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- Kronich, on 03/02/2009, -2/+59I know a few people who will literally stay up all night playing and then go to work/uni absolutely shattered, only to repeat it the next night... I have an addictive personality so haven't gone near WOW..
- chickypeas, on 03/02/2009, -4/+57If people weren't addicted to WOW they'd be addicted to some other game.
- eatsushi, on 03/03/2009, -3/+51LEEERROOOOOOY JENKINS!
- dlusion, on 03/02/2009, -2/+39And it doesn't get all over your nose like cocaine!
- pwner, on 03/03/2009, -6/+31This is stupid. I used to play WOW a lot, I had several high level characters, epic flying mounts, tier items and high ranking arena ratings. I stopped playing a few months ago because I found the game to be boring. Since then, I haven't woken up in a cold sweat or found myself shaking, and I strongly doubt anyone else has. These are the same people that would sue McDonald's because they think a Big Mac is addictive.
I will say this though, WOW is a great value for 15 bucks a month. That's the price of two movie tickets. - inactive, on 03/03/2009, -1/+26Everquest was first called Evercrack, WoW is only being mentioned because it "mainstream" i mean MMO are not the only games people can be addicted too, i saw guys playing counter-strike 5 tp 7 hours a day.
Btw it not the game the problem but people playing it. - Akairenn, on 03/03/2009, -0/+19Dugg because you speak the truth. WoW is hardly anything new.
But for the reference - lol Evercrack. UO had that effect. Neverwinter Nights (the *original* - not the Atari/BioWare one) had it before then. Going back further, text based MUDs existed with plenty of players whose total time invested measured in years. (/played didn't originate from EQ or any graphical MMO :p)
Oh noes - people are 'addicted' to 'fun'. This is news! - redmannine, on 03/03/2009, -2/+20this is old news. Everyone already knows WoW is like crack.
- mwrl, on 03/03/2009, -6/+21WoW is just a well designed game is all. People that would be hooked to it would be hooked to any good game. It isn't as time consuming as other MMORPG. No other MMORPG has been able to capture the players of WoW. Want to see addiction.... wait till Starcraft 2 comes out.
- Haoie, on 03/02/2009, -1/+16They said the same thing for Everquest, some years back.
- richgustavson, on 03/02/2009, -1/+15My former college roommate used to pop amphetamine-based ADHD pills (I forget which one specifically) just so he could stay awake longer to play WoW. Now he's a play-tester for Turbine, go figure.
- lazyslacker, on 03/03/2009, -0/+13I played WoW for about 4 months, but I just couldn't get into it like other people seem to be able to. Eventually I just stopped. It wasn't that entertaining to me. I tried to pick it back up last summer because my friends were playing it but I only lasted 2 months. There's no addiction for me. But then, I don't have an addictive personality at all.
- zeeistheman, on 03/03/2009, -1/+14"Have you ever sucked d*ck for WOW?"
- jsmith212600, on 03/03/2009, -0/+12Raidz Before Gradez!!!!
- ripple123, on 03/03/2009, -3/+14i tend to automatically bury you
- orville1151, on 03/03/2009, -0/+9Or just maybe you haven't found your addiction. Yet.
- Lorddias, on 03/03/2009, -3/+11WoW + Controversy = Front page on Digg. Every, single, time. C'mon people we know MMO's are addicting, we know WoW is an easy target because it is mainstream. Do we really need to see this stuff on Digg constantly over and over?
- mjrpes, on 03/03/2009, -1/+9Maybe it's a survival skill. Centuries back, if you worked the land and farmed, you might have been better off with an addictive personality.
Think about it. You have to continually till the earth and watch over it, planting seeds (NEW TOON), waiting for something to pop out of the ground (OMG LVL), most of which would die because there wasn't any modern agriculture, compulsively watching over these little plants and helping them grow (GRINDING) as they sprout up (YAY XP), and finally feeling intense gratification when you dig up some little crappy potato that you can feed your poor miserable family with (I GOT MY CLOUDSONG).
And to top it off, you get to do the exact same ***** thing over and over again... until you die.
Seems like the perfect sort of personality that would crave MMORPGs. - dlan4327, on 03/03/2009, -1/+9"Oh God he's just gone in."
"GOD DAMMIT Leroy!" - FTWmovin2canada, on 03/03/2009, -0/+8Yeah but was it t6 or t7 gear?
/s - MacEnvy, on 03/03/2009, -0/+7The worst thing about getting addicted to EVE is that you're both addicted and bored at the same time. At least with heroin you have brief periods of bliss. In EVE you're basically addicted to watching a picture of a spaceship mining feldspar for hours at a time.
- p4r4d0x, on 03/03/2009, -0/+7The problem with players who get addicted is they make time at the expense of real-life, and that's where the problems start.
And your achievement is hollow anyway - reaching maximum level isn't a display of skill no matter how you slice it, rather a display of excessive free time. - pagit, on 03/02/2009, -3/+10WOW, EQ. UO, what's the next addcitive MMORPG?
-can't wait - SpectralSounds, on 03/02/2009, -1/+7I used to do the same thing back in the day with Ultima Online. PKing was a very addictive rush for me. I finally decided to quit and haven't gotten caught up in any MMORPGs since then.
- AmyVernon, on 03/02/2009, -2/+8Wow, you're right. And I know her, too. Absolutely didn't come up in the dupe check. Yeesh. I'll admit a couple versions that were at 22 hours or so with only a couple of diggs did, but nothing more recent and certainly nothing that'd popped. Thx.
- RUFiO006, on 03/03/2009, -1/+7_ADDICTIVE ADDICTIVE ADDICTIVE_
Not ***** ADDICTING.
Dammit man. - Archer007, on 03/03/2009, -1/+7"At least I have chicken"
- Tarantulus, on 03/03/2009, -4/+10oh for crying out loud, you people are pathetic, really.
"addictive personality" is just pussy-speak for NO WILLPOWER. seriously, I play wow, maybe, once/twice a week, I have an active social life and other hobbies, if you ruin your life spending all the hours of the day on a game, you don't deserve "help" or "pity" just a smack upside the head - Crimsoneer, on 03/03/2009, -0/+6Orville might be right...I played WoW for months barely doing anything, then I got into a hardcore raiding guild, and 6 months of my life pretty much disappeared!
- smashhell, on 03/03/2009, -1/+7@Misinformant
I am sorry to say this but, when have Blizzard made a game that is disappointing ? When have Blizzard made a Bad game ?
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Thats right, never ! not even once. - sougly, on 03/03/2009, -0/+6My cousin dropped out of Yale over MUDs.
- HaileeVale, on 03/02/2009, -2/+7I know someone who really is pulled and kept into it too. It definitely has that "thing" about it. It seems however, that different people are pulled in by different things. Some people are addicted to certain television, some people are alcoholics, workaholics, craftaholics, sportaholics... the list goes on. What I'd like to know is "what" it is that causes people to continually go back to one thing to the exclusion of other things. I know it's because "it feels good", so we're talking about certain chemicals being produced in the brain.
- rentmitchum, on 03/03/2009, -6/+11So many people don't know the difference between crack cocaine and regular cocaine.. crack would not get all over your nose, but comparing videogames to drugs is sensationalist and idiotic by nature. Selling fear.. All addictions are a human problem, not something forced upon you by some evil substance/game/behavior..
Anything good can be addicting. People enjoy good things. That's somehow a problem in our society. Anything good can be addicting and anything addicting can be used responsibly. I think much of the hopeless addiction society faces is due to people having it pounded into their heads that they're going to be addicted. It's a form of the placebo effect. I personally don't believe nicotine is more addicting than other drugs. I can stop smoking any time I want. I can smoke 2 months then not smoke for a year. No stress while not smoking, nothing. The only drugs I think people should worry about are the ones with obvious terrible physical withdrawal symptoms, such as benzodiazapines, opiates and alcohol (and others)..
A good example of how something can be true just because we all think it is: I've read (and don't know a source without looking, and I'm currently editing with 2 minutes left to add some more to this comment) that while aspirin seems to have an effect at helping people during a heart attack in the US, that's not the case in the UK. Some study was done which seemed to show evidence of some massive societal placebo effect. I personally have theorized that with the strength of the subconscious mind over the laser-beam-like focus of the conscious attention, everyone around you pounding into your head growing up and in your whole society that something will get you hopelessly addicted, it could actually make it much worse than it is. - dustinjr1993, on 03/02/2009, -4/+9jenocide312 beat it to you buddy!
- sodoh, on 03/03/2009, -0/+5I agree. Most MMO's have addictive qualities. For some reason WOW do it very well. I would say because it is pretty immerse.
I found myself becoming addicted as well ("just 30 mins more... its 4am already?o_O").
Solved it by setting up the parental lock to what I feel is reasonable time to play and gave the password to change that to someone else. - RutgerB, on 03/03/2009, -0/+4Someone should make a 10 years of WoW use chart, just like was done for meth: http://www.macfanatic.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/ ...
- GoKings, on 03/03/2009, -6/+10Yeah but do people get the shakes, throw up, and have their brain chemistry forever altered like cocaine? I think not. People can quit whenever they want. Their body has no chemical addiction to it. It's not like any other drug.
- MiDri, on 03/03/2009, -0/+4A real ***** addict would have 1 of each spare computer part for just such an occasion, as well as a phone with 3g plan that can be tethered incase of internet outage and a backup generator... ***** n00bs.
- heucuva, on 03/03/2009, -4/+8WoW is more like the alcohol of gaming.
It looks and plays like crap the first time you play it and if you have an issue with addictive things, you end up playing it every night. Then, every day and through the night.
Sometimes, you might even call in sick (even though, socially and mentally, you might be, but physically, you're not) to school or work or what-have-you, just to play more of the game (gotta get that uber gear!). The entire time, you worry that you might be playing the game too much, but damnit, you think you're having fun, so it's ok.
It is, until you play so much that you end up as "That Guy" with his pants down around his ankles, wearing your drawers around your head (try figuring out the trajectories for that!), dancing to "Footloose" and shouting about how much you LOVE the bartender... even though he's totally a flamer... and that's OK. - alexm1309, on 03/03/2009, -2/+6Your ignorance with regards to addiction is astounding.
- 2Bnor2B, on 03/03/2009, -0/+4"I personally know I could stop smoking any time I want."
One of the key symptoms of an addiction is the belief of the individual that they are in control and don't have a problem. - Misinformant, on 03/03/2009, -1/+5It's fun watching the addicts take a break from their binges to defend their one true love.
How sweet. - oboshoe, on 03/03/2009, -1/+5Which is ironic since crack is just an expansion pack to cocaine.
- rentmitchum, on 03/03/2009, -1/+5No one gives a 'christ'? What the *****? If you can't make a reasonable point then why bother posting.
Let me guess, you're one of those claiming hopeless addiction so people won't look down on you for one of your habits? That or you're just really really insecure, so anyone who just wants to have a good discussion instead of participating in the digg comedy contest in the comments is an "attention whore"..
You know what, I don't give a christ. - Darkicewolf, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3you know now that you mention it.. your right, I can not recall one bad blizzard game. Well that what you get for have incredible Q&A and only deving 1 or 2 games every year if that.
- FordSVT1, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3I play a lot, but my friend has been playing WoW for 40-50 hours a week for the past three years. Somehow I doubt you'll be saying the same thing about either of those games.
- vertigo32, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3Have you ever seen a hardcore WoW player whose internet goes down when they have a raid scheduled? They get the same physical symptoms as an addict who can't get their fix. One of my roomates who played EQ in college drove three hours to replace his PSU in the middle of the night - with a final the next day.
- perfectsilence, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3I played for about a month and gave up. I can see being a high level character could be fun, but the amount of time you have to put in for that is insane. if you have hundreds of hours to play video games, do you want to spend all that on one game?
- WoollyMittens, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3They confuse correlation with causality... AGAIN.
Over ten million people play that game, it's bound to come up in problem cases more than the average game. - m3arvk, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3This was on Digg like two days ago wasn't it?
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