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howldog <lifeisgood@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> My friends are calling it EverCrack and warned me that this game is
> seriously addictive, and it takes hours and hours of game play to "get
> anywhere", especially for the noob.
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> If this is so, how many hours of game play do some of you have
> invested in this game?
MMOG's have to be considered with a different mindset that your typical
single player game. The question one has to ask themself should be, is
$12.95US/month too much to pay for unlimited play time and enough content
to keep it interesting for years?
If a person can't seem to pry themself away from it long enough to eat,
bathe, take care of their kids or go to work, then that's the fault of
their own irresponsibility or a personality particularly prone to
addiction, not the game itself.
It always baffles me how people will criticize or complain about being
"addicted" to EQ. Never have I heard of anyone who truly wanted to quit but
couldn't. If it's fun, people will play it. If they find it *really* fun or
*really* engaging, they'll play it a lot.
I see people watch hours of television every day, but people don't call
that an addiction. I'm not talking about news or educational programs. I'm
referring to the endless banality that is sit-coms, reality TV, soap operas
exploitive talk shows, etc.
It's just like anything else. If it's fun, not harmful to yourself or
others and can be done responsibly, then by all means do it. Otherwise,
maybe it's not for you.
--
Rumble
"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin
). Now it is still fun, but I have to grind
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