Reply to: World of Warcraft is as addictive as cocaine

[minestrone]

When you get to 3 O'Clock Monday morning and realise that you have pushed £1000 quid of world of warcraft up your nose in the last 3 days then you know it is a problem.

[ratewhore]

...I'd rather smoke Yvette Coopers @rse-sweat through a hubbly-bubbly pipe than touch that stuff again

[Platypus]

Then I remembered a voice from the past saying 'Alf - gambling only pays when you're winning.'

You obviously know what you like

[Board Game Geek]

I played it when it came out originally for 2 years.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game.

Me and Mrs BGG created a guild of friends, which has grown and grown, and taken the guild beyond WOW now. (We play WOW, DDO, Warhammer Online).

For the last 2 years we've run guild meets around the world, typically, Amsterdam for our Dutch Friends, London for the UK'ers, and Gotheborg for other European folks.

Since we are a Gaming Clan now, with outposts in other games, we get to stay in contact with each other, and forming a new outpost in a new game is easy because you know several of the players will be from the Clan and know how we work.

I don't play WOW anymore, 2 years was enough for me and I havent played for over a year now. I play DDO instead, which I enjoy more at the moment.

We get together once a week on a Friday, for beers, Teamspeak, smut and fun, while attempting to do an insanely hard dungeon or two. DDO is less forgiving than WOW, and IMHO requires a much higher degree of skill.

DDO is also focussed on the small party dynamic, so you don't need to get 10 or even 25 people together as you might in WOW, just 4 good mates is enough for most challenges. Quicker to organise and more intense as well, as each role in the group is highly valued and crucial to success.

WOW was good fun at the time, but I've got bored with it.

Mmm ...Diablo 3 is on the horizon.....

[ace00]

Don't go near it man, it's bad news. I once did a couple of lines of WOW as an 'experiment' because my friends were doing it. bad mistake. I had to get prescription methaDOOM to get off it and I spent a week doing Cold-Chicken, (like cold turkey but not as dry).
WOW is addictive as hell man, I'd rather smoke Yvette Coopers @rse-sweat through a hubbly-bubbly pipe than touch that stuff again

I got a mate who's dead keen on it and pushed a box of it to me. I got as far as some screen saying - "please supply your credit card details for monthly billing ($14.99)" - boom - outa there - never touched it again.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Don't go near it man, it's bad news. I once did a couple of lines of WOW as an 'experiment' because my friends were doing it. bad mistake. I had to get prescription methaDOOM to get off it and I spent a week doing Cold-Chicken, (like cold turkey but not as dry).
WOW is addictive as hell man, I'd rather smoke Yvette Coopers @rse-sweat through a hubbly-bubbly pipe than touch that stuff again

That's so true - you know Reality is for people who cant handle drugs - one of my mates ended up doing lines of Chicken Sulphate , and it ruined his promising career in the fire-escape trade.

Then I remembered a voice from the past saying 'Alf - gambling only pays when you're winning.'

I didn't argue.

[EternalOptimist]

Ok I know it's a computer game, that's about it.

Don't go near it man, it's bad news. I once did a couple of lines of WOW as an 'experiment' because my friends were doing it. bad mistake. I had to get prescription methaDOOM to get off it and I spent a week doing Cold-Chicken, (like cold turkey but not as dry).
WOW is addictive as hell man, I'd rather smoke Yvette Coopers @rse-sweat through a hubbly-bubbly pipe than touch that stuff again

[AlfredJPruffock]

Seriously ?

Even if you don't play, and couldn't give a baboon's bottom, surely anybody in the IT industry must have heard of World of Warcraft ?

Even my gran has heard of it, and she's been dead for 20 years.

Even I have heard of WOW.

And I now have a connection to the InterNet Network as well.

Well it is being routed via my trusty telex machine so the reponse time can take hours rather then minutes.

So - Get With It.

[Bagpuss]

Ok I know it's a computer game, that's about it.

[Board Game Geek]

Fair enough Baggie.

However, since it's been mentioned several times in The Times, and various broadsheets, I thought a man of your calibre might have come across it.

[Bagpuss]

I'm not really IT, so I don't do the computer games/ Iron Maiden t-shirt / latest gadget thing.

[Board Game Geek]

Seriously ?

Even if you don't play, and couldn't give a baboon's bottom, surely anybody in the IT industry must have heard of World of Warcraft ?

Even my gran has heard of it, and she's been dead for 20 years.

[Svalbaard]

I have no idea. Don't really give a toss either.

[Bagpuss]

What is World of Warcraft?

[crimdon]

I prefer free to play MMORPGs just as Ogame or Battle Dawn