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 quit WoW like 2 days ago and I want to go back into playing it again cause i pretty much bored and have nothing to do/ |
| WoW plagues my friend, whom i'll nickname Bzz. he never sleeps, eats, or has time to hang out. I tell him "bro," that ain't cool. Bzz, if you're reading this, please know that your friends care about you |
| Recent changes with the game have runed it for me - I am playing a warrior and just doing PVP now because there is no point in tanking as every other class can AOE tank much better. Now in PVP we can hardly last one duel |
| My fiance downloaded the 10-day trial. Once I found out, I had her promptly uninstall it. I could already see the signs in the way she withdrew afterward. I've been gaming hardcore for 20 years and won't touch WoW. That should have said enough. |
| Stay strong friends, don't install it. Stay focus on your everyday life, family and friends. If you feel bored, use your brain to think of a way to help someone! Thanks wowDetox! |
| I have discovered that WoW Detox has done for me then I ever had thought. Today I downloaded the trial for WoW just to see that if I played it I would still be addicted. I started playing and ended up exiting within 15 min cause I felt it was SO boring. XD |
| I've tried to stop before, lasted about a week. Last night some online drama opened my eyes. To get see someone get so upset over a video game made me physically ill. I've neglected so many things in my life, made up stories to satiate my own mind as well as those of my loved ones. Last night I uninstalled, burned my Cd's after successfully getting my account banned. I know I'll have the urge to play for some time, but enough is enough. If you ever find yourself with the fire to quit, do so before it gets quenched. |
| I quit in April and I've never looked back. WoW was a solution - a bandaid for the pain of my boyfriend disappearing from my life for three months. He came back, and two years later, I learned to forgive him, and gave up the game. I feel so much better. I sleep better, less pain, and I exercise a LOT more. I don't turn down friends and make excuses for raids anymore, or even flat out tell them that WoW was more important to them. Not to mention an extra 15 a month! Which cuts my gym membership in half ;-) |
| 2 months now and counting that i've been free of WoW thanks to my friends, bf, and this site. keep up the good work and i'm glad to see more people are seeing the light and quitting! |
| I've been clean since September of 2008 with no relapses. WoW cost me thousands of hours of my life, tens of thousands of dollars, years of depression, and ultimately my marriage. I look back on that time now with such disdain and sickness that I cannot believe that once was my life Sadly, the addiction still gnaws at me. My brain instinctively looks to it for solace in the hard times, but I won't go back. I decided eight months ago that I was going to quit and quit for good, and I will not back out on my promise to myself on that. It will not consume my life again because I will not let it. I am stronger and better than that. We all are. WoW is a legalized opiate. Quit now while you can. If you are here reading this, you already know that you need to. Please, for the sake of yourself, your family, and your future, quit. Quit before it is too late. |
