My dad spends big bucks playing golf all the time, even traveling around the country to play at big time courses. My mom has these crafts she makes and goes to conventions to learn more about her hobbie as well as sell her stuff in crafts shows all over the place on weekends. One of my best friends seems to eat drink and sleep NASCAR, another friend hates comps and things like PS2, but spends thousands of dollars on gear to go fishing every day after work....yet they all say I am wasting my time on online games...to me it all seems the same.
It is easy for people to be sucked into any game, but especially mmorpg. I think that it has to be because of the friendships and the community. In a normal game, if your girlfriend says "we need to spend more time together," you reluctantly put down the game, but its not too hard. In a mmorpg it is entirely different. You leaving would mean that you could potentially waste hours of work for not only you, but even for a friend.
If you log off the game at the drop of a hat, your friends will get annoyed. In a game like diablo, you can play if you have 10-15 minutes in the middle of the day. In a game like FF XI it can take a long time to get a good game going, and when your girlfriend starts pestering you its hard to just drop it.
Whether or not mmorpg's are good is another question. When it starts taking away from relationships in "real life" I say bad. But, when you have an internship with a company and you move away from home for 3 months, it could be very good. If you are anything like me, you will probably make more friends online than you will in the 3 months at work.
Whether or not they are good for you, man they are so much fun.
I've been a rabid player of Everquest for the last four years. I gave up last December only to find myself reactivating my account in february. After carefully studying what I was doing, I realized that I was not "playing" anymore. I found myself paying cash to chat with friends that I could easily talk with via IM or something. I have since cancelled the account and removed EQ from my computer. Granted, the summertime helped me make my decision, but, all in all, I'm happy I did. I find myself doing more things around the house (ie: home improvements, tearing stuff up that seems to be working perfectly normal, ... you know, guy stuff), and my wife seems to be happy that my computer isn't being fired up immediately after we put the baby down.
i have cut my play time down a bit to spend more time with my wife and pets but do i ever tthink i missed anything nope i feel like my time is well spent i makes me happy so be it. AND KEEPS US OUTA TROUBLE IN RL were people die and stay dead
Originally posted by Munki Really, I dont see why people say "you waisting your time on the computer" or I waisted years of my life on the computer/mmorpg why dont people say "damn I waisted 2 hours everyday for 60 years jogging, so I could live 2 years longer" or "Damn I just waisted days hanging out with these idiots." maybe "damn I spent all this time learning to snowmobile, and I will probably nver do it again" Oh wait, people do! Spending time playing a mmorpg is no more a waist of your time than snowmobiling, driving around, Partying, drinking, watching the hockey game. Its a form of entertainment, its just many people still stick the the stero type that if it involved a computer its lazy, nerdy and a waist of your time thats like saying oh, you like to see soccer games, what a waist of time, you are spending all that money, and just sitting there... or Why do you bother painting, your not making any money, its not going to change your life in any way aside form entertainment? Many people like to use the "you hafta be more social" excuse to bash mmorpgs or the internet in general. Last I checked playing a mmorpg is MUCH more social than many othe things such as many arts, going to a sports event, or or such activities we see as "socially acceptable". So really if you still think spending time on the computer is a waist of your time, maybe you should start thinking watching TV, hanging out with friends, partying, going for a walk, drawing, singing, playing an insturment, is all a waist of your time too.
That concludes my rant on that lol Anywho, I do find I will say "pwnd" ever so often in real life. Or somthing stupid will slip like calling sombody a newb, in which they then get confused.
hahaha.... u take the words right out of my mouth!!!! LMFAO!!! i say pwnd at times as well and a few other things LOL!!!
It does affect my life when i start playing FWO. But i still try to make some time for my real life and friends. I did make some friends online. But i still prefer to keep it online. Now I just searching for another good game to play after few months on FWO and I have already quit the game.
After i moved and i had been playing UO for a month or two or three i forget, some people in one of my classes were talking about UO and thats how i met the people i know today
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Godz of War I call Thee
Godz of War I call Thee
It is easy for people to be sucked into any game, but especially mmorpg. I think that it has to be because of the friendships and the community. In a normal game, if your girlfriend says "we need to spend more time together," you reluctantly put down the game, but its not too hard. In a mmorpg it is entirely different. You leaving would mean that you could potentially waste hours of work for not only you, but even for a friend.
If you log off the game at the drop of a hat, your friends will get annoyed. In a game like diablo, you can play if you have 10-15 minutes in the middle of the day. In a game like FF XI it can take a long time to get a good game going, and when your girlfriend starts pestering you its hard to just drop it.
Whether or not mmorpg's are good is another question. When it starts taking away from relationships in "real life" I say bad. But, when you have an internship with a company and you move away from home for 3 months, it could be very good. If you are anything like me, you will probably make more friends online than you will in the 3 months at work.
Whether or not they are good for you, man they are so much fun.
I've been a rabid player of Everquest for the last four years. I gave up last December only to find myself reactivating my account in february. After carefully studying what I was doing, I realized that I was not "playing" anymore. I found myself paying cash to chat with friends that I could easily talk with via IM or something. I have since cancelled the account and removed EQ from my computer. Granted, the summertime helped me make my decision, but, all in all, I'm happy I did. I find myself doing more things around the house (ie: home improvements, tearing stuff up that seems to be working perfectly normal, ... you know, guy stuff), and my wife seems to be happy that my computer isn't being fired up immediately after we put the baby down.
EQ raids until 2 am with class at 8 the next day make farva a sleepy weepy
o well -_-
R_farva, champion of norrath
R_farva, champion of norrath
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I met my girlfriend in a mmorpg and we are taking it slow on a long distance relationship. So far so good.
-ArcticWolf