| I've been playing World of Warcraft since February 2006, when my 3 roommates at the time all installed it and finally convinced me to join in as well. It was a blast playing with a houseful of people you could literally yell commands to. We all had a lot of fun. Then our lease was up and we moved our separate ways. I lived by myself for 2 years, which I think firmly cemented my love for WoW... all I did was play it, and there were no distractions! Eventually I fell out of touch with my friends almost entirely and did very poorly in college as well. I had one friend who I had gotten hooked on the game, and we both kept each others addiction going strong. I've tried to quit all of 2 times... The first time I made it two weeks before Burning Crusade came out and my former roommate said he would try it again. The second time was very recent... my good WoW-addicted friend quit with me to focus more on school, and we were doing great. Then about two weeks ago, I had a very bad falling-out with said friend and we are no longer on speaking terms (and no, it wasn't about WoW). I've felt so terrible that I reinstalled WoW just a couple days after the incident, and now I'm playing again. I would really like to be done with this game. I thankfully don't do the 6 hour raids anymore (can't believe I did them to begin with) but even spending 2 hours doing mostly nothing with anonymous, obnoxious people is pretty annoying. I guess I keep trying to escape into the world. If I wasn't playing WoW I would be fiendishly playing another game (is how I feel). I would really love to be rid of this game, but I just keep coming back. If I keep playing until this next February in 2011, that will have been 5 years of playing this game... half a freaking decade. Ugh. I'm done, sorry for the walls of text. Please don't live out your lives in a game like I've been doing.... |