@Captain_Caveman

Watch the video then leave the cave.

*quality catharsis

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Crake.

Sometimes you need that extra push to walk away. Faced it only once (SWG) which required me to delete a toon to sever the connection once and for all, and since then I've been able to walk away from a MMO when the fun ends.

Helps to have a wife who kicks your ass for playing too much though... ; )

I'm was just about to reactivate my account. Hmm.

If you have to make a big deal out of it like this, then you're in love with the game and being proud of quitting is just perverse. I've played half a dozen MMOs and it wasn't a big deal when I stopped any of them. That's the norm for the majority of people. What the guy should be dealing with is his addictive personality, not blaming his problem on one single game.

@ex-jedi : Don't do it!!!!

My account is collecting dust as we speak (I quit before the battle.net integration, even), and I'm not even tempted to go back.

All those wasted hours.... bleh

If you have to make a big deal out of it like this, then you're in love with the drink and being proud of quitting is just perverse. I've drunk half a dozen alcoholic beverages and it wasn't a big deal when I stopped drinking any of them. That's the norm for the majority of people. What the guy should be dealing with is his addictive personality, not blaming his problem on a single chemical.

I really don't get this. A guy with 14 YouTube subs, hasn't put out a video in 4 months, posts this absolute tripe and gets 30k views. His previous vids only have 300.

Perhaps it is off the back of this Blizzard Real ID debacle but honestly the video can be described in one sentence and still have the same impact as watching the clip; "Guy deletes WoW characters." Hell he could've simply hacked someones account and frapsed himself deleting the characters off it.

I don't consider myself a downvoter. I feel people are entitled to their likes, dislikes, opinions and interests no matter how asinine. However I would for this.

Yup these videos are dumb. You can always just ask blizzard and they will restore all your characters and all their gear, even after quitting for years.

24,000 hours is not 100 days. In fact, if he only played wow for 100 days, I'd say he's doing better than most.

Played from mid 2005 to mid 2009. Quit cold turkey and was off the WoW-sauce because I wanted to see what the world was like outside of the game from all the admonishment I received for playing WoW and being a family man.

I didn't delete my characters (some people need to do that, I guess...but I wasn't going to toss all that time into the garbage), however, I deleted all my links to wow pages and refused to visit any forums, armories, etc of various friends that played.

I was done with it.

Well, a year later...nothing really changed. Still spend the same amount of time doing other hobbies, with kids, etc. I just have a lot more "downtime" that WoW filled up in which I find myself pressing to keep myself entertained. I've picked up new hobbies, dropped some old ones, etc.

In retrospec, I don't think I was addicted to the game more than I actually liked playing it. It basically filled all the requirements I needed in terms of virtual entertainment for me as I'd played numerous other games, tinkered with a couple of other MMO's, but nothing held my attention more than a few days.

Not that I want to spend another 4 years devoted to this game, but I'll likely sign back up for the next expansion out of sheer curiosity of the changes and sign out when I felt I've seen enough. When addiction isn't a factor, walking away from something isn't that much of a struggle.

Pssshhh... he had 1 level 80 character and one 74... this guy was hardly addicted. I know people who have upwards of 10 or so level 80s... THAT'S addiction to wow.

^^^
This video is so fail because I've seen similar ones before and I think I am in an appropriate position to criticize this person because they are not special and it's my duty to point that out. I ignore the fact that this person has dropped an addictive and destructive habit, and choose only to criticize the creator of the video for having a problem in the first place. What a jerk loser. I wouldn't want to be his friend, because I am obviously not a jerk loser, which I have just demonstrated to you by belittling the man in the video. That is all.

@demon_ix

I'm only a casual gamer really, I'll be fine. Right, my door is nailed shut, portaloo is primed and the pot noodle cupboard is stocked. See you in 2011.

Meh. I'll admit to having played a lot more WoW than probably any other game, I've got a full rack of 70-80s and know what? I really don't play that much. I raid for a few hours 3 days a week, and occasionally log on to toddle around on an alt. You'd be surprised how much you can get accomplished over the course of a year or so of casual play if you just stick to one server. In BC I would have admitted to a slight addiction, though it never kept me from work or hanging with friends.

Playing a lot doesn't mean your addicted, many activities ask for just as much if not more of an investment of time. There's a stigma attached to spending a large sum of time on WoW or an MMO in general that I've never understood, yet few people blink an eye at folks who spend just as much time say, scuba diving, hiking, camping, hell even fishing. Do you enjoy those activities? Great. Many don't, and prefer to spend it elsewhere. Did you accomplish anything more on your hike or fishing trip as opposed to the guy who spent an equal amount of time in WoW chatting in guild and leveling up his fishing? As long as both individuals get the same amount of satisfaction out of the leisure time spent, who is to judge what the activity was?

Psshft... Alliance. Good riddance!

@Throbbin

No one has 'belittled the man' or 'criticized the person'. The only criticism is about the video and the only belittling is the blanket statement at the end of the video. Stop projecting.

I play WoW casually most of the time. Every once in awhile when I have time I get all hard core and raid. I've never had to quit just outright...sometimes I don't log on for months. I come back though when I feel like it because it's still fun for me. I understand some people in controls their lives but I don't know how it did that to this guy.

I mean LOOK a this NOOB! His characters Suck! I'd delete them if I was that sad!

wtf with "god bless America"?
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I quit, but before I did I tallied all the time on all my characters that were above level 10. Didn't delete them, but I'm not playing (or paying) anymore.

saccharin - 117 days, 11 hours, 11 minutes
olaaj - 2 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes
akamdunga - 1 hours, 57 minutes
cuecue - 5 days, 15 hours, 44 minutes
menamuna - 1 day, 20 hours, 59 minutes
dwinny - 1 day, 6 hours, 45 minutes
heilender - 9 hours, 48 minutes
alkabamahma - 2 days, 9 hours, 59 minutes
saccbank - 17 hours, 3 minutes
cuecue 1 day, 18 hours, 14 minutes
usiku - 16 days, 10 hours, 20 minutes
manarae - 3 days, 14 hours, 4 minutes
sauce - 11 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes
pregnancy - 1 day, 15 hours, 29 minutes
shysty - 18 hours, 11 minutes
unavailable - 9 hours, 8 minutes
phala - 4 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes
luul - 3 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes
nirahccas - 7 hours, 21 minutes
sacked - 13 days, 13 hours, 15 minutes
emulsifier - 20 days, 14 hours, 42 minutes

so.. total

days: 117 + 2 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 2 +1 +16+3+11+1+4+3+13+20 = 200. heh!
hours: 11+3+1+15+20+6+9+9+17+18+10+14+13+15+18+9+2+15+7+13+14 = 239 hours
minutes: 11+5+57+44+59+45+48+59+3+14+20+4+42+29+11+8+19+34+21+15+42 = 590 minutes

590/60 = 9.83, so 9 hours, and 50 minutes

239+9 = 248/24 = 10.333, so 10 days, 8 hours

210 days, 8 hours, 50 minutes.

Downvote for the scammy link embedded in the video, for the melodrama of the entire situation, and for the sincere claim that the game is some kind of synthetic, life wrecking drug. Seriously, if some old senator were making that claim on the floor of congress you'd all be raising hell about how alarmist it was.

WoW is actually pretty good as far as discouraging endless grinding. It also makes sure that you can never benefit in game from paying money. If you want to talk about a sleazy game, think about Farmville, where every game play mechanic is designed to get at your wallet as frequently as possible.

The first step is admitting you have a problem...

Well this guy is an idiot. I made the same mistake when I quit Diablo 2 a few years ago. I gave away all my gear (hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth) instead of selling it on eBay like I should have to actulaly gain some money off of my efforts in playing the game.

He'll realize this soon enough as well.

Wow, great. Yeah, so you quit so you could back to watching Dexter for 5 hours a day, or buying tons of Xbox 360 games and playing them 5 hours everyday. Shit, you may have even gone back to doing straight up junk 12 hours a day... or drinking 24 packs of pabst in five hours everyday. Maybe you went back to "trying" to make beats and being the next DJ Premiere smoking hellsa doobs in the process. Maybe you went back to kissing your girl and wasting time watching "Sex in the City" with her annoying assed friends. Maybe you stopped because you got a new job which requires you to waste 2 god damn hours each way on the LA freeway. We all waste chunks of time; face it.

WoW is a great game - great graphics/art, great sound, great mechanics, great community - take it with a grain of salt- hell man, I play in an experimental noise band, take drugs with my friends on the weekends, fuck random girls every once in a while, play WoW maybe a hour or two a day. But we all have hobbies and a lot of our hobbies are a complete waste of time. So, yeah, quit WoW and have fun with your other fun yet pointless hobbies. You only live once so you better have as much fun as you possibly can and well - there is just no way for me to say that WoW is not pointless, time-wasting... and a huge amount of fun.

Yeah since when are there 240 hours in a day? That would be awesome! I could get so much more done...

I get your point, and it's not my intention to take away from it with this tiny knit-pick...

But "great community"? I do hope you're kidding.

Take the most annoying youtube/break.com trolls and throw them all on a server together. Then listen to them spam the chat channels with insults towards lesser-geared players. Great community... riiiiiiight... I've played online games with fantastic, helpful, genuinely kind communities, so it's not like they don't exist. WoW is just the furthest from it that I've ever experienced.


But to make my comment relevant to the main point of this video... I quit months ago. I had 5 decently geared level 80s and enjoyed my time with the game for the most part. But I'm never going back. Had I known the deletion of my characters would've made me a one-hit wonder internet celebrity, I'd have recorded me unsubscribing, but it honestly wasn't that big of a deal to me. This guy was obviously in love with this game, which does happen to some people. And if that's the case, this video is as depressing as someone recording themselves breaking up with their girlfriend. Except their girlfriend is a robot and he's the one crying. Or something. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this...

I'll never play another MMO again!

...Until Star Wars: The New Republic comes out. I'll have to warn my loved ones beforehand. /endrant
>> ^shagen454:

Wow, great. Yeah, so you quit so you could back to watching Dexter for 5 hours a day, or buying tons of Xbox 360 games and playing them 5 hours everyday. Shit, you may have even gone back to doing straight up junk 12 hours a day... or drinking 24 packs of pabst in five hours everyday. Maybe you went back to "trying" to make beats and being the next DJ Premiere smoking hellsa doobs in the process. Maybe you went back to kissing your girl and wasting time watching "Sex in the City" with her annoying assed friends. Maybe you stopped because you got a new job which requires you to waste 2 god damn hours each way on the LA freeway. We all waste chunks of time; face it.
WoW is a great game - great graphics/art, great sound, great mechanics, great community - take it with a grain of salt- hell man, I play in an experimental noise band, take drugs with my friends on the weekends, fuck random girls every once in a while, play WoW maybe a hour or two a day. But we all have hobbies and a lot of our hobbies are a complete waste of time. So, yeah, quit WoW and have fun with your other fun yet pointless hobbies. You only live once so you better have as much fun as you possibly can and well - there is just no way for me to say that WoW is not pointless, time-wasting... and a huge amount of fun.

>> ^Jinx:

If you have to make a big deal out of it like this, then you're in love with the drink and being proud of quitting is just perverse. I've drunk half a dozen alcoholic beverages and it wasn't a big deal when I stopped drinking any of them. That's the norm for the majority of people. What the guy should be dealing with is his addictive personality, not blaming his problem on a single chemical.


Except with alcohol you form an actual physical dependence on a substance. Excessive gaming is not considered an addiction by the American Psychological Association, mainly because of a lack of evidence that excessive gamers go through the same compulsions, cravings, and withdrawals that, for instance, a compulsive gambler goes through. The evidence is up for review in 2012, so we'll see if anything changes. I highly doubt it will though. "Addiction" in the technical sense of the term doesn't seem to apply here.

This WoW is like an epidemic. Listen to yourselves!!!

Your body needs sunlight!!!

graduate school must be like WoW.

I have a life and I look cool in WoW.