Comments on: Six steps to quitting ‘WoW’

By: JIb JAb

JIb JAb — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:35:07 +0000

"""""""""""""""Jeez"""""""""""""""""""WOW"""""""""""""" comon dude realy? quotation marks?""""""""WOWER"""""" like comon. you were probs the guy who got fed up in trade chat because they called you a homo or you asked where outlands were."""""

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:05:02 +0000

I tried to quit WoW twice and failed. Now I am on my third shot and its going OK. People who are addicted to this game understand that its not at all about moderation. On my second try quitting I convinced my self that I could play if I just kept limits. I broke those limits I set for myself the day after I re-loaded the game.

Much like an alcoholic can’t control how they drink I can’t control how much I play. I played every single day at least four hours and sometimes much more than twelve hours play time in a single day. With out getting into details please just accept that people can get addicted to this game and it can control their life.

Anybody trying to quit that really has a problem should take a few extra steps. Destroy your characters as much as possible. Unlearn skills. Vendor everything. Give all the gold away. If you are really serious and know you need to quit then give all that gold away to some one you do not know. If you know them they may give the gold back if you have a relapse.

A really big step would be to get your account banned also. Thing is if you really have a problem with the game the more steps that you can take to make going back as hard as possible the more likely you’ll succeed. The temptation for me to play is very strong. Knowing that I can’t just log in and have everything is a big help in staying away.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:57:14 +0000

Ya ive been playing wow for 3-4 years now for about 5-6 hours during the week and 11-12 on the weekend. I dont think it was a huge waste of time. I’m just extremely bored of it now and canceled my sub like 2 weeks ago. Most of my time has been put into MW 2 since then. As of now their is no way in hell i’ll go back to that boresnore.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:57:45 +0000

I’ve been playing WoW for 10+ hours a day (with a few months break here and there) since it was released five years ago. It is only now that I have come to realise what a huge waste of time it has been.
It makes me feel depressed and pathetic that I have wasted so many years on this game, but I am taking the final step – character deletion.
For me it is the only way to get rid of this once and for all.

By: david

david — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:16:04 +0000

Cut your credit card! That’s how i quit! (that’s because my credit card was used solely for my monthly wow account subscription… In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have done that since it’s so easy to get a replacement…

By: Asa G.

Asa G. — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:36:38 +0000

I play WOW all the time. I also play about 15 OTHER video games. You want these “addicts” to stop playing one game and play another? Or read comics? You can’t be serious. If the game sucked people would stop playing. As long as the game is good, there are going to be so called “addicts” The key isn’t quitting WOW. It is to play in moderation. Make it so you can work, have a girlfriend/boyfriend, go to school etc. whatever else is in your life AND set aside some time to relax and play WOW, or COD or something. (PS: I also read 2 books over the past month, not manga or comics, and I lvled up 10 levels in WOW AND had a life)

By: Regine Pfeiffer

Regine Pfeiffer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:58:33 +0000

You should add a number seven. A good friend of mine has recently quit, and remained CLEAN since then.

What she did: Provide for something helpful and useful to do for the time after. In your guild you are important to others, they rely on what you do.
What she did: She arranged for a telephone-power-point introduction with a friend. So she had some virtual obligation every day, just like within the game.