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.
| You have to find the cause of your WoW compulsive playing. Why do I say compulsive? Because if you can't control when you do and don't play it, it has become a compulsion.
In order to regain control you need to fin out why or what it is that is making you want to spend time in a fairy tale world online. Seriously, is it family issues, marriage problems, midlife crisis, personal issues? When you remove the cause, you therefore can treat the problem. |
| I quit wow in March of 2010 and now, 5 months later I can't stop thinking about the game again. All the friends I quit with have gone back and are playing around on alts. They claim that they are just leveling and don't plan on raiding, but we all know how this game works. This game is eating away at my soul. I can feel it... |
| Whenever I start feeling the urge to revisit Azeroth, I come back to this website first and read the posts. It really helps me and in about a minute of reading, the desire to play WoW fades away! |
| I have only played wow for 1 year, the reason why I picked up this game is because I wanted to spend time with my old friends who had been playing since day 1. In that time I lvl'd 3 80's in full icc gear, and 3 70's I would spend hours playing doing really nothing... maybe mining, grinding out dailies even try to get as many achievements as i could get. I didn't realize exactly what i was doing to my life or how much time I was blowing on wow until my 2 |
| I quit WoW once, about a year and a half ago. Three months out of the game I finally had things back in order, I'd picked up my tools and gone back to restoring my classic Mustang that had been neglected in the garage, I'd repaired what salvagable friendships I'd hurt with my WoW playing that I could, and was feeling pretty good about myself. Then, on a rainy day, I logged back in "just for today, it's raining, can't get much done outside". Took another year and a half to quit again. I quit this past July, because I finally had an understanding of why I was addicted. In my life (and most of yours too) I work a dead end job for mediocre pay and no real reward or room for advancement. I can bust my ass and work hard, and a few years from now I'll still be right where I'm at. In WoW that's not the case. You can put in the grind, build yourself up, and be something, at least, artificially. It feeds an underlying pscyhological need in the mind and it feels good. After awhile though, you can't get enough of it, just like alcoholism. This time I deleted my characters and cancelled the account. I uninstalled WoW and Ventrilo so I won't be tempted to go back or go talk to my guildies (I do keep in touch with two of them via Email, but I refuse to talk WoW with them.) Gotta give Blizzard credit, they found a way to hook millions into shelling out $15 a month and make it hard for them to stop, gotta love a guaranteed income like that. |
| My boyfriend is an amazing guy; funny, caring, adventuous, romantic..Needless to say, we met at a time when his apartment didn't have the net. He'd told me about WoW before, but nothing unusual. As soon as his place was equipped with Internet connection, it was as if I didn't exist, or his friends or family. He wasn't romantic or even in the mood anymore! We went to a party last weekend and he sat in the hosts room on his laptop playing WoW. We travelled to the next town for a little romantic getaway and he made me watch him play WoW for 7 HOURS. I laid in bed crying and he couldn't even stop gaming to console me...! I ended the relationship because I felt second best to a game. Last night he deleted his account and says he won't go back... But idk if I can trust it. Gaming addictions are insane! I've never seen someone be such a zombie before I saw my bf slaving away to his characters. You guys are all fucking awesome to be detoxing! |
| I read on this site that wow friends don't care about you if you leave. They were never friends to begin with.
Well I had a friend and she called me her "best friend" we hung around did everything together in game, spent long nights together. I took a break cause life got really busy, she never contacted me. I would send emails even though I was busy paragraphs, then after like 10 days later, i'd get one word replies like LOL. 3 letters... but has enough time to play wow 8 hours a night. So.. So I came back, everything went back to normal, then I took another break had no time for wow real life called again. This time same thing. Great best friend huh? So wow friends mean nothing they are just fantasy. Treat them the same as a computer don't let them keep you in the game. |
| I left when I realized all the good decent people left long ago, and now we are left with the most addicted hard core nerd raging people who get proud and arrogant about imaginary in game loot and look down on others.
The wow terms make me embarassed too and ashamed I ever played the game. lulz, lols, noobsauce, I see wut u did thar, learn 2 play newb, ftw. |
| Real loving girlfriend | > | Polygon RP wife. |
| I was playing WoW for seven months. I felt it consuming more and more of my life.
It was the one place I really felt important. But I realized it's only half a reality. |
