Raige, are you quoting someone? I really can't tell.


Oh gawd, how I miss Asheron's Call.

8/23/2006 9:46:03 PM

I love killing threads.

8/23/2006 11:36:37 PM

I'm a pretty avid gamer, but ever since I heard about 'Evercrack' I knew I'd better stay away from it.

The thing about WoW is that it does hook casual gamers. I'm a dork myself, but some of the people who I've heard say they were hooked on WoW were normal folks you'd see at a bar or a football game. The idea that the average addicted WoW player doesn't get laid is a myth. Although that still might apply to the average Final Fantasy fanatic.

8/24/2006 12:00:48 AM

Raige:
MY CRACK IS BETTER THAN YOUR WEED

8/24/2006 7:49:57 AM

That article just made me want to play WoW again

8/24/2006 8:29:17 AM

I totally beat my WoW addiction, only to go back to EvE a week later

8/24/2006 8:42:21 AM

A low point in my life was the day I made a horny girlfriend sit on my bed for an hour while I had a guild meeting in AC.

for those seeking help:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14495333/

8/24/2006 8:58:00 AM

are you fucking kidding me?

8/24/2006 9:01:18 AM

I had a friend that was driving up from South Carolina and was supposed to crash at my place that night. I decided I wanted to go on a Molten Core run so I turned off all the lights and locked the doors. I think he slept in his truck.

8/24/2006 9:37:33 AM

Quote :

"so I turned off all the lights and locked the doors"

uhhhh ok

8/24/2006 9:47:13 AM

wow you could have just told him and let him sleep somewhere comfortable. what a jackass.

8/24/2006 9:50:02 AM

I think he may have been joking

8/24/2006 9:57:24 AM

*I was exagerrating. I knew he could stay at my neighbor's, which he did.
Anywho, I'm not proud of it. It was at the height of my wow addiction and I wasn't thinking rationally.


[Edited on August 24, 2006 at 9:59 AM. Reason : ]

8/24/2006 9:57:43 AM

I would go idle during MC raids to bwn

8/24/2006 10:57:13 AM

exactly, screw the game it's time to fuck

8/24/2006 10:58:35 AM

but then right back to it

8/24/2006 11:00:19 AM

lol perhaps... i tend to get distracted...

8/24/2006 11:01:54 AM

its not like MC wasnt a big /follow fest anyways

8/24/2006 11:07:35 AM

A guy I knew in HS almost flunked out his senior year over EQ. He missed over half the fucking school year (something around 105 days I think) and would claim he was sick. He had a lung collapse a year or two before that, so his doctor told the school system he would likely miss a lot of school. But Senior year he just milked that shit for all he could. He would tell his mom he was feeling sick and shit and she'd call up and tell them he was sick. When he'd get back he would say "Yea I told them, but I was really up all night on EQ, and then as soon as mom left I was back on it all day." Fucking loser.

He was dating one of my friends at the time and would regularly make her wait for hours to fuck when he was done with EQ. She was not happy about that. He tried to get her into EQ, and sometimes that was the only way she could get him to talk to her, so she did it, got an account and everything. Crazy fucking shit. He eventually kicked the habit so far as I know and they actually got married. She was all about him though over the years (he cheated on her and shit worse than just EQ) and throught out all his bullshit, always took him back.

8/24/2006 11:26:47 AM

thats a nice story

8/24/2006 11:30:23 AM

haha that girl is a loser

8/24/2006 12:03:16 PM

Yea he fucked around on her a couple of times. Once with my girl, which is why he and I are no longer friends. Mighta been high school but he lied to me so fuck him, he's dead to me.

He even dumped the girl he married like his junior year and dated another of my friends for a month or two. But the chick he married still let him come bang her on the side. I was like WTF she was not a slutty girl by any means, but she was not about to let go of him, even if he was a fucking loser.

8/24/2006 12:32:45 PM

I quit wow and haven't looked back. I actually feel pretty dumb for having played it as long as I did but Ill readily admit that its fun and very addicting.

As a sidenote, going along with what nighthawk wrote, my roommates and I watched this documentary where a talented young singer was madly in love with a total crack head. Crack head in that he really did toke up hard rock all the fuckin time and acted like a douchebag on camera. We tried to figure out the calculus that has to go through a hot chicks head to want to stay with a walking dead end like that but eventually gave up and drank more beer.

Moral of the story: Slutty or not, girls are fucking stupid.

8/24/2006 12:38:06 PM

most girls

8/24/2006 1:04:58 PM

^^Was that the episode of Intervention when that punkass starts bawling and lays down in a storm drain?

8/24/2006 1:10:50 PM

This thread is interesting.

8/24/2006 1:19:26 PM

I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

8/24/2006 1:21:23 PM

I was a raid leader in WoW which required a fuck ton of time in setting up raids, posting them, getting people in the raids, and making 40 people work together as a team. I enjoyed it so much I would routinely leave my job early to get home for raids. At one point I knew the people I played WoW with better than my real life friends because I spent so much time online.

It was absolutely addicting, but extremly fun at the same time. I guess I can't really explain it. Quitting it was one of the smartest things I've ever done, but I know if I ever reinstall or play again I'm basically fucked.

I mean you come to know all sorts of shit about people because its easier to converse and tell secrets through an online media. And the mystery that is added by it being anonymous is somewhat interesting as well.

Rushing home early from work to get online and lead raids was the norm for me. Half the time I didn't do anything either. I just talked to people online or through voice communication. You had 13 year olds all the way to grand parents, and all of them had something interesting to say (sometimes).

The feeling of logging on and being drowned in tells and instant attention is definetly addicting...


[Edited on August 24, 2006 at 1:38 PM. Reason : ed]

8/24/2006 1:35:33 PM

I play WoW but i'm not addicted - all that stuff you guys claim is addicting is the most boring part for me...

I usually just mess around lvling up fishing or something whenever my gf takes over the tv to watch stupid reality shows and stuff

8/24/2006 1:45:23 PM

I used to co-lead raids, too in MC since i was the main tank... talk about drama in tells and stuff, it was hilarious.

Your real life personality comes to play in an online game.

I logged in a year after I quit and instantly got 5-10 tells

8/24/2006 1:55:18 PM

This thread is going to turn into a nostalgic discussion and someone is going to fall off the wagon.

8/24/2006 1:59:02 PM

heh yeah 40 is a pain, but try a couple hundred without mics.

8/24/2006 2:39:33 PM

Two and a half years on Everquest (pre-Kunark up to PoP)... sure I had a blast when I was playing it but probably the worst thing I have done in my life. Nearly cost me my education, hurt my health, hurt my friends, etc. I remember playing for 28 straight hours once (working on an epic). And when you weren't playing you were reading forums and scouring CastersRealm, Allakhazam, Everore, etc. Numerous days I spent 8 hours at work reading and printing out guides/maps/lore, went home and played for 10+ hours, then squeeze in 4-6 hours of sleep.

I did SWG for awhile and did WoW for a tad but now I am just bruned out on MMO's... when you get married and have a house you don't have much free time to begin with.

8/24/2006 2:49:25 PM

I was a guildmaster in WoW for awhile, like 6 months. My guild was a complete joke though, and it consisted of a bunch of my friends from NCSU and otherwise. My guild setup was very simple and fair, everyone was an officer and the guild bank was available to everyone. Eventually, the guild grew to over 200 members, but I didn't add half of them to the guild personally. My guild's motto was not to take the game seriously at all, and most of us enjoyed leveling to 60 together, ftw.

Anyway, the guild grew WAY past it's casual limits, and sooner or later everyone that was 60 wanted me to run MC raids, and talk on ventrilo, and do all that gay shit. So, instead of passing leadership of the joke guild that I created, I decided to merge my guild with another guild. After that happened, I disbanded the guild, and only re-added the people I knew in real life.

Now we don't play anymore, mainly because once everyone hit 60, the game sucked to no end. I might play again once the expansion comes out, but that really depends on if my other friends play as well. WoW is a lot of fun, as long as you play casually and realize the game ends at level 60 for casual players.

P.S. Guild = FearAndLoathingInOrg, FALIO FTW!

[Edited on August 24, 2006 at 3:33 PM. Reason : Server = Gorefiend]

8/24/2006 3:09:46 PM

thats where im at in my mmo career too. i enjoy leveling, seeing new sites, and experiencing the differences among MMO's but i no longer have the desire to play hours upon end with assholes i dont know and dumbasses who cant grasp simple game concepts.

8/24/2006 3:12:57 PM

I remember Caer Sidi raids in DAoC with 100 people and no mics. That was fucking awesome. It only took like 5-6 hours though, so it was nowhere near EQ scale. But it was still fun.

8/24/2006 3:25:17 PM

^^^ Gilneas?

8/24/2006 3:32:04 PM

The answer is dopamine.

8/24/2006 3:34:22 PM