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Running away from WoW
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I am a 26 year old female. My wow addiction started a year ago. Prior to that I only played a few times a week, but when I lost my job (not wow related) I absorbed myself in the game. I started a new character, a paladin, and spend 15-20 hours a day playing it. Before all of this I was a runner/cyclist and now I can barely make it 2 miles when I do decide to go out and run. I was obsessed with every aspect of the game, who was doing what, where to get gear, new items, PvP, arenas. When I hit 70 I spend soo much time doing everything I possibly could and had almost a full set of pvp gear in a week.
I started raiding and it got worse. I needed more in game money to repair, to get reagents, flasks, mana pots, to enchant or gem my new gear. I obsessed with getting every jewelcrafting pattern in the game. I farmed gold constantly and when the servers were down, I spend hours on the relm forums. I know every thing about my class from hours of endless research. I would get angry when people didn't show up to raid, how dare they waste my time! I was loosing touch with reality. Last night was a breaking point. I went with my guild to Zul'Aman and on the last boss I was being chewed out by my GM. Then today I did a group with people who were complete idiots and blamed wipes on me! I kept thinking that I was superior! " I have full tier 5/6 and you scrubs have blues and kara epics" I thought. I got soo angry every wipe that I rubbed a blister on my hands from rubbing them together. After looking at my hand I thought about how much my life had been absorbed into the game. This person I've become, egotistical, rude, angry wasn't me at all. About an hour ago I plug pulled and cancelled my account. I cannot let myself become a disgusting monster. When I first cancelled the account I thought "I'll just play EQ", but I don't want to go back into this obsession. My happiness shouldn't be contingent on a boss drop or an arena rating. I'll be alone in this since my boyfriend spends all his time on the game. Since his obsession started, 2 years or so ago, he has gained 100lbs. He scares me when he gets angry at the game, he shakes viloently when he looses an arena matach. So I'll be living with someone who is still very much into the game. I'd apperciate anyone I can talk to during this time for me. I'm also here for anyone who thinks I might be of use to them. Posted on 05/10/08, 06:05 pm |
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Sorry to hear that. WoW is geared to be addcitive, seldom do people ever log on for a few hours just to kill time. My advice to you would be to never lay a hand on an MMORPG again. I once tried to quit WoW by playing other games but all it did was make the withdrawl even worse and before I knew it I was back at it again. Living with aanother addict is going to be hard and if you're serious about quitting I would strongly suggest getting out of there (maybe move back in with your parents for the time being). It doesn't sound like the relationship you with him is healthy anyways. Well, I hope you go through with your plans and good luck, if you ever need to talk I'm always here. 
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I highly agree with Calus, the best thing you can do is walk away from mmorpg's all together. They are highly addictive, absorbing, involving, and time consuming and will steal your life literally from you. I was a Star wars galaxies addict then moved to WoW and I will tell you, I missed years of my life playing those games, things I will and can not ever get back. I recently 8 months ago had a daugther and looked at her playing one day and realized it needs to stop, and it needs to STOP now because the games were stealing my baby girls daddy from her. Having a BF who plays wow all the time will be tough but maybe you will be the milestone that will break him free of the chains and bindings that are keeping him from quiting as well. Maybe you will now find a new career, your future husband? Many , many good changes come out of quiting mmorpgs, because once I did and went outside that day, I realized how much excitement real life offers, and its no fake charector, its me, just me, no fake names, no fantasy's, lol and look on the sweet side, if you get into real life PVP battle lol its permadeath if that doesn't excite ya I don't know what would. Stick to your guns, stand strong and you got support.
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I am the wife of Dsawin and let me tell you from a partners point of view . These games take over your lives and there is so much more out there . My husband has gained weight and gaming has cost him jobs . I think it's truely a sickness . Good luck to you .
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Thanks for all the replies and great advice. I went ahead and bought a game card that I used today. I didn't play much and set up the parental controls to help me. I didn't loose my temper either.
I'm waiting to hear back from one job I interviewed with last week and have one lined up for later this week. I think the key to solving my addiction is getting back on track. I might have done it sooner if I didn't absorbe myself into the game.
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parental controls and game cards is sort of like a heroin addict only shooting up 3 times a day instead of 6.
The key to getting back on track is to end it. Quit. Trust me on this, you can do it. Delete your toons, cancel your account and get on with your life in THE REAL WORLD. You can do it.
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Dmarsh is right, take it from people been there...Playing less is not an option if you're serious about beating your addiction.
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I know, I really shouldn't have bought the card. Had more bad news this week so I let it break my spirit.
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I love wow too, but people in it are not very nice either. Like when you say you wipe in a group. I am a shad priest forced to heal and i get blamed for bad healing all the time (Cause i am not holy spec). But that is not the point, some people will always get mad at you even if it is not your fault. I like to call them blamers. It is better if you just ignore them. And if you like the game like i do i usually go to the gym and exercise and do something and play when i have absolulty nothing to do. I have been playing for 1 year in june.(((Hugs)))
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Great news! The job I despirately wanted called and I got it! It's the best job I could possibly ever have asked for and it not only gets me out of the house, but has really made me loose liking for WoW. I came home with the intentions of playing for a few hours, but only spent maybe 10 min running circles around shatt and logged off. I thought about working on my shadow preist (lvl 44) but was completely not interrested in doing that either.
I'm planning on leaving my current guild and joining one of the top raiding guilds on my server as a friend so I can get into when I do play (for ZA and t4/5 pubs)without the guilt of not being on for BT and beyond!
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1 question what relem do you play on
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