| I played wow for 5 years, and during that time things went on in my life that I was oblivious to. I played through the days when there was still 40 man raids trying to take down Rag. I also played through TBC and WRATH, but I was tired of waking up on weekends and jumping on my toon and not realizing that the day had passed me by. I would look up from my computer and into RL and see that the sun had gone down. During that time i wouldn't think "damn, I wasted the day!" I would think "I better get some rest so I can jump back on tomorrow early." Sad, I know, but this isn't the worst part of the addiction. I have a beautiful daughter who I adore and while playing this game...has robbed her of years with her father. I hate myself for that, and will look back on this with a bitter taste in my mouth. Game addiction is real, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I have lost and hurt people that are close to me just because I had to be in game on time to raid. You do fall off the face of the earth, and it's not easy to come back to it. I remember making my girlfriend cry because I was playing to much, but I didn't see it that way. I kept rationalizing to her, that I could be out doing other things that are far worse like drinking, drugs, and partying. Boy, was I wrong...this addiction is one of the worst ones because it can be down played to others, and made out to be harmless, but anything that robs you and your loved ones of your time together is horrible in essence. Nobody should be made to cry over a damn video game! I can remember trying to have conversations with my loved ones while playing and then think to myself..."what the hell did we just talk about?" So focused on not letting my tank or other members of the guild die. Heal, heal, heal! I swear it was like playing whack-a-mole. This game never ends and if you play it long enough you will see patterns in the game. I pray that you don't play that long, but if you do you will see that your gear is never the best...even if your epiced out, it will only last till the next patch or expansion. You will see mats change but not really ...they have just been replaced by something that looks different but plays the same role at a higher lvl. They say that wow is mostly made up of causal gamers but I say that is a lot of BS! If you expect to get any kind of gold, epics, or legendays in this game be far warned you need to consider wow as your second job. That is until you start calling in sick to your real job to play wow and then wow becomes your one and only job. I pray you never head that way...it's not a path worth seeing. Some will say "oh, I only play once a week, and I'm hella good and I am all epiced out!" That's BS as well...don't play the fool here this game requires a butt load of time in order to get anywhere. This person obviously bought gold and with that gold bought epics on the AH which are lame ass epics. Also for you BGer's out there...you guys are the ones sucked in the most, I know cuz that was also me while not raiding. Telling yourself I better go to sleep...sure right after one more bg! Games are supposed to have an ending and this one doesn't...please make up your own and pick up your RL where you left off. I can tell you that this RL is the greatest adventure of all. I finally quit wow due to my brother coming down with cancer...it finally hit me that wasting away countless hours on that damn game is fruitless and those hours can be better spent with loved ones. Now out here looking back...I wish I had quit long ago...good luck all those who are trying to quit, you are in my prayers! |