WoWdetox is a volunteer-run web site aimed at people with a gaming addiction to World of Warcraft. Here gamers and ex-gamers can share their testimonies freely and anonymously.
| Hello,I played wow since I was 12, I played end game content in all expansion apart from cata. I've taken many breaks from the game. I was the popular kid in school and always out partying and getting girlfriends. I started playing as much as I could and ended up playing 12 hours a day. I would take time off of school to level my character. My friends wouldn't invite me out anymore and I started to look tired and shabby. I'm now 18 and after taking 3-6month breaks from the game in different years I've overcome the 'addiction'. I just said to myself the game isn't everything I can go back and play for a month in moderation and then leave for a while, its more a 'part time', every once in a while game now. Sure whenever I see friends playing or watch online I have the temptation. I can go back to the game at any point nowadays and realize the money is wasted on what you get out of the game. Sure it teaches you a few social skills and working towards things but you learn more getting out into the world. If you want to play the game every once in a while maybe 5-7 hours a week you need to learn patience and quitting the game is definitely the way to do it, when you go back its all still there! Blizzard make sure its near impossible to ever catch the best 'Gear' And gold its all about a game plan. Just play to level and enjoy not compete against the makers. |
| My guild was 3rd in the entire United states and we had another guild we were competeing against. Being a raid leader and an officer in that guild we pushed over 25 hours a week. Keep in mind i juggled work school, Fiance, and wow all at once... i was good at it... but i started getting burned out... people use that term alot" i was burned out on ( insert item here)" but the reality is i was getting a meager 3 hours of sleep a night, doing my important things... drinking 4 hour energies or are they 5 hours who knows they only lasted about an hour. i would then proceeed to come home and log on.... guys when i say i was good... god damnit i was good. We were the 3rd guild in the united states to down h-rag which is the ABSOLUTE hardest boss to date. I was the number one mage on the server. I then decided i have nothing left to prove... not now not ever. got over my want to be number one. i proved it to some extent. no im not the best mage in the world... but i did have people from all over the united states and possible the world making als to come talk to me and ask for advice(i helped mopst who asked). But i just gave it up cold turkey... decided hey imma sell my acct... i need money for my wedding and i havent been getting enough hours..... so i sold it sto some austrailian for 850. was a good acct and it treated me well, now for the negatives... honestly i put on about 30 pounds.... im not physically fit chizzled from the gods themselves anymore...lol... but i dont look terrible... some would actually kill to be in my position but those are people who work out and want to turn the pudge i got into muscle... which brings me to my next negative.... i no longer want to work out.... my friend does constantly and he looks great... godlike body but me.... nawwwwww... thats not for me anymore..... this is a habbit i will be breaking btw.... these are just negatives for now. as far as my relationship my fiance knows how good i am at the game and we were wanting to get sponsered by steel series at the end of patch 4.2 but i quit and so did 3 others and after that the guold started to bleed... but enough about them. Now im sitting around looking for a better job to make alot of money for my fiance and i, i already have my own house but i dont make enough moneyh to start a fmaily... that is my next tru milestone.... am i upset i spent all that time on wow? ABSOLUTELY NOT.... i had alot of real fun with people i will never forget. enough said... this is wat people dopnt understand sure the game isnt real..... u dont make real money blah blah blah.... but it IS in fact real..... it was real to me and i have so many laughs and so many good times i would never give that up.... sure i spent to much time playing rather than school work, BUT ITS MY CHOICE.... its my life journey.... we do all these things to have a good life anyways righht.... good job lots of money so u can buy great things.... well wow was great and affordable to everyone. i say this cause i wanted to share my story of me quitting cause i though it was a little epic..... but iwant everyone to know its a good story.... it was a great journey....and it will forever be in my mind and heart for LIFE.... i am World of Warcraft. (sorry for spelling errors... i type this super fast.) |
| played WOW with a group of friends for hours in a day. was addicted to this game from BC-WOLK quit a few times in-between but Honestly we all lost interest in the game after it was just an endless never ending cycle of getting better "gear" The only way you could be good is playing for more then 40 hours a week which is a full time job. me nor my friends play this game anymore. I would say it was just a small phase in my life that im happy its behind me. |
| I was a high end raiding guild leader. We did things differently. No swearing. No unruly commentary. Nice and Fun yet raid time was focus time. We never got server firsts, but we were very close behind, and had a lot of fun, even converted ingame friends to real life friends. But it was a huge time sink. And a lot of the people who play WoW don't give a shit about you, as a person, a guild leader, a faction, or any other way. They want to play, have fun, and ride your coat-tails. I soon realized it was a 2nd job. Even "just raiding" was a 2nd job. GM'ing 300 people, scores of officers, loot management, guild management, drama, vent billing, etc. etc. wasn't worth the real life time. 4 years later, I quit WoW to have a stress free escape, and picked up League of Legends. But even now, I realize that I can no longer bench 225 with ease, trot a 5 mile run without passing out, or pick up chicks in complex social situations. Because all my time and energy, whether WoW or LoL or xBox was a complete waste of my talents. I was making other people's little blue pills a better little blue pill, but it ruined my life in the process. I'm WoW free for 18 months now, still looking to dump LoL, even that once a night LoL, and cancel my TV service. Yes, it's winter. Running in Chicago sucks in winter. But . . . the time is now. Life will be gone, before I can say "pwnt". |
| I'm nearly 42 years old... female.. I have't quit for good yet. I've played off/on since 2007. I'm trying so hard to quit for what must be the 8th time. The longest I've been able to quit was a year mostly due to computer issues that forced me away from serious raiding. Blogging about wow after I "quit" did not help so it was an excuse to come back. I'm not sure how to do it and never come back. I think this time I will force it on myself by changing passwords and deleting/canceling the email account associated with my wow account. |
| Been off wow for 6 months after giving away all my gold and deleting all items. My life did not magically got better but im working toward it. Wow is easy to play but is unrewarding, life is the other way around. |
| Three years clean! You'll be amazed what you can do with the time you are not sitting at your computer. I have run a marathon (under 4hrs!), learned guitar and bass and joined a band, acted in plays and become a certified photographer. Give yourself a chance to find out what you're good at. (BTW, girls pay way more attention to guitarists than they do to pallys...) |
| Im 12. I started playing wow at about 9. And yes it was fun the first time but now... Like every other story on this website... You should quit now. I mean if you just play on the weekends, and you play for like 2 hours a week. Its fine but i'm spending my weekends playing 16 hours a day when i can. And i get mad at a program that means nothing. My dad knows i told him im going to quit but... IT IS HARD!!!!! For those of you who are saying its not that hard, your wrong because its a part of everyday life for us. Im so desperate to play wow when i go to BBQs i bring an external plugin just so i can play. Iv played wow for a long time now and I still havent gotten a level 85. This is sad. Its like a tornado in a small box. Your in there and theres no escape your stuck. If your thinking about playing wow, dont spend 24/7 on a computer. Im going to quit wow today. Never again am i going to play it again! It ruins your life. My uncle's friend went into rehab. He spent 3 days non stop playing wow. He was starved, had no job and was single again. Dont ever play wow. YOU WILL REGR |
| Wow is quite pathetic as Am I while playing it, My addiction is so bad, Ive requested Blizzard to ban my account, but yet they wont. So I bitched out GMs to get it banned, still they wont. I finally gave my 2 accounts away both Cataclysm , both done about a year a part, Then with the most resent give away of my account 1 week later I Bought the game again, and then 2 days later made my game Innaccessable by Changeing the Email and Password to something I didnt know, then deleteing the email address, Yes guess what IM BACK PLAYING ON A NEW ACCOUNT, I understand this game is horribly bad for you, which seperates me from the people who are blinded by the game. But I get bored and want to play so I rebuy the game. Its a lame vicious cycle. TO ANYONE WHO IS THINKING OF PICKING UP THIS GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME... DONT. |
| We only get to live once sports reading(for me) NOT t.v job school friends just do not forget that no matter how much you distract yourself with hobbies once you get bored you may get sucked in also, don't forget to be selfish, seems silly I know but | > | a lucid dream ,like a alternative life all the lives and teamwork that could've gone to stopping the bad things only serve to create them. |