- Jan 21, 2005
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I have a good friend that I have known for a long time.
We're currently 22; while everyone around him is moving on with life, college, and careers, he is still in his parents basement.
He has never moved out, and has never held a job for more than a month or two. The last job he had was at Nintendo doing video game testing--after a month or so, he decided he didn't want to go to work anymore, so he just stopped. He said, "I've got a couple hundred dollars, why would I need to go to work"?
He literally uses every second of free time for video games.
He played WoW for a LONG time. He would play day and night, etc. He finally stopped playing a few months ago and looked back thinking "what was I doing??". He sold his account on eBay for around $400.
Last night, while bored, he decided he wanted to play WoW again. He called up blizzard and told them that his account had been stolen. Without too much trouble they gave him all of the info to the account, and he re-claimed it, just leaving that other guy in the dust.
He says he plans on doing it again, when money runs out.
This whole thing really bugs me. He's literally just stealing money from whoever he does this too, and top of that, this guy had put another few hundred hours on his account (gotten him up to 70 on a few chars, flying mount, etc).
I want to help him out, he knows his wasting his life... but he seems like he doesn't really mind stealing money from people... Other than just bitching at him, how should I handle that?
We're currently 22; while everyone around him is moving on with life, college, and careers, he is still in his parents basement.
He has never moved out, and has never held a job for more than a month or two. The last job he had was at Nintendo doing video game testing--after a month or so, he decided he didn't want to go to work anymore, so he just stopped. He said, "I've got a couple hundred dollars, why would I need to go to work"?
He literally uses every second of free time for video games.
He played WoW for a LONG time. He would play day and night, etc. He finally stopped playing a few months ago and looked back thinking "what was I doing??". He sold his account on eBay for around $400.
Last night, while bored, he decided he wanted to play WoW again. He called up blizzard and told them that his account had been stolen. Without too much trouble they gave him all of the info to the account, and he re-claimed it, just leaving that other guy in the dust.
He says he plans on doing it again, when money runs out.
This whole thing really bugs me. He's literally just stealing money from whoever he does this too, and top of that, this guy had put another few hundred hours on his account (gotten him up to 70 on a few chars, flying mount, etc).
I want to help him out, he knows his wasting his life... but he seems like he doesn't really mind stealing money from people... Other than just bitching at him, how should I handle that?
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