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I play MMO's. What excactly am I missing out on in life?
Savvon
Member Posts: 98
To all the people all over these forums who say that I am missing out on life because I play MMO's, can you please tell me what exactly am I missing out in life by playing MMO's?
I am a 37 year old father of two. I own my own business (serviced base) which made me enough money to buy a house, car and I am able to start another business in another country by the end of the year. I have been around the world twice and have studied 9 different cultures (not including sub cultures) from 9 different countries. I have an education and all my little toys litter the house. I have a wife a dog a cat a car and a scooter. I run a website that I pay for and never charge to use for Dads.
I go to BBQ's, weddings, funerals, parties, pubs, dinners, sport games, walks, gym and I volunteer once a month. I also snow ski and rock climb on occasion.
Or are you just assuming my life is meaningless because I would rather play an MMO for 4 hours instead of watching talk shows?
Do not pass your problems on others because you do not know how to schedule your time. You need to learn how to deal with your own problems.
I am a 37 year old father of two. I own my own business (serviced base) which made me enough money to buy a house, car and I am able to start another business in another country by the end of the year. I have been around the world twice and have studied 9 different cultures (not including sub cultures) from 9 different countries. I have an education and all my little toys litter the house. I have a wife a dog a cat a car and a scooter. I run a website that I pay for and never charge to use for Dads.
I go to BBQ's, weddings, funerals, parties, pubs, dinners, sport games, walks, gym and I volunteer once a month. I also snow ski and rock climb on occasion.
Or are you just assuming my life is meaningless because I would rather play an MMO for 4 hours instead of watching talk shows?
Do not pass your problems on others because you do not know how to schedule your time. You need to learn how to deal with your own problems.
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Can a mod sticky this please, it needs to be seen by all I believe
damn fine post!
Good job on the dad site too!
not everyone has control overthemsleves as you do, and i'm sure if you've spent that much time playing mmo's, you might know a person or two.
lol 4 hours... let me guess you have a level 70 in greens on a WoW pve server
You don't attend to the church on a regular basic? You heathen!
You miss religion...you will miss heaven!
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i could go into a huge reply here about the dangers of excessive binge drinking, hangovers, date rape drugs, drugs, modern lifestyle, parties, clubs, pubs, throwing up, safety, comfort, home.
The ones who read the news and understand how our lifes have changed over the last 20 years will get where i'd go with all those stories. Nowadays its even more difficult finding that "one" person, than ending up with the usual "me-you-upstairs-bouncy-bouncy" one night stand rubbish.
MMOs provide more social interaction than going out to a nightclub - musics too loud, drinks too expensive, some girl throws up on you, you end up leaving convincing yourself "it was a good night " and look in your wallet the next day and regret it.
Unless you go out with friends bowling or doing something constructive everynight (impossible with work schedules for friends) you really don't get the social input needed as human beings.
everyone needs a stress release, a chance to relax and imagine, a chance to just be something else even for a few hours and enjoy social interaction on a different scale... even if it's making feeble jokes with guild mates.
thank goodness for MMOs....... who said games kill, nowadays games (from xbox live to MMOS, PC games etc) are the reason why we're communicating more than ever before.
However saying that, there is an "addiction" problem associated with MMOs, although to be fair there's an addiction problem associated with EVERYTHING nowadays all the way from Eating to Sex. Everybodys different, and some do have a real problem but don't blame the games, the person needs people around them to convince them to seek help and be cured.
Schools/work etc should be on the outlook for people with these problems, it's easy to say the parents should spot these things. But most parents tend not too unless it's thrust out in front of them, besides how many moms would be happy knowing where their kid is at nights. It's definately a weird situation that needs worked upon.
Sadly bro there all lots of people out there mostly kids who truly are way to addicted to these games and really are missing out on there lives and childhood.
I myself am graduating High School next week
and this summer i plan on just training and getting ready for Marine Corps bootcamp which i go to in September 
. Most people I know are going to college...some older friends I know have dropped out of college and literally all they do with there lives is sit at home and play WoW. I don't really play anything anymore hardly cuz theres nothing that is of intrest to me (none released anyway) but even when I did play games I never let it get in the way with my life or my phisical shape.
I love videogames...always have and probably always will but there really is a problem out there with these online games that people need to realize. Im not saying online games are bad or anything....im just saying I totally agree that there are some people that truly are missing out on there lives.
nice post by the way
When people say "You are missing out on life." it is more directed to younger people (not that 37 is old, I mean like teens and early 20s) that play nonstop for their freetime.
That statement does not apply to you, since you have a life obviously being a father, owning a business, and having a social life.
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hehe, just a wind up.
I think the main point in this post is "personal time management."
We are all our own keepers.
You can't go around condemning a program for peoples lack of willpower.
In my opinion, You don't miss anyting if You are happy with You life.
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As for the people who like to slap a problem label on everyone, why not make a website of your own and help the people you claim that needs help? Or, you can go try to find a website that helps you with your own problems.
Everyone should better themselves before they try to better others.
Wow, you do a lot of stuff. Is that for real? Even when I take breaks from MMOs for years, I don't get around to doing all that stuff.
I travelled around europe for a few months one summer in college. I do okay with money and have projects around the house, but you're rock climbing and skiing and travelling around the world and running two companies and managing your website and volunteering and hitting the gym and walks, dinners, weddings, and all that other stuff too??? And raising a kid and playing an MMO??? Jeez!
If all that is true, I don't think I'd care about other peoples' opinions if I were you.
I feel like a loser now. I'm on an MMO break right now (waiting for something innovative to come out since leaving WoW and VG. I dabble in Planetside a little still, but just like once a week or so.) Even now, during this break from gaming, I don't do as much as you do. I put a deck on my house and am getting a hottub, started working out more, am taking some college classes, etc. But I'm mostly a slave to my work schedule.
Anyways... you sound like you're living life to a pretty full degree. Screw other peoples' opinions. And remember: misery loves company, and that's where lots of negativity comes from!
- Phos
Actually, MMOs have kept me sane all these years.
I'm 16, a straight A student, rank 1, and have a pre sat score of 2200.
What i'm missing out is nothing. I play roughly around 60+ hours a week on games, and I still manage my education and gaming life.
Don't even bother saying "GET A LIFE NOOB" or "LOL no lifer"
These words mean nothing on what i want to do at life
We have only 1 chance to live, we can choose how we want to live, where, and why. Playing games can be satifying as going on a
date=cyber date same deal.
I learned a lot while playing mmos, and that gave me view points that i've never learned in society.
I think games are a good way to avoid or ignore the outside world for a short time until we grow out of this era.
Fresh air, thats about it.
you get fresh air when you walk outside. You have to atleast go out to get food/meet friends/ or even just to peek outside.
that should be sufficient enough for 1 day.
serously, why are you justifying your lifestyle to others?
as long as i'm not harming anyone else, i could give a rat's ass what other people think
Too many times have we seen college students and younger actually throw their lives away for 8 hour gaming sessions.Then when they realize their ingame friends are not friends at all its too late and life has passed them by.
ATM im not even playing a mmo but when i do i can assure you it will be with members of mmodads.com.
What is your physical limit?
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... because people do incredibly stupid stuff if you let them. Go to a public swimming center or a pool hall, a disco or a pub, go to a football game or a high school...
If you let people do what they want, they do stupid things, the people that are not stupid are the absolute minority and are repeatedly called "lol, BS BS BS BS" at, like Ghandi or Jesus, or Kant or Galileo, or Descartes, or Locke... while people actually producing complete BS like Hitler, Stalin, Bill Gates, Jerry Springer are, or were, wiiidely appreciated...
Why this prelude? - Because if one person does something right that doesn't mean 100 others aren't complete, addicted, no-lifers.
MMOs are a problematic issue, I myself play, in my free times (in between semesters) a fair bit too much. Sitting in front of a PC is still recommended to last not more than 2 hours per day, from a medical view, which is widely exceeded by a broad mass, especially by MMO players... The psychological and somatic health issues arising with this tendency (which came up during the last 15 years, which is incredibly short) are yet to be thoroughly looked at.
While everyone, especially MMO players, claim to "only have a different hobby", one should never forget and admit (like me) that spending my MMO time at a gym or spending this time on sports generally would greatly improve my and everybodie else's well-being.
And no, just because I play MMOs myself does not disable me from judging our crowd. And yes, there are many other hobbies people should not get attracted to, yes, 65% of the western white population are suffering from extremely extended risks of cardiovascular diseases due to lack of healthy hobbies...
AND YES, MMOs ARE A PROBLEM, don't you talk it down as if it was just some hobby like Pen & Paper was in 1982...
Meridion
I am a 19 year old soon-to-be Student who does nothing but gaming the whole day.
What exactly am I missing? Nothing, to be honest.
All people should decide theirselves what they want to experience, what they want to sacrifice to have more time for something else...
In the end, nothing matters anyway. You don't have to have kids, there are too many People on this world already. You don't have to do anything really, you could decide to murder someone just to get into jail, so you don't have to bother about food or a job anymore
What are we living for? Nothing really, or better said: Everyone should find his own reason.
If I decide that I live to play MMOs, well, so be it.
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Do not hate it, but instead embrace the diversity.
Blanketed statements are always a good way to show your ignorance and prejudice. However, it is a very bad way to get your point across in an intelligent, respectful manner.
By the way, if you are going to be prejudice , at least spell the target demographic correctly. American (and America) is spelled with a capital "A".
Let me guess, this is where you come in and call me a liberal?
Typical Anti-Americanism.