WoW? Digital Crack Cocaine.

[belfastbiker]

OK, so I've avoided trying WoW for the past two years. I've stuck to the easy stuff, Warcraft III, Frozen Throne Expansion...

...but they weren't enough.

So I tried out the free download and the free 10 day trial.

But, like a drug dealer, Blizzard knew exactly what they were doing...

So now 've got the full package, and I've been putting in some SERIOUS hours into my six characters over my four days off work that should really have been spent more wisely... :)

When I was buying the full package in Game, a VERY cute redhead who worked there basically told me it took every waking second of her life for the last few months. She told me to wave goodbye to my friends, if I couldn't get them to shoot up too.

She directed me to the counter, where the guy said "I can't believe you're buying this..."

Why?

"Do you have any friends?"

Y-e-sssss...?

"You won't have soon. You want Burning Crusade with this?" he said, offering it to me like it was a speedball....

I've to go back to work tomorrow. Work now sucks. :cry:



Oh, "Hi!" by the way.... nice forums! :grin:

[Unknowable]

it only becomes an addiction if you LET it interfere w/ the rest of your life. if you dream about Molten Core or dancing female night elves, that doesn't make you an addict. if you take three days off as sick time to raid with your guild, that doesn't make you an addict. if you forgo the things that make life possible - eating, sleeping, bathing, actually going to work at some point so you have a job to pay for your internet connection/WoW time and/or you start destroying interpersonal relationships just so they won't take away from your WoW time....then you're an addict.

oh, btw, welcome :wave: read the rules http://forums.worldofwar.net/rules , abide by them, and enjoy your time here. remember, there's no such thing as a stupid question, unless the person you're asking doesn't have the decency to wait till you're gone to laugh at you :goofy:

[Skahr]

a VERY cute redhead who worked there basically told me it took every waking second of her life for the last few months. She told me to wave goodbye to my friends, if I couldn't get them to shoot up too.


Man, id bet she was VERY cute like you say...sounds greasy

[Elly]

Welcome to the dark side. Do you regret the last 4 days? If not, don't fret about it. Try and keep things in moderation, exercise some restraint and you'll do just fine. :smiley:

[TRIAIN]

belfast,
hello from a fellow new addict (4 weeks now). Don't worry, the newness wears off and not too soon for me, the wife was about to pack her bags. I am down to about 2.5 hours a day now...

[Aerath]

Try n catch that redhead's character name, alliance or horde and server :wink:

[kcma]

and share that with me baby... we can all play together, yep ;)

[rottentomato]

and share that with me baby... we can all play together, yep ;)

kcma...do you sleep ever between the drunken pictures in bathrooms, WoW, molesting young girls, and stealing other WoW players wives?

[Gormidan]

I wonder if I still have any friends left. :shocked:

Oh wait, I do! :afro:

I just need to log on and check up on them :wink:

Moderation my friend, the game won't go anywhere. You've got all the time in the world, and the game world. Just don't neglect your responsibilities in real life and you'll be fine.

[construct]

kcma doesn't sleep...he waits.

[rottentomato]

kcma doesn't sleep...he waits.

hahahaha a blast of jokes just popped into my head


behind kcma's beard is not a chin, but another fist


kcma and wolverine once sparred, wolverine accidentally cut off kcma's left testicle, you might know this by its scientific name "jupiter"

and about a million other chuck norris jokes that can be replaced with the great kcma

[kcma]

kcma doesn't sleep...he waits.

hey hey hey, i did managed 3 hours of sleep last night!! and i'm going to bed now *wink*

Mmmm, cute redhead... maybe i should visit bestbuy or EB tomorrow :p

[Kerosene]

only if by redhead you mean 15 year old kid who's face is covered in red (and white? /puke) pimples.

[Tanitha]

and about a million other chuck norris jokes that can be replaced with the great kcma


If kcma becomes the staple of Barrens chat, I'm leaving.

[grendon]

It's your choice to be addicted you can stop at anytime or choose to be addicted and waist your life on it. sad but true, I don't believe someone can't help being addicted, because really thats not possible, there is always a choice.

[Radhil]

WoW is really only lightweight addictive. When you're ready, you can move up to SMAC and then we'll talk.

[kcma]

It's your choice to be addicted you can stop at anytime or choose to be addicted and waist your life on it. sad but true, I don't believe someone can't help being addicted, because really thats not possible, there is always a choice.

i dont think u understand the nature of addiction :p

and yes!! kcma for barren chat!

[Foonyak]

@ Belfastbiker - I'm sorry you got hooked like the rest of us.

It's your choice to be addicted you can stop at anytime or choose to be addicted and waist your life on it. sad but true, I don't believe someone can't help being addicted, because really thats not possible, there is always a choice.

Apparently, you've never tried to quit smoking cigarettes. Yes, it was my choice to start, and I admit, it was the worst choice I've ever made. However, I've tried every quitting method available, short of electro-shock therapy and hypno-therapy. I don't believe that torture would cause me to get over my addiction, and I don't personally believe that hypnosis (or the theories that support it) works for anything.

I do believe (believe, not know) that game addicts aren't actually addicts. I don't think that the chemistry of chemical addiction and game "addiction" work in the same fashion. I believe that game "addicts" form a connection to the game world that is stronger than their connection to the real world, and don't care for real world events as much as game events as a result of this stronger connection to the game world.

[Tanitha]

Apparently, you've never tried to quit smoking cigarettes. Yes, it was my choice to start, and I admit, it was the worst choice I've ever made. However, I've tried every quitting method available, short of electro-shock therapy and hypno-therapy. I don't believe that torture would cause me to get over my addiction, and I don't personally believe that hypnosis (or the theories that support it) works for anything.

If you really want to quit, go out to your local bookstore and buy Alan Carr's "The Easyway to Quit smoking". It will take you maybe 3 days to read through it. There are no gross pictures, he encourages you to smoke throughout it and so on. It's helped myself and two colleagues quit. Me after 10 years of a pack and a half a day, one of them after almost 20 years of a pack a day.

Yes, I've recently taken it up again in a moment of foolishness, but that does not reflect on the book. In fact, using the knowledge from that I was able to put it away again after a few days and feel fine.

[Foonyak]

Thanks for the tip, Tanitha.

[Stigg]

I will be quitting wow for the third time this upcoming friday.

Just like when I quit smoking, chances are I will be unhappy, upset, and blow countless dollars on unneccesary things to keep my mind off missing and addiction.

BUT - its spring time here in the states. So I can spend my evenings sailing and clmbing again. Woot!

[piscene]

When I played D2, it was pretty much just my winter activity. I just started WoW this winter, but I enjoy it so much more than I did D2 that I don't know if I'll keep going once the weather gets nice or not. I suppose it can at least fill in on bad weather days or late nights.

[belfastbiker]

WoW is really only lightweight addictive. When you're ready, you can move up to SMAC and then we'll talk.


Never heard of it until I did a search....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri

98%?? WoW. Sorry, I mean Wow.

Anyhow it's 9:30pm, and I haven't touched WoW since I got home at 5:30 - spent time with family instead.... maybe I'll be able to control it... I just need a 3 hour fix right now, to tide me over. :)

[kcma]

If you really want to quit, go out to your local bookstore and buy Alan Carr's "The Easyway to Quit smoking". It will take you maybe 3 days to read through it. There are no gross pictures, he encourages you to smoke throughout it and so on. It's helped myself and two colleagues quit. Me after 10 years of a pack and a half a day, one of them after almost 20 years of a pack a day.

Yes, I've recently taken it up again in a moment of foolishness, but that does not reflect on the book. In fact, using the knowledge from that I was able to put it away again after a few days and feel fine.

i dont know if i can afford to smoke a pack a day...

[belfastbiker]

Server wasn't online until 10pm apparently, so even when I wanted to get online at 9pm, I couldn't!!!

Damn, just flew for the first time, Undercity to Silverpine.... want a flying mount now!!!!

Got my undead priest Liveendeth up to Level 13 now, and things got a lot easier once I got a decent mace and wand at Auction....