World of Warcraft ruined my life

[stigmundfreud]

Well not mine I'm not so sad to prentend to be some wizard or a pixie. But the game has so far cost 2 people I know their relatioships and another is on the brink of collapse. How many hours has the 3rd been playing it for?

6364! Yes a total of 265 days solid play time. How many others on here know of people that have lost relationships or their (social) lives as a result? Sad bastards in my opinion.

[chris watton]

I think it seems to be worse in the far East; I read a story about this couple who let their baby starve to death whilst playing non-stop on one of these online games!

[scorp]

My sister introduced me to this vile piece of gaming crack cocaine only a few days ago. The Mrs is not a happy person this last two days.

lvl 16 warrior

Edited by scorp on Tuesday 29th January 12:31

[Gizmo535]

Faulty cause and effect I'd say.

Do you have no life because you play warcraft?
Or do you play warcraft because you have no life?

[aww999]

How do serious players of this make time for porn?

[stigmundfreud]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

if you too had a job as unfulfilling as mine you would aswell....

oh wait

[dern]

Can't believe the game is the cause... if the relationships were sparkling in the first place then they wouldn't play the game.

Quite a lot of people I know have this idea of a relationship where they spend time together in the evenings watching telly. Basically they're in the same room and they may pass comment on a tv program but ultimately that's it. Compared to that an interactive computer game seems pretty attractive.

Edited by dern on Tuesday 29th January 12:34

[Gizmo535]

aww999 said:

How do serious players of this make time for porn?

[GregE240]

aww999 said:

How do serious players of this make time for porn?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg

What more do you need?

[scorp]

dern said:

Can't believe the game is the cause... if the relationships were sparkling in the first place then they wouldn't play the game.

Not really, in my case i just happen to be stuck at home with a new baby (and before that my other 2 kids) so tend to change from working to not-working in the same location, usually near a pc/console. The game ticks all the right reward boxes in your brain, it is addictive.

[thegman]

dern said:

Can't believe the game is the cause... if the relationships were sparkling in the first place then they wouldn't play the game.

hmm. been together long?

[dern]

scorp said:

dern said:

Can't believe the game is the cause... if the relationships were sparkling in the first place then they wouldn't play the game.

Not really, in my case i just happen to be stuck at home with a new baby (and before that my other 2 kids) so tend to change from working to not-working in the same location, usually near a pc/console. The game ticks all the right reward boxes in your brain, it is addictive.

I wasn't suggesting that that would be the only reason to play the game but that if a games was being blamed for the breakdown of a relationship etc etc...

[dern]

thegman said:

dern said:

Can't believe the game is the cause... if the relationships were sparkling in the first place then they wouldn't play the game.

hmm. been together long?

I don't play these games I'm afraid.

[scorp]

dern said:

I wasn't suggesting that that would be the only reason to play the game but that if a games was being blamed for the breakdown of a relationship etc etc...

Sorry I misunderstood. Yeah, I guess there has to be other more serious issues for a relationship to break down, or perhaps they were teenagers looking for the smallest sleight to break off a tedious romance.

[Ecks Ridgehead]

scorp said:

My sister introduced me to this vile piece of gaming crack cocaine only a few days ago. The Mrs is not a happy person this last two days.

lvl 16 warrior

A saw a Level 12 Keyboard Warrior beat a Level 15 Troll in World Of PistonHeads the other day.

[stigmundfreud]

The way the 3 people have become so addicted is the issue. I'd say they could easily get addicted to something else but they now worry about the well being of there characters that they spend most hours of hte day playing it.

[Silent1]

World of warcraft was summed up brilliantly in the South Park Episode.

It's not worth the time invested, especially paying to do it!

[Dakkon]

A friend of mine has lost his job after playing to the early hours of the morning, sleeping in, getting into work late, did this once too often, apparently he has 3 characters over lvl 60 these days though.

[stigmundfreud]

Dakkon said:

A friend of mine has lost his job after playing to the early hours of the morning, sleeping in, getting into work late, did this once too often, apparently he has 3 characters over lvl 60 these days though.

I forgot to say the latest one (mr 265 days) has lost most of his business to the game. He is/was self employed and went from having a busy business with a good client base to now only having one contract remaining.

[kambites]

Silent1 said:

It's not worth the time invested, especially paying to do it!

But it's a game. If people enjoy playing it, surely it's worth playing. It's actually a very cheap form of entertainment when compared to just about anything else. I struggle to see how it's any worse than, say, spending thousands of hours in front of the TV.