Originally posted by: Aikouka
You know, I can't stand when people complain about how much WoW ruined their life. It's always people blaming something else for their own issues and they wonder why they never change.
My friend was telling me, "Oh, I'm going to quit Warcraft, it's taking up too much time." Note that this
can (raids can "restrict" you, but that's a choice you make) be a game with no time commitments at all... how does it honestly take up too much time when you
can just stop. I've been playing since November 25, 2004 12:01AM (according to my account management page... I still remember debating whether or not I'd buy the game after having a bad time with FFXI connection-wise), and I may've played a LOT in the beginning (at one year, I had 120 days played on one character, that's an average of about 8 hours a day), but you do get burned out after awhile when you finally realize that behind the façade of fun, there's a machina of monotony hidden.
At one point I did quit the game and amusingly enough, I spent more money than when I did playing the game. Same goes for college... without the game, I'd probably be at the bars or something spending the $15 monthly fee easily in one night. I just hit up the distributor (was in PA) and bought a case of Yuengling Lager for like $16.99 and drank while playing WoW
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