WoW Addiction Story (WoWS) form
How it started
It started before the game was even out. Too escape my life I used to play the mmo ultimate online but that was nothing serious maybe 2-10 hours a week. When I heard about WoW I logged onto the blizzard website to check out races and class combinations at this time I was an A class student.
So the day came, 3 copies of the game came (2 for my brothers). At first I was only playing afew hours aweek. The hours creeped up the girl friend started complaining more. I went 2 weeks during the christmas hoildays without seeing my gf, I got a text saying that I wasn't spending time with her anymore, she ended the relationship.
I was devestated.. I got hooked, every moment where I didn't have wow I though about it and to make things worse the game made me more shy at school which in turn made me want to escape to my more comfortable life wow. My parents didn't give a crap they never have, I decided to quit, I did this by purposly breaking my laptop.
Afew years later I'm at uni and my friend says that his boss plays wow, until then I'd never heard the game term since I last played. I though I'd take a look and seehow things were. I said to myself this time I will play in moderation! Real life will have the priority... Didn't turn out like that, I dropped out of uni and wasted a whole year of my life. So today I quit wow I sold my account for a reasonable amount of money. I feel like q part of me has died and I shall miss my other life dearly. But when I look at everything that's happned, a lost gf, whole year of university wasted I think too myself - "wtf was I doing?!"
School
Wow is really taking too much time in my life, and really interfering with my school work. I know I can get better grades in school if i stop WoW, but I always seem to forget about that and play Wow anyways ):
Praise the Light! :D
Hi
My name is Andy from Manchester (England). I am going to try to keep my story short and sweet. I started playing wow when my best friend from uni introduced me to the game 9 months ago.
From the day I started my free trial I was hooked. I spent all my free time on this game often avoiding real life friends, commitments, and even my girl friend. I became obsessed with this virtual reality where you must Level UP, Gear UP, Skill UP every 20 levels.
I still think I have been stupid, because money is okay I can earn that back, but the time… It took me wasting 1700 or so hours of my life, before I realised that all that time will never come back.
What did I have to show for all that time, so much of my life: A animated “healbot” paladin with a Legendary weapon and a King slayer title “Whoop De Doo”… Wow, some achievement.
My exams were coming up in a few months and I was least bothered. I was just doing Lanathel in ICC when I got a text from my mum saying “Good Luck with your exams, I’m sure you will make your father proud”.
To this day I don’t know why exactly, but something inside me snapped. I simply told my raid party I was going to disconnect, I deleted my characters, cancelled my subscription and smashed my authenticator logged out, and deleted the game and folder content for good measure and I have not looked back since.
This game is not worth your life and it is life consuming. Anyone who denies that fact is either deluding themselves and no one else.
Good Luck to all…
Andy
WoW.. all I am thinking of...
Hi,
I am 15, and I'm playing the game for 3 years now...
When i started the game, at the age of 12, it was a really fascinating new world for me. But i've been a casual player at this time, because i had better things to do (such as going out with my friends). I played every day for 2 hours, not more.
I started, because my friends all played the game. In the breaks, even in my free time they've been talking about this game. I started as a Night Elf warrior and I really enjoyed sitting in Stormwind as a lvl 24 character.
Everything was all right till i turned 14. Most of my friends stopped playing, I didn't. My grades in school went really bad, i repeated twice a form.
But I havent cared about it.When i came home, first thing i did, was logging on WoW.
So I played from 3 pm till 3 am. then i went to bed and woke up at 6.
I tried to stop at this time, because it was really bad for my health.
I went pale, and lost 15 kg of weight, so my weight was 45 on 1.75 metres.
My parents didn't really cared about it, only at the start because my grades went bad. Later everything was fine, because i did my homework, while playing.
At this time i played till 70.
I turned 15.
At the beginning of Wotlk I started a tauren DK. I enjoyed it.
It took 3 days from 55-80.
I didn't went to school at this time, because I didn't want to miss the beginning of naxxramas.
Later on, when ulduar came out, i raided almost every day.
Then on Patch 3.2 i definetely played too much...
It has been my holidays, and my parents wanted to go to thailand.I just told them I don't want to so I stayed at home.
I calculated everything for playing. with 4 hours sleep i had loads of time.
I got the t9 set in 3 weeks.
Now: I still cant stop to play, but the good thing is that my computer is broken, so i cant play. But I still managed to kill the first to bosses of Icecrown Citadel. Thanks for reading.
Kuisito - Blackhand EU
brother, family are all addicted, do i give into temptation?
i have a close extended family along with a close family. They all play wow and all are trying to egg em on to play the game, Now i tried the trial and i didn't really like it all so much. I've had experience with mmos (was addicted from 7th to 9th grade to another mmo Runescape) but i remember how hard it was for me to quit and am wondering if i should at least give it a month and try this game. Imo they're all addicted, but why not join the fun?
