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"WoW is ruining my social circle!" A group therapy thread

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Belfast

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Hello. My name is Belfast. My interests include banning junior members, playing action-adventure games, and rubbing apple-butter all over my tummy.

There used to be a time when I could get together with all of my friends and we'd hang out and play boardgames or poker or go see a movie or just sit around bullshitting and watching TV. Nowadays its been whittled down to the three or four of us who DON'T play World of Warcraft and I'll be damned if it isn't boring half the time. Oh sure, I make attempts to get people to hang out or go do things AWAY from the computer. Anything but straight up forcing them or invading their apartments absolutely fails. On top of this, when I can pull them away from this horrendous game, all they want to do is talk about it and make obscure references using their in-game jive talk language that nobody in the real world could understand.

I admit, I was hooked on FFXI for a long time, but not at the expense of foresaking my friends when a good hang-out opportunity arose.

But this damn game has ruined my social life, and I don't even play it! How does THAT work?!

The mind boggles....

But I'm sure I can't be the only one out there whose entire circle of friends has been infested. If you're a damaged soul in seek of help and need a support group to confide in, feel free to post your experiences here and we'll all learn to love eachother and, most importantly, ourselves for resisting the pull of this wretched mind-control-on-a-disc that has even influenced mainstream performers such as Dave Chappelle, who would rather raid Molten Core than produce a 3rd season of his hit comedy series!

Needless to say, I refuse to play WoW on this very principle.

Am I alone?
 
Shogmaster said:
Can you expound on that apple-butter bit?
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The texture the soft gooeyness of the apple-butter creates when mixed with the body hair surrounding my belly button is, to say the least, "exhilirating."
 
No matter what I think, my friends say that the game is ruining my social life, I certainly do not think so. But I do have a friend who is unfortunate enough to have the same problem as you. His entire circle of friends play the game, and when they do hang out, all they do is talk about it and he feels ostracized. And further icing on his cake of misery is the fact that he wants to join his friends in playing WoW, but cannot because his PC is inadequate.
 
well i dont play it anymore, but when i did i didnt have a social life.i still dont, but its not as hopeless now.
 
Belfast said:
The texture the soft gooeyness of the apple-butter creates when mixed with the body hair surrounding my belly button is, to say the least, "exhilirating."
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You have forever ruined apple-butter for me. Thanks.
 
My friends are the same way... and it just comes across as pathetic.

I can't take many more lunches with everyone talking in that fantasy BS talk about fairies and goblins or whatever...
 
we saw someone (Joe) at our weekly Tokyo get together last week for the first time since the game launched...he has two L60 characters and any number of alts. he only came because he was dragged there by a friend leaving the country the next week ... and now he's back to the grind. WHY, WHY.
 
Belfast said:
Hello. My name is Belfast. My interests include banning junior members, playing action-adventure games, and rubbing apple-butter all over my tummy.

There used to be a time when I could get together with all of my friends and we'd hang out and play boardgames or poker or go see a movie or just sit around bullshitting and watching TV. Nowadays its been whittled down to the three or four of us who DON'T play World of Warcraft and I'll be damned if it isn't boring half the time. Oh sure, I make attempts to get people to hang out or go do things AWAY from the computer. Anything but straight up forcing them or invading their apartments absolutely fails. On top of this, when I can pull them away from this horrendous game, all they want to do is talk about it and make obscure references using their in-game jive talk language that nobody in the real world could understand.

I admit, I was hooked on FFXI for a long time, but not at the expense of foresaking my friends when a good hang-out opportunity arose.

But this damn game has ruined my social life, and I don't even play it! How does THAT work?!

The mind boggles....

But I'm sure I can't be the only one out there whose entire circle of friends has been infested. If you're a damaged soul in seek of help and need a support group to confide in, feel free to post your experiences here and we'll all learn to love eachother and, most importantly, ourselves for resisting the pull of this wretched mind-control-on-a-disc that has even influenced mainstream performers such as Dave Chappelle, who would rather raid Molten Core than produce a 3rd season of his hit comedy series!

Needless to say, I refuse to play WoW on this very principle.

Am I alone?
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EAxactly the same thing one of my friends is addicted to WoW the other to ffxi.

The FFXI guy is basically all leveled up but still "farms" like 10 hours a day and the WoW guy just does the same run over and over again for 10 hours. They barely come out for multiplayer gaming, sports or movies.
 
Ruas said:
well i dont play it anymore, but when i did i didnt have a social life.i still dont, but its not as hopeless now.
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Yeah, now that I've quit WoW it's freed up a lot more time to realise I have no motivation, social life or hobbies.
 
Kabuki Waq said:
EAxactly the same thing one of my friends is addicted to WoW the other to ffxi.

The FFXI guy is basically all leveled up but still "farms" like 10 hours a day and the WoW guy just does the same run over and over again for 10 hours. They barely come out for multiplayer gaming, sports or movies.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. One of my friends is also all levelled up, has top-tier armor/items from a high-level instance dungeon. Her guild apparently does this every week and even she, herself, admits she gets really bored a lot of the time because its like 4 hours of planning and maybe 2 of everything else. Yet she continues to go through it over and over and over even though she doesn't need to!
 
Belfast said:
Yeah, I don't get it either. One of my friends is also all levelled up, has top-tier armor/items from a high-level instance dungeon. Her guild apparently does this every week and even she, herself, admits she gets really bored a lot of the time because its like 4 hours of planning and maybe 2 of everything else. Yet she continues to go through it over and over and over even though she doesn't need to!
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yep some ppl are just weak willed like that.
 
I played WoW too much. The people in my guild basically played WoW and slept. If they were doing anything that wasn't WoW it was being afk for 5 minutes to go to the bathroom and make a sandwich or some shit. It was sad. Luckily I got sick of doing the same 4 instances over and over and closed my account. Friends followed a few months later. WoW went from the topic of discussion everytime we talked to never being brought up again. It has been nice.



After EQ and WoW I'm not getting involved with another MMO again.

Must... resist... Vanguard...
 
Too good that most of my friends are clewer and don't play this shitgame. I played this game for like 3 months, good thing I got bored with it.
 
I blame life in general.

That four-hour planning shit, though... WTF. That's why I can't play team-oriented games. Lone wolf, or bust.
 
You think that's bad?

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And that's not even a full week. That's 19 hrs more than a full time work week. Just sayin'...couild be worse. ;)
 
That's some mighty impressive Guild Wars hourage. I've been doing Guild Wars to take the edge off leaving WoW, but I can never manage more than a couple of hours at a time. Which works well - at first I was considering using Diablo 2 to nurse myself back to health, but realised that would be like quitting smoking by fixing an IV drip of heroin into my eyeballs.
 
even i was impressed by the depths to which my friends sunk when they were (and some still are) playing WoW.. and most of them are MMO vets (im running out of friends to convince to play MMOs with) blizzard's secret ingredient: crack.
 
I never had a life to being with, so the only thing WoW did is distract from my other anti-social geeky habbits.

I pretty much quit the game now. Can't stand end-game.
 
MMORPGs just slide off me like butter on Teflon. I just cannot get into them. So while I may not be able to understand how addicting it can be, I can understand from watching my friends that it can be quite the problem. I mean if you have an apple juice bottle full of liquid that is not apple juice and you accidentally drink it, spit it out but don't attempt to rinse your mouth out because you gotta be the one to get that monster.... well, yeah. I can see that being a catalyst for social ruination.
 
I have played and loved WoW and other MMORPGs, but i can never understand how people get so addicted to them. There is a point after a few hours where I just say fuck this and get up and go do something else. The only time i find such games addictive is the first few days when I get the game. Once the novelty has worn off, I just play when there is nothing else to do (and not get bothered when I don't play for days).
 
I just play late at night when I'm too tired to do anything else. Even then, I can't be bothered to play for more than maybe a couple of hours per day on WoW. It's damn good fun, but these 10 hour marathons are infathomable.
 
The camera adds some pounds.

And that shirt added about twenny mo'.


He's not quite as heavy as that shot makes him look, but he's as big of a WOW addicted wretch as you could want.
 
Rorschach said:
You think that's bad?

noooooooooooooo.jpg


And that's not even a full week. That's 19 hrs more than a full time work week. Just sayin'...couild be worse. ;)
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WTF that is incredible. Even if you took that full time work week and added a full time college student schedule (about 16 hours, discluding studying) you still have the student beat. :lol
 
Shogmaster said:
You have forever ruined apple-butter for me. Thanks.
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you had to ask right? blech, nasty.

Rorschach said:
You think that's bad?

noooooooooooooo.jpg


And that's not even a full week. That's 19 hrs more than a full time work week. Just sayin'...couild be worse. ;)
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i have 2 people on my xfire friends list that do WoW 20hrs more than that a week easy.



personally, when i get a new game that im obsessed about, i make a point of putting it down when hanging out with friends is an option. even if i feel like i want to keep playing.

theres plenty of time in the week for gaming, without having to blow off your friends/family.
 
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