Thinking of getting WoW

[ChrizZ]

Ahh fvck it. Why risk my future because of a stupid game? I changed my mind. I´m not gonna buy it!

If you don´t have it you don´t miss it

Would anyone recommend me some other good games for the pc or wii?

 

[Shiftkey]

Ahh fvck it. Why risk my future because of a stupid game? I changed my mind. I´m not gonna buy it!

If you don´t have it you don´t miss it

Would anyone recommend me some other good games for the pc or wii?

NWN2 and Oblivion for PC. Gothic 3 is fun if you can handle the bugs and know how to tweek the settings right. Zelda for Wii. Two Worlds is coming out pretty soon for PC.
http://www.2-worlds.com/

 

[djbr]

A co-worker of mine actually just dumped her boyfriend of a year because he played too much WOW.

That should tell you something... he was so addicted he'd rather play WOW than get laid.

What about blaming the woman for a change?

She sounds like an HORRIBLE lay!!

 

[ExploringOne]

Ahh fvck it. Why risk my future because of a stupid game? I changed my mind. I´m not gonna buy it!

If you don´t have it you don´t miss it

Would anyone recommend me some other good games for the pc or wii?

Good choice. :rockon:

I reccomend Star Craft. It's old, but it's cheap, free online, only game i've been playing consistently (meaning once in a while) for the past 9 years.

 

[Shiftkey]

What about blaming the woman for a change?

She sounds like an HORRIBLE lay!!

For a change?? That's all you guys do here!

Pathetic.

 

[Wyldfire]

Before you get any kind of MMORPG you need to think seriously about it. For a lot of people, these kinds of games are highly addictive and takes over their lives. My 20 year old daughter and her boyfriend play Final Fantasy XI. I also play it sometimes, but get bored with it after a bit and then take a break from it. My daughter can go without it as well and mostly plays because she doesn't feel like she has anything else to kill time. Her boyfriend is all out addicted to the game, though. He lives with us and frankly, I'm extremely frustrated with the both of them over the damn game. If I didn't need the internet for school work I would cut off their connection to force them to do something more productive.

If you have the type of personality that would get so into the game that you would lose sight of your real life then I wouldn't get the game. If you can honestly say that you can play the game like I play FFXI...being able to turn it off and not let it interfere with your real life, then it should be alright...but you should limit yourself to a set amount of time each week to play and not let yourself play more than that...EVER.

 

[ChrizZ]

I´ve been playing Guild Wars and Diablo2:LoD for a long time. I really liked it, but I didn´t get addicted to it. However after a while it really bored me. I´ve been looking up some mmorpgs and I saw a review about Dark Age of Camelot which caught my eye. Does anybody own this game and do you have to pay a monthly fee to play it?

 

[Shiftkey]

DAoC is the same genre as WoW, but from a previous generation (like PS2 is to PS3). It can be just as addictive.

It has a monthly fee. Very few online games are free.

 

[djbr]

My brother just got a trial period for WoW and now he is glued on the chair. Can't leave the PC even to take a piss! :crackup:

 

[Eliza]

Well here's a girl's perspective on the whole thing... I dumped my boyfriend of 3 yrs over it. About 2 yrs into our relationship he started playing it and became so addicted. I would want to go do stuff like see movies and he would rather play. He even started to choose playing over getting some. He spent a ton of money on it, well into the thousands. Because of his work schedule he had a lot of chunks of time. There were times that he played for 10-12 hrs. I wouldn't start playing it if you get addicted to things easily. He seriously had/has no life, it all revolves around the game. Only when I said I thought it was over did he say he'd stop and that lasted 2 weeks.

 

[Warpath]

How did he spend thousands on WoW? Was he buying in-game items with actual money?

 

[Eliza]

How did he spend thousands on WoW? Was he buying in-game items with actual money?

At first it started with him buying gold with actual money. Then it moved on to paying people in another country to level his characters. Over the course of 7 months he had spent probably $1500. The thing that helped aid our breakup was him buying someones character off of ebay for $1200 and lying to me about it (he told me it cost $600 originally). After about 2 weeks the ACTUAL owner (not the person who sold it to him) of the account took it back and so he lost all of that money. He lied to me again by telling me that he sold it for $1600. Eventually the truth had come out. Now the thing is, I never asked. He would tell me this stuff like "guess what, I bought a new character" so it hurt me that he was lying to me when I wouldn't have been too upset since it was his money.

This game can bring out the worse in people, with him he was a great guy beforehand, he had stuff to talk about and he was very honest. Ever since he started playing all he talked about was WOW and spend his money on it. I told him I felt like it was as if he was cheating on me because he did all of the things with WOW that you would do with a new girlfriend.

 

[A-Unit]

Re:

^/agreed

Psychologists have opened centers for help for addicts of ALL mmo's. The main point of why/how people get addicted is the "reward" syndrome gambling addicts face. It's never ending. As long as the company and game exist, there will always be more. The difference is, there's no risk, just keep playing. In life, there's SOME risk. Emotional, financial, psychological, etc. In life, few people can try and do and then fail and try and do again. In a fantasy world, you can do it over and over until you're tired.

In the sense of video games, it's fun. But it's a time-drag, like anything else NOT being focused upon as your main core outlook in life.

In the sense of addiction, it can be addicting, as many articles and real world events notes.

It personally disgusts and depresses me that people get like that...so obsessed. That guys would ignore or dump gf's over it. That they have nothing else better to do than lvl characters in a fake world. I'd even lump Second Life into this category because it has even a more non-sensical way about it, and a more glaring and depressing name. "Second Life." When my buddy showed me that game with people banging IN-game, and told me it was real people playing their character's, I knew it'd be FUBAR. How would you feel if your wife/gf's/sister's character was virtually banging some dude. "Oh honey/brother/bf, it's only a game! I have to so I can get more X!"

The same can be said of ANY video games, but because of their nature, MMO's have an addictive feature built in. Play more, get richer, get more gear, beat more people, beat bigger bosses, etc. It's pathetic.

The lesson learned is life balance. Guys in the PUA community can be victim to the same mentality of addiction to reward, but sacrifice of soul. Sacrifice of life. If you play the game, there's no rush. If you don't, good. Fly a kite. Run. Play games. Do whatever you enjoy. Ala, Virtue of Selfishness.

Work hard, Play Hard.



A-Unit