Quote Originally Posted by Secura View Post
I can speak from experience on this one; I got into playing WoW shortly after it's European release, which would have been in February 2005. I played on and off through the vanilla game, got into the whole 40-man raiding thing, killing pretty much anything at the time (Rogues were pretty strong :P).

Anyway, I played the game on-and-off for three years until the end of Burning Crusade, where I committed properly to the game, bought Lich King and all that jazz. I was having a bad time in real life, and Azeroth was quite the escape. It eventually got to a point where I was logging on for social interaction because things were so rubbish outisde the game... it was essentially an addiction.

In the December just gone, finally decided that I'd have enough after nearly five years of playing the darn thing; cancelled my subscription, deleted screenshots and addons, removed WoW-related bookmarks, uninstalled the game (18GB of my harddrive back <3)... completely purged of it.

I still keep in touch with people from the game over Facebook, though I have to decline their requests that I come back and tank... it was really difficult to stop playing, and I'm glad I took the leap to do so. It was probably harder than quitting cigarettes for me. :/
Damn girl you crazie!