Anyone experiance anything like removed link

Doesn't have to be warcraft related...


I'll admit I was somewhat addicted to this game, but I proved to my friends and family that I could stop playing, and I never let my playing affect my real life stuff....

As for that guy? The game is fun, but to ignore your child? and to play while your wife's in labour? that's f$#@ed up....

EDIT: Part 2 removed link

Lol, I bet he was thinking the whole time "ROFL n00b, you don't need the CD's to play"

Edited by Luvian: I decided to remove the links to the World of Warcraft addiction episode of the Tyra Banks show hosted on youtube, because that's piracy.

[ 01-30-2007, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

I knew a guy on another forum who dropped out of high school to play more WoW.

Whoa, that's scary.

I stopped playing for my exams, and if required I could stop playing again. But that fact is...it's fun, so I'm playing the expansion.

When it starts to feel like a chore, that's when I stop playing ;)

I'm level 66, BITCHES!!!

*stands up* Hi I'm Lord of alcohol and I'm.....level 66 [img]tongue.gif[/img] Grats TL, cant wait to start raiding again! Oh and the guy is on the Kael thes server.

Yeah I saw this on the main forums yesterday. God Tyra is retarded, lol. I can't stand to watch her show man - even when nothing else is on. And it airs on like two channels every day.

She 's says something like "Well some people go out and spend too much time with their friends but this isn't even real and it's a computer" (the 'doctor' in the background making encouraging faces). It is real. As real as a movie or a book is real. But this book is one that is being experienced by thousands at the same time; an MMO. So it is more social than a book and more interactive than a movie. Which leads to it being more immersive.

I bet he's still playing since you don't need the CD's to start the game. Even if he uninstalled it you can download it online using the trial client, lol. Yeah, I bet he was all "LOL nubz ftl!". The psychologist is so clueless also. I expected a hug sessison and "special time" next.

He began playing due to a fear of SIDS? Wtf? Getting kinda deep in the BS.

I'd have been like "Dude, she porked up." I mean I wouldn't go crawl in bed with her, either, so I sympathize with him. Of course, he's no prize or trophy either -- he's got a bit of that inbred look.

And yes Tyra is pretty stupid. I like ANTM a lot, but her other show is just all full of stupidity. Dumb girl shoulda stuck to modelling.

Aye, she should have stuck with what she knows - makeup and hair. I personally don't think she has the most attractive face either for a model...looks like a wild hill woman sometimes. I saw a picture of her somewhere (I think it was Entertainment Tonight) without makeup and her hair was all messed and she looked like she escaped from the zoo.

The level of stupidity there isn't worth even humoring. She knows nothing about hosting or even talking to "normal" people. I always get the impression she just watched alot of Oprah in the 90's and worked from there. At least Oprah (I hope) would ask some basic questions beforehand and done her research (or get it done for her either way).

I have no problem with tackling an addiction to a game as a segment for her show, but she needs to check beforehand if this is slightly different than alcohol or drugs and find out how CD's work nowadays before she starts "helping" people.

She did need to check it out. Her ignorance of her subject gave the whole thing zero credibility. For many people that fact that they ARE interracting with REAL PEOPLE is the hook. Her assertion that it was "just a computer" was farcical, and will probably result in a lack of help for people who need it.

This show is so boring, I had to force myself to watch more than the first 30 seconds. It took 3 tries before I could do it. How can people watch this voluntarily?

The important thing here is that she's right, some people are addicted. I think I might have been one of them, I spent my entire summer and a good portion of september playing this game. In the summer mostly, I got up around 10:30 in the morning and played straight through until like 2 or 3 in the morning with my guild on Eitrigg. I did this every day all week, only breaking for bathroom, food, or to go to work. I don't think I saw any of my school friends once over the whole summer except for my friend, David, whom I played CS and WoW with at his house.
Once school started I would get home, mostly ignore my homework until 8 by playing Wow, then half-ass it while playing a bit. I didn't finish a lot of it. Later in the night I'd pretend to go to bed to sate my parent's concern, then sneak back down here to raid until maybe 1 am with my guild, then go to bed after setting up a glide to fish all night.
I don't quite remember what happened to make me quit playing, something in me just changed. One day, I just decided that it wasn't as fun and stopped playing as much, doing other stuff around the house. Eventually, I reached the point where it was days at a time between when I felt like playing. Finally, the time on my account expired, I said my good-bye's and thank-you's to friends and did not renew. I didn't personally see this episode of Tyra , but it sounds like she tried to trivialize the whole thing. From what I told you before I spent a lot of time online with my guild, and there were people I considered my friends, even if I hadn't ever physically met them. We talked, we had fun playing together, that's enough for me.

After I quit, I picked up the pace a bit in my school work and started talking to my friends and doing more things with them. I met my ex and current girlfriend, have been having an amazing life and haven't looked back until recently. I also recently decided to accept faith back in to my life.
My previously mentioned friend David seems to be near what I was, he only ever calls or talks to me on MSN about playing WoW, and he was telling me a bit about the X-Pac and the new honor system and I had a hankering to play again. I'm glad I didn't buy the x-pac and a game card, I played a bit on his account as a newbie BE and Draenei, and as a 60 levelling and screwing around and its still very nearly the same game I no longer wished to play. Raiding felt like a job, I had to show up at a certain time at a certain place to get paid (in a sense), and if I stopped showing up or called in sick too much I would lose my "job" and have no "phat lewtz" etc etc. Other stuff that made me not want to play any more too. Anyways, I just thought you guys might like to hear my story or whatever even if I tend to ramble when I talk like this.

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Meh.

Yeah, you overdid it and it burned you out. It sounds like you had a problem at some point for sure. The good news is a game cannot be physically addictive and so you will eventually tire of it after playing as often and at the rate and pace you mentioned. With physical drugs, no matter how much you know they are bad for you, your body and mind still insist upon them. Like cigarettes for example. They don't really care if you are "bored" with them. You can look at the state your skin and lungs are in and ignore it as you light up another smoke.

I have played alot of WoW but honestly, my eyes would be popping out my head if I played for eight or nine hours straight. I usually play for 1-2 hour periods and then get up and take a break. Sometimes I will return but usually I will go do something else. I don't have to force myself to do this though, I actually want to walk around, go outside, do something other than stare at the screen. All things in moderation, as it's very easy to overindulge in anything you like.

You can't be addicted to a game in particular, but you can be addicted to gaming in general. Just like some people are addicted to adrenaline.

Seven years ago I could spend hours concentrating and working. Not I can't stay concentrated for more than five minutes, I need constant stimulation. Most of the time I don't even finish games because the rush of pleasure you get out of the newness effect has wore off and it's just not entertaining enough anymore.

Not true. Perhaps true for some people, but I don't agree with your blanket declaration.

Drug addicts don't get addicted to say tylenol, they get addicted to heroin or crack. The CONTENT of the substance/thing addicted to is important. The ingredients that make up WoW all help to make it more addictive than say, Snood for example.

Not true. Perhaps true for some people, but I don't agree with your blanket declaration.

Drug addicts don't get addicted to say tylenol, they get addicted to heroin or crack. The CONTENT of the substance/thing addicted to is important. The ingredients that make up WoW all help to make it more addictive than say, Snood for example. </font>[/QUOTE]One day a game company made a game that was so good, so much of what everyone wanted to play, so much of what we'd been asking for, that it was decided they were evil for doing so.

It boggles the mind.

Level 70 and got my Karazhan key, btw.

Gratz TL [img]smile.gif[/img]

I sold my gear and stopped playing again. Hardly got out of the first area of TBC when it felt like *such* a chore. As if I had to level to have fun, so it's gone for good.

...and this time I mean it [img]tongue.gif[/img] Account cancelled, the lot.

Not true. Perhaps true for some people, but I don't agree with your blanket declaration.

Drug addicts don't get addicted to say tylenol, they get addicted to heroin or crack. The CONTENT of the substance/thing addicted to is important. The ingredients that make up WoW all help to make it more addictive than say, Snood for example. </font>[/QUOTE]One day a game company made a game that was so good, so much of what everyone wanted to play, so much of what we'd been asking for, that it was decided they were evil for doing so.

It boggles the mind.

Level 70 and got my Karazhan key, btw. </font>[/QUOTE]Grats!

And please explain what game you are referring to.

Also... level 16 BE paladin [img]tongue.gif[/img] BE Pallies seem to be a lot cooler/fun than my human pally was, weird huh? My only complaint is the elves are... frail. They got no meat on their little bones!

Grats TL,

I'm myself is a level 70. Currently trying to get exalted with Aldor and Honor Hold. It's a long long grinding work.

"Too much of a good thing" is not a new concept.
Coca leaves have been used naturally in Bolivia etc for generations. Certainly not evil.
But cocaine destroys lives.

Anyway, I'm a Wow addict and I don't believe blizzard are evil. My own inability to construct boundaries in my life and delay gratification is the real issue. If anything, I'm glad playing Wow has brought this element of my personality to the fore, so that I can work on constructing boundaries throughout my life in general, and thus fix deeper seated problems in my life.

Gratz!!!

I'm a WoW addict.

For now. Of course I've quickly become a Guitar Hero 2 addict as well.

Point being, I'm a G-A-M-E-R. If it's not WoW it will be some other game. At least one game has kept my interest for a year and a half.

Got 2 pieces of loot from Kara and up to Curator....... (wait for it).... BITCHES!!!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I'm addicted to WoW :(

It's a bit like in that South Park episode where they jump out of bed looking like death and log straight back in (not quite obese with ruined skin yet though [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

I think with me it's more the fact that I bottle it all up (as obviously I can't play at work and don't play much in the evenings as I'm spending most of the night with my wife to be) and then unleash it all and have a couple of insane sessions at the weekend!

Bah, i'm the same, Zink. I won't play for days sometimes then make up for those days in a weekend or an all-nighter (I'm a rebel see).

But like I said, after that I usually need another good break. It is no more than people do with booze or TV. In this kind of moderation I think it doesn't warrant the word "addiction" unless the others do too. It becomes unhealthy when it starts taking from your life, rather than giving.

65 warrior
63 mage
63 rogue
48 lock
38 rogue (Might twink out)
37 hunter
34 shaman
32 paladin
26 priest (Can't wait til 30, MC FTW!!)
18 druid

Basically i cbfed lvling my higher lvl chars, i get soo far in questing and its like.. omg this is taking soo friggen long. So then i start up a new char and it's a whole new experience in the game. It is also a way to find out how to combat that class's weakness and the extra chars mean no boredem at all. PvP is a blast because if you are tired of just going Mortal Strike Heroic strike or Pyro crit PoM pyro crit, you can switch around for fun.
Yep, im an addict but i havnt been bothered to buy the card in like 7 days or so. Been enjoying the time with my mates.

I'll admit I was somewhat addicted for quite a whie there, but its been about 3 months since I played and so far so good!

It's great having all this time back, and now even if I wanted to play, I have to many other things to do!

Though I do plan on getting back into it in a controlled manner.....

Re: Addicted to WoW
 

Just necromancing this thread as I wanted to put my 2c in. I've obviously started a wee bit behind you guys and am experiencing the newness and excitement of WOW for the first couple of months, as opposed to a lot of the comments on the thread where people sound jaded, frustrated, aggravated, etc. I suppose I've only ground my way to level 39 and have only played for 7 days or so (gaming time).

So far I am loving the game - it's the first MMORPG I've played (NWN was great but not really an MMORPG, more a MORPG) so I'm getting a kick out of the novelty of it all for me. I like the fact that the world is huge and that each region is different, and that you can go for days just exploring it (which I've been doing). I've been trying to level up, definitely, but mainly so I can get my mount and explore quicker. I haven't done any raids yet so I can't comment on that, but I've done a few instances and those have been fun.

That said, I can't see how anyone could get addicted to it to the point where they focus exclusively on it at the expense of everything else (though maybe my definition of addiction is different). I enjoy playing computer games - I'm a gamer like TL is, though MBA and work priorities have always kept that in check. Also, I know what it's like to be physically and psychologically addicted to something like cigarettes or recreational drugs like e and coke when I was in my partying phase (phase of my life many years ago - those of you around in the early 2000s may have seen a post from me on a thread from Charlie on the topic) and I don't think I've ever experienced the same feeding or need when playing a computer game. Whenever something stops feeling like fun, I stop doing it. It's how I stopped doing e and clubbing every weekend - when it stopped being enjoyable. It was a bit tougher doing that with clubbing, and I still haven't managed it with cigarettes, but from a gaming POV, I've always been in control of my own time - if it gets boring, I stop and do something else. But that's just me - YMMV. :)

Re: Addicted to WoW
 

lol, good thread to bring back..

I just started playing again and just hit 70 :D

So that means I will be playing again.... a lot....