World of Warcraft - reasons to play, reasons to stop

If any one cared we would rid the world from World of War Craft.
i just wish it was one time play forever.

I have the same problems with time & money as you have. Additionally, there is this tree-year old sweet gnomish mage in my household, who does damage to anything not uncrashable. :)

There are several solutions to your time problem:
- Join a nice guild with understanding people and not some high-level endgaming guild with performance requests like Curse. :) Playing WoW should be fun, not stress.
- Join some raidgroups with raid organisation, e.g. web based planning software, so you can define your raid parttime attendance.
- Join some raidgroups which are powerful enough to rock the Molten Core in less than four hours. :)
- Don't be envy for the better items other wear, time will come you will have this equipment too. (That's really hard, but as a Daddy with a live there is no other way to handle this.)

And the thing with the 13 €: you make a wrong calculation. You don't have to take 24 hours, seven days a week for the possible amount of time to play. Instead take your complete sparetime for your calculation.

You know when I play? During the week from 20:45 or 21:30 up to max. 0:00. My weekends are similar, except for the night to play some hours longer (about two) as I can sleep longer the next morning. :)

There is no more important thing than a real life. :)

I can give you the same recomondations as Martin: never ever join a raid guild or your life will be wasted. Even if you don't plan to go to a raid - somewhen they need _U_ and somewhen _U_ think why not cuz you could go 1 hour later to work the next day so the whole thing starts over and over again.

I played my warrior up to level 60 in about 16 days /played, afterwards I played him up to 50 days (so 34 days standalone-60) and this WITHIN 1 YEAR!

12 months = 364 days, 50 days of 364 days are 27%. One day has 24 hours, 8 hours sleeping, 9 hours working remains ~8 hours (yet not including eating, shopping, clening my flat..) - guess, 27% of 24 hours are?

Now I'm playing a mage since about 4 months. He's 61 now with a /played of about 9 days 12 hours. Calculated back to one day this makes about 2 hours. I think I can manage this game now.

well, I even got another Problem, they don't give me my account back, I lost my Password and the Security Answer and they don't answer on my emails that I can't play -.- If they are that less cared about someone who would like to play then they can't be needing it.

i totally disagree with your statement that woarcraft is a waste of time. I have a life and i still find time to enjoy warcraft without the loss of sleep AND still have all a's. Though i do agree with your statement about the money. i also think that the money should be a one time payment which would make it much less of a chore and probably bring in overall greater profit because more people would play.

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Good text. I see what you mean but I still enjoy playing wow with my friends. I know its a little waste of time but I can't say no to myself when im thinking about stop playing.

PS. sorry if something is spelled wrong :)

I disagree. What you saying is that people have to stop playing WOW and to find a girlfriend/boyfriend. Basically those who don't have a soulmate don't have a life? I wonder how old are you and what does "having a life" really mean? By the way, I don't play WOW.

These are games that cant be played in 2-3 hours, cuz u'll be called Blue Dew or Greenmachine XD

World of warcraft is like the best game ever. i play it when i have the time. but i stiil find time to hang with friends, sleep, and do everything else. So i would say do what u want do listen to what these people have to say. Play when u want where u want and it dosent matter it is ur life do waht u want with it.

ok just b/ u feel the need 2 post something about ur life and who f up u are in dat nerdy game dont make other ppl that play feel bad about their really really long and boring lifes...

war craft is kooool mate keep on it =) and die at the pc ;)i am join meeeee lol

1 thing is the people that do play and like it are going to play it untill they feel they want to move on and nuthing you say will do a damn thing abought that so give up on tring to scare people out of an adiction cuz thats just another part of life. i play 2-4 hours on any given day and i have a 61 pally. if you just play the game you will be fine and ballancing out this and life isnt hard, but ill tell you right now the people who bash this game spend more time stressing over making fun of us than we do caring. give up on it and if you want try it the 1st month is free and thats plenty of time to decide that if its for you or not. and the thing about is is that if you play wow your day isnt ruined with your freinds if it rains. peace out! .

darkperson of friday july 20

Why don't you stop thinkin of it as an economy or a job? why not think of it as a game? You don't HAVE to treat it like real life, just have fun with it, spend an hour or two on it WHEN you feel like it, buy a game card, so what of youre not lvl 70 in 5 days? so what if you havent got the most super cool gear, or youre not in the most famous guild on WoW, enjoy the Story of it. Think that you're playing because you WANT to stop thinking what other people think of you, it's an adventure.. enjoy it how you want.

Basically in my OPINION we should let people do what makes them happy. I have no problem with knowing that a single soul plays for hours on end as long as they enjoy it. Let people do as they please and worry about yourself. I do whoever hate people who like to bash people who do what they love. If you hate games then go watch MTV and say how cool you are. Oh and by the way I have dial-up so theres NO WAY I can play WoW.

runescape is so much better than world of war craft. ya world of war craft has better grafics, so?runescape u can do so much more!


RUNESCAPE RULES!

I stopped playing WoW 3 months ago. I was truly addicted. It wasn't because I wanted better gear or something, I just felt that if you're paying for a game and not playing MUCH, then you're not effective. Simply I forced myself to play more because there was a 1 months countdown, and I couldn't waste the time I had to play.

Stop playing you will ruin your eyes

im 70 now and still have a life, its funnay how its called an adiction. people are actually putting a game in a catagory with drugs. and runscape is for the geneticly challenge and 9 year olds. lol. jk. i have fun and i totaly agree with Ideas, and G-warspwnz the game is a game and if you have fun with it its your own damn buisness and it dose the body and soul good to have fun.

"if you dont like someone walk a mile in their shoes and if you still dont like them you are a mile away and you have their shoes"

I have been playing WoW for almost a year now. i play aprox. 24 hours a week (3.5 hours a day), maybe a little more on school holidays. But i still go out with my freinds on weekends, spent time with my family and participate in regular exercise and eat dinner and breakfast with my family (i am at school at lunchtime FYI). I also get good grades at school and get all of my homework done. i reguarly go on holidays and when i am on vacation, i dont feel the need to get home and play WoW, i dont even miss it when im away, i actually enjoy having a break from it. i also sleep for 8hrs+ everynight. yet some people would still say I'm addicted... =\ or thats its ruining my life. i dont see how this is the case if I still have what i would consider a normal life.

So i pose a question to WoW and non WoW players, would you call this addicted? comment back pls =)

p.s. sorry for the spelling and grammer mistakes, i was in a hurry =S

no

I am surprised so many people get addicted to WoW.
I love/loved it.
Currently my account is unsubscribed because I am not playing. I am level 64 and the game has become a chore for me. I can't seem to get myself to play it anymore.

Maybe one day I'll play again.

I never played WOW but have a friend who does. He wont go hunting with us or hang out, cause he has a raid or something to do etc. He sleeps 4 hours a day, he's career is going down in flames, he doesnt have a girlfriend cause he met some chick (whos just using him for his money) on WOW. All in all its just sad. I love games I play them all the time but not 24hours a day.

At the end of the day it comes down to self discipline. Play WOW but dont forget there is a REAL world out there with real responsibilitys and people.

I've played WoW. It never took. Kill ten of those critters. Kill thirty of these. Take ten minutes travelling from one end of the map to the other.

Yay.

I can appreciate the addictive qualities of the game -- the gear, the guilds, chatting, playing online with other people...but it never really amounted to much more than a somewhat dull use of my time. I liked the chatting bit though, and the Chuck Norris thing was novel for a short spell. I played alongside my significant other, who goes through phases of being utterly addicted to the game -- which seems to coincide with the ebb and flow of his depression. Not that I'm inferring that WoW CAUSES depression. It is merely a vice, an escape for the depressed individual.

Anyways, fact of the matter is that, although WoW can be a fun time for many people, in the end I feel it saps the creative spirit from the players and makes them drones to their own gaming addiction.

You know something is wrong when the player in question grumbles about "...grinding for three days to get my chest armour" or "...I don't even WANT to be a tank. I want to spec for healer, but the guildies want me to tank." So, in essence, the player in this instance (ha ha, pun) doesn't actually enjoy what he/she is doing, yet is compulsively doing it anyways.

I find people who play WoW a lot are the most defensive about their playing too. It's cute, in a "you suck" kind of way.

I'm not going to say "get a life" to you who play WoW religiously. You have one already. And what a good life it is.

I agree with some of you guys. ZUr prob is that u gave into wow and let it control u. I bet for 1 day u could't go without wow. Go get some fresh air and a life.geez

OMG, reading some of this stuff here and on other forums just freaks me out. I am an admin on a game that I play during the week when I feel like playing, so yes, I play on line games for an hour or two myself. However, I have a son who plays WOW from the time he gets up to the time he goes to school, back on the PC to the time he goes to work, back on the PC until the early morning. So, what\'s the problem you may ask, my son goes to school and works. Yup and that\'s it, he\'s young and instead of finding a girlfriend or spending what I call quality \"one one one\" time with another human being, he sits there chatting away with characters on a screen for hours and hours. These figures in the game are not friends regardless of how much you interact with them on line, pretending they are is really sad. When is the last time you had your cyber buddies over for Xmas dinner? Not gonna happen. I read that people are really not addicted to this game and read their comments defending this game to the death. Well, if you have have to defend this game to that degree there is something wrong. This isn\'t rocket science, it\'s just true. I can tell you this, if you NEED to play this game, you need to stop, if you stop interacting normally with friends and family, you need to stop, if you find this game the single most time consuming thing in your life, you need to stop. And let me make this clear, I am not just talking about my son here, I am talking to those of you that fall into the catagories I mention above. As for my son, I have talked it over with him and have come to an understanding. I hope you can too. I understand people still play football and baseball and maybe even hike or have a picnic, oh and get some fresh air. Please go and do something, anything instead of wasting your life in front of your computer screen. I am not trying to pass judgement on anyone and at 7+ million players strong WOW is just plain scary. JMHO

Screw you, you do realise it is possible to play wow and have a life.

I'm 67, play about 1-2 hours a day and that is enough! what the hell are you talking about 4 hours is not enough, you're the one with no life.

Good for you that you got a girlfriend, you know that it's possible to play WoW and still be socially active. People like you that stereotype anything who is *having fun* playing a game online.

SO HOW DOES THIS SOUND. NEXT TIME YOU DECIDE TO THINK THAT ALL 10 MILLION FREAKING WOW PLAYERS HAVE NO LIFE, YOU CAN JUST GO F**K YOURSELF

LOL, JUST RE-READ MY MESSAGE, WHEN I SAID, IM 67 I MEANT LEVEL LOL.

btw, to prove i got a social life, i play for two teams with rugby (thats 6x1.5 hour sessions a week (including games)), got a gf, go to a party approx. 1 a fortnight, go to the movies with mates once a fortnight, play an afternoob football game on thursday's. So how do u like that u stereotyping 10 year old nobhead

Yes exactly how do you define " Having A Life?" Many people have just fine social lives going out once or twice a week..and keep up with everything they need to do to determine what they qualify life. Playing WoW does not mean you dont have a life, and you having a gf/bf does not determine you have a life either. If your bf let it control his life to a point where he might not graduate thats his problem, stereotyping WoW players as people who have no life is incredibly inaccurate, and ignorant.

What exactly does "Having a life" actually mean anyway.
Life is about enjoyment and doing what makes you happy. If playing world of warcraft gives enjoyment and happyness, then who is to say they don't have a life.

By your standards I'm assuming "get a life" means "go out and get drunk, take drugs and cause havok on the street" because thats what all the cool kids are doing now a days.

Do you not think that some people play the game as a way of relaxing after hard days work? Or in some people's cases, a hard day at University.

Yes, I do play WoW, and yes, I am proud to say that I am addicted to the game. If addiction is a crime, then let all smokers and compulsive drinkers also be shamed.

What right do you have to tell people if they are living their lives properly. I'm sure that you sitting inside reading threads about world of warcraft isn't what you want to do, therefore you are wasting your time too? Therefore have no life either?

Grow up and let people live their lifes how they want.

Idiots.

Regards, Jim

I am playing wow 24/7 and i am ahhpy:D

I have to agree with this. WoW can really take up alot of your life. Im not saying you shouldnt play, but have the disipline to stop when you need to stop. play when you are bored or when its raining or something, but enjoy your life, use it; thats why God gave it to you (sorry non-religious people haha). my point is that play this game to have fun. Use your imagination, whatever. play in the sense that is enjoyable and not like your life depended on it. the money is a concern. i think blizz is taking advantage of other people's fallacies. Go have fun, play, but also remeber to take care of your friends, family, and yourself.

take care. have fun safely.

Ps. sorry for any grammar or word choice mistakes haha.

~ yes ~ very ~TRUE ~ MY BOYFRIEND AND WUR DATING FOR FOUR YEARS ~ TILL THE OTHER DAY ~ HE HAS BEEN ADDICETED 2 THIS GAME ~ 4 A WHILE ~ WHEN I WOULD COME 2 SEE HIM ~ HE WOULDNT GET OFF TILL AN HOUR LATER ~ HE WAS NEVER LIKE THIS ~ ITS LIKE HE THINKS HE CAN RUN AWAY FROM HIS PROBLEMS IN A GAME ~ AND WHEN HE IS DYING IN THE GAME ~ HE GETS REALLY MAD ~ I DONT GET IT ~ I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS GAME HAS SUCH AN EFFECT ON HIM ~ HE DOESNT HAVE ANY SLEEP ~ SOMTIMES DOESNT GO 2 COLLEGE SO HE CAN PLAY ~ AND NOW he BROKE UP WITH ~ ME ~ BECAUSE ~ OF A STUPID ~ GAME THINKING THAT NOW HE WILL GeT SOEM TIME 2 PLAY ~ help !!! what can i do

i plan to cancel my internet connection. This game has ruined two of my sons, my oldest now 27, never calls me, or any friends, only sits on line, rarely goes out - my youngest who is just 18, is about to lose his job, again playing this game non stop, all weekend, I dont think he even comes out to use the bathroom - these games are additive and do not help a person in anyway deal with REAL LIFE.

you guys seem to have been on the extreme end of the game (maybe i'm halfway there) but i wonder what would you say to "The One Simple Thing You Can't Do in Warcraft No Matter How You Try". it's an article in triond also about warcraft.

I only tried the 10 day free trial and think that the game is quite enjoyable but as others said above, €13 a month is a bit much considering you can pretty much have a good online game on a 360 for about £3 a month. In its defence however I played city of heroes/villains for 2 years and suffered from so much lag the game nearly run backwards so at least the actual game is better. I dont want to get addicted but I want to play a more enjoable MMO!

the cost is really stupid
play runescape its free and u can play for short times :D
or get a wii haha or a ds

I'm going to play WOW.
I'm going to be a blood elf rogue.
I'm going to continue my 10km races in track.

And I'm going to have a life too.
Maybe I'll meet a really amazing woman and marry her too.

I live for races, events, open, fields, hills and river valleys and excitement no game will ever take that from me.

Have some self control and be a man.

Your life is yours.

guys make your mind up I play wow if I'm I'll I still get time to lick her pussy

sheesh god ok let me explain a few things i normaly play 1-2 hours when i have stuff to do and 34 horus on weekends so i balance my time and i get good rewards so you get good rewards in the game and you can still have a social life

etc

i have a friend who plays 1 hour each day and he has a lvl 70 undead warlock and he has been playing less than a month

wow, 4 hours a day is RIDICULOUS. you can easily play wow with an hour a day or less. I do it, and i am the highest level and I raid. granted you do have to take extra time for raids and instances, but if you do one of those every day you are crazy. If you find you need to play 4 hours per day you have a problem. Also, if you think $15 per month is too much you shouldn\\\'t be playing wow because you probably can\\\'t afford it.

I guess I should mention this too! wow can be a good thing you know. I use it as incentive to get my homework done. what I mean is I won\'t allow myself on the game until I have completed assignments or prepaerd myself for exams ect. My rule of thumb is that if you find yourself playing wow and not enjoying it (example: grinding, letting guildies force you into raids you dont want to do ect.)but your doing it because you think you have to then you are addicted and need to work on that. Wow makes me happy, but it also comes after more important things are out of the way, such as university, family and friends.

if you don\'t like to lose your time and life go and play pvp it\'s alot better than pve and evry time you need to stop just leave the bg or say i have to stop afterthis arena thats all but pve takes alot of time 4 hours raid and allways you need gold if you are doing raids so you need to do yours dailys also you lose time when you wait for the group for any heroic pve takes alot of time and not so fun but pvp any time you wonna come and play come and you feel free all the time pvp FTW

Wow can be relaxing in one way.
When you're really stressed and you start playing wow, you don't realize how fast time goes by, you don't think..
The annoying part of wow is that more and more new ppl are playing, who can't rly play the game. They just do it because 'everyone' does it. That makes it frustrating for experienced players too. I quited wow for that reason. It made me realize how much time there is in a 'free' day.
And rly, it's better to socialize with ppl, then play wow.
Nobody rly cares if you wear epic in game, it's in real life you have to make it!

I really liked this little section it speaks out to a lot of peoplein the world especially now that the WOW community has 9 million customers and i know how fun this game is seeing as
I've played to. i mean
I've got friend who spends at least 17-18 hours a day literally playing the game he failed his
GCSE's because of it now that hes 19 the kid has no life and a wasted talent for art
i've seen the guy draw just like the concept artists at blizzrd still he continues to fund the bloody game and i just dont get why he cant see it.

As I read through these comments, I can\'t help but seeing the same seperation of people on both sides of the metaphorical \"fence\" as with any other topic in our lives.

We have the people on the \"north\" side of the fence that will defend their enjoyment of wow to the bitter end. There are people on the \"south\" side of the fence that will continually berate amd judge those on the north side, for any reason. And then, we have all the people ON the fence, who don\'t know or don\'t care about the people to the north or south of them.

Let me offer this: a bit of truth. There are a lot of things out there that can cause physical addiction; drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, certain foods, etc. Then there are things that can cause a mental addiction. These things are much broader and harder to categorize, but some examples would be: television shows, biting your nails, certain forms of habits, video games etc.

To further this discussion, let me quote wikkipedia on their definition of non-substance related dependancy:

\"..compulsions that are not substance-related, such as problem gambling and computer addiction. In these kinds of common usuages, the term addiction is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual\'s health, mental state or social life.\"

With this in mind, the references to the amount of time someone plays wow to how \"addicted\" they are is a moot point. Time and addiction do go hand in hand, but for the purpose of defining if one is \"addicted\" to wow, it is not the single factor that should be used in the determination process. A better process would be simply as follows:

Ask yourself these questions:

Have I ever lost sleep to play wow?
Have I ever missed/been late for an apointment because of wow?
Have I ever blew off a previous engagement to play wow?
Have I ever had emotional problems because I play wow?
Have I ever had a family member ask me to stop playing wow so much?
Have I ever felt I needed to play wow, even though it was boring at the time?
Have I ever felt my wow-life is more important than my real life?
Have any of my real-life, personal relationships suffered because of wow?

If you can answer yes to one or more, you may need to evaluate your situation. If you can answer yes to all or most of these questions, I think the answer is clear: You are addicted to a video game.

If you did, indeed, answer yes to any of these questions - now is not the time to become defensive. It\'s simply the truth. Addiction, as with almost everything else, is defined by our society. Therefore, if one is to be an active and productive member of society, one must follow the guidelines of that society.

You see, the thing that seperates wow and why it can\'t be defended is the simple fact that it is completely intangible. There is nothing you can physically gain from playing wow. Therefore, it should be treated as nothing more than a recreational retreat. And if you are involded in something that has no tangible benefits, yet it is interfering with your life in some way, shape or form... a revaluation is in order.

I know this all to be true from personal experience. I am a recovering wow-addict. I played for two and a half years and I have over 500 hours /played on all my characters. I sat back and ignored my life spinning down the drain because of my irrational addiction to a video game. Then, one day, after I was fired for being late AGAIN, i decided it was time to break the habit. I canceled my account for the time being and focused on my \"real\" life.

Now I am a succesful recruiter in the financial securities industry. I am happier and healthier than ever and I am so greatful that I managed to \"wake\" myself up from the addiction of gaming.

Don\'t get me wrong, I\'m not saying wow is evil incarnate. In fact, I still play. But only for a modest 2-4 hours per WEEK.

Too much of anything can be a bad thing.

I read the text, and I find 4 hours a day waaaay too much, not too little. The money aspect is a good point but it's not a fortune you're giving away though.
I read the questions in comment 46 and found that my answers were mostly yes, but only in the past. I've stopped WoW. I couldn't afford to fail high school; in a private school. I had one friend who I talked to while playing WoW. Now that I've stopped I have many more.
What I want to say is WoW is good, (though boring at times) but like all else it must be in harmony with the rest of your life. A balance must be found between lives.

This sounds more like a problem of selfcontrol then a problem of the game. Reminds me [a little bit...] of those americans sueing MacDonalds for making them to fat from all the burgers.

If you don't feel you can develope enough ingame playing 4 hours a day you really should reconsider what you are after with the game. And if you (or anyone else) means it's not worth spending as much time as it takes to be successfull in a raiding guild, well - then go PvP or something. Less time, can be done when you want - and gives OK rewards.

As for the money - well you knew before you signed up what it cost, you also knew that you wouldn't get a refund if you didn't spend every minute inside the game - so bitching about it afterwards is just stupid. If you don't feel you can afford it - well then Blizzard won't make you either. They never put a gun to your head, and they sure did let you know how much they charged forehand.

See, the way to look at it is not the wasted money for every minute your not playing the game, but instead to compare it to any other computer game. Some games you might pay £40 for, and only play for a month. At best you might play it for 3 or 4 months, so this wouldve cost you AT BEST £10 a month. And thats what WoW costs so... whats the big deal about the cost? just play it when you feel like it..

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