World of Warcraft Addiction Stories
By William on Monday, July 16th, 2007 at 9:35 PM PST In World of Warcraft
Are you addicted to WoW? Warcraft addictions seem to be fairly common. I’m definitely not saying there is anything wrong with video game addictions. We all need to have at least one addiction or two in life. Video game addiction is better for you than say an addiction to crack or meth, plus video games don’t turn your lips purple, at least in most cases anyway.
AskApadwe.com put together an interesting collection of WoW addictions. Head over there to check it out sometime and see if any of the stories sound familiar. Some of these stories are on the sad side, but they are part of life. Fortunately whenever my girlfriend complains about me playing too many games, I can tell her it’s for work and everything is good.
I find all of this a bit strange. My wife is addicted to WOW. I dont know what to do. she plays with every free moment she has. Ever since BC came out she has been playing nonstop. My problem with it is all the time dedicated to playing. She spends more time with her online friends, which are all guys, than she does with me. I have also found that she has one of her online friends phone number and they are conversing out of the game.
I am at my wits end. I feel i should call this guy and let him know she is married and not on Wow to hook up but i am afraid of what the consequences of doing that will be. I am this close to filing for divorce. And when i do i will send blizzard and dell a thank you for ruining my marriage. without them (blizzard and dell) i think i would still have my wife.
I just quit WoW after nearly 2 years of it. I had three level 70s with six more alts in the 30-45 range…so yeah, I played a lot. Like many of the other stories you read, WoW was the only thing I ever did when I wasn’t working. I didn’t quit by choice though. My girlfriend of nearly 9 years gave me an ultimatum to either quit the game or get out.
Of course now I’m blogging constantly, so it’s either one addiction or another.
that’s the thing people do not understand about addictions…it’s a personality trait and I firmly believe that anyone who is addicted to something will have to replace it with something else before quitting.
Yea, I’ve been playing WoW since it came out and I can never stop playing it. The problem is I am only 15 and just left school, now waiting for my exam results I fear that because I was playing WoW alot between my exams that it would have a major effect on my results. I know it’s a problem and that I need to stop playing but its just so dam hard to quit.
I’ve always said that everyone needs an addiction and I agree with William, it’s a trait of life and yeah, this isn’t as bad as drugs, but it can kill your social life in exchange for saying “Awww dude, just got me some sweet epic gear. +20 endurance” (or however it goes, hell I dunno). I’m sure I’d like the game, but I just don’t want to get drawn into it.
Additionally, I dislike the idea of paying monthly. It forces you to want to play it. Also, I prefer to go from game to game. Yeah, if a game is addicting you’ll play it for hours on end (Star Ocean, first disc, very addicting) but you need to break it up (Wipeout: Fusion).
How can World of Warcraft not be addicting? Although I no longer play, I sometimes feel tempted when I think about it. I had to quit when I realized it was sucking the life out of me (which is fine) but I have other priorities.
If I ever win the lottery….aside from making sure my family is taken care of and I do all the things I’ve dreamed of, I would definitely start playing WoW again.
Will ur not alone
my gf of over 4 years did that shit to me… gradually she played more than spending time with me…even on my b-day she played wow then spending anytime with me…theres no winner in that situation bro… think about it before you do something stupid…i made a choice that basically destroyed everything
Holy piss! You’re afraid to talk to your wife?
That’s the real problem
Blizzrd or Dell didn’t ruin your marriage. Obviously you should be going to counseling if you’re thinking about a divorce because of a video game. Talk to her about it. Tell her you don’t like her playing that much. I don’t play when my girlfriend is home. I play in my real free time. True, I’m not leveling nearly as fast with this character, but there are other things that are more important than a video game. I talk to many people outside of the game. Some of which are female. I have no other intentions other than talking to them. Basically what I’m saying is:
Stop blaming companies and start blaming someone who’s really at fault.
If you get addicted to a video game then you fail as a human being.
hm …
So you’re blameing your complete failure to keep her interested on a online game, which could at least satisfy her time?
there is cause and effect here - except it isn’t
Dell and WoW stole my wife!
It’s simply becuse you’re a failure.
Gameover, please try again.
In response to the guy that losing his marriage.. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! Seriously.. Get on there, especially when you know she is playing too.
When you are a pathetic newbie, other players usually want to help you out.. Tell them your plight. You might find an online romance to counter your wives. Find a bunch of girls on there and get their numbers too. Make her jealous..
She obviously likes to play games. My guess is that she’s into mind games just like all women are. Become more powerful than she is with a bigger following of friends! You never know, the two tribes could merge and you may end up with an online romance with your wife, imagine that!
I was addicted to WoW for 2 years, I got a job at a net cafe just so I could play it constantly all day long, I failed all my university courses and alienated those who love me. I would dream about dungeon raid tactics whilst asleep and I lived off microwave noodles.
I didn’t do any laundry, I hardly left the house apart from going to work, and I also started drinking heavily during long night raids.
My girlfriend eventually told me it was her or WoW, and I spent a few days weighing the two up (I actually made a pro-con chart between the two) and in the end, she won over Warcraft.
I can’t believe i nearly choose a video game over my girlfriend….
now I stand firmly against WoW and all online games, it’s all solo RPG’s for me now.
I played WoW for 4 months and got utterly tired of it…I am probably one of the rarest gamers who actually didn’t like WoW since it was soooo time consuming. I only had a lvl 47 war and never played BC. I believe addiction isn’t a innate, it’s a characteristic of the person…i also believe wow addiction is pretty similiar to drug addiction
wow addiction - play 15 hrs a day, loose money, first friends leave you and then loved ones leave you and end up alone
drug addiction - smoke/inject w/e 4-5 times a week, loose money, first firends leave you then loved ones leave you and again end up alone….
its very say but true
look forward to everyone’s feedback, bad or good
It sounds like you let this problem happen by not talking it out with your wife. You can’t blame the game for being a game, or the game company for making games, but you can blame yourself and your wife for not dealing with the problem sooner. Talk it over with her and tell her that either the game goes or you do. This method is incredibly effective (I saw it used on my friend) Fourtunatley it’s never been used on me, I would rather spend time with my girlfriend than a game
I played it for 6 months and got one char to lvl 56. I kinda quit around lvl 50 then left the game. I came to WOW with no experience of MMORPG and was dissapointed to find there were not a 100 thousand players forming a community but different servers subdivided and seperate, mostly with about a few thousand players and a few hundred online, at my lvl and playing.
So after joining a good guild an playing fo a bait the whole thing started to become pointless, kill X number of animals and fly to 3 places then return got really boring. I would say to anyone play it for the first 6 months and enjoy the whole experience of discovering the world and getting into it then quit because there is no hidden part to WOW.
The easiest way to quit WoW is to look at Everquest. I spent so much time on that thing, and even if I wanted to keep up with that addiction, there’s no one left to play with! WoW will be just like that. In 5-6 years, the game will be dead as any other MMO and you will have wasted your time. Just try to look at the fact that your efforts, no matter what, in the long run will be for NOTHING. Look at it like that and it’s damn easy to quit those.
No, WOW will be huge for at least 10 years. Suddenly 11 million people can’t quit like that