This seems like more of a problem then before.

[Mooks]

Everyone has heard about it, how WOW (World of Warcraft) is so incredibly addicting that people lose boyfriends/house/job for it. But today I heard about it face to face and not from somebody over the internet.

This guy walked into my Cisco Networking class because he was a former student there. Then he gives a speech which my teacher requested. He goes on a 15 minute speech discussing how WOW completely destroyed 2 years of college for him. How he was so terribly addicted to the game he didnt care about his girlfriend or his studies. How he spent 15 hours on the game sometimes, and even had a calender set out for special events (Raids or something like that) on WOW. Then he warned us vigorously to limit our gaming time to not everyday, and never get into WOW.

In the middle of his speech I remember something vaguely familiar with it. Then it hit me. My 5th grade class once had a DARE intervention. Basically a couple or more speakers come in and speak to us about the dangers of drugs. One of them was a ex-crackhead (Or still is, my buddy there swore he saw the guy smoking out of a pipe but thats beside the point). The guy spoke about the same length of time about crack cocaine and how its addicting and it destroyed his life and you should never touch the stuff. How it destroyed his home and fiance etc etc.

World of Warcraft ....and crack. Same results. Discuss.

[Crazed Rabbit]

In before the "Away to the backroom" post from Lemur.

Anyways, I guess the important thing is to control and moderate your activities.

Though I think crack is more damaging than WoW for most people.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I'm no psychologist, but I don't think people get addicted to drugs or obsessed with a game if everything else is peachy. Seems like you'd have to be dissatisfied with regular life.

[Lemur]

In before the "Away to the backroom" post from Lemur.

Hmm, the topic is not obviously political or religious, so I don't see why it needs to be banished to the hinterlands. It can stay.

[Mooks]

Subotan, its un-american to be sarcastic. Keep that in mind, comrade.

Secura, its a myth that theirs womenz on the internet. Stop propagating these obvious lies.

The real funny thing about the speaker though, is that it was completely random. I could tell it was from the heart too. My teacher was NOT expecting something like that, he meant give some advice for college or something.The whole class was stunned, didnt even ask a question. Afterwards I told a friend on the bus ride back home about the experiance, and he said hes making some serios dough off of nerds like him. He and 2 of his mates set up a private server and charge people 300$ for the best armour and people flock to him because its usually 400-500$. All he had to do is type in some stuff on his computer to produce the armour. Besides the server costs and game fee's his team has over 8,000$ in profits already.

[Secura]

Secura, its a myth that theirs womenz on the internet. Stop propagating these obvious lies.

Yeah, yeah, we're all FBI agents trying to catch you by hook or crook... xD

The real funny thing about the speaker though, is that it was completely random. I could tell it was from the heart too. My teacher was NOT expecting something like that, he meant give some advice for college or something.The whole class was stunned, didnt even ask a question. Afterwards I told a friend on the bus ride back home about the experiance, and he said hes making some serios dough off of nerds like him. He and 2 of his mates set up a private server and charge people 300$ for the best armour and people flock to him because its usually 400-500$. All he had to do is type in some stuff on his computer to produce the armour. Besides the server costs and game fee's his team has over 8,000$ in profits already.

Isn't this against Activision-Blizzard's terms & conditions? In fact, isn't it plain illegal? o_o

[Mooks]

Yeah, yeah, we're all FBI agents trying to catch you by hook or crook... xD



Isn't this against Activision-Blizzard's terms & conditions? In fact, isn't it plain illegal? o_o

Most likely it is. Its a hell of alot better way to pay for college then my idea though.

[Subotan]

Subotan, its un-american to be sarcastic. Keep that in mind, comrade.

Touché

[Subotan]

Since Blizzard is an American company, an addiction to World of Warcraft is clearly a patriotic addiction, and every man, woman and nerd's duty to their country and their economy. Unlike crack gangs of course, which are run by dirty Mexicans, and therefore anti-American.

[Scienter]

Drugs can be both physically and psychologically addictive (i.e. heroin withdrawal, booze dt). So, I think they're worse than WoW, which is just psychological. I don't think I've heard of a case where someone stole or pawned their stuff to pay for their next month of WoW.

[The Stranger]

im sure there are cases in which that happened :P

but youre right, its only psycologically addictive, so atleast less damaging for the body. and once you are over your addiction there is no damage but the time you left unspend on stuff you now think you should have spent it on. such as school and getting laid. and booze... and drugs... so the cycle starts over!

[CountArach]

This may sound strange but I know not one, but two girls, with an addiction to WoW!

[Rhyfelwyr]

I used to pay M2TW for about 12 hours a day.

But I wasn't addicted, I could have stopped any time I wanted to.

It's the cliche, but I mean it (I think).

[Thermal]

World of Warcraft ....and crack. Same results. Discuss.

Well games simulate parts of your brain which makes people obsessed with them, similarly to drugs, there aren't all that many differences, I would agree.

I would also go along with what Beskar says, that people enjoy being able to interact with others without being judged, whether that be on a game or chatting online.