Is it possible to play WoW and REALLY have a social life + fulfilling life?

[Deleted]

if you say you can combine everything your just talking bullshit online to impress people over the internet (my 2 cents)

I might be bashed for agreeing with you but I do. Sadly, the internet is full of people who do this.. People crave acceptance, attention and validation (or just want to mess around). That's just how it is and always will be as long as we still live in this liberal society where people can go online completely anonymous and say whatever they want.

[Deleted]

I might be bashed for agreeing with you but I do. Sadly, the internet is full of people who do this.. People crave acceptance, attention and validation (or just want to mess around). That's just how it is and always will be as long as we still live in this liberal society where people can go online completely anonymous and say whatever they want.

Yup alot of these guys are trying to impress.(no idea who)
I am not judgmental as stated before but half of these guys are overweight/out of shape and log in as soon as they get home. Just by being on MMO-Champion it shows you are even more serious about wow than the average player. You are spending your non-wow time on a wow site...

[Deleted]

I didn't vote because i choose: Yes and No
Yes because no matter how you look at it WoW is created to be a hobby or a way to entertain yourself and feel accomplished at the same time so you can be a hardcore player and have a normal life.the only expense is that you have to manage your free time wisely.

No, if you are like me, neck deep into a lot of other activities.since you won't have the time to raid or pvp as much as you want, do the other things, do your job/study, and get enough sleep.
I tried to do it all for a week. Had to sleep only 4 to 5 hours a night

[Monarken]

Guys, i thought we sorted this out already.

There is no "Real life" only AFK.

[MAGAmobile]

If you raid more then 4 days a week nope.

[Leatbabiez]

Answer number three. I only raid 2 nights a week, but before was doing 4-5. Still, I'm in a habit of playing more than just those two raid nights. Anyways, while I still have a girlfriend, and a social life, the social life has suffered the most. This is because I really want to keep my relationship healthy, so when I'm not playing wow I tend to spend time with her. I also recently moved back home, and most of my good friends are out and about in other places...

[Deleted]

i have my girlfriend for over 3 years,playing wow for 2 and something..still happy with her and going out with her as many times as before...if friends invite me to go out,ill let the game aside without asking...still i love playing ..got my 85 main,80 on another server..80 something and 60 something alt...

[Deleted]

Yup alot of these guys are trying to impress.(no idea who)
I am not judgmental as stated before but half of these guys are overweight/out of shape and log in as soon as they get home. Just by being on MMO-Champion it shows you are even more serious about wow than the average player. You are spending your non-wow time on a wow site...

Which makes everyone here hypocrites! :O Including you and me.

EDIT: Allthough, it might not really mean so much anyway. I just realized that I'm logged in on facebook at another window. And I don't even like facebook... It's just something that seem to happen whenever I start my web browser.

[Deleted]

Which makes everyone here hypocrites! :O Including you and me.

Haha but I never explicitly said I have a life.

The only thing sadder than not having a life is not having one and pretending to have one! xD

[Deleted]

Haha but I never explicitly said I have a life.

The only thing sadder than not having a life is not having one and pretending to have one! xD

Touché

[Deleted]

My social life doesn't change when I don't play. The amount of time I'm socialising is constant, I just 99% of the time choose friends over wow, unless I have a sheduled raid. But this IS about time management. You can do dailies, reputation, leveling alts when there is nothing going on in real life. When it comes to sheduling raids, I treat it as any other sheduled event in my calendar.

Truth is I;m not a hardcore player right now, since I have a a period of considerably more work, but I was raiding all WotLK quite regurarly and my social life did not suffer. Also, my boyfriend plays wow, that is quite helpfull

[Jacoste]

I have a:
-girlfriend
-part time job
-full time college student

All while maintaining a fairly hard core wow schedule. So yes it is possible.

[Zuird]

I have a girlfriend (for about 2 years now), play on the high school football team (I started btw and I'm getting into an all-star game), have 3 AP classes, and play wow. :P

[shandala]

This question basically asks, "Is it possible to have a bobby and a social life?" Of course you can. There are 168 hours in a week, IF you sleep 8 hours a day and work a full time job you still have 72 hours to split between WoW and a social life. If you raid 20 hours a week and play for 2 hours a day additionally you still have 38 hours to "have a social life".

And that is a fairly extreme circumstance. I, for one, sleep about 5-6 hours per night, work 30 hours per week, take classes for 9, and raid 15 hours so have plenty of time to go out to the bars, to the pool, out on the lake, out to dinner, to a museum or out to a festival.

To relate to an earlier post. Didn't you ever have that guildie that always logged on after last call their time on nights they weren't raiding and would be buzzed and funny and played for an hour or 2 before bed? Unless you are raiding over 4 nights a week you can still have a proper social life.

I actually enjoy the nights that I just go home and play WoW, because I have in the past been a bit on the overboard side of being social. You can over do having a life just as much as you can over do playing WoW. Its all about balance. I mean really it is just a hobby. You might as well ask if someone can play golf and still have a social life.

And in my experience to all those citing relationships, its way easier to have a social life and play WoW than it is to have a social life and be in a relationship. Say a buddy calls you up and wants to grab drinks, its way easier to turn off a game than to change plans with your girlfriend who won't always understand that you haven't had drinks with just the guys for a while and that should be OK with her.

[Hexian]

So...so many liars in this thread.

[Deleted]

I enjoy playing games such as WoW or Poker over going out and getting drunk, or having to be around a ton of drunken people.
I just find it amusing when younger brother judges me for not participating in the social "norm" for "my age". Sitting behind a computer
isn't detrimental to your health, providing you exercise and eat in moderation, and also take short breaks from the computer screen itself.

[Deleted]

i think i am managing just fine with my social life. But i almost never play on weekends and barely have time to raid 3 nights each week in a casual guild. But real life comes before wow. So my girlfriend and football always comes first

[Trispec]

It's fine to raid 3 nights a week for a few hours, and still have a social life that is up to your own standards, not anyone elses.

[Syntic]

Yup alot of these guys are trying to impress.(no idea who)
I am not judgmental as stated before but half of these guys are overweight/out of shape and log in as soon as they get home. Just by being on MMO-Champion it shows you are even more serious about wow than the average player. You are spending your non-wow time on a wow site...

You're right, I could play CoD all day, go out Saturday's with friends, watch porn in my non-CoD time and have a life.
But I can't play WoW, go out on Saturday's with friends, browse MMO-Champ in my non-WoW time (or during WoW time), and do something "worthwhile" at other times and have a life.

Since the first option is what most people who claim to have a life do in reality.

Btw, I can guarantee the majority of posters here post here either at work/school via phone, or whilst playing WoW.

[Marani]

I agree that social life suffers, when you play wow. But then... I do play (right now not so much because of exams coming soon) and sometimes i do play a lot. And I still go out with friends every weekend and sometimes during the week and I do have a boyfriend. I could spend more time with my friends when I wouldn't play wow, but I don't think i really would. Before I played wow I was chatting for hours and hours and before that I would read books all night long.
I guess I was kind of nerdy all the time and I agree my social life probably could be more fulfilling or something, but it isn't totally screwed as well. I'm pretty happy with my social life as it is right now (i think it was actually worse some time before i played wow, but that's another issue) and i don't think wow is an issue for me... it's more just me after all