EPTMan beats World of Warcraft - Page 5
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Jaksiel
United States4130 Posts
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Arkqn
France589 Posts
I think it's a share account.. How can a person achieve such a huge amount of quests? I mean, there is so much stuff to do on this game.. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32161 Posts
On December 11 2009 02:20 beefhamburger wrote: As for studying, if he has so much time to play, he might be done with schooling already. Even better, he's probably collecting unemployment while wasting his life! | ||
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Armathai
1023 Posts
If anyone considers games a waste of life, I suggest they never revisit this forum and instead use their time on advertising to save needy children in Africa. :D | ||
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NastyMarine
United States1252 Posts
On December 10 2009 17:07 DeathSpank wrote: so whats he going to do now? I mean now he has nothing to do until the expo comes out! He's going to have a free time meltdown ! He now has time to go into a silent rage. | ||
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WhatisProtoss
Korea (South)2325 Posts
On December 11 2009 02:20 beefhamburger wrote: As for studying, if he has so much time to play, he might be done with schooling already. Wait, you do realize that a professional life follows schooling, right? That means he's unemployed. That's worse than failing at school. Barely worse. | ||
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FaCE_1
Canada6185 Posts
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esla_sol
United States756 Posts
i honestly cant think of any video game "test" that could even compare. | ||
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Headlines
United States482 Posts
On December 11 2009 02:53 NastyMarine wrote: He now has time to go into a silent rage. He's famous now isn't he? You'll probably see him with a milling mass of fans basking in his aura of glory. I'm sure he would enjoy that, ha! | ||
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Kyuki
Sweden1867 Posts
On December 11 2009 02:09 zazen wrote: I could be wrong, but the point is you can't possibly live a happy life if you devote your entire days to playing a computer game. How can you be happy if you let go friends, girls, studying, work, and basically everything else, just to spend endless amounts of time playing your cow druid in some online game? I know because I've been a true hardcore WoW raider/guild master/raid leader before and it was a very, very shitty period of my life. I can't imagine someone feeling truly "ok" on the inside if they are living such a meaningless life. As been said already, the social enviroment you choose can work out in many diffrent ways, and it is a very subjective matter on how people work and how they feel dependant on their life situation. As a former WoW hardcore raider/guild master/raid leader myself I thought the same as you did, that it was a very tough time in my life which lead to more misshap then joy and it was very time consuming (more time spent on the game offline than online T_T), but when I left it all it came down to me that it was really a true way of beeing part of a context. When I moved to where my awesome wife to be across the country I lost alot of that context I had in RL because I moved away from friends and family and only when I quit wow and the guild that was like a baby to me it dawned on me that it was something I needed (beeing part of a bigger picture) and need to find somewhere else now in a new enviroment. Point is, while it perhaps wasnt your thing and you felt misserable over playing your game, your analogy and your background wont be replicated by anyone and anyones situation will always be diffrent and thus the outcome of life joy will differ. Also we dont know shit about this person, and as said countless of times in this thread, his playtime shows nothing more than effectiveness and devotion rather than pretty much living online. We dont know how his life is or anything and thus have no right to judge. Even if he is completely misserable and wants to suicide that does not belong here, there are probably quite the amount of people on these boards that are way less extreme in any other context that have feelings like that. What do we know really? Again; each to her own.. | ||
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eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
Me and a few friends made our own guild which eventually got in the top 10 in the server, and did we ever have problems "handling" WoW? Hell no -- it only took like 15 hours a week tops to do all the content every week. It never interfered with real life. My friends kept girlfriends, we all did great in college that semester, and I look back on playing WoW and I honestly kind of miss it -- the game is amazing (or well, it was better before the newest expansion IMO). The funny thing I realized though (besides people taking the time out of their day to read about WoW players and then to insult them), is that they have no idea just how social that game is. Granted, most WoW players I meet in real life are like autistic, but you know what? -- they suck at the game. Why? Because they can't operate in a social environment at all. WoW is a really simple game, it's just that the raids really require you to work together and enjoy working together. The kids who can't follow directions, contribute to a guild, be optimistic, or agree to a loot system really are just terrible at the game and are probably worse at real life. My god, I talk to these guys that quit WoW and "got their life back" and usually they really aren't doing much else with their lives anyways. Yeah, you quit WoW -- now your back on online forums telling everyone your story, nice. It's not addicting, you just suck as a person. Stop giving the game a bad rep. lol, "can't live a happy life if you devote entire days to a game" -- i'd be jealous of anyone that enjoyed something that much. sorry about the rant, and I'm aware most of the posts in here weren't anti-WoW. | ||
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Always
United States376 Posts
.. well-- sort of. i used to play wow with a ton of friends, and it was so much fun. and then school began again. *sigh* | ||
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Ethelis
United States2400 Posts
On December 11 2009 03:36 eMbrace wrote: + Show Spoiler + Really sick of all the people who can't handle a fucking game(im not referring to the guy in the article). I played WoW since the day it came out and I quit earlier this summer (because I didn't like how easy it got with WOTLK). Me and a few friends made our own guild which eventually got in the top 10 in the server, and did we ever have problems "handling" WoW? Hell no -- it only took like 15 hours a week tops to do all the content every week. It never interfered with real life. My friends kept girlfriends, we all did great in college that semester, and I look back on playing WoW and I honestly kind of miss it -- the game is amazing (or well, it was better before the newest expansion IMO). The funny thing I realized though (besides people taking the time out of their day to read about WoW players and then to insult them), is that they have no idea just how social that game is. Granted, most WoW players I meet in real life are like autistic, but you know what? -- they suck at the game. Why? Because they can't operate in a social environment at all. WoW is a really simple game, it's just that the raids really require you to work together and enjoy working together. The kids who can't follow directions, contribute to a guild, be optimistic, or agree to a loot system really are just terrible at the game and are probably worse at real life. My god, I talk to these guys that quit WoW and "got their life back" and usually they really aren't doing much else with their lives anyways. Yeah, you quit WoW -- now your back on online forums telling everyone your story, nice. It's not addicting, you just suck as a person. Stop giving the game a bad rep. lol, "can't live a happy life if you devote entire days to a game" -- i'd be jealous of anyone that enjoyed something that much. sorry about the rant, and I'm aware most of the posts in here weren't anti-WoW. pretty much agree with everything here. +1 | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On December 11 2009 02:09 zazen wrote: I could be wrong, but the point is you can't possibly live a happy life if you devote your entire days to playing a computer game. How can you be happy if you let go friends, girls, studying, work, and basically everything else, just to spend endless amounts of time playing your cow druid in some online game? I know because I've been a true hardcore WoW raider/guild master/raid leader before and it was a very, very shitty period of my life. I can't imagine someone feeling truly "ok" on the inside if they are living such a meaningless life. Obviously it isn't meaningless to him. | ||
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zazen
Brazil695 Posts
Playing WoW and completing every single achievement available in the game are two completely different things. You can play WoW with different amounts of dedication. beating every single achievement in the game, on the other hand, requires INSANE amounts of time spent and ultimate dedication - which is why no one else has ever done it before. it's not something you can just log on, chill out for a while and accomplish. it takes a lot of effort, more so than a full-time job. which is why I think this guy is "sick" and needs help. On a last note, I'm not anti-wow, quite on the contrary, it's by far the best MMORPG ever designed, which is why I got so addicted in the first place. but as someone who had a heavily MMORPG addiction-induced depression in the past, I kinda feel like it's my job to tell people that gaming can have a very negative impact in your life if you stop doing other things in order to get more play time. this is bad just like drug addiction or any other addiction for that matter. If you think I'm completly wrong by thinking like this, and believe it's just fine to spend 14-16 hours playing a game every day while life just passes by, well, then I guess you have a different outlook of life than I do. but that's fine, you do whatever you want with your time.  EDIT: Fixed some typos. | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
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eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
On December 11 2009 04:18 zazen wrote: You guys are just distorting the points that I and some people brought up. Playing WoW and completing every single achievement available in the game are two completely different things. You can play WoW with different amounts of dedication. beating every single achievement in the game, on the other hand, requires INSANE amounts of time spent and ultimate dedication - which is why no one else has ever done it before. it's not something you can just log on, chill out for a while and accomplish. it takes a lot of effort, more so than a full-time job. which is why I think this guy is "sick" and needs help. On a last note, I'm not anti-wow, quite on the contrary, it's by far the best MMORPG ever designed, which is why I got so addicted in the first place. but as someone who had a heavily MMORPG addiction-induced depression in the past, I kinda feel like it's my job to tell people that gaming can have a very negative impact in your life if you stop doing other things in order to get more play time. this is bad just like drug addiction or any other addiction for that matter. If you think I'm completly wrong by thinking like this, and believe it's just fine to spend 14-16 hours playing a game every day while life just passes by, well, then I guess you have a different outlook of life than I do. but that's fine, you do whatever you want with your time. EDIT: Fixed some typos. you seem to have a prejudice that people who play WoW a lot are missing out on life. 14-16 hours a day? it takes me 15 hours a week to run a top guild through all the raids. the people who get depressed and addicted and play 70 hours a week really are just terrible at the game. i appreciate you caring enough to warn us -- but there are people here who actually have their lives under control and can enjoy a good MMO. (as for the guy who "completed WoW," yeah he sounds like he was pretty bored, and the patch just came out so he still has a lot to do) | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
Let the man enjoy his moment. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
On December 10 2009 16:54 Athos wrote: Author is a dick. He reviews videogames for a living and has the nerve to say that this guy is wasting his life. Yes that was a weak shot. | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
On December 11 2009 04:18 zazen wrote: You guys are just distorting the points that I and some people brought up. Playing WoW and completing every single achievement available in the game are two completely different things. You can play WoW with different amounts of dedication. beating every single achievement in the game, on the other hand, requires INSANE amounts of time spent and ultimate dedication - which is why no one else has ever done it before. it's not something you can just log on, chill out for a while and accomplish. it takes a lot of effort, more so than a full-time job. which is why I think this guy is "sick" and needs help. On a last note, I'm not anti-wow, quite on the contrary, it's by far the best MMORPG ever designed, which is why I got so addicted in the first place. but as someone who had a heavily MMORPG addiction-induced depression in the past, I kinda feel like it's my job to tell people that gaming can have a very negative impact in your life if you stop doing other things in order to get more play time. this is bad just like drug addiction or any other addiction for that matter. If you think I'm completly wrong by thinking like this, and believe it's just fine to spend 14-16 hours playing a game every day while life just passes by, well, then I guess you have a different outlook of life than I do. but that's fine, you do whatever you want with your time. EDIT: Fixed some typos. Alot of Starcraft progamers practice that much daily. Are they "sick?" | ||
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