Finally over my wow addiction

[Chivalrous]

I work 70+ hours a week, am married and have friends and family I spend time with. My wife and I raid with a casual guild on tues. and thurs.

i 5box because it is fun and challenging, I do wish I could play wow more often, but that is the extent of my addiction. I sometimes go 3 to 4 days not playing at all. So I don't feel addicted. To me wow is like a cold beer after a long work day. I think that's how it should be.

[MadMilitia]

I work 70+ hours a week, am married and have friends and family I spend time with. My wife and I raid with a casual guild on tues. and thurs.

i 5box because it is fun and challenging, I do wish I could play wow more often, but that is the extent of my addiction. I sometimes go 3 to 4 days not playing at all. So I don't feel addicted. To me wow is like a cold beer after a long work day. I think that's how it should be.

That's how it works. As Mick pointed out the more time you spend on the MMORPG the more time you want to spend on it. The prereq for the addiction is in a sense having nothing else constructive to do. That's how so many on unemployment for example get hooked.

I was unfortunate enough to pick up my first MMORPG when I was a kid with nothing else to do. So yeah...the addiction got me for a few years. Nevertheless I wound up with a mortgage like most others. With the complexities and duties of home and work, games feel trivial by comparison. Not all of course. Some still demand more respect.

Forums are typically where I lose most of my day.

[zenga]

To me wow is like a cold beer after a long work day. I think that's how it should be.

Not sure if I share the cold beer view. I have plenty of friends I used to go out with, sit in the pub, play soccer with etc ... they all got married and have a kid/house/garden. Most of the days, they come home from work and plant themselves in the couch watching TV, till it's time to go to bed. I don't know if watching TV for 5-6 hours each day is better than WoW. Am I addicted to wow? Maybe, but probably to the same extend how most are addicted to their TV, the difference I think is that wow triggers my brain (heroic progress raiding is like solving a puzzle and pvp is like chess to me).

If wow is the substitute for TV I think there is little harm in spending many hours.