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Setzertrancer · Owner Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 85

looking at a lot documentary about World of Warcraft being dangerously addicted to WOW to the point that they can give up their jobs and just want to spend every minute of every day on the game.

Here is a good Documentary that interviews someone who has some really surprising justifications for his addiction to WOW and how he dosn't beleive it has ruined his life, which it has.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6IIz1RSTo

"If you don't spend every minute of every day on WOW your just a Noob"

Isn't that interesting.

Now the following documentary is pretty corny but even more informative then the above video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJrdm-zr8l0

"People are quitting their Jobs to play WOW and it is effecting China's economy"

"China has enforced a law that limits maximum playing hours on WOW"

Okay I think there has to be a problem when they start making legislation based exclusivly on a particular computer game.

and now here is a really emotional goodbye video someone made, to WOW, he was an extreme case playing 50 hours a week for a year. He made this video in hope of warning people against getting into WOW because of how it ruined a large portion of his life and how much he regreted it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPA-LjSIlsM

Did that give you chills or what?. That was a good song I gotta get it on my Ipod.

I theorise that WOW is too close to being a Perfect game, as they guy in the first doc said "It consumes all aspects of your life". So it is really so good that you can feel satisfied in it all the time, without getting bored. That is an amazing feat for a game. It creates a world that is really immense in size that you would have to play the game for a year to visit it all, why travel around the Earth when you have a World of Warcraft to explore? From what i've seen that world really is varied enough to have you woahing at each new area you encounter.

This next one is a long one, Magicman you havn't seen this one yet. It is actually a lot less negative then the above ones, I spose what you have to remember is that those are pretty much worst case scenarios, and people may even get cronically addicted to other MMOGs like Ultima Online, Everquest II and Runescape. Since less people play these compared to WOW we don't hear any bad stories about them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVyzeZA5p7Q

this Final report was made the Australian show A Current Affair, and this is by far the probably worst case known of someone playing 16 hours a day and someone killing themselves over the game. I might fish up some information from these WOW addict chatrooms it mentions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hfK3RQs2g

I luckily have only played WOW for exactly 15 minutes, just to try it out at a mate's place. But I think I would be the kind of person to fall into an addiction just like this, so I dunno I want to try WOW properly but what if it consumes me forever.

Okay, now please discuss this, what do you think of WOW?

If you are an addict yourself, tell us about it. I doubt it though or you'll never actually find time to visit this forum will you. Interesting thing is my longest online mate of 3 years. just turned down my invitation to this forums, to play Final Fantasy XI. He could have become an addict.

geordanuk · N00b Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 6 Location: England

Your right WOW is strangly addictive but i managed to avoid getting sucked in because now i think it kinda sucks because its repetetive but i'd still play it now but i doubt i'd get as sucked in as them guys are