Cancelled WOW....

[Tyr-Sog]

Well, I finally realized that this game has been absorbing way to much of my real life causing problems. So I stripped my toons(lvl 60, 48, 46, 33) and gave the gold away, most being 175g(I just found a epic and it sold) to one noob, lol. Great game but just to much of a time sink. Deteted every character ,snapped each install disk and tossed them away.

I also deleted my toons for EQ2 and deleted the accounts.. I'm just done with MMO's in general. :D

[ChrisRay]

Never really agreed with the delete toons mentality. If you dont wish to play. Cancel your account. I've done it many times. Just shooting yourself in the foot if you ever decide to play again. Killing all your charactors isnt something you need to do if you're disciplined about it. Then again I've been playing these games for 7 years now so I know the drill. Hope you have more fun than you were having.

Me I see it as a shame because I find the MMORPG genre the entire reason I stick with PC gaming.

[Roliath]

damnit, should've gave me the discs!
I've been looking to get into WoW, well after my mobo gets back from an RMA

[Elderblaze]

I've learned over the years, like Chris, this is generally a baaad idea. Your gonna get nostalgic as hell in a few months, you may last 4-6 months but there's going to be a strong urge to return before long, and you may return anyways, and just start over. Sounds crazy but just wait.

[vampireuk]

I trashed my warrior before I cancelled my account so I never have a urge to return to Shadowsong EU because the server is full of stupid kids.

[lIqUID]

I swore I wasnt going to resubscribe to WOW simply because Blizzard sucks, but last week the bug hit me again. I ditched my 60 paladin (Frostwolf) though, and am leveling a 22 shaman on Crushridge.

[gram_vaz]

1. what does it say about your self discipline that you have to trash your characters so you'll never be tempted to go back? :p

2. dude! your gonna want to go back! just wait until the expansion pack comes out.

[Tyr-Sog]

Exactly, never in my life have I not had any selfcontrol when gaming. Beforehand I'd always set aside time for playing nightly, a couple of hours here and there, limit myself at the PC. I'd certainly never turn down a night out on the town. For whatever reason I lost that playing these style games(MMO). I went from being socialbly active to just sitting here lvl'ing and trying to obtain epic gear night after night, weekend after weekend. Wasting a vaction just playing these games. It's not unheard of, it's all to common. I feel for the kids playing these games, wasting their childhood away.
It's a forum of addiction and anyone saying that it can't happen is just fooling themsleves..

For me, the best solution was just what I did. Quit cold turkey. It's all to easy to just sign back up if you leave your toons intact.

[Tyr-Sog]

I trashed my warrior before I cancelled my account so I never have a urge to return to Shadowsong EU because the server is full of stupid kids.


The game is full of stupid kids, reguardless of server. lol

[Elderblaze]

Did you have a good time?
Was it cheap?
Was it safe?
What did you really miss?

Answer these questions, if you honestly came to the conclusion yourself that it was a waste of time and you got nothing from it fine. If you where preassured into this by peer preasure then i'd challenge you to rethink your choice.

If you have a family and responsibilities and people to take care of, im all for it. But if your a single person, do what you want with your free time and F**K all those that condemn you for it, what the hell do they know? I spend alot of time online and people are **always** giving me their two ****ing cents, co-workers, friends, my family accepts it, but hell they are the same way.

MMO's are cheap, safe, and enjoyable entertainment. No different, then watching a movie, listening to some music, or reading a book. People who can't understand that really piss me off.I've been playing these kind fo games for a very long time now, and im much more disciplined, I was always in such a damn hurry to get things done, and I guess over the years I've come to realize there's just no hurry, I still play and enjoy them, and I still do get excited playing them, but I can stop anytime I want, and somtimes for weeks or even months at a time, but I always know i'll be back sooner or later. I used to be a very heavy player though, spending 8 hours a day on them in my highschool and post highschool years. What did I miss really? For all I know mmo's saved my life, it only takes one nite with a roudy group of friends and a few to many drinks to end it all. I have no regrets. You may not agree with me at all right now, perhaps never, but I think you eventually will. I wish you well and don't be so hard on yourself.

Regards,
Mike

P.s just because you'd have to start over won't negate your temptation btw, i speak from experiance.

[Scorpiuscat]

I did almost the same thing with Star Wars.

I gave away over 4 million in credits to noobs and my house with all my stuff inside.

But I still have the disks.

[Tyr-Sog]

Did you have a good time?
Was it cheap?
Was it safe?
What did you really miss?

Answer these questions, if you honestly came to the conclusion yourself that it was a waste of time and you got nothing from it fine. If you where preassured into this by peer preasure then i'd challenge you to rethink your choice.

If you have a family and responsibilities and people to take care of, im all for it. But if your a single person, do what you want with your free time and F**K all those that condemn you for it, what the hell do they know? I spend alot of time online and people are **always** giving me their two ****ing cents, co-workers, friends, my family accepts it, but hell they are the same way.

MMO's are cheap, safe, and enjoyable entertainment. No different, then watching a movie, listening to some music, or reading a book. People who can't understand that really piss me off.I've been playing these kind fo games for a very long time now, and im much more disciplined, I was always in such a damn hurry to get things done, and I guess over the years I've come to realize there's just no hurry, I still play and enjoy them, and I still do get excited playing them, but I can stop anytime I want, and somtimes for weeks or even months at a time, but I always know i'll be back sooner or later. I used to be a very heavy player though, spending 8 hours a day on them in my highschool and post highschool years. What did I miss really? For all I know mmo's saved my life, it only takes one nite with a roudy group of friends and a few to many drinks to end it all. I have no regrets. You may not agree with me at all right now, perhaps never, but I think you eventually will. I wish you well and don't be so hard on yourself.

Regards,
Mike

P.s just because you'd have to start over won't negate your temptation btw, i speak from experiance.


Nah, no one pressured me, in fact my fiance said, "you did, why? you like that game, I didn't think you were addicted". when I told her...lol. Mind you EQ2 and WOW are my first to MMO's so maybe I'm a noob and the funness/addictabilty caught me by surprised. I just seen a change in my lifestyle and it started to affect me personally and physically(packed on a couple pounds). So in short I needed to quit playing and start going out more. Again my solution being an avid gamer and really liking these games was just to get out completely. Even if i tried to moderate myself playing it's just way to easy to sit down, get invovled in a instance and let the night go by.

I'm by no means giving up gaming, just the games that require the time sink.
:)

[ChrisRay]

All games are a time sink Tyr Sog. In the same way that watching a movie is. Its just whether you enjoy yourself playing them.

[Tyr-Sog]

I'm 30 years old, been playing video games since their main stream creation, not some kid who just discovered video games lol. All games arn't the time sink these games are. Theirs differences in sitting down and watching a movie a couple times of week then that in playing a game everynight and on the weekends. And even so, it's not healthy to stay home and just watch tv and listen to music every night. Yeah, you can limit that play but we all know that thats not going to happen with these mmos. They're designed for hours and hours of play at a single sitting. As you know just type /played, I dunno, something just doesn't sit right when you break down those days in to hours. Then thinking back about all those weekend nights/days I stayed in to get tio that next lvl or get that gear.

DOn't get me wrong, it was pretty tough to do, I had a ton of time sunk in to thoughs guys I deleted. btw, I'm not hear to change anyones mind, just here to share my opinion and to see if anyone has gone through the same issue.

[gram_vaz]

well i'm addicted and i admit it but i don't see anything bad with it. not like i have much of a life. my mom actually likes my mmo addiction because that insures i don't end up like my thuggish cousins roaming the streets all day.

currently i'm subscribed to city of heroes, WoW, ff11, phantasy star, and eve online. planning to add eq2 and neocron 2 to that list. that's not counting the free mmorpg games i play. i take turns playing the games each night. :D

[ChrisRay]

I'm 30 years old, been playing video games since their main stream creation, not some kid who just discovered video games lol. All games arn't the time sink these games are. Theirs differences in sitting down and watching a movie a couple times of week then that in playing a game everynight and on the weekends. And even so, it's not healthy to stay home and just watch tv and listen to music every night. Yeah, you can limit that play but we all know that thats not going to happen with these mmos. They're designed for hours and hours of play at a single sitting. As you know just type /played, I dunno, something just doesn't sit right when you break down those days in to hours. Then thinking back about all those weekend nights/days I stayed in to get tio that next lvl or get that gear.

DOn't get me wrong, it was pretty tough to do, I had a ton of time sunk in to thoughs guys I deleted. btw, I'm not hear to change anyones mind, just here to share my opinion and to see if anyone has gone through the same issue.


Cant say I agree with you here. You can play these games casually at the rate you described which is comparable to your example. People can play RTS like warcraft 3 for hours and hours on end. Or they can play one game a night on battle.net. Its the competitive nature of the person playing which tends to cause more time dedicated to it. Any game can be be just as addicting if you take it seriously enough.

[nVidi0t]

Is it so hard to balance game time and RL time? Self control man!!

[Arioch]

I also stopped playing WoW after leveling my second level 60th character and deciding the endgame grinding was not for me.

[Elderblaze]

That's a different reason the Arioch, Tyr was still enjoying the game's, by the sound of it, alot. And i've definatly gone through what you have Tyr, the first couple of years playing EQ it was all i could think about at work, at school, I'd daydream about it, I havent been that way in years though, the whole newness to it and huge scope of the world was facinating, not everyone is drawn in to this degree but I sure was. Like I said before I still very much enjoy them, but when I goto work they are not on my mind, when I go out with friends im not thinking about them anymore, I can play a Match of CS:S and it's the last thing on my mind, I too gained weight, but i've even got that under control now, just eat different and run 8-10 miles a week. I guess somewhere along the line I just decided to take it easy, and enjoy these games at my own pace, I accepted the fact that I will never have the time of the kidos and i will never be "Elite" I am however, extremly skilled and crafty, I can say with no ego, I've pulled off some pretty amazing stunts in these games(for example I was soloing OOW Instances the first week of expansion, getting runes alone with my 66 magician) though skill and determination alone. I have the heart of a champion but the time of an average man. lol Ok now im taking this to far, **Steps off soap box**

[Blacklash]

Most of the people I have known that swear off MMO's like this usually go back or simply kill time in a different fashion. Usually they replace it with watching TV.

If you were out of control and playing too much I am glad you quit and hope you do stay away. I have rarely seen anything good come out of that level of addiction.

[vampireuk]

The game is full of stupid kids, reguardless of server. lol

Yeah but when you are in a guild that tackles BWL and MC you would expect to be away from stupid kids, not on Shadowsong though.

[Arioch]

I also work night shift so MC-type raids are not available to me and I rather not spend all my weekend playing the game anymore. At least I now have no more excuses to get back into the gym again.

I am sure ES:Oblivion will get me back into long gaming sessions though.

[awpti]

I went through about a 6 month long addiction phase with Anarchy Online/EVE Online. Didn't really have to much of an effect on my normal lifestyle, but I did notice how often I thought about playing.

Eventually, I decided to quit playing AO and passed my account onto a close friend. I still play EVE, but I only log in for 2-3 hours a week, at the very most.

I also recently started playing World of Warcraft.. sort of fun game, but the Trial leaves much to be desired.. no chat, nor trading doesn't make for a good demonstration. Not sure if I'll stick with it.

Only thing I'm really waiting for now is TES: Oblivion - should keep me busy for a long time.

Deleting was probably a bit overkill, but hey.. to each his own.

[Marcos]

snapped each install disk


So what change did they make that you didnt agree with?

[Marcos]

currently i'm subscribed to city of heroes, WoW, ff11, phantasy star, and eve online. planning to add eq2 and neocron 2 to that list. that's not counting the free mmorpg games i play. i take turns playing the games each night. :D

thats bad dude.