Im addicted.

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I used to read about people being addicted to wow and just laughed never thinking that someday that would be me, but i like it though. it doesn't bother me that wow is literally something part of me. When i was younger and didn't have a job and rl responsibilities i would come home from school at 3:30 and play until midnight, wake up at like 8am Saturday and play entire day until 3-4 am basically as long as i could stay awake ... and i loved every minute of it. nowadays work +school and then a dad who doesn't let me get on the computer is the only things standing between me and azeroth.but even though i don't play atm, i still feed off all the wow forums and YouTube videos. someday i will return to playing for 12+ hours on end as i could care less about all the drama,lies,crime, and fake people in RL. LONG LIVE THE ALLIANCE! !!
 
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Go find yourself a female. I don't care how long it takes you; think of it as a quest if you must.

[insert mind-numbing dialogue here]

There's nothing wrong with a video game addiction, just as long as you won't look back on yourself later and regret it.
 
Stamm said:
Go find yourself a female. I don't care how long it takes you; think of it as a quest if you must.

[insert mind-numbing dialogue here]

There's nothing wrong with a video game addiction, just as long as you won't look back on yourself later and regret it.
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Well you see.... i get girls very easily and have been for as long as i can remember but I've realized that it just isn't enough to keep me happy for entire days + nights like wow does. i have plenty of friends and some would label me as one of the "cool kids"
outside of wow i play soccer, hang with friends, etc
but wow with a red bull and some spicy chips beats everything
 
Åssassin said:
Well you see.... i get girls very easily and have been for as long as i can remember but I've realized that it just isn't enough to keep me happy for entire days + nights like wow does. i have plenty of friends and some would label me as one of the "cool kids"
outside of wow i play soccer, hang with friends, etc
but wow with a red bull and some spicy chips beats everything
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Then enjoy yourself. :) Just make sure you don't distance yourself from your friends in the process.
 
Åssassin said:
but wow with a red bull and some spicy chips beats everything
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trust me when i say this^ is probably a phase that lasts a long time for every wow player and eventually fades and requires u to move on to new things. WoW loses its novelty after enough years of wasting your life, trust me
 
I think it all depends on where you are with your life. For some, American Dream "real life", is overrated.

I suppose it's just like alcohol, weed and everything else: one person's destruction is another's salvation. Some people have a real problem with WoW, and let it affect their life negatively. They enter a shame spiral, that fuel's their addition cycle, and cannot stop.

The OP, despite saying so, is not really "addicted". Rather, I think he just found his passion, and it's not necessarily a McMansion in the burbs with kids and a wife that he can't stand, for example.

I play WoW because I like WoW, not because I can't do anything else.
 
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i used to be like you. Always on wow during free time, always. When ever i got back from school i just go and start playing WoW, until its dinner time, i wouldn't even move from my chair. I even sometime skip dinner.

most people say that addicted people cannot stay more than one week away from WoW and i say its wrong, its been 2 months since i stop playing. all depend on your willpower to do something important i life, like me, these last 2 months i focused mostly on my exams which are the most important exams for me.


And to be honest, after 1 week i wanted to get back to WoW, but (i like to challange myself) then i said to i can go one 1 more week and so on, its already 2 months now. Like i said all depends on your willpower :D
 
I agree with many people here. I assume you feel the negative vibe around the word addiction and I assume you consider the fact that people take psychotherapy to get rid of addictions into these negative thoughts that cling with the word 'addiction'. But as a principle I would never force anyone to get rid of his addictive habbits, if he is able to have a for him fulfulling social life and pursue his career while being able to cope with an addictive aspect (WoW in your case) that he can call his passion. Its more or less a way of living your life like you want AND living the way it has established over generations.
 
You know your a heavy World of Warcraft player when WoW starts interferring with your life. You know your a WoW addict when your life starts interferring with your WoW.
 
I used to be like you untill I became a man and had to work towards something. You just have to time your WoW play according to your schedule.
 
If I was on my P2P, I'd probably be addicted. Fortunately, F2P doesn't have that same allure so I can get on for an hour and get off and no come on for 2-3 days. Eventually we all start to naturally lose the addiction/passion. You will too, in time. But I say losing the passion and finding it all over again is sweeter than just living for the addiction. Because when you get tired of the game, leave it alone for a month or two and come back, it feels so good.
 
Mephisto said:
If I was on my P2P, I'd probably be addicted. Fortunately, F2P doesn't have that same allure so I can get on for an hour and get off and no come on for 2-3 days.
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Thank you! I've been trying to get this concept across to my old former guildmates for years! Not being under pressure to play because you've paid for it. Such a relief.
 
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Thank you! I've been trying to get this concept across to my old former guildmates for years! Not being under pressure to play because you've paid for it. Such a relief.
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It's not just being under pressure because you want to make that $15 worth the month you paid for, it's that for me, there will never be a point in my P2P WoW career that I think, "Man, I'm so bored, there is nothing to do." There will always be something to do for me on my P2P. I have alts to level, PvP, I can run LFR (for now anyway.), Twink at certain brackets. And with the new Xpac coming out, even more stuff. I could literally sit in my chair from dawn to dusk and just play P2P WoW. With F2P, it's limited and simple what you can and can't do. And since I only do F2P for PvP, I know what I want to do, and what I can do.

I just finished gearing my Warrior who I have had since mid 2012. now I don't really feel the need to get on as much. The classes I want to play need good gear to work, and the classes that can do extremely well with non-heirloom gear are too boring to play. So I don't get on as much. Maybe in WoD if Warlocks get the face-lift Blizz said they would get I'll work on them, but until them addict is about the farthest thing I am when play WoW.
 
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Kincaide said:
Thank you! I've been trying to get this concept across to my old former guildmates for years! Not being under pressure to play because you've paid for it. Such a relief.
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Just another case of people letting their possessions rule theirs lives. People let the media tell them that they need a bigger home, and faster car, farther away from the city, so they can spend their lives commuting and paying car insurance, and spending all their gas just to get to work and back. Don't buy into the real estate scam, those people are fucked in the head: the only advantage to owning your home is a lame tax break that won't help you try to make your variable interest payments when they hit 20% (which will be as sooner than you think).

The American Dream is a lie. The baby-boomers got one wheel in the ditch, get out while you still can! Stay, and be forced to pay for all the money that they, and the "Greatest Generation" have been stealing from us since WWII.

Come join me and our BR buddies in my neo-communist paradise for American, self-imposed exiles! This won't end up like Walden, or Soviet Union, swear. We will play WoW, and watch the world burn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlkSepPTLUc
 
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