IRL - In Real Life, the effects of World of Warcraft addiction. - General

[QUOTE=garychencool;34487423]Coming up next: IRL - In Real Life, the effects of StarCraft addiction[/QUOTE] Yeah, I just sit in class and think how to counter strategies used to beat me last time :v:

I've been playing wow from '05. And I've never had the problems he has. I've had a stable relationship for 4 years now. And I'm a slighty under normal weight. The game is not the problem, but players/gamers taking the game too seriously, leading to serious issues with social life.

<a shady man in a trench coat approaches you from an alleyway> shady man: "Hey, you interested in a WoW subscription?" do you: a) Say: "No thanks, im not into that stuff." and walk away. or: b) Buy the subscription, and wind up in your room for the rest of your life, grinding and leveling up; only ever leaving to steal from friends and relatives so you can renew you subscription, until one day you can't pay up and you get shot by your dealer.

[QUOTE=Crash15;34488948]Poor guy, having a girl he liked just leave him when he went to visit her in her home country.[/QUOTE] If anything, this may be more of the stem of the issue. Having such a huge rejection as that can lead to dire things such as this. So he was using it as an escape.

[QUOTE=Vesu;34489480]I've been playing wow from '05. And I've never had the problems he has. I've had a stable relationship for 4 years now. And I'm a slighty under normal weight. The game is not the problem, but players/gamers taking the game too seriously, leading to serious issues with social life.[/QUOTE] It depends on your social life to begin with, i didn't have much of a social life so i let video games become my best friend for most of my high school years. I set aside going out with the few friends i did hang out with time to time. I wound up so depressed, but once i decided it was getting in the way of everything i started hanging out with friends, made a whole bunch more, got a job, and realized what I'd been missing.

This is how I used to be with video games in general. I wasted half of my high school life because of my stupid life. Now I'm better. I've met people, done amazing things and I have regrets from those years lost. I still get really nervous when somebody invites me somewhere, I have some social quirks to iron out but for the most part, I'm happy, have great and normal friends and enjoying life.

Wait, what the fuck. He spent 500 pounds on a spectral tiger? I thought you could get that shit from the Warcraft TCG. God what?

That made WoW look cool as shit to me. Now I want to play!!!

Wonder if there's a Runescape one. HAH

[QUOTE=SatansSin;34487711]Shit I didn't even go through all that, I just up and quit WoW. Unsubscribed and all. I'm still lonely as fuck too. :([/QUOTE] Have a few friends due to work. But as always to get new friends you usually need of of these 4 things. Job, studies, sports & hobbies. And for two of those you need friends to start with. I had the most friends while i was studying.

You don't need friends to go to the gym, and it's incredibly easy to meet people there.

i just got bored of fetch quests and stopped playing.

Give me the account.

This video didn't say that you can have a Social life and still play world of warcraft.

I like his spectral tiger :v: wouldn't spend a cent to obtain it though, which is probably the main reason I won't ever play WoW

Back to eve online I guess

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;34490314]Have a few friends due to work. But as always to get new friends you usually need of of these 4 things. Job, studies, sports & hobbies. And for two of those you need friends to start with. I had the most friends while i was studying.[/QUOTE] After high school, i went to ( you could say college but it's different here ) and i only had 1 good friend there, turned out to be one of my best friends but that was it. I found other guys to be extremely assholes, but i found out i only hang out with 1 guy, same as in high school, 1 good friend and that's it. Now i quit the education ( computer stuff ) and had a whole year nothing, occasionally working with my dad. So my pc and games are pretty much the only things i do for killing time. Best friend from college moved several hours away from me to live with his GF. So i don't really have anyone i could just call and hang out with, and my best friend since childhood is a huge pc nerd so i visit him some weekends to have a little lan party but he doesn't want to go out or something like that. So i feel like i'm just stuck here, until i go to school again in some months. Maybe it will get better, and i'm more social now so that will probably help me. Sorry for the wall of text but i just had to tell somebody. Oh also, i just got into wow again because of my friend that moved away insisted i play with him. I normally played wow on and off on times that i'm bored and finished other games but now cataclysm is on that private server today. Took them a long time but ok.

I stopped playing a few years back after I knew a few people who had 365+ days /played. Didn't want to become that, haha. Though I do get nostalgia over the Undead starter areas, well vanilla anyway.

I played WoW for a month and then got bored and left. Never played it since then (4-5 years ago)

I play wow. I have social life. Might quit and go to the gym. Might not.

I always get bored whenever I play MMO's. 1 month and I give up.

[QUOTE=JimmyA;34487573]Also known as:[B]SOUTH[/B] Koreans kicking your ass[/QUOTE] FTFY

£500 on a mount? i spent less than that to go to the european blizcon...

What's the song called in the end?

vgv

The Lead singer of Cannibal Corpse plays WoW and he seems to be doing alright for himself

Even though i stopped wow quite a while ago, it made me reevaluate my gaming habits i have at the moment. Really amazing video.

[QUOTE=Dbl_Henticker;34495087]What's the song called in the end?[/QUOTE] invincible [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67jr2tmyr1M[/media]

I guess it's a good thing that i find about every videogame crappy or not good enough to "suck me in" I've played dozens of MMOs, Minecraft, TF2... all games get dull after a while. Six years, really? [editline]1st February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Atlascore;34491195]I always find these addiction stories hilarious because it's obvious how stupid these people are, it's entirely possible to have a social life AND play video games, all it requires is having basic brain functions and the ability to manage your time correctly, sadly most people that play video games have neither of these.[/QUOTE] Most people who make these videos or drop that kind of money on games, I'd say.

[QUOTE=Juggz;34487324]This is why I've never picked up and played an MMO, I know i'd get addicted[/QUOTE] I quit WoW after a year. Right about the time that Burning Crusade came out. I started to play EVE Online back in June or something but I am a very casual player. I mainly play on weekends if anything.