Woes of Warcraft

Well, first of all get the name of their game right. Calling it "War of Warcraft" in front of them will just make them laugh and/or kick you out.

Deni's right on this one. Everyone I've known who got addicted to that level was pretty much a hopeless case. There isn't much you can do to get them to quit; it's something they have to do for themselves.

EDIT: I'll add in that I'm not trying to be overly cynical here either. I played WoW for a little over a year, and although it consumed all of my time that normally would've been spent on console gaming and such, it never went beyond that. I saw plenty of this, and people who let the game rule them are pathetic.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Cellius

Yeah I have a question; I hope it's valid here. How are Warcraft III and World of Warcraft different? Just yesterday I had to write a paper on Warcraft III, which required to me to play the game for a bit and I felt no pull or compulsion to keep playing. What's the addiction in World of Warcraft that's not present in Warcraft III?

World of Warcraft isn't a strategy game like the rest of the Warcraft series. It's your typical MMORPG where you create a character and wander around the world doing quests and such for items. Most people who get this addicted are into one of two things:

- The PvP rankings, which require you to put in an absurd amount of time to get more points than everyone else on your server if you ever want to reach the top. You slowly lose points if you go awhile without getting kills, and the equipment you're rewarded with at each tier becomes unusable if you drop below the necessary rank.

- Raiding the higher level dungeons/instances. One run takes several hours, plus all the organization and such that it takes.

Thankfully I never cared about either of those things.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by DarthSavior

I have some friends who are addicted to an MMO called Called Dark Ages of Camelot. For like 4 years, they've been playing it constantly, and I just never caught on. They've used the "it's fun, why don't you join us, and we can contact each other a lot more!" gig on me, but I prefer consoles, and of course I have a job and school to deal with.

They're not the types who are jobless, though. And occasionally we all hang out once in a while. they do tend to talk about their progress in the game and crap, which I just phase out. Thankfully there's another friend who comes along, and so I'm not drowned in MMO talk constantly. If I were to call em all out to hang out, they'd oblige willingly (barring any family circumstances, they've never used the "can't. Got a raid tonight" line on me so far).

Oh, and I have other friends aside from them as well, so it's not like I'm feeling lonely.

So yeah, long story short: Your MMO-addicted friends are hopeless. Find some new friends.

Haha, that sounds more like the friends who caused me to forever hate Starcraft and Diablo than MMO addicts. Constant badgering to play and hours of ranting about strategies, campaigns, stats, etc. The Diablo talk wasn't so bad, but these days I just walk off if a Starcraft conversation starts up.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.