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Is World of Warcraft that addictive?
steeler989
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Answer the poll. After, tell us if you play WoW and tell us how many hours a day you play it.
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Used to be, not now. If you are invited to a good guild though, you could level up to 80 in about a week and have some fun for a while until you get bored. Endless cycle of that though.
I never really thought so. The only reason I ever played it at all was so I could play with some friends, I never had any interest in logging on except when they were playing and as soon as they moved on, I dropped my sub and have never been remotely interested in going back.
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I guess it is
even if I quit for a couple of months to try something else
I always go back to WoW
....pathetic
Started playing WoW again a while back. The main reasons are that many of my friends still play it plus there already is a significant time investment to it. I also play EVE, but slightly less these days. Admittedly, it is the popularity and friends that still keep me in WoW albeit I have taken few quite long breaks.
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I have been playing WoW for the last few months, though not in the last couple of weeks and I've already cancelled my subscription, though it doesn't run out for a couple more weeks. I might log in and finish a few quests today, now that you've got me thinking about it. I'd say that at the height of playing over the last few months, I was probably playing 2 hours a day, 5 days a week.
It's safe to say that it isn't addictive to me. Other games have been, just not WoW, not for me. I do know some WoW junkies who play all the time.
It is partially the wrong forum for this question, I guess. I think most people have cancelled WoW here for various reasons and are looking for an alternative.
Maybe the Blizzard forums would fit more... for answers like "I am bored of WoW but I play because of my virtual friends".
I stayed addicted long enough to gear up and do new content, then I usually get bored. Sadly it takes less and less time every time I re-sub.
Short answer: no.
WoW is quite immersive in the sense that it's easy to play longer than you were intending to because you lose track of time while playing it, but I've certainly never found it to be addictive. I've never needed to play, and I've never had withdrawal from not playing.
On average, I play an hour, maybe 2 hours a night.
Not for me. I played it mainly because at the time I had absolutely nothing else to do. And even then once I got up to max level and started the repetitious dungeon running crap I quit shortly after that.
So is the game addictive? To some, yes. To me, not so much.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
WOW, Natural Selection, Starcraft, and Planetside are among the longest durations I've played games, with WOW leading the pack, so yeah it could be described as "addictive".
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Two weeks play time for me (lost 2 wks of sub time), So no it was not addictive for me.
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I don't really find it addictive, my whole history of playing WoW has been...
1.) Purchase a month of subscription
2.) Play an hour or two here and there every few days
3.) Subscription ends
4.) Purchase subscription 1-2 months later
5.) Repeat
Then again since I am a bit older now I think this is how all MMOs will be played by me from now on.
For me, the games i've played the most are: Diablo 1 and 2, Starcraft and WoW. I see a pattern here.
I think it depends on the person.
The time I first tried WoW (after my brief stint in the beta) I really enjoyed it. It gave me a very fun context to kill mobs other than just going to a field and killing mobs.
And even though each time I try wow I have some fun, I never really stay longer than a few weeks, playing casually. The world just doesn't do it for me and neither do the avatars. I don't really feel connected to the game or feel the personal need to stride forth to conquer evil (or be the evil) that inhabits the world.
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I tried really hard to play it once when I was bored with SWG, after the trial was up I had no desire to see, hear or experience the game in any way ever again, currently playing EQ2 which I find highly addictive.
MMO's in general are addicting If you find the one that fits you. WoW caters to alot of people hence the high amount of people who play it and can't ditch it.
A mmo that is not addictive goes down the drain. This is how this genre works. There is no other way to keep a player playing for months or years. Since wow have a pretty large population I guess yours was a rhetorical question.
Yes, I agree the question of the OP is trivial. But there are more games that lets you play "more".
Poker, Magic the Gathering, Roullette, Betting games in general.
These have all one thing in comon: money.
In WOW that "money" factor is replaced with a softer "greed" system.
So I guess it lies within common human's nature: we want more and like games or activities that trigger "more".
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It wasn't all that addictive for me. I played on and off since launch (quit for good 8 months ago), and never once did it have any significant effect on my life. The worst that happened was that a few household chores got put off for a day or two.
Now a coworker/friend of mine, he was seriously addicted. It affected everything in his life, from his relationships with friends and family, to his work performance (although office politics played a part in that as well). Last I heard he quit his decent-paying job to pursue some woman from Philadelphia (I think) whom he met in the game.
It really comes down to personality type and other psychological factors. Myself and the majority of my WoW-playing friends were fine, one became obsessed to the point of borderline self-destruction.
Same here and i'm a casual player.
Uninstalled then had an urge to play it, so i downloaded it again. After the patches i resubbed and 10 mins i was bored. I've done this at least 2 times.
So i've made a sticky note not to resub again.
Have a guy at work who played WOW at work when we didnt have much to do, he got home, took his dinner with him to his computer and started playing again till like 1-2 AM.
daily.
He had a baby boy at that time and neglected his wife, which resulted in her having fun with a friend of him, and eventually divorcing the idiot and marrying his friend.
But all ended up well....Up to this day he is still playing WOW as a NE priest, STILL single, reaching 40 and boring us during breaks with his fantastic raiding adventures he had the day before. :P
Doubt he knows he still has a son somewhere.
So yes, I would call the game addictive.
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I would reccomend u dont even find out.
(Talking from 5 years exprience myself here)
Dont play wow or be ready to be fucked, its like drugs ^^ trust me.