WoW and addiction... (NSFW) Options

[pebkac]

This thread is somewhat NSFW and I don't feel like editing posts to make it SFW. Browse at your own risk. -Spectatrix

http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/08/08/world...ayers_addicted/

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This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Aug 18 2006, 12:42 PM

[impala454]

Well, if a game isnt good that far into it, why would someone who has other things to do waste their time going further with it?

I'm not telling him to keep playing, I'm just saying you don't get a good representation of whether you like something or not by playing only such a small amount of it. How much credit would people give a movie critic that only watches the first five minutes of every movie he critiques?

honestly though the fun part of the game for me when i played all the time was the people i played with. lots of people diss wow players for being anti-social, etc, but for someone who is in a good guild of people and particpates in large raids, nothing could be further from the truth. you've got people interacting on a level that doesn't exist anywhere else. a good guild will have some form of voice communication set up, and people chat about what's going on and learn a lot about each other and make friends. I know the guild I ran for a long time, we had voice communication software set up and we'd talk about sports/news/whatever while playing the game. Grouping and raiding involves a lot of teamwork. You get forty people that you've never met all having to work together and get along to accomplish a goal. IMHO that's about as "social" as it gets.