/played 400+

Let me start by saying that WoW was not my first MMO to get into. I use to play DAOC and pretty much missed out on my senior year because of that game. Anyways here is my story.

I started WoW 5yrs ago when me and my friend from DAOC decided we wanted to sell our souls to another game, I had 4 other friends also joining and already had 5 or 6 friends from RL that played. Seemed like it would be a fun thing to do with friend. We played we lvled we got to 60 and then i "took a break".

I say take a break specifically because if anyone has ever tried to quit WoW they know you don't EVER actually quit you "take a break", like a true addiction if you leave everything there ready to take you back you will run back to it eventually.

BC came out and i started up again (new content) played to 70 and then tried started "alting". After the geniouses at Blizzard got the idea to make it easier to lvl all you had to do was get a friend to play with you who had never played before......spreading the poison. I lost my job and really didn't care to look to hard for a new one because it just gave me more time to play. I ran end game raiding content on two different characters and didn't care about a thing in the world. I finally ran out of money so i had to stop and get a job. I "took a break" again.

Things in my life got pretty straighted out, i got a good job. Finally found a lady who I fell in love with, lost 50lb of weight, it was nice. Then one day i was around my friends that still played and they were talking about the game and I decided i was going to give it another whirl and convinced myself that i could control it this time.

In short i wasn't able to control it, i began to neglect my girlfriend, i began to neglect work and i was always frustrated and tired. There is one thing people fail to realize with WoW there is never a sense of "completion" so because there is not that sense of wow i'm finished, you are almost always frustrated your didn't finish or distracted. Even when your off the game your not really "off" the game you are still thinking of what you can do next when you get to sign on or how if you run this raid this is where you can get such and such upgrades. It IS the game that never ends. Finally after another night of running through Icecrown Citadel with one of my no 5 raid worthy lvl 80s till 5:30am on a Friday night rather then spending it with a girl that I love. I went to sleep and in my dreams had dreams of Raids and thought of what i should be doing when i wake up in the game. At 9am i woke up drove home from my friends house sat and laid on my girlfriends bed and informed i need some help quiting.

I deleted it ALL. All 5yrs worth of WoW is now gone for good this time. No going back. And i can say after two weeks of being free its like a giant weight is off my back, I'm happier and enjoying hanging out with friends and finally seeing the world out said of the world of warcraft.

I'm telling you that typing in those letters D-E-L-E-T-E was not the easiest thing I have done espically when you have guildies and friends that you know are going to be mad at you for it. And you have spent sooooo much time working on them. But its like putting a turnicate on a wound if you don't stop it somewhere you are likely to lose more then just a limb. After 5yrs and logging over a full year of actually being in the game if I can do it anyone can.