"World of Warcraft Addiction Ruined My Life" 

WoW players even ex players talk about early 2000s WoW like drug addicts talk about heroine.

I was addicted for many years to wow. But low key I think it saved me from something worse. I was a black guy in the hood and all of my peers were smoking weed, drinking, getting DUIs, getting chick's pregnant, doing petty crimes and I was just at home for years playing wow. By the time I got out of the WoW haze in 2016 I had a clean slate to build on. I finished my apprenticeship, started traveling the country to work. Got married to a doctor, had a kid. I was hard-core addicted from 2008-2016 and tampered off by 2018. I got over 700 days play time on my warrior.

The best thing about this video is you have this guy explaining how this addiction ruined his life and the whole time Asmon is sitting there one-upping his experiences while feeling nostalgia about it.

WoW from 2004-2009 lowered global GDP and worker productivity

"If I could go back and change some things, I'd probably play more WoW." - Asmond (paraphrased)

Danuser's writing in the last few expansions really helped cure the addictions.

2002/2022 been clean for 2 years

He barely scratches the surface of how deep into this game you can get. I understand. I played Wrath as a teenager but never got into end-game content because I didn't know how to raid or what my bis gear even was, so when they relaunched Classic, I jumped at the opportunity to relive what I missed. I held a full-time job at a restaurant and still managed to play.. 8+ hours a day for about 3 years, rationalizing that it was cheap entertainment and would actually help me save up enough for college. So for 3 years I didn't do anything - literally a single other thing - but wow and work and now I have a much better job. My relationship with the game was definitely double-edged. It consumed a part of me that made me callous and short with others and I lost interest in pretty much every other aspect of my life, but it also kept me from lashing out or ruminating on how shit my life was. Somehow I was miserable and also having a blast. It's weird.

The best thing that has ever happened to me was losing my World of Warcraft guild. Two years ago, my addiction to the game and losing that sense of community put me in a state of depression and sadness. In order to prove to myself that I wasn't a low-life, I pursed getting a commercial drivers license (CDL) just as my father had done. I'm now 26 years old, debt-free, and make a six-figure salary. If it wasn't for my heavy WoW addiction, I wouldn't be where I am today and I really resonated with this video. I wish that guy nothing but the best of luck!

This guy "My horrible addiction" Asmon "Ah, memory lane"

Wow helped my life. Winters a brutal in my country I don’t have real life friends. My guild keeps me grounded, I hear what they are doing with there life and it encourages me to move forward in life

Online gaming is a scary addiction. Mostly because noone respects it. People wake up at 30 + and realize their lives have fallen apart. Bad social skills, no education... you develop a mindset. The game literally becomes more important than real life.

I was addicted too. Late 2005 when I installed it for the first time, as soon as my first character appeared in front of Northshire Abbey I was 100% in. 12-16 hours a day from 2005-2010, all through vanilla, all through BC and all through WotLK before quitting after Cata came out because it no longer felt like the WoW I fell in love with. And you know what? I wouldn't change a single fucking thing. If I rubbed a magic lamp and I was given 1 wish, I'd wish to go back to the moment in 2005 where I went to Electronics Boutique to get a new PC game, asked the guy working there what's good, and have him recommend WoW to me, because I swear that day, when I went home, installed all the disks and heard the login music for the first time, was the beginning of 4 and a half years of nonstop the best fucking days of my life. Every single day was just non stop amazement.

Lmfao, we'd literally haul our desktops and walk around 1-2 miles to my friends house. He'd have a little ethernet hub so we all used the internet, and set up this wobbly table and had a huge couch for like 6-8 of us to sit on while we played. I remember the time where we'd go to Kroger, buy like 2 8 packs of monster and stay up until like 6-7 AM playing. Then we'd have people literally sleeping on the couch without even moving, but there was always one of us awake playing for like 2 days straight. It was hilarious. I'd fall asleep at around 4 AM, wake up at 7 AM and I hear clickity-clacks of one of my other best friends next to me, in his boxers. I'd laugh and ask 'did you even fall asleep?' and he'd be like, 'no, not yet'. Then i'd start playing and a couple hours later he'd fall asleep, and the rest of us would wake up again while i'm sitting there, farming heroics. XD Those were the days.

I played WoW throughout my entire high school period from 12 years old to 18, and while it completely took over my life it was still the best possible thing thats ever happened to me, i made loads of friends at school through the game. It was an endless massive adventure that my friends and I just couldnt get enough of. None of us play now as we all think the game is in heavy decline, but from early TBC through to MoP was some of the best times of my life. I dont have an active rolling sub now but about once every 6 months - year i buy a month and just go to all of my fav zones in the game, no other game yet comes CLOSE to zone/environment design. Btw favs are Dun Morogh, Nagrand, Mulgore, and Elywnn Forest

He also have solid music taste, in the backround we can se Nas,Common,OC and at right black and white poster it might be slum village..

Asmongold peering into an alternate universe of himself.

Skill issue.

To recap on that last part, Meet the Robinsons (a movie) was a great example of this. The main character always wanted to change his poor start to life and fix it, but after seeing everything that came *because* of that poor start, when he was finally given the chance to fix it.. he chose not to.

i have a very similiar experience with an mmo called DCUO. 2013-2016 wasting away those hours everyday with my guild forgetting my shitty real life at that time…i still really miss these days every once in a while and knowing they wont ever return is the hardest part.. it was an life consuming addiction but damn i want it back sometimes

2 types of people. Those who allowed themselves to get carried away with WoW and blamed themselves for their own bad decisions and lack of responsibility, and those who made bad decisions because they allowed themselves to get carried away with WoW and blame WoW for their own lack of responsibility....

Bro was TWEAKING out just talking about it too 😂 him explaining the starting process 🤣 Jesus Christ

Imagine, something that is fun is bad because the the “real world” is a huge piece of shit. It’s not an addiction, it’s just a better place than pretending to give a shit about wearing business casual in the office.

To be fair online games have consulting psychologists, behavioral scientists and all sorts of things to make sure you get those dopamine hits, stay glued to the screen and spend money on subscriptions, in game items and other related services. Some online games today are some kind of designer drug shit. They are intentionally designed to exploit human behavior and get people hooked, so I would say it's not always entirely the addicts fault. Even if most of it is the responsibility of the individual. But like Asmongold says, it's the addiction that is the issue, not the subject of said addiction. (This guy will relapse btw, if not with WoW then with something else)

Within people I know from WoW I can count 3 college drop outs because they played too much WoW. One of which was on scholarship to animation school before he flunked out. They either can't wake up or would rather play WoW over doing any work. I can count 2 others who lost their jobs because they kept over sleeping or would straight up not show up to work with no notice.

Honestly, if Blizzard didn't totally tank as a company I might still be addicted to video games. Silver lining to corporate greed and incompetence I guess.

I started playing vanilla in 2004 and it was a similar story. I was obsessed with the game and I could not get enough no matter how much I played. I still managed to graduate high school with a 3.5 and I hardly did any homework at home since I was too busy gaming. But the craziest thing about vanilla wow is how ahead of it’s time it was. In 2004, the 3D environment with a huge world and so many mechanics was insane. It felt like the game I always wanted to play but technology wasn’t ready for it. But blizzard pulled it off. About a year ago, I found a classic + private server and I’ve been enjoying it thoroughly.

My addiction started around 1999 in highschool with counterstrike. I graduated, but with a heavy cost to my academic future and friends. Freshman year of college, got addicted to vanilla WOW and played through burning crusade. During that time, I failed out of college, went to community college, went back to first college and failed again. Parents never seemed to realize how bad it was until end of semester. Thankfully they gave me one more chance and I finally kicked myself into gear with the help of some new study group friends I met. Overall, I had a great time playing, many moments are engrained in my mind, but I wish I never got addicted.

Glad modern dev studios are turning their games into utter shit, there's no incentive to make you spend thousands of hours anymore to the point of ruining your life because the games are not actually fun to play, but instead are trying to hook you with predatory mechanisms like lootboxes, cards or some crap like that.

There are millions of people who play wow who dont become so addicted they neglect their life outside the game. I feel like this guy just has an addictive personality. It's actually better he got addicted to a video game than gambling, drugs, or alcohol, things that are much more destructive when abused. Hopefully he identifies that and continues improving his life.

This was me but in EverQuest. It got so bad as a teenager in my raiding guild that I chose doing raids 4-5 hours a night 4-5 nights a week, rather than spend time with friends. The bond was so strong between the guild and myself that I still get strong nostalgia, and get super bummed anytime I hear one of the passed away from our server facebook page.

It's funny you mentioned the desire to start playing earlier so you could get Scarab Lord. In my years of playing since vanilla across different servers I only saw 1 toon displaying his Scarab Lord title (on scarab mount) and I remember how stunned I was...it was so impressive to me back then, more than anything else in game.

Dropped out of university/college twice to play WoW instead (BC + WotLK) Only thing that saved me was Blizzard messing with the talents/classes in Cata, so I quit and never went back. Now I have a "good" life: own my own homes, nice car, high-end career, can fund multiple hobbies, people come to me for advice, etc. ... but I still miss those days - me and the boys bantering, talking mad shit about how our country beat their countries (European servers). Haven't gamed since 2012, but I still like to live vicariously through people like Asmon - it's like methadone.

"I could've become a master engineer" Yeah, you could, but you wouldn't. People need to stop seeing their hobbies in life as wasted time, sure, you need to do meaningful stuff related to your job, but saying you could've become a master engineer or any other grand title if you didn't play wow is idiotic. Balance is everything.

You're right, leveling was way harder back in the beginning of WoW. I took 2 days off work for the launch of war within and I can almost guarantee that I will have 3-5 max level characters within those 2 days cuz of how fast it goes when they drop a new expansion. I remember when I started playing in vanilla and it took me months just to get to level 40. I wish every new expansion were still that way. I want getting to a new level cap to take weeks from the drop of the expansion.

Playing undead in tirisfal glades 2006 was magical! I still watch the ambient music videos just for the nostalgia!

BRO GOT THE WARGLAIVES AND SHED A TEAR, HE'S DEEP

Bro's got dreamcatchers and Christmas lights all over his room. Man WoW got people fukked up 😂

I remember wanting to do Karazhan when I was younger and my guild not being willing to help me get ready. Since then I just have always played by myself 😅

I just showed a friend your old inspect video flexing invincible. love it

My friend at school got completely addicted and became the best player on our server. I'd tell other players that I knew him IRL and they'd be like "woahhhh". He dropped out of school and I don't know if he ever recovered. Sometimes I wonder if it was worth it lol

"In many cases the bad parts are the reason why the good parts happened" Asmon showing his wisdom tooth towards the end

I played from vanilla to MoP, over a year /played from Vanilla to Cata then I slowed down, quitting wow was something I had to do for myself. Some people (like myself) have addictive personalities, it can ruin your life like most addictions can. Glad I got out when I did (mostly because of college and military). It is really hard to explain what wow was like in the 2000s. It was a wild time.

Everquest was my gaming addiction. I fell asleep in my chair so much that I bought a lazy-boy recliner to use as my PC chair. If I wasn't working, I was playing Everquest until I passed out. That game was so challenging and unforgiving, the rush at each accomplishment was wild. Nearly my entire guild switched to WoW when it came out and I decided to switch too, but it never gave me that same high EQ did.

This is something I struggle to come to terms with in my own life. It is undeniable that being a competitive raider and online gamer consumed a lot of my life for years and kept me from pursuing other things but the unspoken part is a question, would I have pursued those things or would I simply have died? I had to explain it to someone once and came to this analysis: being a hardcore raider was like being a member of a competitive amateur sports team. The trophies matter to no one but those who care but the friendships, the experiences, the challenges, the triumphs and the failures were so very real to those of us that were there. Yet like such a sports teams when the games were over the bonds were mostly gone, the relationships ended when the game was over and only the memories remained. I may never know if the people truly cared, I may never feel like any of it truly mattered, but gods be damned there were some good times and even if they only matter to a select few of us each of those memories mean something to me even as I have left them behind. Maybe it was never the right choice yet I can't condemn it. Maybe it wasn't the right choice but it was the choice I made and for a time in my life those bonds and those experiences made me feel alive when I needed a reason to keep going. I may never know if I did the right thing but those who were there with me on that journey, even if they are gone now, have my thanks for being there with me.

I’ll just say thank you for Shadowlands Korthia for curing my addiction. 10/10 Patch

I got hooked bad as a kid from 04'-16' ruined my body for years. My uncle's guild brought me thru molten core when i was only lvl 58 and got me 5/8 lawbringer in one run. Couldnt even equip it but I was hooked after that. And the feeling getting my swift charger from the quest? Damn..

I started at the end of LK. One thing I loved about the game was visiting all the corners of the map and wondering what may have occurred there before, bc I had already heard for years how addicting it was and wondered "who was here before having the time of their lives"? Like it was nostalgic for me already and I was brand new. No game will ever top this imo. Sold my PC less than a year later bc I had to, and never tried to get back to the game bc I knew it was ruining my relationships with others. I enjoy the game through Asmon now.

This guy is moving around like a junkie who is reminiscing about his party days.

From my experience, those who achieved significant success in MMORPGs often went on to become successful in real life once they grew tired of gaming and found new goals. My friend even made a living from World of Warcraft; his guild sold gold and carried whales through end-game content for money. At that time, they earned significantly more than the average salary in Russia.

Being a part of the beginning of WoW was like being Wade Watts in the Oasis. That's how special it felt.

weirdly StarCraft 2 was my WoW, the cinematics were insane, the RTS gameplay even to this day is fun as hell to me, and even though none of the old friends get on anymore and some have unfortunately passed it still brings good memories back.

Having grown up forever a console behind whatever was current, my scope for what was a 'big' game was like Legend of Zelda or something like that. The second I logged into WoW, loaded up Eversong Woods, and the realization that those guys down there killing a dragonhawk in the opening crawl were actual players there was just no going back. The sheer scope of the game was leagues beyond what I had ever thought was possible for video games. Worst yet? This was on a friend's computer. We didn't have a computer anywhere close to the specs needed for the game at home. I bought my own copy of the game with the original thick-ass manual. I read that thing over til the cover was about to come off while I saved up money for a computer. Shit got its hooks into me deep.

Happened to me, I used to play wow in middle school every night until 3am and failed to go to a good high school, if you can't enter a good high school your life in China is basically ruined.

38:19 Its both, a lot of games has built in psychological stimulation that stems from how casino works (bright colors, reward system, etc). Games like wow are meant to keep you playing which means its something that can be bad for you especially since its so subtle in how it manipulate your desire. There is something called "what you like to do, and what you really want to do" and games can push you away from doing what you really want to do. Sure you can blame yourself, but the substance being there is a problem in itself when not dealt with in the right way, etc. If that obstacle were to be removed you could potentially have a far better life and control over your desire, there are people who have never touched games before but once they try they know its addicting and refuses to engage in it because it would mess up their life. Now imagine being 10 years old and pushed unknowingly in to gaming and then gets hooked in to it for decades which they might regret later because it was not the intention.. Its a lot more grey than his fault, and honestly schools should teach about stuff like psychological addiction instead of the woke crap they get nowadays in school.

21:16 that moment when you not only beat the boss but got the weapon. You hear everyone cheer. You cheer. Everyone is celebrating all those wipes.That was Community that was excitement shared between everyone. In a way you’ll be searching something like that for the rest of your life. You find that you’ll never find it ever again.

I played from beta to until halfway through legion when I decided to call it quits. One of the craziest thing I saw in my time was a guild mate who's husband left her due to her addiction and lost her kids and it still wasn't enough to make her quit. Was buying wow tokens , in game shop items and a lot of smoke. instead of her kids. This was during the first few months of wod and the worst part is there was actually people telling her it wasn't her fault and if she wanted to raid instead of spend time with her family that is because they just don't understand.

Goes to show that tryhard that bested you in a game is literally a no life.

He keeps rocking back and forth because of the self-inflicted wound from back in the day when he tried to force the TV remote into the booty.

I remember trying to get the PVP gear in vanilla in 2006, goddamn was that a slog, and I was playing like 12 hours a day with a full time job... Not sure you can say I was addicted when I wasn't even enjoying myself. Anyway I eventually partially automated this with an elaborate arrangement of autoclickers - it was just 5 or so instances of a basic autoclicker, all clicking on their specific part of the screen on an interval, but when perfectly set up it was enough to requeue me for AV, click accept, and most importantly, get me out of the starting zone of AV via following people (which was enough to avoid a GM ban at the time). No I didn't feel bad, our battlegroup was beyond useless and doing this on AV only ensured that I wasn't ruining anything. So now it was 10 hours a day with the autoclicker playing all night (with me waking up on an alarm a few times during the night to check on it because it did mess up sometimes), after a month of this (after months of legit play) I got the blue set, and shortly after got a day ban for botting and settled for the blues, I then quit shortly after. Anyway I'm not sure what the point of this was, but it just makes me think about wtf they had in mind for earning that stuff legitimately.

This was runescape for me. Literally 16 years. Og, to eoc, to 07, then maxed a character and changed to a 1 def pure, and for nearly 2 years the routine was work, runescape, sleep. Hitting the discord servers with friends to clan pk on the 1 def pures, etc. It was bliss and extremely addicting. I still look back at the memories fondly and think of those online people (that I never even met) as true friends. Looking back from a more mature perspective, it feels like my life never truly began as an adult till i had quit playing runescape sometime when I was 26 years old or so. I feel it man. 30 years old now, behind the curve relationship wise, and while I loved all my time on runescape, deep down its a big regret. Cant rewind time and that shit hits the feels every now and then.

he definitely blames the game too much, people with addiction have been doing this ever since AA has become so popular though. telling addicts they have no power and it's a sickness brought on by something that alters your thinking (which it does) gives them a pass into thinking they are powerless to the object when they still do have complete control over their actions, it just becomes harder to choose the right action when addicted but it IS still possible. it's a shame to see this mindset effect so many of those who do become addicted to anything. the end goal shouldn't always be abstinence either (for extreme addicts sure) I feel like learning moderation of anything takes way more discipline than just doing an extreme on either end of spectrum.

Dude serious raiding in WoTLK classic legitimately took a heavy toll on me, I could only play WoW or I would be behind the curve, my friends would message me to play other games and just "no I gotta do this so I can raid in WoW" and it caused a whole lotta stress between me and my fiance trying to get our work and my raid schedules to work. I love raiding and I've come back to Cata classic but I refuse to let it run my life like last xpac

My video game addiction started in 1999 with Ultima Online. That game absolutely blew my damn mind as a 12 year old. Spent the next 18 years under a crippling mmo addiction, no joke. I've thought about it many times and I dont think I would have ever escaped if I had other friends that played. Luckily none of my friends did, possibly because they saw how absolutely insane I had gone. Not trying to say this is the games fault, or as bad as a drug addiction, etc, etc. I'm just saying for me as a person MMOs are VERY fucking dangerous. Today I essentially play ZERO video games cuz they just male me regress. No joke my addiction was 100% real and crippling for a loooooong time. I thank god that I am free.

Using drugs and playing WoW was a combo that made me forget all the problems I had in life. Also a recipe for disaster as the problems started accumulating... I did it all to numb my negative emotions. Now I'm staying sober and don't even want to play anymore.

19:40 There was indeed such a thing from folks in your Friend List, when your were zonning into TK, SCC, Hyjal or BT before their respective attunements were lifted. BC late raids attunement were no joke : it sat you appart from the rest.

Sad thing is... this dude will come back.... and not tell anyone... you can see all the joy he has just explaining his story... he will never really ever let that feeling go....

I left WoW again because of classic WoW. Got my max rank pvp titlte/gear and got to ring the gong. Was spending 18 to 20 hours a day logged in. Thankfully I had loved ones who pulled me out.

Kann gut sein, dass heutzutage die meisten Leute erst monatelang zur Therapie geschickt werden müssen, wenn sie ein endlich _rock bottom_ erreicht haben, um zu begreifen, was es heißt, *"Herr seines eigenen Schicksals"* zu sein. Nehme mich dabei nicht aus, bin keine Ausnahme und bereue nichts 😃

Wow kept me out of trouble. Dumb ass kids my age were out doing drugs, drinking, getting girls pregnant. I had a successful army career and now I’m successful in the civilian world. I don’t play anymore but I did after leaving the military and it kept me out of the darkness.

I started playing in Legion, and got addicted. If I wasn't working, I was playing. Guild broke apart in BFA, and I've been solo ever since. That's when the addiction went away. I still play, but only run LFR now.

„Just choose not to do it.“ Asmongold just solved addiction. 🙄

I remember back in the days, couples actually divorced over this game. The women were called WOW Widows.

Addicts shift blame. That's the one thing we are good at. The key part is realizing that the things you do are under you're control but you just decide to ignore the fact that you are responsible for your own actions.

I try not to think of Vanilla WoW. I was there on launch. Played a bit as a night elf and the environment was insane. Then i moved to an RP server Silverhand and made my stuttering dwarf girl paladin. It was over then. Once i got to do the same RP style that i did in Dark Age of Camelot the immersion was top notch. Then the next level was a simple MOD called Soundtrack that let you use your own music for different zones and battles. Luckily my guild died just before the Lich king expansion, and PvP was obnoxiously unbalanced due to druid being minibosses in bear form at the time. Then my Soundtrack MOD became obsolete. So no more immersive music. So my frustration helped me quit the game, along with a realization that i was accomplishing nothing in life. Just wasting hours a day. I noticed that it never felt like you accomplished anything unless you were on for at least 2 hours. If you took a vacation for 3 days. When you come back, your guild mates would swear you were gone for 2 weeks. Theyd state how they did so many runs etc. Mind you, i would be gone like 3 days and the FOMO was real. Once i saw all these negatives it was easy to quit and save 15 bucks each month.

i hate that i relate to this guy. often time when your guild that you were connected o disband its hard to join a new one and connect with everyone

36:52 "You can do whatever you want" Sometimes I feel I cant, thats why I played wow a ton from 2007-2011. I dont regret it tho. Those were the best times.

Destiny 1 took over my life. I'd get home from work and play it until bed almost only stopping for dinner and bathroom breaks. Gained weight, stopped being social, and had my girlfriend almost leave me. Games are fun but never ending ones can totally take over life. That's why I don't play them mmos anymore.

Man, 2004-2009 Everquest 2. Booting up the PC. Getting in Ventrilo with my guild. All my best friends IRL played. The other players were from EQ1 and older than WoW players, so less annoying kids and more harmony. So many friendships. Some people even died, and I remember the last discussions we had before they logged off forever. Playing the one class in the top PVP guild on Nagafen because there was only room for one of my class in the top PVP guild. Calling people's phones in the middle of the night if a contested epic mob spawned - we had to be the only guild on the server that got the epic loot. I can draw every dungeon from memory. It's crazy how good MMO's were back then. Unfortunately, there's no going back. $15 a month and zero microtransactions will never exist again for content on that level.

I think part of what made W.o.W. so special back in the earlier years was that there were less distractions from the game. There wasn't anything like Tik Tok or RU-vid shorts, we didn't have a bunch of social media apps draining our attention span. World of Warcraft had so much to get into, the scenery and ambiance was unmatched for the times. There were tons of class variations you could try with the old talent system and skills. The game was truly unique and got to shine without much competition. The only other game that ever came close ime was Guild Wars 2.

I’ve been addicted to games my whole life but wow was literal crack for several years straight I did nothing but play and barely sleep. Ruined my last year of high school, ruined college attempt, ruined jobs, basically robbed me of probably about 5 years of my life but honestly if it wasn’t wow it probably would have been a different game. I use to skip school, walk to my friends house, borrow his Xbox, just to play it. I would literally do anything to play games growing up.

I'd be this guy if I started in vanilla with a bomb ass PC. Luckily I started in Wrath with a shit box.

MMO pre 2008 were something else… started with Ultima Online and ended with WOW from 1999 to 2009. It’s how me and my friend socialized basically.

Can relate with some of this, my friend was pretty bad in getting up at weird hours to make potions etc. Like in high school she'd literally be up weird hours of the night. Then she ended up in night school because she wasn't really there in the day. Some people it just hits different. My Mom wouldn't touch any games I played growing up (granted she's addicted to FB & reels in retirement).

5:25 fighting adds in and out of game, incredible.

It was FFXI for me. That was my game.

me and my mom played classic when it came out also, she bought online gold we would do and game raids together just pop some OC 80s and be geeks out. double addiction was crazy when she sold a carpart we needed to just keep playing.

I'd love to see those old home videos of you and the boys playing WoW or any other game back in the day. That kind of entertaining content is rare to find (gameplay of friends playing games with each other from that timeframe) and im sure im not the only one who would want to see those videos! Please Asmon! PLEASEEEEEE I beg of thee my liege

I can say with 100% certainty video games stopped me from ending my life, as stupid as it sounds and trust me I know it sounds ridiculous. But it was just enough to distract me long enough for me to grow up and mature enough to become a man, without that distraction and escape I wouldn't have had the will to grow. Sometimes some plants need extra soil to grow.

Saw this in my high school friend group. Me and my best friend went off to med school, some just did nothing but play wow. We still played a lot together. Now some are left with nothing, while some in the friend group are doctors. Thats just life.

I never was addicted to WoW, but I did have bouts where I would play it a month at a time, once or twice a year, and I have to say that during those times I was really able to de-stress and not worry about shit. Now I just worry about shit and am stressed all the time. Difference is now I just don't have the time to play it anymore with running a company.

First time ever playing was in beta. I still remember my first steps and being in awe of the graphics, having come over from Everquest. My little dwarf Paladin was running around Coldridge Valley killing rabbits and trogs. I finally made it to Redridge Mountians. This skull (lvl 33) troll shaman came shambling over the horizon. Myself and all the other level 15 to 19s ran at this guy. There was like 20 of us. One chain lightning and 3 people fell over dead. Holy shit. Another chain lightning, 3 more dead. We were just getting to him at this point. Windfury proc, boom, 1 shot. He wiped the floor with ALL of us. It was insane. We didn't even dent him. I logged out, deleted my paladin and made a troll shaman and never looked back. I still remember that day like it was yesterday.

Part of me is inspired to give a completely different perspective on a 20 year run that quit literally kept me alive. Forever grateful to this game lol

36:25 - 100%. I don't regret my time playing WoW. I had a lot of fun. It was the cheapest form of entertainment when I was broke AF. Good times.

I played WoW for 75 hours straight without sleep when WOTLK was released. When I started having nosebleeds, thats when I stopped.

The stuff he's talking about with guilds, groups and raid is exactly why I don't do raids o social stuff in any mmorpg I play. It just makes you dependent on others. The moment I need to be in a game at a specific time is when it goes too far.

Those Christmas lights and dream catcher tells me he was already mess up way before WoW

WoW addiction is real. I quit playing at the end of MoP, came back last year right before dragon flight launched and realized 1. This game went to shit 2. It is still a time sink with gated content designed to keep you subscribed for the entire expansion. 3. I didn't have time to waste on a game that had its glory days over 10 years ago.

i feel this a lot i have been playing since vanilla i was 6 or 7 what i started def started to damage my life now i can play casually and get off when i need to

I miss the addiction when i was 14 years old. In my 30's I'm bored by all of the options out there. Good times. I'm talking about EverQuest by the way.