Lawlipops @ Shoemoney
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Oh I play the fuck out of games and love it. I have had to quit playing MMOs though, because it's so easy to loose time. I could sit at my computer, fire up WoW then suddenly realize six hours went by and I hadn't done a thing.
I was addicted like crack to GTA4. But that was short lived addiction, it stopped after I beat the game. Once I beat it I stopped playing it. Same is true with Mass Effect and as well as a few others. Once the game is over, I’m done. I think this is why MMO's are so bad for me, there is no ending. There is nothing that tells me that I’ve won and I can quit.
I was addicted like crack to GTA4. But that was short lived addiction, it stopped after I beat the game. Once I beat it I stopped playing it. Same is true with Mass Effect and as well as a few others. Once the game is over, I’m done. I think this is why MMO's are so bad for me, there is no ending. There is nothing that tells me that I’ve won and I can quit.
I use to be addicted to Counter Strike a few years back. Only lasted a summer though. When you can't drive, none of your friends can drive, etc its easy to spend all day playing games. Couple that with the fact that you're the only kid in your neighborhood and it gets boring at home. But that was when I was in middle school. I realized that I was wasting time doing that shit, and thats when I started working online.
I played WoW for a bit (quit last October). Got my character to 70, did the raiding/PvP thing, etc. Overall the experience was 'meh'. I never really played for more than 2 hours a night (3-4 times a week), and it just got too damn boring towards the end.
Wasn't a complete waste though. My girlfriend had to go home for 3 months out of the year, and we played WoW together while she was gone. It was a nice way to keep doing stuff together.
But I digress. I know exactly what Shoe is talking about. My freshman year roommate got hooked, and it was like watching a building fall down in slow motion. Before WoW came out, he played a lot of Counter Strike, but he still went out to parties, went to class, etc. After WoW, he stopped going out with friends, never went to class (he played from 2 PM til 8 AM. Sleep a bit, repeat), and eventually he only left the room twice a day (to shower and run across the street for Subway). Tuesdays (when the servers were down), he'd just sit in front of his computer refreshing the server list (for hours), waiting for his server to come back up.
It was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.
Wasn't a complete waste though. My girlfriend had to go home for 3 months out of the year, and we played WoW together while she was gone. It was a nice way to keep doing stuff together.
But I digress. I know exactly what Shoe is talking about. My freshman year roommate got hooked, and it was like watching a building fall down in slow motion. Before WoW came out, he played a lot of Counter Strike, but he still went out to parties, went to class, etc. After WoW, he stopped going out with friends, never went to class (he played from 2 PM til 8 AM. Sleep a bit, repeat), and eventually he only left the room twice a day (to shower and run across the street for Subway). Tuesdays (when the servers were down), he'd just sit in front of his computer refreshing the server list (for hours), waiting for his server to come back up.
It was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.
HarveyJ
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Hey, the same thing happened with The Sims when it first came out... People remember what SimHeads were like?
I knew a guy that played it for 40 hours straight and collapsed.
The real issue is that people simply can't deal with their own lives, so they make "better" ones online.
Emp said it best. It's escapism... But unlike a book or a movie, where there's a definite ending and you have to get back to your life when it's over, MMOs are designed to be open ended and never have to finish... So there's always one more thing to kill, one more item to collect, and one more quest to finish before everything's "perfect".
At least the addiction isn't the type that physically harms it users (unless you coun't obsessive twinkie consumption and complete lack of exercise... but that's just like weed anyway) or lead to higher crime stats for people looking for their next fix (except in really rare circumstances... like Korean LAN cafes)
I knew a guy that played it for 40 hours straight and collapsed.
The real issue is that people simply can't deal with their own lives, so they make "better" ones online.
Emp said it best. It's escapism... But unlike a book or a movie, where there's a definite ending and you have to get back to your life when it's over, MMOs are designed to be open ended and never have to finish... So there's always one more thing to kill, one more item to collect, and one more quest to finish before everything's "perfect".
At least the addiction isn't the type that physically harms it users (unless you coun't obsessive twinkie consumption and complete lack of exercise... but that's just like weed anyway) or lead to higher crime stats for people looking for their next fix (except in really rare circumstances... like Korean LAN cafes)
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