WoW was the game that almost ruined my life...
I got the virus from my cousin. He got it as a birthday gift and I watched him play. It looked so cool that I went and bought it the next day. After a week I was hooked. Six months later I had lost most of my money and most of my friends. In school everyone marked me as a WoW geek. After a year something happened: I looked in the mirror and saw something horrible: a geek with tired eyes and a messy hair. That day changed me. With some help from my parents and WoW'less friends I sold WoW to a local videogame store. I started playing some Css again and got some friends back.
So this is why the words WoW and MMORPG still give me the chills.

I know alot of people joke about WOW and WOW geeks, but some of the stories you hear really hurt people as badly as say a drug addiction. I mean from the ground up the game is designed to keep you playing as much as possible, with subscription fees, levelling up annd expansion packs.

Glad to hear ya kicked the habit

Hmmmm to me it's all about the person and not the game. I have been playing WoW since the beta. It certainly hasn't had any adverse affect on me or my private life. I limit my time on it as I do with all my gaming. Family and friends come first. Sure the game draws you in but isn't that what games are meant to do? Once any game starts ruling your life though, then obviously it's time to sort out your priorities. A friend of mine who started playing the game at the same time as me ended up losing his job at the place we worked together all because he couldn't stop himself from playing for hour after hour leading to him not turning up for work. But more fool him I say. It was his own fault, not World of Warcrafts and he would be the first to admit it. Now he has learned to limit his time on it too, and is enjoying it all the more because of that.

(btw, moved topic to "gaming" forum)

I love gaming and its very easy for me to get a addiction for something. And I mean very easy.

I had Vitamin C poisoning one year around chrismas because I could not stop eating satsumas.

If a start drinking its too much if a start smoking its to much etc etc.

THERE IS NO WAY IN THE WORLD I'M BUYING WOW.

aah, good to hear.

i suppose i got hooked when i kinda had to buy it otherwise my friend was going to buy it for me.

i had a 70 NE rogue, and 19 NE rogue twink.


was fun, then i got bored and left...

Ohmygod mate that had me in stitches

I have the same thing. Now Im afraid to buy or watch a game that is called "The best game ever". Well exept Hl2.

But Im staying out of RPG's using any means necessary!

ha the wow addiction. well heres my story. When i first heard of mmorpg and mostly the fact you have to pay i said HA! as if there is no way in hell im paying constantly to play a game. let alone one in the warcraft universe....i was into diablo and starcraft. but then i came to england and a friend had gotten it to try it he liked it. I tried it and enjoyed it....not only for the game itsself but the potential plus i hadnt played a good rpg in a while. so yeah several months later i was in a raid guild and having tbh fun...did start missing a few lectures and other wow symptons. eventually it felt less like game and more like work and pain in the ass to grind and do other annoying shit. made new chars and that kept me going for a while. eventually got bored and just stopped playing and paying. Ive been clean for hmmm almost a year now i think and tf2 helps XD. havent quiet been able to bring myself to uninstall it yet maybe at some point ill go back and play for fun again.




also rofl at gimpster that must have been a lot of satsumas
really i cant imagine the amount. esp since vitamin c is water soluble there must have been peels everywhere. or were you just IVing them?

I've never really liked rpg's so WoW doesn't appeal to me. The only things I've ever enjoyed about it are the Leeroy Jenkins video and Mr T saying "Knight Elf Mohawk!" in that ad.

The last MMO I tried was fairly amusing for about a month, then I realised what a big scam it was. Not worth it IMO.

was...

it runescape ?