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Death of a Social life
SlyGamer79
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What games have you played that pretty much killed your social life and possibly social skills with people outside of the ones you talk to and play video games with ?
I'd say for myself WoW had to be the one really that killed my social life aswell as some if not most of my social skills.
its not like i had a real interesting social life to begin with anyway lol. most guys i know like to go out to bars drinking and talk that was never my thing anyway being around loud music idiotic drunk people i'll pass lol.
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One of my friends ended up having social life eat his online life that he had with our core group of friends. He did a lot of dancing in night clubs until he found a girlfriend and now he's married and has zero time for games.
He's way better off than me at this moment. I'm hoping once I graduate college I'll have a way better job than him though.
Oh, I forgot my social life. Yeah I pretty much never had one. I've always been playing games. The game that took up the most of my time though? That would be Dark Age of Camelot.
2 years of Age of conan, i was one of those people who started that game about 3 months after launch and the game was running pretty good so i didnt have sour taste in my mouth about its launch.....
Just about every spare moment i had i put into that game from coming home from work until about 1am allot of nights. to be up for work at 5:30.
Met some dam good people who i still game with now. but social life is allot more ballanced.
For a period of time there, MMORPGs ended up being the replacement of a social life - wife and kids, well - there was not really the opportunity to do that stuff. There was no more going out, etc. You would be at home... you could talk to the TV, but I was always afraid that if I did that too long - it might talk back.
Of course, when you find yourself with your spouse sitting back to back together in the den - and you only talk in the game - you guys might want to go watch TV together...lol.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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Current MMORPG devs have done the world a big favor by getting rid of the virtual breathing world...
I'd say for me was probably Everquest and Daoc..
got bad grades in school because of those games and neglected my group of friends lol..
I didnt care about going out to parties,I didnt care about school and homework.All I cared about was what my mind really craved,being in a more exciting,stimulating world.
I keep the habit to a minimum these days,as you cant neglect RL altogether...
you cant survive in this world going on like that.
When the TV wants you to sacrifice a lamb to it, it's time to turn it off. :-)
Of course, if you have a core group of friends, that can end up being a social life... Often times I wasn't even interested in playing the game we were playing, but I still felt motivated to log in and play just to be with them.
i've played alot of MMO games but WoW was the biggest DPS to my social life lol.
i just sit home playing games on my PC/PS3 and don't even get out as much as i should and all my friends even though they are gamers actually have a life with a wife/kids and all but not me i'm too "Dedicated to my gaming" LOL
i still have former guildies from WoW as facebook friends but since i don't play anymore it leaves little to talk about if we don't have any games in common.
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Funny enough this is the reason i dont stick to single player games i love the social aspect of any game, FPS or MMO
I guess vanilla WoW would qualify for me, but I played with RL friends who lived in the same dorms. It's hard to be anti-social in that type of enviroment (insane drunken bastards running about). Having non-gamer friends who think anything but Madden is a waste of time and drag you out of your room also make it impossible, but I had my share of weekends in solitude playing a video game for 12+ hours. When you finally decide to log off it feels like you're in a haze. It was alwayas a very WTF moment for me to see my desk surrounded by empty sodas and snacks.
Those days are long gone for me. My wife would snap off a crucial part of man anatomy if I played a video game for 12 hours.
I guess mine would have been Sro, back when the cap was Lv60 (long time ago). I would play for hours with my spear nuker thief, running around looking for a trader to pop so I could get some free loot. Man people would get so pissed at me for PKing them.
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For me it's the other way around, games have pretty much revitalised my social life.
Years ago, my friends and me we used to hang around alot, worked on our cars, watched movies together etc. Then, one after another met their girlfriends and they've all gone deep into family things. Working like mules, 2nd child on the way etc. no time for nothing, can't even effort any time for themselves anymore. And if they've got a few hours per week to spare, their wifes tell them how to spend them.
Instead of now roaming the streets alone all night, i started playing games and met people who shared the same interest as me again. Some again left for family business, some went off hardcore and disappeared into WoW forever (death of their social life that is).
But without gaming, it would pretty much be the death of my social life, too.
You know what I love about this thread? It leads you to the conclusion that having a wife and kids (or a husband and kids) doesn't seem like a whole lotta of fun.
1. Work to support fun life.
2. Gaming
3. Bathing.
This is a hard one for me. We exist of a group of six guys who live here, all in the same neighbourhood. We've grown up together, and we're all just a bunch of gamers who play together the whole time as well. (WoW, ...)
Our lives mainly exist out of the following:
1. Getting up
2. Meet each other on Skype to play together
3. In the evening, go out all together.
4. Get up the next day, and repeat the cycle, just with a painful headache from the evening before.
Most of us have a non-gaming girlfriend as well, so I guess we're all happy. We're still studying ofcourse, so I don't know how this would feel with you having a wife. Probably not the same.
Never had an issue with my social life but playing rift for 800+ hours over 4-5 months made me gain weight.
So i uninstalled it and went back to single player games.
Lost the weight.
So MMORPGs make me a fat ass...
Thankfully GW2 is Buy 2 play. I dont force myself to play mmos when im not paying a sub.
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WOW the most.
Hoping SWTOR will be a little more tender with my poor soul.
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City of Heroes, although it was only a symptom of my social life being suck. When I moved to a new city to go to law school, I had no trouble meeting people, other law students, and they invited me to all their parties and such.
In hindsight, now that I'm out of school and get to meet people that aren't lawyers, (aside from the other lawyers at my non-profit firm they're cool) I enjoy going out with people. I still enjoy gaming, but it was them not me, not the so much the game.
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