Rehab Center Help Kicks WoW Habit for $14,000

epic fail is what i can say.

Nasty. Once I played 12 hours a day playing DAoC for whole summer but now I play up to 2 hours a day when my kids are asleep. Oh and I didn't spend a dime to get rid of my UO or DAoC or WoW or Warhammer Online addictions.

If you have had to get rid of addictions to all of these then maybe you have not actually taken control of your video game addiction. It kind of sounds more like you hop from one to another.

Well, I think for that price someone should stick playing WoW... seriously...

Quitting cold turkey doesn't help. It's all about moderation.

...or you can join my old guild for free, they will drive you mad in one week and you will never want to listen about wow for the rest of your life

12 hours... and now only 2...? Sorry, but you are addicted to the bones but you don't know it. The maximum I played Counter-Strike was 6 hours a day... 12 hours is insane...

Lately, I am playing a lot of Street Fighter 4 online, like 1 to 2 hours a day and I find it disturbing. For me online gaming is nothing more than useless competition. The fun became an habit before you know it.

I didn't played online for around 3 to 4 years after my Counter-Strike habit... and I tend to do the same with my Street Fighter 4 habit.

$14,000 to beat your WoW addiction? Damn... in just 78 years, the program will have paid for itself in the amount you save on the monthly subscription cost.

Usually some form of spanking is the best treatment against addition be it drug, internet, or TV.

I bet these programs are run by gold farmers...

People may not like it and ill get flamed for this. But I play MMO's and I can honestly say they are an addiction. Most will refute this but personally I think its just denial. Similar to drinking, denying they have a problem. (Not that everyone who plays MMO's get addicted, just depends on if you are prone to it, much like not everyone becomes an alcoholic.

While these institutions are a joke relative to their cost I believe they are a good idea. Some people do not have the will power to just quit cold turkey without help and this gives them a place they can get away from it all and get past the withdraws.

Of course what helped me curve my addiction is WoW just got plain boring and now I refuse to play more than 2 hours at a time. Hell most of the time I just log in twice a week for Raids and even those are boring now. Now if only I could put down Hello Kitty Online Adventure!

lol

I can think of cheaper and easier ways to deal with it...where did he come up with the money? Can I have some?

He'll be able to translate the subsequent cookie backing obsession into a business!

Why the F**K would oyu try to take someone's mind away from his PC when you are named RESTART? ANd you ask 14K for it? I would only accept to participate to spend time for their group if THEY paid me good enough actually. Not the other way around. Retards... I hope they refund failed attempts though, in all seriousness.

Games save money, not necessarily WOW since you have to pay to play, but other games like Crysis, Farcry, GRID, etc. You save money not going out, driving, wasting gas, buying movie tickets, $5 dollar popcorn, expensive dining out. Real cheap if you pirated the games..., its a green habit, don't knock it.

Pay me $14000 and I'll follow you around and poke you with a stick whenever you wanna play.

You could buy a lot of cheap hookers for $14,000. That'd get me to forget about WOW.

WOW, that's a lot of money. LOL!

This just sounds like another "fly-by-night" clinic looking to make a quick buck. I play WoW for hours on end. Sometimes, I forgo doing some homework to play, but I always get my work done. Suckers are born every minute, and this proves my theory. If you give anyone $14,000 to "fix" your "gaming addiction", you deserve to be screwed over by these scam artist.

300 dollars a day to make a kid play outside... fuck pay me that much and I'd get him to quit in 1 week fuck 10 weeks.

Also 10 weeks 45 days? how the hell you gonna make them quit cold turkey if they aren't in rehab for the full duration. It's like letting a drug addict go home for his stash every weekend

I never said I got rid of my video games addictions. I said I got rid of my UO/DAoC/WoW/Warhammer Online addictions. Now I play *UP TO* 2 hours a day of offline games.

Give us 14k and we'll teach you how to bake cookies.


Right.


I think a better solution is to take that 14k, buy a car, and drive somewhere instead of spending all day leveling up on WoW. Getting a job will also force you to cut down on the WoW time

I play(ed) EQ and EQ2 I played 50+ Hours a week before I meet my Wife once we purchased the house I stopped playing for nearly two years too much other stuff to do now I play many 4 hours a week (to unwind after work) while she is watch ing her TV shows I am not an Addicted I can't stand it when people blaim the games for ruining their lives you made your bed now lie in it! the Game is self it not programed to make you an addtic you are trying to escape reality, Read a Book date a girl and I don't mean a JPG go see a movie and take that 14k and put it to good use you don't need to spend that much money to Kick WOW. you might as well flush it down the toilet, learn to pull your self up by your own boot straps instead of shelling out 14k of your parents money to get pulled up by your own jock strap.

"Sometimes, I forgo doing some homework to play, but I always get my work done."

Something about this sentence and sentiment should be examined and called into question. Anyway, internet addiction is serious business in Asia, where these clinics have been around for a while and are not going anywhere (by night or otherwise). Games are great, and I defend them when I can, but there is something about them...and RPGs in particular that allow people to detach from their real life responsibilities and friends. The first time I turned down going out with friends because I had a raid, was a sad day, and as I caught myself explaining my "responsibilities" to the game I had to start to wonder. So sure, games are great, gaming friends are great, but nothing can replace real life. Log off a level up your social skills.

I don't think anyone doubts that people can get addicted to WoW, what I believe is the point of contention for most is the lack of self-control that is quoted by people with an addiction (to WoW or any other game for that matter).

At the end of the day, a video game is an entertainment source. Playing, reading, listening, watching, etc any entertainment source for a prolonged period of time (ie 12 hours) is unhealthy regardless of the source (book, movie, game, etc). People who state they are addicted and cannot quit their habit tend to gain very little sympathy from others as the "challenge" appears trivial. There is no chemical interference or dependency present like there is in alcohol/drug related addictions. It comes down to self-control and most people tend to lose respect for people with very little self-control.

i work 8 hours a day...so maybe i'm addicted to working...since the whole world is doing it then it becomes ok right.?

I play games like maybe 5 - 10 hrs a week MAX. So this is not an issue.

Ahhhh...I remember the days. Living with my folks, part-time job at the grocery store to make a few bucks in order to keep my PC running...

... Oh yeah, then I thought I should grow up, get a house so I can move out of my moms, and become a productive member of society. Between the job, wife, and mowing the lawn on the weekends, there's not time to play 14 hours a day of video games. Addiction solved.

Try taking away their disposable allowance from mommy and daddy Warbucks (that's a movie reference to a rich guy for all you yougins), pull them off the health insurance and make them pay the power bill for those 125W Quad core, 3-way SLI rigs with a swimming pool pump rigged up to water block.

for $14k i can see how you won't be playing wow anymore... you are left without a freaking dime in your pocket so you'll be looking forward to make money to eat instead of playing some stoopid online game or get into any other form of entertainment

Well said Unknown person its all about self control its not like a drug where there becomes a fisical dependance and unless the person learns self control they will find themselves missing out with a lot of the enjoyments of life (luckely less then if they compleatly drop it).

Doesnt work that way now if your putting a lot more hours in then you need to such as 12 hour days every day (not just for a special project)either work or sleep then you might have a problem. its excess that makes somthing a problem not the least you can do and get paid