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i saw something on tv that was talking about wow. they were interviewing people from the development's team or something and one said that the objective was to make people play at least 500 hours. let me say that they must have accomplished at least a part of their objectives.

that is how our system works. what people want they get if they have the money. so ultimately the cause is the players not the company. the only way something is going to happen about all that it s going to be only either the government or the players initiative. i dont think the government is going to do something about it because it absolutely has no interest in doing so.

so it s up to us gamers.

after we pay for wow we may well be ending paying again for lawyers or therapists.

*evil maniacal laughter* Mwahaha, do you think you are cured? Just wait until Blizzard spends all those huge profits they made with WoW on the development of some new even more addictive MMORPG... *music from "Jaws", enters "World of Diablo"*

dont ever call any game just like WoW, just like WoW = my dog poo.

Diablo was and is the greatest hack and slash top down rpg ever! Titan Quest and all those wannabes can stay under a rock!

Interesting discussion, i gave up WoW... actually can't remember when i gave it up ive been that busy since. A bit of background for you, im 30, im married, ive got a baby due erm... sometime in the next 24 hours!!!! eek! I started from Closed Beta 1 and was addicted within days of playing it. My Xfire profile shows a final play time of 1390 hours but thats nothing like close as I eventually turned Xfire off so i couldnt see how much i was playing. I quit once, sold my account, bought another one and started from scratch again, I quit again, then went back to it a couple of months later. Ive been a guild officer twice, i had 3 level 60s BWL equipped when i sold my first account and 2 level 70s Karazhan equipped when I quit last.

The key to getting off WoW is to establish a life outside of WoW bit by bit. I began first by regularly meeting up with friends on a Thursday night to do sword fighting (any hobby will do!). The key is to mentally block out Thursdays as a WoW playing day. After a few weeks I settled into that routine, next I began to arrange things on weekends, either visiting friends or going away somewhere, even just going for a walk with my wife, something to get me out of the house for 3 hours or more. The hardest part was the next bit. I quit raiding. I stopped signing up to raids, I said id be available if I was online but I refused to guarantee my attendance. After a short while I stopped getting invited to raids, once you stop raiding, you stop playing. Seriously try it. There really is nothing else worth doing in that game if you don't raid regularly.

This is where the earlier gradual building of the hobbies came in. Once I quit I had a life I could turn to, I had friends, hobbies, things to do, places to be and at no point since have I felt the addiction kick in. I get the odd twinge, for example the Southpark WoW episode was on the other night and I got that warm WoW fuzzy feeling but not a burning urge to play. I just recently got into Enemy Territory Quake Wars (i was previously a mad FPS gamer) and ive got back into the routine of playing for an hour or so then logging off and doing something else.

With a baby due any hour now the fact im off WoW is in my opinion immensely important to me, ive seen courses failed, families broken, jobs lost, even houses lost from guild members during my 2.5years playing it and I swore that person wouldn't be me.

So, there is hope out there you just really need to focus on your "REAL" life before quitting then eventually you just find that quitting is a natural progression as you have better things to be doing than sat at your PC grinding the same thing over and over and over and over.

Good luck

Same way I quit EQ1 after five years, and EQ2, Vanguard and that other MMOG I was playing for a while (what the heck was it?)... cancel your account and stop logging on. Too many people seem to fall into the 'look at the time I've invested, now I have to keep going' trap; the fun you had playing the game should be the reward, not some Phat Lewt that you might get in the future from years of raiding.

Guild Wars is the only MMOG I still play, and then only intermittently; since it's free to play once you buy the game, they have no need to get you into boring grinds that require you to play eight hours a day. Plus I'm now living with my girlfriend, so I don't have much time to play games.

I played until level 47 which took approximately 6-8 weeks at the schedule I played. I bought it when it first came out, realized there really wasn't much going on in the game that was fun.

I couldn't play as much as others and they often surpassed me in a day or two. The PvP wasn't all that fun unless I went out on my own to pick people off. I played a dark elf hunter if I recall. The hunter sucked, the thief had too much going for it. That I know because my brother has a fricking entire thread about his playing style people created about him. He's one of the most powerful thieves in the game based on his playing style and has received offers of over $2,000 for his account.

Needless to say, I grew bored with the game. I couldn't invest the time things happened to slow, and I had better things to do. One day I just quit playing and never looked back. I didn't replace the game with another. I had other priorities that I wanted to do over gaming.

Too many people use gaming as there "need to do" instead of their "in my free time."

Go outside, exercise, socialize with people, hang out with friends and for everyone's sake, shower. My friend played so much when it first came out he didn't shower for 3 days because it wasn't efficient - he wasted too much time showering when he could have been playing.

The only game I currently play is BF2 because I don't need to dedicate endless hours to pace with where the game is going.

Yay for year old thread!

Skill usually beats gear. Unless it's the kinda thing of (lvl 70 for example) S1 gear vs S4 gear. Both toons completely geared out in that seasoned gear. That's when it becomes really gear dependant

Heya,

It's easy folks. Just go to the website. Click cancel. It's so fast, so easy.



I did it, and saved this image to remind myself.

I was gonna make a teeshirt with this silk screened on it. But thought, nah, not worth it.

Very best,

I played WoW from release up until mid level black temple, I had 1-character ( a druid ) that had ... well it had well over 275 days played on it over 3 years and plenty of items.

I never really had a problem juggling my life with the game, what I had a problem with is that I simply wanted to do other things with my time (including different games) and MMORPG's basically get in the way of any other recreation time you might want to have.

to malveux-> if i saw someone with a t-shirt like that in RL i would have to high five them straight away. funny stuff

I was self employed last year for about 8 months or so. friend got me into wow and same old "addict" story i was playing crazy hours. I was putting off seeing mates, cutting nights out short because i was "tired" then hitting it til early hours of the morning. I worked from home so my actual days consisted of 30 mins "work" and playing WoW the rest of the time. I had little time for my girlfriend and i can be honest in the fact i didnt treat her very well which is part of the reason she is now an ex!

I quit for 4 months or so and have now been back about a month! Ive got an awsome new girlfriend and having learnt lessons from before everything i do now comes before wow! seeing the girlfriend tonight and even though she doesnt mind if i play i still say no. out with mates tomo night on the booze until the wee hours!

In heinsight i think its easy to get carried away in your own little world but theres definately levels of addiction. im still only level 76 and dont really mind for now as its back to being a hobby for me rather than an addiction.

When i worked from home id fob people off just so i could turn on wow then when i logged in i was back in my own little world. Everything about em switched off as i got immersed and when i wasnt playing all i could think about was playing!

So from personal experience if you are too addicted and dont like it take a break or try another game and if you go back to wow you know to take it easier!

It annoys me hearing guildies talking about wow>sex, wow>family, wow>relationships.

I like what a guy on the first page said about lack of goals. I dont have a bad job but i hate it really. it could just be me being a lazy ass but im lazy with things i dont like doing. If i knew what i wanted to do with my life i might be more ambitious but i dont. maybe if i had a goal i would quick wow and focus on that.

and guys you know your too addicted if your hot, horny gf wants some "raiding" and you fob her off to wow. get some balls ffs! lol

p.s then maybe play wow afterwards

63 DK and 71 Rogue as of last night, xpac has been out 2 weeks and my old guild is on the 2nd 25man afer clearing Naxx...im so outta touch i dont even know what its called >.<
6 months ago I'd be wearing my "Realms First xxxx" hat like a tropy right about now

On the plus side....omg Howling Fjord is a hoot! Borean Tundra is a bit crappy though - try and gank a hordie and 3 more pop up

As I person who has been addicted to mmorpg (not wow because I learned my lesson before it came out) I can tell you that the hardest part is letting go, of your "progress". Tell yourself "It doesn't matter anymore because I don't play that game anymore"

deleting your account can help, so can getting scammed.

I quit WoW about 6-8 months ago and the game developers is what helped me quit. Spending hours waiting in Queues for PvP, not because there were to few people to play but that there were to many and the game could only host a certain amount of PvP instances at the same time. Constant nerfing of classes to create "balance" that will never exist in an MMORPG also caused me to lose interest.

Or you can play Titan Quest!

Got Titan Quest Gold edition (w/ expansion) for a cool $10 this weekend. Got it I think the 28th or 29th last month and already logged 10 hours
Have not had that type of experience since Diablo 2. IMO I think TQ is actually better than D2. It's very obvious it takes elements from D2 but it add's lots of nifty features, some little, but make playing easier. I like how as for as what 'class' you play is in a free form style. In other words you start off as plain vanilla and choose your specialty, I think there are about 8 classes you can choose. Once you hit lvl8 you get to pick a secondary. Depending on the combo you choose you'll receive a neat little title.

It's a nice little refreshing game. Then again trying to put out a fire with gasoline isn't a great idea. Best thing to do is simply not pay for it. This way it forces you to not play.

yea addiction to games is a big one these days.

I was heavily addicted to Counter Strike. Honestly, to quit I just realized Working and making money is more important and once I establish that side of my life, than I can easily find a way to squeeze back into my Games.


Important thing is if your happy playing games and you make some time for your family, that's all that matters.

Well I started playing WoW in August (something to do with my bro between summer classes and work) and since I took a semester off for an internship I have a ton of time to play since I don't know anyone here and don't have much to do after work. Currently I am 80 with 2 pieces of T7, most the heroic drops I can get and my guild is starting 25 mans next week. I just hope to burn myself out before I go back to school the spring since for me school > all....though it will be odd not zoning out and playing WoW 6+ hours a day....

One thing I promised myself is to never make an alt, I think thats were the problems start and seeing as I hate questing (never read a single quest ty questhelper) I should be fine....right?

Quoted for truth.

You have to realize that brain is like chemical machine, and alike to some kind of animal with primary instincts, and thus it can be modified or trained.

The thing is that the willpower is useless here, unless you some kind of iron man. (Most of us are not)
You can avoid playing 1 day, 5 days, but then all you need is just one relapse and you are back in the game.
The trick is to train your brain out of this dependence. Think of the brain as some kind of not so smart animal that you have to train the right behavior. You have to provide incentives and substitution to quit the game, to release endorphin triggered by something else.

The actual technique of quitting this particular addiction is not much different from quitting any other addiction. It is already good that you have realized that it is a problem for you. It is a first step. Now you have to go through internet, read some books about addiction and learn about techniques of quitting. Unfortunately there is no easy way out. But it is doable.
You may also want to seek some help from professional psychologists. It may make it easier, but more expensive, of cause.

the way i see it is it would be hazardous to my health if i quit as id take but drugs or something. Its what i like to think would happen anyway so more wow means im helping myself! lol

Dinged 80 last night a got an awsome epic dagger drop!

Anyone here raided much as a rogue as im not used to raiding as i used to be more of a pvper. All through northrend i was leading dps tables easily then in the instance i got trounced by a hunter and retadin. both well geared but was a big diff in dps. (hunter at 2200dps mostly, pally at 1600dps and me around 1200dps!)

Hmm, is that type of DPS typical? If so how much HP does the average char have? It seems like any one on one would last about <10 seconds at those DPS levels and even less when double teamed etc.

This thread is from 2006 stop posting on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its very simple to stop playing wow. Simple get married and have a kid or 2 and you will have no money. Forget about the new rig no money for that and you will have to sale your old system for her new shoes. Im kidding but it works 100% as you will get no money back. Have to hit submit real fast before mine put her shoe though the screen.

Don't have to as im typing from my sons PC. He is off to school. He has the only PC we can afford atm. My teachers pay just doesn't afford us the luxury of a second PC. The college doesn't allow any programs other than app and compilers installations so i'm out of luck at work.

I believe it is common misunderstanding. It is quite easy to get rid from physical addiction in case of smoking. Use patches or just your will for couple of month. You do not have to have strong will for that, just a bit. In two month you will have no physical addiction. What will remind is psychological addiction. And this is where the actual battle starts, because the goal is to quit not for two month, but for life.

So WoW, or smoking, or sex addiction (also "natural" thing, BTW) or eating addiction (or overweight, another "natural" addiction) , or other addiction, they all have a lots in common.

Playing 6h++ a day I thought I was addicted to WoW, and figured I should try to remedy the problem myself before it got out of hand, so I got to thinking: -"Hey I will 'force' myself to playing the game so heavy I will 'naturally' get bored with it." I did just that, and I actually did get bored. I won't lie and say it was a fast process, because it wasnt. It probably wasnt the best approach either for tackling the problem, but it worked! I came to a point where it wasnt only NOT fun to play, but as I saw the login screen already I was also nauseated and couldn't bare to enter my credentials.

So I took a break for about 6 months and rediscovered and enjoyed a lot of things that is part of life.

Now I am back at playing WoW again, but not nearly as much or intense as before. Its no longer on the top of my list. I enjoy the game at a whole different level now. I dont "have" to log in anymore, and instead of hanging around idling inside the game I can actually do other stuff outside the computerworld instead. The time I spend with WoW is more effective than before. What I do now in maybe 1-2h on 2-3 evenings a week is just as much progress as 6h/day before.

I dont have the illusion that this is a magic solution to all WoW-addicts out there, but for me there really was something worth to "too much of a good thing".

I just cancelled my account this morning....

I've only been playing since september. I have a 76 (almost 77 human paladin) and a 30 warrior and a few other under 20's charactors...

I cancelled so that I can have time to do my college coursework since I only need 3 more classes to complete my degree. I dropped the 2 classes I was taking this fall mostly because WoW took up all my free time and I didn't do my reading and fell way behind in class.

I will probably play again... idk. My new years resolutions are gettings started a couple days early I guess.