I need an addiction Options

[eggman40]

I love me some hookah! very relaxing if your into it

[xs94st]

yea..my girlfriend's brother used to go to UC Santa Barbara..not anymore.

WOW'ed his ass outta college.

[x_itchy_b_x]

lol warcraft addiction.

[jcbass7]

i remember in high school a kid dropped out junior year so he could play that game more often... wonder what ever happened to him..

[devilsden97]

LOL!

I have a lvl 70 NE Holy Priest on Dragonmaw

(unbuffed):
1865+ healing
over 350mp5 not casting
160mp5 while casting...
6.1k health
9.8k mana

addicted? no. Like it..yes

Just applied to the TOP guild on my server....Vulgar (ranked 52 world wide)


edit: i currently raid: sun, wed, thur, friday. from 5 to 9 server(PST) and im on most nights to do dailies....the i go hang with friends.

yes im lame, BUT at least i dont do drugs, or get arrested. +1 for keeping kids off coke (if lindsey lohan played wow.....shed have no problems lol)

This post has been edited by devilsden97: Sep 19, 2007 - 2:29 PM

[95CelicaST]

Frankly, I'm appalled by how much time some of you spend on that game. 60 hours a week? Seriously? Thats more than I work in a week... meaning you've got to be sitting at that computer 12hr a day M-F

To all of those who play that game... you need to go outside or something... Do something productive, please.

[Vissi]

What about r/c cars, like drifting nitro rc cars and stuffs

iv been meaning to get me a electric one with some pvc tires for fun
-dave

[Driveby]

ST205

[Sinyk]

I play world of warcraft and I have for over 1 1/2 years. I play probably 5 hours a day on week days, mostly just raiding. 70 resto shaman and 70 hunter working on Vashj right now. I also know tons of people that play including school teachers, med school students, even policemen.

I also play on three softball teams in different leagues, play volleyball and golf on weekends. In the winter, most of those get replaced with snowboarding on the many mountains in my region. I also have a full time government job which is priority #1.

You can be addicted to the game and still have a life, you just have to use a little something called MODERATION.

[lagos]

come on guys... make love, not warcraft.

[1bwilson]

I play world of warcraft and I have for over 1 1/2 years. I play probably 5 hours a day on week days, mostly just raiding. 70 resto shaman and 70 hunter working on Vashj right now. I also know tons of people that play including school teachers, med school students, even policemen.

I also play on three softball teams in different leagues, play volleyball and golf on weekends. In the winter, most of those get replaced with snowboarding on the many mountains in my region. I also have a full time government job which is priority #1.

You can be addicted to the game and still have a life, you just have to use a little something called MODERATION.

Ooo Golf, good one. Id play every day if it didnt cost $40-$70 a round depending on the time and course. A weekly round or 2 isnt to bad though and then of course you have the driving range which shouldnt be anymore then $10 for a bucket of balls. Theres also golf leagues just like bowling, 9 holes a week ~2 hours of your time and free food and drinks for in the range of $30.

[jcbass7]

have you ever tried skeet or trap shooting? its a good time, can be expensive though..

on a different note.. i have 20 credit hours and no free time... if im not doing school work im doing a military obligation.. the only thing i do that isn't academy etc is this site.. lol i would have no time for WOW, i don't even have time for minesweeper

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Sep 14, 2007 - 8:06 PM

[soulshadow]

MapleStory Its Free and you can also Hack in there which makes it PHUN!

[yarik83]

Ok lets establish some guidelines here.

#1 Understanding of what addiction is varies person to person.

Example: you watch friends since 1999 every day both episodes on wb channel, you also watch seinfield every day and finally you also watch csi every day. thats like 5 hours of tv right then and there.. even if its playing in background you just cant live without it.. try completely turning off your tv and see what happens after a day.

Example: being a coffee addict for 15 years I can not start my day without coffee, if i skip it all hell breaks loose and you better not catch me 6 am-11am. by 11 i can walk it off but you get the point. Some people do not drink coffee at all.

Example:
My neighbour is addicted to jesus christ. he is a mormon and is a elder something something. he breathes jesus 24/7 and does not do anything outside of jesus.. even in his bathroom there are jesus things.. geeez..

Example:
My old college buddy likes to read. You can not pry him away from reading even with a crowbar.

Example:
Yaroslav (Yuri) plays warcraft 60 hours per week. 5 hours on weekdays and rest on weekends. but he also scuba dives, attends car shows, works full time, goes hiking etc.

If you are not somehow involved/associated within the "niche" of whatever it is.. whether its croacheing or plane building or gardening or playing video games it is really hard to understand why a person would play so much/do so much/work so much. If you do not do it yourself anything else is like what the?

I am a healthy individual, im a happy individual, i am a motivated individual and when I spend 60 hours per week raiding the heck out of the eye and ssc day after day after day and then playing all my alts in between grinding for more gold.. maybe there is a reason.. maybe the all too casual thing of going to bars, clubs, malls, movie theatres is no longer my thing because i been there done that and in all likelyhood I am not going back to that lifestyle any time soon. Playing wow 60 hours per week lets me spend the time contemplating about life and how wonderful it is that I am finally single and have a wonderful job and live in sunny florida and that I am the happiest i been in past 24 years. My personal life/lifestyle is marginally better because i picked up hobbies I never did before such as scuba diving on a weekly basis or hiking or catching lobsters or getting myself a ginormous hdtv so i dont have to drag myself to a movie theatre and have people talking outloud or having my buddy telling me his lifestory and or narrating the film.

What does it take to play wow 60 hours per week?
-no girlfriend/having your lady play too
-playing every day and raiding (for those who dont know.. its basically taking your team and killing hard things you normally would not)
-developing lifestyle that fits the game rather than backwards. I am a night owl and playing wow till 2 am is a great way to spend your evening when you are not attending to other things in life.
-sacrificing personal time (sometimes) to accomodate your raiding schedule.

-developing/learning to develop your "other" inter-social abilities. Remember when your mom told you to get off the internet? By show of hands how many people here had the following happen to you:
You speak to people daily though wow chat interface, ventrillo/teamspeak, share life stories/photos, meet like 39 other people and all 39 other people living in all corners of the globe going somewhere (never seeing each other before) and having one hell of a vacation? I went to about 5 of my guild get together events. So far we went to 9 countries in south america/going to 9th during thanksgiving, went to 3 countries of african continent, went to new zealand and australia, went to korea/singapour and this upcoming year going to france/spain/italy road tour.

I think addiction is in the eye of the beholder cause i you ask me I would rather spend 60 hours with my "other family/friends" rather than with people who are close in real life to me. They dont randomly come over and occupy your house just because, they dont abuse priveleges of using your car/pool like it was their property, they are easily muted by not coming to play wow or not responging to private tells.. on contrary my buddies never stfu.. call me in middle of the day just to say... uhhh whats up dude knowing that im at work... or coming over just because i have a huge tv and not really caring as to whether i want to watch their crap in my own damn house.

Anyways ill get back to wow now cause im typing this in between killing things. Hope this covered/explained some questions

[Batman722]

^^ oh jeez, another 1/2 pager from yarik...

need an addiction, just start smoking, duh

[spolski07]

come on guys... make love, not warcraft.

that was an excellent episode of southpark!

[yarik83]

hey hey. we are wiping on last boss in eye i have plenty of time.

I like to post long posts. I post rarely but when I do post something I like to explain things in detail. Thats just how I am.

Another thing about me writing half paged answers has to do with providing background to my argument. I think its crucial because rather than saying that whoever wrote whatever is wrong and needs to go shtoop themsleves I am spending time answering all possible questions, especially as a representative of computer game culture.

I cancatinate a possible series of back and fourth arguments into one big wall of text so that thread can go on in its original direction

[CaliJeff]

I have a friend which got addicted to world of warcraft and dropped out of college. He know has kind of a beard and barely shaves. eek.

ANyway, paintballin is a fun addiction

[devilsden97]

1905 UNBUFFED + healing as of last night. woot!

I dont think anything is considered an addiction by the person doing it. BEcause they LIKE to do it.

i honestly believe that u keep life in perspective, and understand that WOW is just a part of it, and JUST a GAME. You can play it 5 or 6 hours a night, and still be a functional human being in society.

Take older adults (my parents), they sit and watch tv from 630/7 oclock untill 9 or 11 oclock. They watch sports, old movies, tv series. They also spend nights out shopping and doing whatever. Instead, i choose to play WOW. I still spend time with friends, and go out regularly. And even some nights when I am home, i choose not to play WOW....its just a game.


KEEP it in perspective. RL > WOW

(sidenote: some guy in china died from a 3 day WOW binge, the other day. Guild response: "3 days? thats it?")

[jcaron9gt4]

i just bought a tamiya celica gt4 model. So im gonna be spendning quite some time on that. Dont know if you have the patience for something like that though