I'm pretty sure those that suffer most are those of us who don't play WoW, but work with someone who does and have to hear about it.
Assuming they show up to work.
So I figure this could go in Gen chat seeing it is about the players and not the game itself.
To start off this thread is NOT for your epic fails at a raid or how you were pwnd by a noob.
Seeing there are a few avid WoW players (myself not included) I was curious as to the affects on your real life persona. I have heard this game embelishes peoples lives and has "ruined" peoples lives.
Notice I put quotations around ruined. Meaning the game actually had no affect on them it was their choice to keep playing and not take care of what needed attention.
I have heard two seperate stories how husbands have been left by their wifes so that they could be with someone they met in game. I know both of these guys by the way, so it isn't just some rumor. Then there is the "kids wow account got canceled temper tantrum" on youtube (which is suppose to be real but looks completely staged.
So I am curious also if anyone else has had situations like the above examples happen due to their addictions to this game or simular titles or if you have heard a good horror story simular to the ones listed.
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I'm pretty sure those that suffer most are those of us who don't play WoW, but work with someone who does and have to hear about it.
Assuming they show up to work.
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Every time Ann gets hooked I don't hear from her in ages.
As far as local mates go, I've seen WoW turn two generally amicable people into reclusive weirdos who get aggressive when distracted for the game.
Though I know several others who play who don't get so serious about the game and remain more or less cool still...
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The people who's entire lives get wrapped up in the game have issues to begin with and it just happened that this game sparked their obsessiveness off onto a whole new level. If it wasn't WoW, it would have been something else. If you let any one aspect of your life control everything else you're weak to begin with.
As for stories, like everyone else I've HEARD of people loosing their job/gf/sanity over the game however never knew someone personally to get that sucked in. I did however hear of a murder in japan on the radio quite recently about a son who stabbed his father after he turned off the internet mid wow session. Japanese people are insane and on the edge as it is though.
There was something in the news some time ago about a Korean (I think) couple who's real life child had died because they were too busy with their fake life on something like Second Life.
That's just ****ed up.
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Lets see. I spent most of all my days after school from 2pm-1am playing WoW...took an hour break at 6pm to eat dinner and do whatever if any homework I got. School was at 7am...
Nothing really bad happened, but I just never hung out with my friends. Two of my best friends were playing WoW with me so it wasn't as bad but still I lost a lot of my social life during High School with everyone I knew. WoW is the reason why I go out more now, I got mad that I just always wanted to play it rather then go out for a few hours.
I got some funny stories from it all but who cares unless you were playing WoW with me really.
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This one time while I was playing WoW I turned down getting laid
I think I read about it not to long ago, there was also an article about mother killing her child just to play WOW in piece, apparently she couldn't stand her baby cry but she didn't bothered to feed her.
It's all ****ed up just like you said.
I have a cousin who's simply obsessed with WOW, honestly I don't remember the last time I saw him or even spoke with him. Sadly it's not just me, even his friends and family don't get to see him often, shame though he was outgoing and friendly person. His brother explained his routine to me once, playing WOW>job>playing WOW, eating and sleeping are somewhere there but not necessarily.
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People can get addicted to anything, i'm sure everyone who's posted in this thread, myself included, has been addicted to something to a point where its affected their lives... i don't know why people place so much emphasis on how video games affect people's lives, especially WoW.
Oh no, someones addicted to a video game, i can think of worse things to be doing to be fair. At least they're not shooting up or taking roids or something.
As for the topic XD, I played WoW for a loooong time, I wouldn't say it affected my life in any way though (other than taking £10 a month out of my account). I've heard some ****ed up stories about WoW "addicts", although i think there's generally something fundamentally wrong with the people before they actually play WoW for them to kill people over it.
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I played WoW for 4-5 years, taking breaks here and there. I also have had a girlfriend for that long as well (who doesn't play WoW or anything like that and no I did not meet her in the night elf village). I always choose her over the game, but that hasn't stopped me from being good in WoW. Yeah, there are people that raid every night at a certain time, but you can be successful in the game without doing that.
I also was the first blood elf on my server to hit 60 (kinda let off the race from 60-70) when The Burning Crusade expansion came out. I even went to two parties during that time. No, I didn't get much sleep during the couple days where I was doing this, but I had the time off from work and school so it was okay.
You can have fun with WoW or any MMO, and you can be successful without having to spend every second of your free time on it. A lot of the people that played more WoW than I did didn't really accomplish that much more than I would. They just wanted to be logged in and had nothing better they wanted to be doing.
But who are you to judge what people are doing with their time? A person can do whatever the hell they want as long as they don't harm other people. Some people may be ignoring and missing out on life while they play, but that's up to them. They aren't going to die from being addicted to WoW like a drug addict would die from being addicted to heroin.
Those "parents" that let their kid die because they were playing WoW are ridiculous, but who's to say that wasn't going to happen anyway in a world without WoW? It probably would have.
One of my friends plays this game 24/7. I don't know if she goes to school. A few years back we used to be really good friends and hang out a lot but now I never see her. And she has this nerdy BF she plays WoW with. Almost like she completely forgot I exist. I went to her house a few days ago and said Hey I'm not dead yet! We talked for a little and then it was back to WoW
I shoot up roids in my thumbs so I can beast on the shooting games. My aim is just soooo good now lol I can play for more than 8 hours straight without having to ice my hands.
I dont have any good WoW stories since I never played the game. I never saw anything I cared for about, except the PvP arena stuff was kinda cool but I wasn't gonna spend like 15 bucks a month to play on. I guess a couple of my friends/local halo practice noobs quit halo for WoW which was kinda sad
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I can't be 100% it's true. But I heard a story about this guy getting hooked who was in his 30's and...well like South Park presented that guy. But he got really attached to this woman in the game. So he asked to marry her and she said no and he blew his head off. Regardless of it's real or not I laughed my ass off.
See, WoW isn't all bad!
Every time Ann gets hooked I don't hear from her in ages.
As far as local mates go, I've seen WoW turn two generally amicable people into reclusive weirdos who get aggressive when distracted for the game.
Though I know several others who play who don't get so serious about the game and remain more or less cool still...
That's because I don't go on to MSN, since trillian is a resource hog, silly. I'm not on MSN when I play regular video games, either.
Anyways, I think this is stupid. This whole "taking the game too seriously" thing isn't just WoW. Other games have that effect as well. ACTUALLY, it's the person, not the game. I've played WoW pleanty of times without getting too absorbed or obsessive. I never screamed and twitched whenever my mom or someone talked to me, I never STOPPED eating, I never went outside to go kill people because I died in a dungeon.. etc.etc .etc. It's stupid shit, ok? The game doesn't do that to you, it's the damn people that play it. They obviously aren't right in the head in the first place and don't know how to deal with other players or a game. They're the kind of assholes that would throw a controller OR their whole gaming system out the window if they lost in a game or something.
So yeah, bottom line. It's not WoW, it's the person's mentality to begin with. They need to grow the **** up, it's just a game. EDIT: I also recommend anger management programs.
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The first step is admitting you have a problem.I've played WoW pleanty of times without getting too absorbed or obsessive.
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Yeah, cause I'm totally going to fly over to your house and kill you for just saying that. Lol.The first step is admitting you have a problem.
I remember playing with these dudes on WoW, they were just random people I did a dungeon with.. and I was bored out of my mind so I started typing lyrics, and it pissed one of them off for some reason (we were just standing around anyway). So he said he was going to blow my head off with a paintball gun.. cause that's totally possible, right? There's a lot of immature pricks on that game, but I've seen the same types on other MMORPGs. They're freakin' everywhere D:.
One of my friends changes his sleeping schedule on FFXI to party with the Americans- so when he isn't at university, he's nocturnal! He also looks like he can reflect sunlight, he's so pale, which just makes it funnier. He's also the kind of guy who makes strange noises as he plays games!
I've never become addicted to an MMO. When I first started playing WoW, I played it alot, but when I found myself trying to party but ending up in a group of speed-playing arseholes I kind of lost interest. A couple of my friends have switched servers now, and say the one they are now on is much better, so I may rejoin once my course has finished and I have found a job.
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No one's saying otherwise.
It's you, the people, we mock.
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Lol, people who play Final Fantasy or any console games don't really have any room to mock T.T They're all games and they all have terrible influences on us, especially according to videogame activist Jack Thompson ..No one's saying otherwise.
It's you, the people, we mock.
..who had yet to even play the games he's been so against.
Wait, what?
Make up your mind about who or what I'm supposed to mock.
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Well, you didn't catch my sarcasm as I didn't word it right. "They're all games and they all have terrible influences on us, especially according to video game activist Jack Thompson ."
I wasn't speaking of my own opinion, I meant that 'according to this guy, games have a terrible influence on us'. He's pretty well known and most hated among the gaming community. It's old news.. he's not even an attorney anymore, but he still plans to continue bashing sex and violence in games. He tried banning Grand Theft Auto and a few other games.
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It's really a combination, but it really lies within in the individual. Yes, WoW is an addicting game; I've seen college roommates essentially become zombies due to it, GPAs plummeting and girlfriends leaving.
However, it was their choice to play the game as much as they did, and their faults entirely for losing their girls and their grades.
At the same time, the worlds in those games are so immersive that it's hard to entirely blame everyone who gets addicted. The companies do enough beta testing and feedback sessions to know exactly what the players want. So on one hand, they're simply providing a service and doing exactly what is asked of them. You really can't fault them for being a company that literally gives their clients what they want. It's really a fantastic business model. "You give us money, and we'll give you the world that you ask for."
But at the same time, do you blame the junkie for being a junkie, or do you blame the dealer for making the drug so easily accessible? Granted, you make a conscious decision to put your credit card info in, and to play the game, but once you get hooked, it is an addiction.
It's not just WoW either. That game is retarded to me, but if you somehow made a Fallout 3 world, consider my social life over. That game was my crack.
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I say with the utmost sincerity that I did not know who Jack Thompson was.
Nah, but seriously. I thought the Thompson card was being played in relation to me mocking specific gamers. Seemed a bit of a stretch, but I've seen worse.
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Nah, but seriously. I thought the Thompson card was being played in relation to me mocking specific gamers. Seemed a bit of a stretch, but I've seen worse.
Well, you thought wrong. Infact, what I said isn't really relevant to the conversation, as Jack Thompson is/was an activist against games with sexual and violent content(had no cases against WoW, as far as I know). He just came to mind when I was thinking of how other games can be just as addicting as WoW. Anyways, I'm done explaining myself and derailing this thread. If you want to continue this discussion with me elsewhere, give me a PM/VM.
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Goodness. I'm not looking for a fight. We're not even married.
Anywho.
Or do you blame the junkie for making profit so easily accessible to the dealer, thus encouraging people to be dealers?
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Let's see....
The most recent, a guy in my current guild offered to leave his wife and kids for a woman in the guild, who was married to another member of the guild and was (at the time) pregnant with her husband's child.
Years ago I had a guy in my guild who failed his senior year of high school due to endlessly grinding for Grand Marshal (at the time, PvP was based on ranks and Grand Marshal was the highest rank for Alliance, and every week there could be only one Grand Marshal or High Warlord (Horde equivalent))
On the positive side;
When I raided Vanilla content, we were a pretty tight-knit group for having to gather 40 people for that shit.... we had an 18 year old kid who's father had left them years ago and his mother recently died, leaving him alone to take care of his 10 year old sister. We ran a paypal fund to donate money to him, and raised a little over $2,000 that our GM personally delivered to him.
I've had my fits of being excessively "addicted" to the game and played extremely hardcore, I've even taken off work/skipped classes to play (The start of Wrath, took off the Fri/Sat and skipped class that Thurs) but returned to my normal routine the following week, and I never really let the game fully dominate my life or cause me to fail at something in real life. The worst was when I raided 3 nights a week from 7:30 to 11:30, while working full time and attending 18 credit hours of classes. NO idea how I pulled that off. =\
But I'd have to agree it's not the game's fault, the person is already in a place where they'll allow these things to happen.
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