not socially restricted. You can randomly say hi to some character you see in the dungeon or whatever. And you can get adrenaline rushes as well, for example killing a final boss and getting the rarest item ever. Grinding I believe is to get to a point where your character is one of the strongest in your server, and people will take notice. So that's most people's motivation for grinding, to be the best of the best. Dam I sound like a nerd | ||
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hns
Germany609 Posts
On August 09 2011 08:50 novabossa wrote: World of Warcrap. I never understood why people get so hooked on that game. It's just mindless grinding as opposed to an RTS game where you get adrenaline rushes. Read my earlier post. If you don't know shit about the game and its features, don't judge it. | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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Servius_Fulvius
United States947 Posts
On August 08 2011 03:53 Knap4life wrote: 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. This reminds me of a lot of my friends who got hooked on WoW. Gradually a lot of them cut back play time, quit, and started talking about how much time they poured into the game that they wish they had back. And then Cataclysm came out. A majority of them were lured back by simple phrases like "It's really different!". Many of them still play at least a few hours a day, but I think it's a little amusing that all the resolve they had about the time they supposedly wasted disappeared! | ||
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Gnial
Canada907 Posts
On August 08 2011 05:01 Roe wrote: 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. Oh my God, do you listen to yourself? "I'm have an addictive personality so I will do anything I fucking please." That is my biggest pet peeve in the entire world. I have a close friend with the same fucked up philosophy. Hes like, "I have an addictive personality, so I'm gonna get addicted to cigarettes and drugs anyways...I may as well just start doing them now." And now he does drugs and smokes cigarettes even though his closest friends have never even touched a cigarette. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If you have an addictive personality, it means you have to try MORE, not less, to avoid becoming a waste of life. I don't care if your dad does drugs, or is an alcoholic, or whatever has psychologically damaged you to have this philosophy - you have to grow up and take some control over your life. There are plenty of people who easily become addicted to things who fight harder to avoid succumbing to it. Get a therapist or something - if you honest to God believe in your philosophy then they may just open your eyes to how stupid you're being, and how your belief that you can't fight addiction is really just because you weren't nurtured properly as a child. | ||
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Adila
United States874 Posts
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
i didn't even get to endgame. i heard leveling is much different and easier now, but back then it was the biggest grind of grinds, and most of the time you spent was waiting for a party. many times, there would be 3 hours before a class starts so i'd fire up the game. i'd only get into a party 30 minutes before class, so i figured, fuck class, let's play. there was a lot to get addicted to, but basically it was chasing that elusive carrot on a stick. once you got the carrot, you would use that carrot to get an even bigger carrot. then when you look behind you, you look at all the carrots you got, and it's really hard to take it and throw it all away. replace carrots with items or leveling, and that's my experience with mmos. i was also sick of the lack of skill. the game was so braindead easy, and yet people were so horrible at it. when i look back i can't really say i was "good" at the game, because everything i was doing was pretty much the same things i was doing weeks before. i decided to give it up, and the following weeks were extremely tough on me. i still wouldn't go to class. there was just a mental guard block where i would literally sit there and do nothing even though i should go to class. engineering is also a discipline where everything builds on itself, and i never managed to recover completely... enough to graduate, but far below my potential. i never had a social life anyway so that wasn't destroyed. heh. nowadays, i can't touch an MMO. i have so many negative experiences. i played the WoW demo a few years ago, and i knew where it was going, so i couldn't get into it. | ||
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Horuku
United States405 Posts
I won't go into the huge wall of text story, but I played WoW since the beginning. When WOTLK came out I said screw college and didn't drop out, just flunked all my classes to stay home and play 12-14 hours a day. It's pretty sickening. I eventually dropped and put my life back together and was able to still play it just fine without it interrupting social or school life. This year after cataclysm came out I finally quit in like February. It's so dull compared to other games. You're doing the same crap at level 85 now that you were doing a couple months before in WotlK. Run heroics all day, run BGs all day, do 10 games a week, do a raid. It gets dumb. I had 8 level 80s and 2 level 85s, game was stupid easy and when you step back from it you realize how boring and non-innovative it has been in YEARS. Makes you wonder how so many people are terrible at it to be honest. I seriously can't explain the level of terrible that you find in random heroics. At least I'm back to playing man games like SC2 and BFBC2. My XFIRE showed 9400 hours~ played in just WoW... | ||
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djbhINDI
United States372 Posts
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
(For people who will say I don't know shit about WoW - their common tactic - I was the second owner of Thunderfury) | ||
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Ravencruiser
Canada519 Posts
These are the type of people that should NOT smoke, drink, do drugs, or play MMOs. | ||
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Linwelin
Ireland7554 Posts
But yeah, if you cannot control it, don't try it | ||
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Strike_
Netherlands704 Posts
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