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World of Warcraft release revives concern over games addiction

What you said about being a number at a job resonates with me because in RL I'm a drone at a dead end job. In WoW, however, I'm an officer in a fairly large and active guild. That officer ship comes with responsibilities ranging from organizing raids and resolving conflicts among players to using my advanced access to the guild vault appropriately when people request items or when the vault needs to be straightened up.

You socialist! :lol:
 
I think anything involving a computer screen (or tv screen) can be addicting. I don't get the whole gaming addiction but I can understand it. Visual and hand stimulation can be very entertaining,and it takes you into another world so to speak. I also think that posting on forums and communicating with people all around the world can be as equally addicting.

As long as you can still function and you aren't putting things off due to these things, I wouldn't call it an addiction. I was watching a show where a man was so deep into playing a game that he wouldn't even take his wife to the hosp when she went into labor. He also did a horrible job of ''watching'' the kids when his wife left him alone with them. He also stayed up till 2-3am playing games and had no job. THAT'S AN ADDICTION! LOL
 
My best friend is a huge Warcraft addict but he knows when to quit. Me personally the only online RPG I have ever played was City of Villains I played for about 2 years then I got bored with it, in addition I was cutting back on expenses at the time. I'm more of a First Person shooter (Counter Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield Series, Call of Duty Series) and Real Time Stragety (Command and Conquer series) person. Fraging people and commanding armies are more my thing.
 
was wondering when/if CS would roar its ugly head
only game i ever became a junky of
still see it claims to be the #1 online game
 
World of warcraft addictive?

Lets see.
Been playing WOW for just over/almost 3 years.
First time i've logged on DP since WOTLK expansion at 12 on Thursday.
I have been on it practically over 16 hours a day so be getting very little sleep - its 3.23am when im writing this post and im still levelling =D
I am level 78 Mage with only 2 levels left to go - On Tuesday we plan to start raiding Nauxx. [Keep in mind it takes millions of XP to level from 70-80]
I told my BF he's getting no sex for the next month.

Oh and im planning to call in sick for work to continue playing.

Now im no expert but i think im addicted :p

I wish I had that kind of time to put in...I wouldn't log off till I was lvl80....but alas, I'm a lowly lvl72 :2razz:

And where the hell are those Nexus Drakes anyway?
 
I wish I had that kind of time to put in...I wouldn't log off till I was lvl80....but alas, I'm a lowly lvl72 :2razz:

Pfff, play a Private Server. You'll be level 80 when you choose to be :p
 
Pfff, play a Private Server. You'll be level 80 when you choose to be :p

You know if I had asurence that I could move back to Doomhammer, I'd move to Frizcrank in a second.
 
I wish I had that kind of time to put in...I wouldn't log off till I was lvl80....but alas, I'm a lowly lvl72 :2razz:

And where the hell are those Nexus Drakes anyway?

Can't wait to hit 80 and see the new BG's.

Aw bless, 72. I hit that within the first 8/9 hours of the games release :D
What quest? You in Borean Tundra?
 
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I prefer Age of Conan. WoW's PVP sucks. :)

WoW pvp used to be fun. Back when you fought in contested zones and not in sanctioned dueling areas lol.

But if it's PvP you're after Lineage II, WAR, EQII, all imo WAY better pvp than age of conan.
 
I put a lot of time into that game back when I was going for rank 14 in the pre-BC Xpac days. It was crazy! Our battleground groups would run from 6pm to 3am on weeknights, all day and all night on weekends. I got no sleep for like 3 months. But at least I got that sweet staff and the snazzy "High Warlord" title!

I retired for good in early '08. The three and a half years I played the game were a ton of fun.
 
Can't wait to hit 80 and see the new BG's.

Aw bless, 72. I hit that within the first 8/9 hours of the games release :D
What quest? You in Borean Tundra?

Geez it took me 10 hours to get to lvl71 :(....and I have Questhelper and everything.

I've cleared the Tundra...it's the aria where Nexis is...I don't recall the name..

And yes, I'm one of those folks who forked over some gold to get a port to Dalanar. Have you seen the 3 person mammoth mount for 20K? It looks awesome. If there were ever insperation to buy gold, that's it, imo.

You know your convincing me to move to a new server so I can get quests don...but Doomhammer is locked...and I wouldn't be able to get back for a long time...
 
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Geez it took me 10 hours to get to lvl71 :(....and I have Questhelper and everything.

I've cleared the Tundra...it's the aria where Nexis is...I don't recall the name..

And yes, I'm one of those folks who forked over some gold to get a port to Dalanar. Have you seen the 3 person mammoth mount for 20K? It looks awesome. If there were ever insperation to buy gold, that's it, imo.

You know your convincing me to move to a new server so I can get quests don...but Doomhammer is locked...and I wouldn't be able to get back for a long time...

Almost 79 =D
So damn close to 80 i can taste it lmao

Bloody hell 10 hours for one level?? What HAVE you been doing with your time!

Im a mage, i can teleport and port to dalanar and it only costs me a few silver xD

Im in Silvermoon, a nice normal server. I dislike PVP servers.
If i ding 80 by tomorrow or Tuesday then i can level my DK to 80.

If you think im obsessed with WOW.
A guild in my realm has all levelled to 80 yesterday; started raiding and took down a boss in Nexus and has DK's that is higher level than me!
I started at 70, the Death knights start at 55!
 
Almost 79 =D
So damn close to 80 i can taste it lmao

Bloody hell 10 hours for one level?? What HAVE you been doing with your time!

Im a mage, i can teleport and port to dalanar and it only costs me a few silver xD

Im in Silvermoon, a nice normal server. I dislike PVP servers.
If i ding 80 by tomorrow or Tuesday then i can level my DK to 80.

If you think im obsessed with WOW.
A guild in my realm has all levelled to 80 yesterday; started raiding and took down a boss in Nexus and has DK's that is higher level than me!
I started at 70, the Death knights start at 55!

Tell me about your guild. Think you could hook me up if I move?
 
Tell me about your guild. Think you could hook me up if I move?

My guild is a raiding one - so far we are levelling to 80 by Tuesday so we can start the raiding.
We cleared BT pre WOTLK and alot of members had full tier 6. My GM is veryyy demanding - if you have a life; do not join lol

No idea but the more pressing issue is don't you play on US WOW not EU?
 
My guild is a raiding one - so far we are levelling to 80 by Tuesday so we can start the raiding.
We cleared BT pre WOTLK and alot of members had full tier 6. My GM is veryyy demanding - if you have a life; do not join lol

No idea but the more pressing issue is don't you play on US WOW not EU?

Doomhammer, which I just got disconected from :( is a US server.
 
I feel your pain. I used to play on Crushridge, which we dubbed 'Crashridge'. It was well-deserving of it's name!
 
Doomhammer, which I just got disconected from :( is a US server.

Ouch.
US servers suck- all the best guilds are in EU o_O
Asia WOW is just nuts, lets just ignore them lol
 
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On the brighter side, some WoW friends of mine and I are looking to transfer servers as a group. After looking up the info, the server which is available for us to transfer to is relatively unpopulated, does not have any toons with our names (which means we won't have to select new names if we transfer), and doesn't have our desired guild name either.

All I need now if for the others to grow a pair and commit to the move. It's free (one way...$25 to get back), but they just want assurance that everyone else will be transferring also. They don't want to disconnect from our lil social circle.
 
Dinged 80 last night Jerry - Thought i might share that lol
 
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