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The biggest thing I learned from world of warcraft: If you quit wow and spend all of that time that you would have been playing WoW on other tasks, you can act
by anonjon 17y ago
The biggest thing I learned from world of warcraft:
If you quit wow and spend all of that time that you would have been playing WoW on other tasks, you can actually accomplish some pretty amazing stuff.
(Get in shape, become a hacker, learn music, get girls... pretty much anything.)
Grinding levels in WoW takes discipline.
Grinding levels in WoW can be a time investment similar to a second job.
You can literally waste YEARS of your life playing WoW.
If you have the energy and discipline to sit at a computer for 8 hours or whatever after you've done all of your daily stuff, you could just as easily be spending that time accomplishing something great or learning.
And you will have tangible rewards that you can take with you everywhere, not just bits on a server.
- patio11 17y agoBug report: I quit WoW and all I got was bits. Bits in SVN, bits in MySQL, etc...
- scorpioxy 17y agoHi everyone, my name is Alaa and I'm a recovering WOW-holic. I have been WOW free for about a year now. You're forgetting one thing though, the fun aspect. Working for 8-9 hours a day on a computer and then coming back home to work for another 4 is not the same as playing for another 4. Although the strategy thinking does take a lot of mental effort, it seems to use a different part of the brain. I agree about the time sink aspect though.
- roel_v 17y agoI played quite a lot for the last half year, until I got scared when I started looking at my /played and think about what I could have done in that time. With a double course load and a full time job coming up this semester, I knew I was going to be in trouble if I kept up the pace I had. In contrast to what many others say, I don't think cold turkey is necessary, but you do need some outside assistance - going at it by willpower alone is hard. I asked my girlfriend to set up the 'parental controls' functionality and set a hard limit of 4 hours a week. When your game time is up, you get kicked out. Clock is reset on Sunday night, so Monday evening is usually my game night, rest of the week I just check wow.com sometimes or do some occasional research on gear. You'll never get far in the game at this rate but if you get someone to check your gaming habits it's very doable to keep control over it.
- keefe 17y agoor just run your character up with a bot...