Quake3World

Well after spending 55 Days of my life playing World of Warcraft I have decided to call it quits.

As much fun as I had at times I honestly regret playing the game, It basically took over my life.

It was my first MMO, In the start I was in awe at how sweet the game was and I was just having fun doing whatever, But that quickly turned into a race to make the best character and have the best gear. I knew how MMO's worked, The fact that they are designed to keep you playing as long as possible, But I just ignored it. Soon enough I become one of the most well equipped characters on the server.

No matter what sweet item I got it was never enough, I just needed more. No longer was I having fun, It was just an arms race to be the best.

The game effected my real life alot, Dragged down my grades in college. I cant tell you how many times I ignored my freinds calls just because id rather play the game than do anything with them. Or said fuck it I will study in the morning just to play WoW that night, Just to end up hitting the snooze bar in the morning so I only had a few hours to study for that final.

Hell it even dragged me away from posting here at Q3W.

Some people can play these games little bits at a time, I tried cutting back, But it was just all or nothing, You have to spend so much time to get anything rewarding done.

So hopefully I will get into a FPS or something, Something not so time consuming and addictive. Played some D3 ROE with that Doomer noob and it was a riot, So maybe ill start playing that some.

Maybe when I get some cash flow I will pickup Guild Wars, Doesnt seem to be as time consuming and the PvP looks to be more fun.


Boy was I a fool

Anyways I just had to get that off my chest, Havent made a rant in awhile, Been so consumed with that WoW gayme.

why didn't you post this garbage in the appropriate forum - that being rants and raves. the traffic is overflowing in there so i'm sure your 'rant' won't go the way of your sex life.

step away from the computer

enter soapboy

"lol noob."

yea, that's the reason I don't play MMOs. plus the fact that I wouldn't have time for them in the first place

phantasmagoria wrote:step away from the computer

Yea

I had that with CoH for a while, also my first MMO. Managed to get it down to something like 8 hours a week now. I'm beginning to slowly get bored with it too, i might stop playing it altogether if i find something to take my mind of things (i was thinking about getting that Boiling point thing that reefsurfer has been pimping).

I just spent all of my free time playing it.

Only having two four hour classes every week leaves me with alot of free time.

About the only things I did besides go to school and play WoW was poker night with my buddies every Thursday and I would occasionally go riding(Dirtbikes) on a weekend day.

seza wrote:why didn't you post this garbage in the appropriate forum - that being rants and raves. the traffic is overflowing in there so i'm sure your 'rant' won't go the way of your sex life.

Hahaha, get completely ignored buy your intended target. Owned :lol:

Stoner, check your PM when you get a chance

mjrpes wrote:Stoner, check your PM when you get a chance

Ive replied.

eehh you were bound to get bored with it sooner or later.

that trait you descibe you have stoner can be real handy when focused .

on business or school i mean.

hmm....strong addiction it can be. I had that once with Warcraft II, I just couldn't stop playing. Luckily there's an end to that game.

Oh and the longest non-stop sitting with a game was Q3.....12 hours non-stop TDM and Rocket Arena, only the occasional run to the toilet and fridge to get a new beer. Q3 possessed my life for 2-3 years.

i was addicted by warcraft 3 for 2 years. i played at least 4h a day...

Warcraft 3 never caught on to me (luckily), I had to install it one year later to finish the SP. MP didn't really interest me, while I was still building my logfactory, other online peeps were sending waves of undead after wave. Not much fun in that.

saturn wrote:hmm....strong addiction it can be. I had that once with Warcraft II, I just couldn't stop playing. Luckily there's an end to that game.

Oh and the longest non-stop sitting with a game was Q3.....12 hours non-stop TDM and Rocket Arena, only the occasional run to the toilet and fridge to get a new beer. Q3 possessed my life for 2-3 years.

And you still became a doctor. Wtf?

saturn wrote:MP didn't really interest me, while I was still building my logfactory, other online peeps were sending waves of undead after wave. Not much fun in that.

i was beating some top 100 people at my best times. :icon26:

mjrpes wrote:

saturn wrote:hmm....strong addiction it can be. I had that once with Warcraft II, I just couldn't stop playing. Luckily there's an end to that game.

Oh and the longest non-stop sitting with a game was Q3.....12 hours non-stop TDM and Rocket Arena, only the occasional run to the toilet and fridge to get a new beer. Q3 possessed my life for 2-3 years.

And you still became a doctor. Wtf?

that was in the years when I was doing 1,5 years of governing the board of the student faculty association, finishing my masters, did research in the lab, etc.

Pext wrote:

saturn wrote:MP didn't really interest me, while I was still building my logfactory, other online peeps were sending waves of undead after wave. Not much fun in that.

i was beating some top 100 people at my best times. :icon26:

yeah, you practiced 4 hours a day :icon32:

you should see how Diablo 2 has effected me. I'm like a really bad alcoholic who can't admit I have a problem. The only reason I don't have as many hours in as soapboy is because I'm using all of the spare time that I have...

only time i was addicted was when i played UO for 6 months straight, i stopped cause my monitor died

SoM wrote:only time i was addicted was when i played UO for 6 months straight, i stopped cause my monitor died

I thought that said your mother died at first!

still playing wow, dont intend to stop anytime soon
just gota learn to control yourself and the time you put into it.

i played wow for a year. when they turned it into a total pile of shit 4 days before retail release it was pretty easy to quit.