WoW = The new heroin

[pstylez]

Can you believe that 10 MILLION people are addicted to that game? It is causing divorces all over the world. Maybe it preys on people with the propensity to acquire a mental/emotional addiction rather than a chemical/physical one.

Couldn't imagine getting divorced because of an imaginary video game world.

[tiedye]

But man did it ever help me quit drinking.

[oddmud]

i played it for a month or so, then i realized how lame i was.

[Senior]

10 million people... it's hardly close to heroin. I bet more people are addicted to tic tacs!

[ebbomega]

I got off that junk back when it was called "MUD"

[.Promoter]

that game isnt all that good imo. I love those kinds of games, but i found wow annoying... takes way too long to level up, and the gameplay is very solo even with groups. The whole one giant world thing isnt that great, i prefer the diablo II style. But more instances could solve the problem for wow

[-evil-duerr-]

what? heroin is way funner than that shitty game

[KrisisID]

I saw it's addiction take effect. Going to BCIT full of geeks in the tech department. A buddy of mine used to play, got us into it, i stopped after the trial, didn't renew but i saw it slowly take over the lives of other friends who still play to this date, and their school grades are now shit. It can get that way. Everytime they're on a site its either WoW armory or some other site related to WoW, or searching YouTube for strategies for the game.


Disclaimer: The use of geeks is not meant as a rude thing, i consider myself one.

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by -evil-duerr-

what? heroin is way funner than that shitty game

Yah, true heroin junkies would totally mock WoW players if they had any kind of energy, or awareness of the world around them.

[pstylez]

According to the USA's drug website 3.8 million people admitted to using heroin in 2006. 600k of which have been through drug rehab programs. I am willing to bet many more than that
play WoW in the USA. The funny thing about heroin is that many people admit to trying heroin, however they never decided to get addicted to the substance by doing it over and over.

I have tried every drug under the sun (almost, definately not jenkum or any gross stuff like that) and have never gotten addicted to any of them, but low and behold I played WoW once and I became addicted for at least 3 months. I had to get rid of the cd's and delete it from my computer.

[Senior]

Originally Posted by pstylez

According to the USA's drug website 3.8 million people admitted to using heroin in 2006. 600k of which have been through drug rehab programs. I am willing to bet many more than that
play WoW in the USA. The funny thing about heroin is that many people admit to trying heroin, however they never decided to get addicted to the substance by doing it over and over.

I have tried every drug under the sun (almost, definately not jenkum or any gross stuff like that) and have never gotten addicted to any of them, but low and behold I played WoW once and I became addicted for at least 3 months. I had to get rid of the cd's and delete it from my computer.

LOLS are you really trying to make this argument?

[b0ld]

There's a guy that they just recently fired over at my work because he would call in sick for a bunch of days only to brag that he wasn't really sick he just played WoW.... Infact everything that came out of his mouth was something to do about WoW.... Anyways apparently when they fired him he was distraught because he doesn't know how he is going to pay for his subscriptions to WoW or supposively some "Higher" level account that he was saving up to buy...

Apparently these geeks are dishing out actual cash... up to $3000 dollars to own someone elses accoun that has characters that are powerful...

Pretty god damn sad if you tell me...

[Grapes]

Don't you get up to level 70 and then the game is kind of done

[b0ld]

I have no idea... but from I have been told its not uncommon for some of these WoW addicts that are willing to dish out real cash (in the thousands) for accounts....

[thebobman]

If you took a random sample of 10,000,000 people you would have hundreds, if not thousands (1,000/10,000,000 is just 0.01%) of drug addicts and oddball social deviants. Case in point: going off of the FBI's crime statistics Metropolitan Los Angles (pop 3,400,000) had 227 Murders last year and 551 people were raped.

WoW is just a new trend that you can attach to statistics which are really only representative of the general population.

And no, I don't play WoW.

[kir mokum]

1. "supposively"?

2. thebobman: did you just have a stroke?

[gnosis]

...Ummmmm.....

?

"WoW"?

Que'est ce que ca?

Frosty
(....aaaaa... game?....)

[Grapes]

World
of
Warcraft

Google search would've got you the same answer and saved you some question marks.

[NinjaBoy]

I believe 10 Million is an inflated number.

It's 10 million registered accounts. So if you're like me and played for a month then stopped, your in that number. If you have multiple accounts, those are counted too.

It's a lot, but I don't think 10 million active accounts. Also that would mean that blizzard makes 100 million a month from the game.

[tiedye]

Google?

[pstylez]

Originally Posted by Senior

LOLS are you really trying to make this argument?

Hell yeah I am. The term "Devil's Advocate" was created because of me. Sheit son, tell me the sun is black and i'll call it yellow.

[crackdragon]

how can you get addicted to that crap? rat killing 101... shit gets boring fast

[pstylez]

Originally Posted by crackdragon

how can you get addicted to that crap? rat killing 101... shit gets boring fast

If you are one to get emotionally/psychologically addicted to things (games, music, ecstasy, the opposite sex) then you can become addicted to that crap. If you are more of a chemically addictive person then heroin is your drug of choice. If you are neither then you are lucky and should not play WoW or do drugs. Shit I dont know, i'm just shootin' from the hip here. To answer your question which I am not even sure you want answered; I have no clue, maybe it's the deep ingrained lust for power that many people have, or maybe it's the competitive spirit of the individual. Which ever it is, it is what it is. People are funny creatures.

[ebbomega]

I have an addictive personality. I started playing online RPGs when they were text-based adventures you connected to over a telnet connection to an obscure port (usually 3000). I got addicted. For about 3 or 4 months they commanded my life.

Then I all of a sudden realized that real human interaction was a lot more gratifying and stopped obsessing over it. Ever since then online RPGs (particularly MMOs) have bored the shit out of me.

[pstylez]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

I have an addictive personality. I started playing online RPGs when they were text-based adventures you connected to over a telnet connection to an obscure port (usually 3000). I got addicted. For about 3 or 4 months they commanded my life.

Then I all of a sudden realized that real human interaction was a lot more gratifying and stopped obsessing over it. Ever since then online RPGs (particularly MMOs) have bored the shit out of me.

word!