WoW Ruins Lives

[Veggie]

not just wow tho, any massive online game like eve etc.

[Soviet1]

I don't really understand why everyone is always putting WoW down to such extents. "WoW Ruins Lives" It's an MMO, and it's a fun one if you are playing it with friends. It's very popular, and so with more people, you are more likely to get more retards. People are stupid, not WoW. People get addicted to WoW

just like any other game, especially other MMO's.

 

A lot of people who play the game too much are just stupid and don't understand the meaning of the word moderation, or don't know enough to not get involved in a high end raiding guild that demands every night of your life to keep up with raiding. For those who are addicted to WoW, at least they're addicted to WoW and not drugs, because anyone who can get so addicted to a video game probably doesn't stand much of a chance against chemical addictions. The people who are stupid enough to do these things over a video game probably aren't much better with anything else in life, so better WoW than something worse. :closedeyes:

Oh, and out of a total of what, 9-10 million subscriptions (though obviously, not all are active), you're going to get your psych cases which are related to it.

 

 

 

Of course though, you all know this. I'm just trying to say that WoW is a good game for the most part, especially when playing it with good friends.

 

For those out there who tried it and didn't like it, it's probably because you (the majority of people who play the game and decide they don't like it) were playing alone for the first x levels, or didn't play past 20 or 30 which is when the game starts to pick up. (Also, play PvP servers, not PvE. PvE is lame.) In my opinion the game is only fun with the social aspect in it, it's boring as hell playing it alone, so it makes sense that it will lose most people in the first stretch (1-20) when people starting alone are unguilded and playing against NPC's with little to no personality.

 

That and games with this general objective:

"Kill x y times and you get z reward. With z reward you can kill w and get t reward so that you can kill s and so on..."

Can be really stupid if you look at it that way. (you kill stuff so that you can kill more stuff)

 

Anyway, blah, blah, blah, my opinion has been jammed into this thread now.

 

It is a very well built game. Nothing against it, but I find it funny that on almost every forum or website, theres a story of a ruined life. :]

[BOOWY]

Such is the nature of MMOs. It was the same way with Everquest. Nothing's changed several years later yet people act like these stories are new.

 

From Wikipedia's Everquest page:

 

"The game is renowned and berated (by some psychologists specializing in computer addiction) for its addictive qualities. Many refer to it half-jokingly as "NeverRest" and "EverCrack" (a reference to crack cocaine). EQ is very time-consuming for many people, and there have been some well-publicized suicides of EverQuest users, such as that of Shawn Woolley. Relationships broken because of obsessive playing resulted in the creation of an online support group called EverQuest Widows and sites like GamerWidow.com. An infamous rant titled "EQ: What You Really Get From An Online Game" appeared on Slashdot in 2002, and brought this issue of EverQuest addiction to the forefront of many message boards across the Internet."

 

MMOs aren't the only kinds of games with stories like this. There was a Korean guy who died playing Starcraft for two complete days in a row or something like that not too long ago.

[SATAN]

Solution to WoW = Buy a bot

 

I was addicted to WoW, 1 day i got a bot, havent played nearly as much since, it might be cheating or whatever you want to call it, it will give you your life back.