World of Warcraft Addiction Documentary - In Real Life by Anthony Rosner
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2012
- Like many gamers, Anthony Rosner became addicted to World of Warcraft, to the point where it affected his personal life outside the game. But with a strength of will that any video game hero would be proud of, he overcame his addiction and made this documentary about it. Check it out then leave us a comment below if you've ever battled with gaming and obsession.
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I was actually addicted to Runescape for years. That alone has made me terrified to even go near Warcraft, knowing it too would hook me and ruin my life. Game addiction is hard...
I had to quit WoW because I drank every time I played it....which was 11 hours a day. So I went from a 90kg healthy martial artist to a 150kg video game addicted alcoholic. My money was spent purely on WoW subscriptions and Jack Daniels. I cant thank my parents enough for hiding my computer and sending me to AA
Only 400 days? What a pleb.
I started playing during BC, met a girl just like you did. We messaged all the time, raided, BGed, even fished together in WoW. I used to wake up early to try to catch her online while we lived far apart. We ended up meeting up last year, and that was awesome. I know all her secrets and she knows mine. Now shes asking me for child support. I stopped playing since. Aloha
raveoncloud9 Hawaii?
+raveoncloud9 rofl
I can't help but think that I know your channel name from somewhere.
+raveoncloud9 u got out alive well done sir
18 years of payments. 😰💀☠️👻💩
Exactly. Moderation is key and there are so many things in this world worth experiencing!
This actually makes me want to start playing again strangely.
Like a drug addict watching Intervention that goes and relapses
@@grosebud4554 yeah this is almost equivalent to an alcoholic going into a bar and just looking around. No problem there aye.
Lmfao.
Hahahaha
Still a better love story than twilight
Any story is better than Twilight XD
Jonatan Rodrigues i once had to take a shit and forgot to take toilet paper and.... had to use my hand
giorgi lobjanidze Me too my friend, I had to take a shit in school, and there was no toilet paper for me to use, so I just used my hand. Still a better story than Twilight!!!!! XD
+Jonatan Rodrigues dafuq guys?
The ending was heartwarming. This video reminds me how horrible my life had become when I was a WoW player.
Fine you got me, I will start playing again! Geez what is with the sales pitch!
the original video of this actually made me start the game.
i know same xD
good for you ima play wow now cya
How's it going?
Maybe he is playing WoW right now lol.
@@Meusberg maybe he is
you can totally play this game, work fulltime, and go to the gym regularly. Don't want to sound like the devil, but there's no reason why you should stop playing videogames. You just need to manage your time better
one day you start skipping the gym cuz you got more "important things to do" and then there it goes... :D
+IceLand well when u find ur love u stop playing lol
I've found mine and I am still playing
SD SB well me 2 but not that much
:D
yeah, because watching the telly when you got home, till u go to sleep, or or smartphoning is not an addiction... Media about gaming: Play like 2-3 hrs/day: OHH you are addicted, and be no one in life. If you watch tv(with popular and mindless shows in the mean time /6-11/), or buy smartphones and tablets, and check on them kinda 24/7 - You are cool, awesome, and TOTALLY not addicted...
Yes but this video sounded like a 20 hour a day play time forget school situation, which is as bad as the phone.
I just quit yesterday, sendt all my gold to an irl friend, over 200k and deleted every character on every realm, uninstalled and cancelled subscription.
I finally got out after 10 years
recon herlev for how long
Gillian Vanroy Permanently. Deleting the characters and all their gear is pretty much a failsafe. I know that I'm never ever gonna frikken subscribe to lvl another character from lvl 1 to 110 :)
Pretty easy to get deleted characters back. Please don't leave us! :(
let the man live his life
I went from Vanilla to Pandora before stopping completely. Even now, I feel much of the remnants of the addiction still exist.
Good for you! : )
And I thought I was gonna try WoW...
Morenike Aig-Imoukhuede try it!
Morenike Aig-Imoukhuede Eh, it's not addicting like it was before.... you should be fine
Sports Life why not?
Lord Gaben The new expansion took away some aspects of the game. I would explain how, but I can't because I don't know how to. Hopefully someone will read this and then reply to you and tell you.
Lord Gaben I can't explain how either but Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria lost a lot of players, like 5 million, no exaggerating. Finally, in WoD a lot of players came back but not that much as they had before Cataclysm.
Thank you for making this video. Every time I get insanely hooked on a online game (Ragnarok Online, Dota, Warframe, etc.) and feel that I'm throwing my life away, I always come back to this video. My priorities reset, and I go back to the beautiful real world grind.
Watching these just makes me realize how wildly inefficient I am at the game. I have hundreds of hours of play time, like 5 mounts, no sets, like a few thousand gold and not even a single title on any of my toons.
Games make me feel better after hard days.
@UgandaKnuckles but do they really do it? Dont get me wrong, im in the same/similar situation
UgandaKnuckles man that’s sad bro don’t think like that. Real life is hard I get it but there’s lot of people that like the stuff you do just hang out with them.
I've been addicted to WoW before and I've missed out on a lot of stuff in my life. I still have the urge to go back sometimes, and I haven't played in 4 years. It's crazy...
I want everyone to notice how his life went bad AFTER he chose to go to norway... You DO NOT take WoW seriously. He did something he should not have done ; Delaying university to meet a girl who cheated on me. Imagine what would happen if he went to university and not norway.
Also, if he wants to waste 500 pounds on a spectral tiger, that's his decision. WoW is in no way at fault for what happened to him.
You did what you had to do.. RESPECT
I went through the same thing; lots of raiding, people asking about our guild (one of the tops on the server, though our server wasn't all that highly rated), taking vacation days to veg out and play WoW. There's really nothing to compare the social connections and interactions you make in WoW. It's not that they are the greatest form of human contact, but they are unique. If you join a guild early on, while you are still learning the basics the game, you may very well grow with several other players. People who you can really call a friend, albeit someone you've never met. Memories both good and bad will form, all in the confines of a video game. Sure the rewards of finishing a dungeon and collecting loot are fun, but they pale in comparison to the memories that are forged over time through playing with teammates and friends. Luckily for me, my server population died in MoP, and it was an expansion I didn't care for to begin with. Once all of those old timers had left, the guild fell apart and was eventually disbanded. Heck, even trade chat would be silent for hours during peak playing season. The game that I grew to love no longer existed, so leaving for me was much easier.
I agree, the social connections that a person made when they first start and continue on with is what made it amazing, a similar thing happened to me when everyone just decided to move on, the only thing i regret is not having Facebook at the time to keep in contact with all the friends I had made. Good memories of epic times though
***** Online, yes. We've never met in person because we're spread out through the US and Canada.
I have a wife, my own business, I do exercises every day, walk the dogs every day too and I play wow almost every night. One experience can't be the parameters of everything, to everyone.
How are you doing now Henrique?
@@ethansullivan8836 his wife left him and took the kids, he plays 16 hours a day and is 500 pounds and unemployed
@@JohnSmith-fs8bu lmao
can i have your account?
i'm pretty sure it's gone. i can't find any of his characters either.
Make more of these WoW addiction videos please! This is awesome.
Playing video games gives me a headache, doesn't matter what video game we're talking about. I love them, including WoW, but after 3 straight hours, I have to take a break and step outside for a while.
Yeah used to happen to me 10 years ago but once you keep increasing the time period each time the headaches go away and you can play 30+ hours without getting a headache.
+Zak - Bluetac Yeah, I guess doing that gets you used to all of the moving around and stuff on the screen
I'm going through a rough time and Warcraft has helped a lot! I still go to the gym, hang with my husband and our friends but it had definitely helped me not have my intrusive thought or depression. I play a lot but I also take breaks so its not an everyday all day thing. Good job for over coming your addiction and getting your life back! (:
gaming increase dopamine production in your brain that's why you weren't feeling depressed. But all these games are a waste of time. You could do 1000 times better things in your free time. And this comment was written 2 months ago are you still playing with the same rythm as before?
sexyboost3000 I do a lot in my free time. I just chose to game for most of it. I also go to the gym, clean house, cook new dishes and hang out with friends. Gaming just happens to be an escape for me. Yes I am. My husband and I just moved where we are now and I won't start my job until the 23rd so I have a few more weeks to have a little fun.
***** I feel terrible but I lul'd severely at this for some reason.
sexyboost3000 A waste of time to you maybe. It matters to a lot of people.
If he didn't redeem that spectral tiger card.......
Great inspiring documentary! Very good to see you recovering
I have been in similar situations. What annoys me the most is that I continue to trick myself in thinking that "this time" I will control my time spent in WoW. However, that off course never happens.. It always escelatesce
I looked at his armory and he still plays lol
every body comes back
true
lol
***** reflects like a warrior like you like to play a warrior when you play wow or you hate it?
dude Noone can stop wow if he start I stopped wow... Kappa... and todayy I just played about 9 hours
you will be back your one of us
lol get a life
your one of us
lol
I do have life i just prefer many lives lol nice video by the way
He returned in mop and played wod too not sure if he played legion
One of my favorites, big up! Really good material.
*lvl 85 blood elf paladin*
"new expansion coming out"
*wotlk*
He made the video later on, but the story he's telling vocally was the actual liniar storyline
I started playing WOW when i was 6 back in the early BC days (2007). I loved it, my dad introduced me to the game when i was just a kid and kept paying my subscription even though he knew i wasn't really making any progress in-game at all (Levels,Raiding,PVP). I remember one time in the Dwarf starting zone inside Anvilmar, i was crying histerically because i spent some copper on a sword and it turns out the sword model wasn't the same as the vendor's sword. My most memorable character was a gnome warrior called Gasketinhgyt, i'll never forget him. I basically was pissed one day and created a new character, i didn't really mind his name and just grabbed the keyboard and pushed every letter on it. Turns out the name wasn't that bad and so i just went with it and did the basic starting zone quests ETC. It was pretty hard for me because i was 6 and there was no quest points, you actually had to read what the quest giver said and follow his directions. I'm Venezuelan so it was a little difficult for me to read at my age in that time in English and follow all their directions to the letter. I sometimes spent days on just one simple quest. Meanwhile my dad already had like a level 60 hunter with weird spec combinations and full purple awesome pvp gear while i was just a level 11 gnome warrior with a weird name. It took me atleast 2 years to get my gnome warrior, the epic Gasketinhgyt to level 40+ and to farm enough gold for my basic mount. I was so happy and it was such a personal achivement that my dad let me stay up until 2:00 A.M to pvp and try my new mount!! When i was 8, back in 2009, i was so excited for Wotlk and since my dad already by that time had his hunter up to 70 with the best pvp gear i could try at once the DK hero class. I was so excited, the next day i went to best-buy with my dad and bought the Expansion pack. I downloaded it as soon as i got home and started playing my new awesome DK called Kellight, a human. I was pretty noobish back in the day and even though i didn't know jack about how to use a DK i still loved it because it remembered me of the corrupted arthas from WC3 and WC3 FT. It felt great and somehow i got my DK from 55 to level 80!!!! i was so happy, and i could raid, but sadly the shitty GS i had didn't even let me do some basic raids but oh well. I was in a guild called WOW The Musical (Shandris server), i hope they're doing fine and well because they are a very tolerant,mature but at the same time fun guild. I quit then came back at Cata, i didn't do much progress since i was still a young noob but oh well... Then came MOP, i was already mature enough since i was 11 or 12, can't remember. But i was inspired to leave the noobish path behind and start a new, hardcore, epic adventure to become one of the few pre-teen wow players that could actually make it to max level and get the great gear! I seperated from my dad's account and bought a battlechest (contains WOW,BC,WOTLK,CATA) for 20$ and started my new adventure, i went full on hardcore, i created a paladin, went retro and in JUST 5 DAYS i was level 50 filled with blue gear from LFG tool (Goes to show you how dumbed down wow has become). I was basically OWNING everyone in pvp when i reached level 60 (wich was like 2 days after i reached 50) and in one week i already had the best pvp gear had to offer for that level. Excuse my terrible English, (oh and this was all during vacation time) I'm a B+ student and i played WOW alot. Now i'm 13 and i've quit wow, maybe i'll come back since WOW was my childhood, if you made it to the end thank you for reading my story.
Omg, this was so insightful, really made me inspired to start playing wow and really reach the top there! :D Thanks man :)
This is an amazing video man, an eyeopenener, I quit WOW a year ago and I feel great ever since
I'd rather play WoW tbh...
He could have became a twitch streamer and made a bunch of money lol
So he could have died fat, rich, and alone at 40? He's really missing out there
***** He didnt have to be fat, or alone
Jacob Throwaway twitch wasn’t a thing back then
@@TheChosen1inc no just look at Asmongold right? :D
@@piewietime9181 he's the exact opposite, his muscle mass is non-existent.
Wow, that was a really good insight on how addicting gaming can be. Thanks for sharing your story!
i feel bad for the pally frozen in time :(
great job :) i was addicted to final fantasy for about 7 years....missed alot of rl adventures ; ; gaming can be so very addictive, like gambling, drinking, ect....i'm glad you overcame it ^^ make the best out of the rest of the years you are given :) life is so very short...we have to make the most of it ^^ good luck to you and blessed be :)
Still playing?
He spent £500 on a polygon
ghost
I've been playing since vanilla and did something similar years ago...even went so far as to vendor all gear on every character and delete them... then I got the urge again and wrote to Blizzard to see if they could restore my characters and items. To my dismay, they could and did. A couple years later they added the Restore Deleted Character function to ensure I could never really leave again.
I'm still playing. 6,100+ minutes played last week. If this isn't an addiction, I don't know what is. The stronger my characters get, the weaker I get in real life.
Jesus wept, please get a bit of perspective and don't let this game eat up your life.
I don't know why everyone thinks, being like everyone else, working more, going to the gym, going out etc. is always better than playing videogames. I love it, it's part of my life, I don't feel alone, whats the matter? WoW didn't give me less than the "real life" outside.
I wish I achieved something like the guy in the video - he can be proud of himself. He achieved something.
10 years I've spent on this game... 10 years
Been playing since EU launch in March 2005. Obviously on and off but you never truly leave haha. Reactivated this month after having been offline for a year or so. Still love it. LEGIOOOON
I feel yah bro. Started a couple months before TBC. Been playing on and off since.
it was on and off for 10 years, and yes I did other games on 360
Noob I 12 years for me
+Edam tang you're cool and now how about your social life
I Received WoW Battle Chest for my Birthday. Thank Lord I stopped playing it after 2 hours. I hadn't a clue what was going on xD
Great video stopping me from going back to the game again.
I played the game for so long only to realise noone exactly is going to care about all my max level toons, or my arena rating, or anything that i've achieved on the game. So I took advantage of that period of time and cancelled my subscription so I could never get sucked back into it, the new expansion will soon be out. I refuse to pick it up when the time comes
I purposely never played any games like this, any MMORPGs or whatever - it never ends. There's no goal to it. I like Singleplayer games. I knew a guy who had his girlfriend over and made her wait with his mother while he had a quick go on WOW. And my brother - addicted to clans, Garry's Mod, he has more friends on Steam than I have ever had. But it's sad, he wakes up at 4pm, stays up until 6am and he hardly goes out of his room. I dragged him on holiday with my girlfriend and he had a good time but I could just tell that he was wishing that I hadn't convinced him to leave his laptop at home. It's an addiction not as physically damaging as drugs or alcohol but still destructive. I sometimes want to shake my brother, tell him to snap out of it and start living his life, to get outside and have a conversation with someone new who isn't behind a computer screen but I know he'll agree with me and then go back to his damn room. My advice to anyone reading: if playing multiplayer games is your favourite thing to do - just stop entirely, you won't regret it. No one will ever lie on their bed, dying - grateful for all the time they spent playing World of Warcraft.
+Jibriltz my neckbeard says otherwise
+Jibriltz You could not tell what to expect in 20 years. So far we do less physical labor and more pressing buttons instead. Next step may be not to move at all. Cause our bodies just a machine to carry our thoughts and idea and feelings, find the way to move it without physical effort and in no time we would stop moving at all saving our body for longer period of time, instead of overusing it like in my case as pro player in 37 I so many broken parts in my body than 20 WOW players. Think about it. Old ways and new. Now kinds always on the phone, next 10 years i could not imagine what going to happen.
+Jibriltz Just because you play a multiplayer game, doesn't mean your addicted. Some of us are able to play it as a hobby rather than our second life. I can't play WoW for more than maybe 3 hours without getting a headache. I'm like this with every video game, really.
Oh, and I hope your brother is over the addiction by now, considering that your comment was posted 8 months ago.
I see your point and everyone is different. Like with drugs, alcohol or anything - not all users become addicts. But for me, it's harder to understand because I get so little enjoyment from it. I played a bit of Counter Strike and Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and they just made me annoyed. But yeah, if you like it and you have a life outside of it - go nuts.
And thanks for the concern and the question. Yes and no. He's gotten busy with his degree now so that's brought him into contact with real live people but any extended bit of time off and he's on that damned computer all day. I think it's more internet writing projects that he works on than games these days but still - it's cyber friends and no daylight or exercise.
Jibriltz Oh, nice to know it's at least gotten better for him.
The girl from Norway part broke my heart. I had a girl I loved play the game with me (We didn't meet in-game, I brought her to the game), then after awhile she left me when we were about to start our lives together IRL. I was so heartbroken I made a copy of her character and now it's my main. I still miss her very, very much, and it's been years since this happened. :(
ZNAS KOLKO ME BOLI KURAC
He's not hero.
He's just a person who overcome he's addiction, plain and simple.
i stopped playing about 2 weeks ago, but i haven't done anything other than sit in my room watching movies, reading blogs and sleeping, so its basically been 2 weeks of being just as unproductive as when i played the game. i've always been socially awkward and in the past 4 years of college, i haven't made a single friend. i've had extremely poor self esteem for as long as i can remember, which makes leaving my house very unpleasant. wow gave me a community i felt comfortable in.
eh rather stay in game
You said you killed the lich king,and you also said that wrath of the lich king expansion is coming out....-.-
"A new expansion was coming out"
Great Video !!! Nice to hear to over came your Addiction!!!
Props for being able to look at yourself and see what you did to your life. I was in your position once. I never totally stopped playing, but I have massively toned down my playing time. I keep it in balance by only raiding once or twice a week, and never choosing wow over irl things
Grats on the weight loss. I noticed a big difference. I actually went back and did a double take.
Wow so inspiring!*goes and plays WoW for 10 hours"
thanks for making this video
This is awesome dude. I've been addicted to Runescape and WoW. I've overcome both but man it wasn't easy! I'm glad that you were able to put it down as well. Good job dude.
I don't know why another hobby would be any different from a video game. There are limits to all hobbies of course, but it's annoying that some are more highly regarded than others (like sports, I know people who live breathe and eat sports and that's the only thing they can ever talk about, but that's fine isn't it?)
Yeh you dummy but sports gets you fit etc
Sitting behind a computer doesn’t exactly make you grow
I quit wow because of subscription fees, also all my friends were palying xbox instead so i dropped Warcraft and picked up FIFA
so nothing has changed haha
pretty much yeah :)
watch a video called "stop now" made by a channel called "sv3rige"
vafode
sverige. ja!
the guy is from latvia, and im from finland xd
I've seen this so many times, i love it!
lol the music at the end makes it so sentimental
Just going to point out I didn't blame WoW in the film, it's a great game, unfortunately for me, I didn't read the tooltip and allowed myself to become absorbed into the game but those were my actions! And thanks to all the IGN viewers, I've tried to read all the comments but I can't keep up, so thank you! :) Feel free to ask me any questions about the film and I will be happy to answer! :)
I quit after 4 years (2 years ago), the only thing I liked back then was doing Arena, after so many season having to refarm all my pvp gear doing bg's before going to arena... I just couldn't take it anymore.
Blizzard just explores so much their players with wow, in 4 years I had to pay around U$900 (just buying the game and subscrisption), and if I look back it's really not worth it, it's nice to experience raiding, pvp and some more. but after 1-2 years of experience everything else in wow has become a big filler, just an excuse to make you refarm everything.
Just to think that I played so many years of dota 1 and 2 and didn't spent U$1.
Well done man. Truly touching to other addicts
Awesome vid!
It's Blizzards fault for making the game too good :(
Oh yeah ? Check Blizzard now man
Warcraft is worth the addiction ^^
I pity you
well i pity you to
I guess you are right, especially if you compare it with other addictions. It's only bad things are the lack of exercice - getting fatter - diseases linked to his and a lack of social life.
Think about smoking, or taking drugs, or drinking. All of them might improve social life, but health is crashed to the ground.
So yes, Warcraft is worth it.
Victor Alexandru y and Warcraft improves Social life bro in my case i play with 5 friends and my girlfriend on our house (we are university students) and we all love it cause we got together because of wow and i thx blizzard for that ^_^
MadLane Yes, you are right. Thanks for telling me.
I too was addicted to WoW and also considered making a video like this. I stopped playing before Cata and did not buy that expansion. But we all know how much fun it is to brag about our gear and achievements in the game. Congrats on finding a new habit IRL that you love and can contribute to others. But be careful not to get sucked back in when a new expansion comes out (that's the true test, hehe). My fav part of the vid was the grey character 'frozen in time' as time lapse in color happened.
August 2013 will be a year now that I've been in the game .. I'm addicted to pvp. However, I've found that after a year, I limit myself to game play time now. It really is an amazing game but like everything else, moderation is key. I don't think I'll ever fully quit playing but for the guy who made this, I am SO HAPPY for you. I hope you will always remember us back in WoW but look forward to a good future as well. Take care!
I quit WoW because of the subscription fee. I was getting tired of having to pay for a game card. Its absolutely insane. Maybe once Blizzard manages to control their greed and abandon the subscription model then I will go back to WoW.
Heck who knows, if they went B2P instead maybe WoW will have around 20 million subscribers that will increase every year.
and then their content will suck cuz they will go on a budget
Xarion
Blizzard have so much cash right now its almost impossible. They have more than Arena net who made the B2P Guild Wars 2 and are succeed because of that game.
ReadingsteinerZ
you dont understand how business works at all. its not about how much cash you HAVE. its about how much cash you can GAIN, they could have a TRILLION dollars, does not matter. they want to make as much money as possible while spending as least money as possible, thats how business works. thats what people in suits get payed for
Xarion What I meant was that if GW2 can succeed with a b2p model by a lesser known company then Blizzard can easily sell more copies with a b2p model too. Even if the subscription model is dropped they can still implement a cash shop to sell cosmetics.
ReadingsteinerZ WoW gets patches that add content, thats what you are paying for.
Who else got an advert for World of Warcraft 😂
Thanks dude! Really appreciate it, and yeah there are a lot of negative comments but it hasn't bothered me really, when you put something like this on the internet you are almost asking for trolling from some people. But the main thing is that with the majority of people, they got the message and have provided significantly more positive feedback than I could have hoped for! The "likes" vs "dislikes" on this upload an my own prove that! :)
I feel i ruined a friends life introducing him to WoW. He was a complete computer nerd, playing with servers etc but never played any games. I bought him a copy of WoW so we could play together. 1 year later, he has no job, wife left him, sold his car., moved back to parents house. All he does now is live in that game, atleast 12hrs a day. Never wants to go out and stuff we used to do. He threw his entire life at that game and now i don't want anything to do with him as he isnt the same person.
Lol you can play video games and achieve your goals in real life video games are a hobby they're not suppose to be something you do all day every day I never have understood this Warcraft addiction shit
Same.. lol Games are not suppose to take over your life.. and they are not meant to be a super serious thing either (regardless what some may think).. they are suppose to be something one does for fun during free time as a hobby,, I been playing WoW for years off and on.. I RARELY play all day (usually when i am stuck inside) and certainly not everyday..
I can understand it... not from the addition point of view but from the fact that WoW is such a huge game you old have to play like your an addict to get through it. Normal people just to not have that much time (or parents to live off from).
+Jiji Dreams I hope that you at least make good use of your spent money on the subscription cause 13 euros for one month is quite a lot.
I am not saying that everyone must sit all day everyday playing WoW but they must also make it worth for spending x amount of money for a sub. Otherwise... don't play it simple :)
You have a point but one question. What does "f2p" mean?
George de Vries free to play
Lmao, this guy went back to wow. Just goes to show, you can't fight addiction.
he restarted it?
U can overcome addiction if u put work in. Ur actually special ed if u think u cant fight addiction
Powerful Video Dude!
ive never been addicted to a drug or game but im proud of you any addiction that is ruining your social life and health is a horrible thing do everything in moderation
I hate to see how people quit the game because they say that it's playing it, or not playing it at all. It's a game, it gets boring after too long, you can just play the game like a normal game, you dont have to live in it! I have had soooo many breaks from it but I always return, not because I'm an addict, but because I want to try the new content. Not because it's a lifestyle, gaming is a hobby, and gaming itself is just as okay as playing soccer or any other sport as long as you have time with friends.
+Astonn Very true. I have a life outside of WoW and I put everything before it. Whenever I feel like it I play, but the most I play everyday is probably somewhere around 2-3 hours.
only bad and unskilled players play all day to finish content
raiding only takes 2 days a week 3-4 hours each of those chosen days to clear top difficulty
So you joined wow in 2005... you played in vanilla as blood elf.... seems legit...
Really great video
I just got myself a spectral tiger the other day... I ain't quitting any time soon xD Great video btw!
if i quit wow it would just be to play other games more, so it really doesnt make a diff to me lol
warcraft addiction? really...? I beat a 5 year heroin addiction. Try doing that. It's not easy. You can't just "turn the game off and walk away"
I'm no (and have never been) a drug addict, and I was never addicted to WoW (mostly because I think the game is overhyped because I tried it for a week and wasn't into it). However, any addiction has the same effect on someone: it makes you want to play it or use it. If you ask me, his addiction was worse than yours because he spent roughly 12 hours on end per day for 6 years on that stupid game. You sir, you hit yourself up with drugs probably a MAXIMUM of once or twice per day.
Also, the same way he can't walk away from the game is the same way you couldn't "walk away from the needle". In reality, you could walk away from the needle with no problem, but your addiction forced you to stay with the drug for 5 years.
So, just because his addiction is in a cyber world, it doesn't mean it isn't as dangerous as a physical item addiction.
I wasn't using a needle, lol gross. I was smoking it, and no-- I was doing like 50 bags a day at one point, so all day, 24 hours a day. Please don't try and say it would be worse. You have no idea what you're talking about and I mean that in the most non-rude way.
derek You can get addicted to anything.
BRUH
Playing the victim? No one is playing the victim. I'm just disgusted that this is called an "addiction" this is just a person getting out of control and could EASILY be turned around and they could just not play the game. It's not like they would get withdrawals and shit. People who quit drugs/alcohol can die from withdrawal and it's just disgusting people think this "addiction" is funny and relative to actual addiciton
I played WoW all summer last year for 2 months and wasted my summer vacation. I don't remember one time where I called a friend to hang out. I quit it for a year but came back for another summer vacation. I think the reason why I keep playing is because I'm not that happy with life and WoW makes me happy. I know I need to quit again when I go back to school.
Living in a small town with little opportunities makes me want to start playing again even if i've been "sober" for over an year now.
What does this game has that makes people addicted ? I don't even like it.
+Ethan Clarke What is it that makes anything addictive?, just because you don't like it doesn't mean other people cant find it addictive.
+AxurickOfAnarchy IV
He's basically saying the equivalent of "I don't like Heroin, why is it addictive?"
Literally
+Ethan Clarke Friends
+Ethan Clarke it's a diffrent world and and it's and escape from reality ..
2 things.
1st. Why buying shop mounts for real money if u just can ride with one mount?
2nd why are u unable to play just 1-3 hours a day? or 4-5 hours every 2nd day..... there are also weekend guilds.... i mean its just a game like Fifa or CounterStrike.
why not possible for you to hold the balance?
good job man!
Hey Man i'm happy for you it's not easy to give up a addiction keep up the good work :)
Played this game for 10 minutes, realised it is shit and went back to SWTOR.
haha swtor the famous game of fail.
You do realise that no matter what game you play, it still takes time from your life? So yeah, at least play what you like.
Victor Alexandru But the fan-base of MMO's like SWTOR or Tera aren't renound for being addicts, they play games like that for fun, not a mental addiction.
WoW is more renowned for a player base of addicts.
precisely
Cool video mate, and kudos to you for overcoming your obsession with the game and moving on. You look so good in your "after" picture a few months after going to the gym :) Keep it up mate!
That was awesome. I got back on warcraft after a 5 year break just as the last expansion came out in 2016. I then realized all my friends had gone and how exhausting it was going to be to catch up on everything. So I quit after being back on for only a month...I do still miss it, but I'm afraid of getting back into it like I used to and losing everything.
Good for you man, even though I don't know you I feel proud of you for quitting for some weird reason. I really have no clue where this is coming from. I guess because I was a gamer once and i found it much harder to quit. Congrats man.
Playing video games all day isn't all that bad. Certain days, in particular. I've made it a habit to finish what I need to do IRL then treat myself to alone time in gaming. And really, you spend more money in "social" life than you do anything else. And most of it are consumables.
Have a decent social life. Not a big fan of parties, bar hopping or any of that sort. Just dont like being around a group of people I don't know after long days at work and being stuck in traffic. I've reached my quota of human interaction for the day so I'm good.
I think this person just didn't know how to balance things out and who knows if he ended up being burnt out with this new "social life".
It's better than using drugs all day at least.
I used to be addicted to world of warcraft. But then, I became to busy to play it. After not playing it for a while, I forgot how much fun it was. So when I started playing again, I wasn't addicted anymore. Now, I play it from time to time. If your bf really wants to overcome his addiction, show him this comment or tell him to not play his game for a week and see how he feels about it, and hopefully he will forget how fun it is.
Still relevant 11 years later. Hope you’re still doing well Anthony Rosner 🙏🏼
you can't just play a game as good wow and not get addicted...but props to him for turning his life around