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.
| I spent about an hour mashing up my acct info and deleting the associated email...and my account was restored with a 10 min phone call. So yes I resubbed. I no longer feel out of control. It's like I fell back in time when I play. Guilders having the same conversations, some players I did not know but do we really know any of them? I will not give up my newfound goals. When I play for an hour and log I feel victorious. I also will not be doing anything complicated in the game because most of it requires more time than I will give. It has lost a level of bedazzle for me and that is GREAT! Happy day, all! X o |
| I Used to listen to Beatles music while playing WoW, now I can never listen to Beatles music without thinking about the game. |
| I made a really close friend in WoW, but I had lied to them about who I really was and I had never met them, so I felt that our friendship wasn't real. When I left the game, I also left my friend whom I had chatted with everyday. The only reason I ever quit WoW was because my account had been hacked and that made me stop playing for a while. In that time, my parents decided it would be better if I didn't play and cancelled account. Although I was mad at them at the time, I now realize that it was probably one of the best things they ever did for me. However, even now, a few years later, I still think about that game. Sometimes, my mind will wander and I'll think about what a great world WoW was. It was my escape, that place where I could be a hero, be strong and fit. The place where I had superhuman powers. The place where I didn't have to be the person that I really was. That is the reason I still think of WoW. It is because somewhere, feel inside myself, I'm still not happy with the person that I am, and my brain thinks that WoW is some kind of remedy for that. It is for that reason that I despise Blizzard and World of Warcraft. It makes me sick to think about how they took over my life and stole from me those precious hours that I had spent playing. It makes me sicker still to think about what this game is doing to the millions of people who continue to play. I almost went back to playing that game. Luckily, my parents kept me strong and told me no. I hate to think of what would have happened to me if they hadn't stopped me. The time that I played WoW was an awful one, full of low self-esteem, weight gain, and a deteriorating social life. My life is ten times better now, but I wish I could go back to the time before WoW entered my life. |
| I started playing WoW when my friend showed me the ten day trial and we played together. I played until the end of the trial, and when I finished that I upgraded to a one month subscription, just to try out the game. My father decided to put a three hour time limit on the game per day, an amount which, at the time, seemed like a lot of time. Everyday I came home from school, finished my homework as quickly as possible, them sat down at the computer for three hours straight and played WoW. After one month I still loved the game. I renewed the subscription. I started thinking of WoW even when I wasn't playing. Before I web to sleep, I would think about my character, and in my mind I was that character |
| About a year and a half ago, I left Wow. It was hard. I still think of it sometimes. Mostly I get on with my life. I have deleted it off my computer and gotten rid of all the items I had including books about it. Good luck to everyone quitting it. I wouldn't go back to Wow for anything. Real life wins. Virtual life is worthless. |
| Back in February-March 2011 a good friend of mine convinced me to try out WoW, I used to play the trial a few years back and didn't really get into it as I was a complete newbie to the game and didn't have much help. So my friend introduced me to other people he was playing with and also Recruit a Friend where we would level up much much! faster. So I started playing with him and chatting away in our Skype call to friends that play WoW you could call it our little 'WoW group' >.<. So I got bored and went off but the more I played WoW the more time was spent on it and it grew worse.. much worse!. So my attitude stunk and I turned horrible if I did not get to play WoW, and you can guess what happened. My PC was taken off me for about 3 weeks and it was the most horrid and ever lasting 3 weeks ever! So I got back and carried on leveling and my attitude was better but not up to scratch. But then came around summer time and I though to myself, F*ck this! let's do something else so I did and now.. I'm back playing but it is controllable at this time, but only time will tell if the addiction will take over once again. |
| I've played WoW on and off ever since it game out. Only recently, however, did I level a character passed level 50.. Anyway, I had quit numerous times in the past, due to life getting in the way and not being able to pay for the subscription fees... but when I got a regular source of income, I decided to play again to pass my spare time. So that's.. all the time. Earlier today I was leveling my paladin and released how BORED the game made me. See this person, get this, come back here and I'll give you that. Over and over and over again. Even end game stuff is mediocre. So I thought, maybe it's my paladin? Maybe I should try a different class. So I tried them all, and all I could do was stare at the screen with lowered eyelids and a yawn. So then I thought to myself: what am I doing? Why am I playing this if it bores me? You know what the answer was? Neither do I. That's why I quit. From now on, the first thing I'll do in the morning is have a bath, not load up WoW. I'll spend the afternoon studying or being outside. Whatever. The point is.. WoW sucks. I'm done with it. Bring on the PARTIEZ. |
| My husband wasted two years of our marriage (and we have small children) playing this game. He has been overseas most of this year. If he takes it up again when he comes home I am not staying around. |
| I'm sorry. I really am. This is not addiction, and should not be treated as such. It is a social problem, as most people has stated, and as the detox clinic with the most experience has stated. To treat this as addiction does not work. I know this post will not apear on this site, but i whould like to inform you that you guys should do more reseach before making something like "WoW detox". |
| I realized that i was at first trying to improve myself because at the time the game required you to pay attention to numbers, details and more in order to progress. I also don't think that any of that progression wouldn't have mattered if there was no audience to witness my rise to power. I wanted to gain others approval and also to please others by following the bandwagon. I hopelessly tried to fit in and be a good player who did things just right, but it didn't take long to see that the people I was tying to please seemed idiotic, strange, weird, or just extremely immature as well. I was definitely an approval junkie/addict, and realizing that helped me see what made the game so appealing. Without an audience/community WoW is not addicting...in fact its just a stupid waste of time to most. Add in a community and throw in some RNG and that is what really causes all the trouble. Just realize that you don't need their approval...you need your own approval first. If you don't like it, then don't do it. There are also other RNG activities and solo/co-op RPG's you can play anyway. |