Addictions come in all shapes and flavors. And to date, I am aware of no Wow-related deaths from overplaying. I know of one from Starcraft, and one from Lineage.



This is obviously an opinion...plenty of people find it fun. I still find it fun after 3 70s and working on my 4th.



It's 14.99 a month. Do you go to the movies twice in a month? You've spent more on movies than I do on WoW. Do you have Cable TV? That costs at least twice as much, and if you have all the premium channels it costs 6 times as much as WoW. Perspective, please.



It wasn't WoW, it was Legend of Mir 3. Also within the past 6 months, Ebay has removed the ability to sell virtual items.



As we say in WoW...Screenshots, or it didn't happen. (in other words, I'd like a link supporting this claim) As Kyro has pointed out, the vast majority of the best items in WoW are inextricably linked to their character and cannot be traded or given away, and ALL items cannot be traded once they are equipped. Well...whites and greys can, but you should be past those by level 10.

In summary, yes these games can be addictive to people with certain personality traits (OCD, Addictive personality) in varying degrees, but that's true of any activity. As a counterpoint to the Doom and Gloom in the original post, I met my wife and my best friend both while playing EQ, and the three of us still play WoW together. I've also met a good group of people who live near my mother, who I see when I go visit her..if I have the time. (mom lives near Stardock-land, and I'm in North Carolina.)

If you like WoW, play it..if you don't....don't. The world won't end either way. Do everything in moderation, being obssessed with anything is bad.

Ya think? Look where he's posting it. He might get a different variety of responses if he posted this on the main WoW forum, maybe?

Oh...I forgot to mention, get into 0.0 space. Tanking 3 Serpentis Lord Admirals != slow paced. Fleet battles with 400 PC ships on each side != slow paced.

(2 weeks until my Ishtar!)

I've played WoW since summer 2005, and I'm still actively playing it, though I'm no longer clocking 12+ hours a day on it like I did at the worst when I was still in school. I was pretty much addicted to it I'd say. Like most character building RPGs the basic point is to develop a character of your choosing, through leveling and getting better gear, and as you reach max level you develop solely through gear, reputation and various titles.

As far as MMORPGs go, WoW probably is the most casual friendly MMORPG ever made, but if you're the type that don't like taking your time and slowly developing your characters through the combat mechanics, you're probably not going to like it (even though I say "slowly", it's way faster than in any MMORPGs to come before it). You can actually make appreciable progress in just an hour of playtime until you hit max level and got the basic gear sorted, though the first time through a character will always be slower than the ones that follow it.

The thing that's kept me in the game this long is that I early on met some people that I got along with really well, and over the years I've met a lot of great people that I've gotten to know well and whom I still play with fairly regularly. Naturally, it was a bit special back in the day as the game was really new to most everyone in Europe and the process of exploring and discovering the world that they had made along with my friends was really something special.

As WoW has gotten a lot more mainstream, naturally you see a lot more types of people in the game, and not everyone are the sort of people you'd want to associate with, be it twats, immature kids (and adults), and people who feel they are superior to you for whatever reason.

All in all, if you like the way the game mechanics work it'll probably be worth it, then it's just hoping that you get to know people who you get along and have fun playing with.

Heh, speaking of MMO's, anyone here used to play jumpgate?

Guys, Blizzcon is awful. Its main purpose is to glorify themselves over other developers. As if they weren't snide enough. Like I said before, the main reason people go there is because PC Gamer likes Blizzard games (all of which are over rated) You could take a Crysis player, a Battlefield 2142 junkie, or GalCiv2 player  , send them to Blizzcon, and they'll come out Warcraft geeks and Starcraft (shudders) losers. It's stupid.

My advice, play games that are actually fun.

Anyone read my wisecrack about an explosive in the WOW server room?

I read the above statement and I laught. Dude it's just a GAME and a GAMING company is going to promote it's product when it can to MAKE MONEY. That goal of any company is to make money. It just cracks me up when people 'Demonize' a gaming company because they hat some aspect of the game or games they put out.
I don't like Sony because the custmer service sucks not because I think they have some diabolical agenda to take over the world. I did not care much for EQ hated that game but I don't demonize it like this guy in the quote is doing about Blizzard. Hey Blizzard has a right to toot thier horn because they have had a lot of sucessful games. I personally don't like RTS games (I'm a Turn Based Stratagy type of guy) so Warcraft and Starcraft were not something I liked but I did find The World of Warcraft to be an enjoyable game until I got to the high levels when the grinding really got bad. I though WOW was a far better game than EQ (I left EQ for WoW.) User interface was one of the best that I have seen in any MMO that I have played to date and I have played a few MMO's.)
I have not played WoW for years now because I no longer found it enjoyable and I have sensed moved on to other games. Currently I'm playing DDO and waiting for Conan Online to come out.

I like Bungie because they do have a diabolical agenda to take over the world  

WOW the origional poster is a noob an a idiot. What a chickelittle the sky is falling post. hahahaha Why is it when something is FUN others who don't play it or don't like it call it an Addiction? lol Addiction is something you are if you WANT to be. I used to smoke and I quit cold turkey just like that because I WANTED to. I didn't need any cigarest or patches or any support groups. I smoked for 35 years and just quit on my own because I WANTED to not because it was an ADDICTION. lol Some people are just so stupid and dumb and think everything is an addiction. lol Get lost dude nobody cares if you don't like WOW or Blizzard. And why are you even posting this HERE, this is a GC forum not your soapbox crusade against WOW.

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From start of this year there are two less that are playing it. I've been paying subscription fee for about a year and a half for my two children, but then they ralized WoW isn't fun anymore. In all that time I NEVER even tried it. From what I could saw over shoulder of my kids it was just a big grind to get better stats or equipment, and lots or anger when one jerk just quited in the middle of an instance. I had enough of such a "grind" in the middle of the third replay of Fallout 2 some 5 years ago.


You know, in 10 millions people one can find just about any deviant behaviour imaginable. Why should WoW be excluded from that?


This I can't deny. But it is said one can't fool everyone all the time. My two kids aren't fooled anymore. So there's still hope.

BR, Iztok

Listen, everyone has an opinion, and I'll say what I damn well please. No moron who obviously has more than just a smoking problem (I'd say, drinking), will prevent me from saying what I want. If you want to worship some WOW godess, fine. Keep your nose out of this thread from now on.  

[quote] WOW the origional poster is a noob an a idiot. What a chickelittle the sky is falling post. hahahaha Why is it when something is FUN others who don't play it or don't like it call it an Addiction? lol Addiction is something you are if you WANT to be. I used to smoke and I quit cold turkey just like that because I WANTED to. I didn't need any cigarest or patches or any support groups. I smoked for 35 years and just quit on my own because I WANTED to not because it was an ADDICTION. lol Some people are just so stupid and dumb and think everything is an addiction. lol Get lost dude nobody cares if you don't like WOW or Blizzard. And why are you even posting this HERE, this is a GC forum not your soapbox crusade against WOW. [quote]

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Obvious Troll is obvious.

I've never actually played a game online. ACtually, I lied, I played some first person shooters online back when 56k was "elite" for a little bit. But nothing this side fo the century.

Although I can see why it would be so addicting, I mean it is a "social" rpg. I mean, back when I was younger, My friends and I would sit on the porch and play table top. I can see, why, with a few good friends, one would really enjoy WoW.

PS, When I was in College (I was an RA), I can remember quite few ppl who were addicted to a variety of things: Halo, Socom2, Madden, Working out, Alcohol, Weed, etc, etc.

I Think its a personality thing.
To be honest, I was never a huge Blizzard fan. I played Warcraft, Thought Red alert was better. My Friend LOVED Diablo. I thought it was fun, especially since it was so casual. I mean if I didn't play Arena or Dagerfall for a few weeks, I would have to start over cause I wouldn't remember what the heck I was doing, lol.

you know, chicken little was RIGHT and the sky WAS falling down...

I was wondering why the original poster was so biased... he's the one who started that thread attempting to get people to agree with him that Starcraft is a crap game, which it is not. I thought he just had an agenda against the game, but with this thread... it seems he's not a fan of Blizzard. Probably because Blizzard is apparently so "hyped up" and "mainstream" that it's "cooler" to knock against it. With that in mind, it would make sense to try and attack WoW since it would be the biggest target to hit, with multiple reasons against it already conceived by more critical players, so it would be easier for the younger trolls to pick up on those "arguments" and spread them around.

I don't play WoW though, because it seems to have very involved and time-consuming gameplay, i.e.- grinding, I do feel that it's a very well designed game. Which I wouldn't expect it to be anything less from Blizzard. It was an interesting concept when I first read about it, but I didn't get into it when it actually launched. My main interest in it was just the expansion of Warcraft lore, since Warcraft 2 and 3 were fun games with interesting storylines and backgrounds. I have friends who play WoW, and they've tried to get me to play, but I don't really have the time to invest in a game like that at the moment.