Comments on: How games negatively affected my life

By: tidyjustice

tidyjustice — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:25:32 +0000

games are there to pass the time not to pass your life away

By: tidyjustice

tidyjustice — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:22:59 +0000

played wow since it first came out quit it loads and noticed slight changes. end of day if ur so obsessed by a game where u join some raiding guild where u raid 24/7 never see day light and never go out at 6pm-10pm because of raiding shedules then u seriously need a smack in the head :D ever since wow began i have played till now casually, been a lil omfg u killed me must spend 4 hours killing you thing :D but yeh pvp is all i do PvE and arena is what kills people its a game stop getting obssesed unless u really are that damn good u can enter tournies and earn 20k :) end of day its a game just like dreamcast sega saturn its fun u die u die rez and kill back if not /quit and have a sleep :D
lifes a bitch but always remember the clock is ticking and your life is slipping. good luck

By: Fabio

Fabio — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:38:52 +0000

This instructions may help the the younger kids, 4chan users and such… it speaks their language, with a powerful message…
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By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:13:33 +0000

Good for you. Personally, I haven’t felt the desire to play video games since the SNES days. Once I told someone that I live out in the country where we can only get Internet access through dial-up and his question is, “How do you play WoW?”. My question, “Why would I want to?”.

About your As without studying, that was in Remedial Algebra, wasn’t it? That (called Developmental Algebra, Math 099, at my college) and Spanish I have been the only classes I’ve taken that basically required zero studying.

@Rom: Real life sucks and you know it.

By: Rom

Rom — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:44:12 +0000

It took me ages to quit, but when I did, my GPA shot up from a decent 3.2 to a 3.8.. though only .6, that last bit is the hardest to get and means the most.

I played too much, but I also learned alot from the game and the people in it. Hell IBM or some company even thinks future leaders will come from games like WoW etc.

What convinced me to quit? The eventual realization that there was no point… and selling before expansion proved worth the thousands :). Most people will eventually realize that farming and raiding isn’t as fun as it sounds, and that they only play because of their E-friends. Real life can be more fun than most people think, unless you just “party” and get wasted as a form of socializing.

By: dgb

dgb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:24:37 +0000

I had the same trouble as you Pensador with the same consequences. I’ve played it for just under a year now and i’ve found it really hard to maintain my grades at uni, and it has also been causing me to become socially inhibited and killing my body clock!

I cant say that I will quit WoW, not just yet as i have some friends on there and we do enjoy going on the game and playing together. However for those people that are struggling with the willpower aspect of it, whether it be re-installing it or just not coming off when you said you would, get someone that you trust to change your password. My girlfriend does this for me when I have deadlines or when she thinks i’ve over played it, and there is nothing i can do about it! admittedly i will still think about the game a lot of the time, and sometimes get frustrated when i can’t play, however it can be damaging and this is working for me really well!

For those people reading this article and deciding to argue about it, re-read it. Pensador was stating what he did, not preaching or anything that would offend anyone! And at the ‘drugs are worse’ post, people get affected by different things to different severities, so dont put someone down cos they are having a tough time with gaming, its not their fault!

Thanks for the article, it’s nice to know that other people are going through the same things and that its working out for you.

By: magixian

magixian — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:07:44 +0000

i know exactly how the whole addiction thing must have felt. cuz i went (and to some extent) still going thru it all.
on my last year of college, my GPA suffered alot from spending too much time playing on WoW. I lvled up a mage from 1 to 70 in 3 weeks.. right in the middle of my exams.. so you’d know what that can do to GPA.
But there is one thing to consider:
I basically grew up playing video games. probably since Atari came out like a billion years ago. I know for a fact that if it wasn’t WoW, i would definitely be spending my spare time playing another game. before i discovered WoW, i spent a lot of time playing Battlefield series and FIFA series. both multiplayer games. So, at least in my case, it’s not about WoW. it’s either me or the whole video game thing. lol.
I have a solution though! 2 words: parental controls!
i have now blocked out the all the play times after 1am. that’s a start for me. I would stay up till 5 in the morning if it didnt automatically log me out. i’m now taking steps to extend even beyond that. perhaps to 12am in next week and so on.
i highly recommand checking the parental control thing on WoW’s website to everyone who understand where i’m coming from.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:55:53 +0000

I am a biology student…one of the more demanding and time consuming majors out there…and my grades are around what yours were after you quit WoW…minus the D’s. I play WoW a lot, a lot more than I should, but my GPA has not suffered and is still above the average of most university students. One incident of one guy’s grades dramatically improving after he quits the game does not reflect the supposed “control” that the game has on player’s lives. That is all.

By: Lex

Lex — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:06:50 +0000

I know I am addicted but it hasn’t ruined my life and i don’t care, because it was going down the toilet anyway, atlease it gives me some enjoyment in my life at the moment.
I got the game with my boyfriend over a year ago back in May 2006, at first I play alot but then I got bored after a few months so stop playing. Then towards the end of 2006 my boyfriend lost his job and we had to move back to our parents, but I decided that since I was back at home i should go back to college so I could become a vet nurse like I wanted. College never panned out however I had only been there for a month when I got a letter saying that I couldn’t have my loan to pay for my course fee’s because my course wasn’t high enough. I don’t have the money to pay it myself cos I have to pay rent to my parents as well as a loan left from last year, I was ready playing WOW again just a few hours a week at this time.
This news crushed me, all my plans down to tube and still with a job I hate it was then I started to play alot more, and when my boyfriend got his own account the more hours I spent on it. I now play atleased 3-4 hours a day now if not more and if I am off work about 8, sure I have no socal life but then I never had one to start with.
If I quit what will I have my boyfriend will still most likely play on it, being addicted to WOW isn’t so bad atleased it gives me something to look forward to. There are many things worse to be addicted to than a computer game its not hurting anyone, i think most people let themselves get addicted I know I did.

By: Jay Dee

Jay Dee — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:03:34 +0000

I think threads like this are hilarious.

I didn’t have a life-affecting problem with MMOs but I did play Everquest on and off from launch to the Prophecy of Ro expansion (7 years?). I gotta say I must’ve just done it with the right crowd. A bunch of fun-loving happy jerks that did everything that game had to offer and shit on every stupid n00b and crying baby in the server. I don’t really regret a day of it. Maybe WoW is full of whiney little kids, I don’t really know. But honestly, you guys are sob stories. Drugs have much more a profound affect on a person’s life. How can you even compare the two? Christ, computer games don’t wither your body… just your social life. But I guess everyone needs something to point their finger at when their life sucks.

Everybody should play games like this. They’re fun. Unless, like with anything else, you take it too far