Why you should quit WoW…three questions you need to ask yourself.

[lthompson94]

Option 4: Do you find yourself writing walls of text trying to justify why you will quit WoW to other people who don't care?

Answer 4: Stop playing and save us your lame clutter of the forums.

[Kyeguywar]

I really think there has been more "Wows is dying" and "Quit Wow" forums since cata has started and its just plain annoying. Just talk about the game or something better then quitting it if u want to quit fine just don't influence other people to

[Kotomie]

You pose questions and then you tell people how they are not to respond to questions because in your own mind you don't count them. That's dumb. If you made a friend or found a spouse, then there is almost no chance you would have met them outside of WoW. You could have made other friends or married someone else, but that doesn't discount the positive things that came in to your life. Besides, you might have been playing other games instead that didn't have a social aspect and made no friends at all. Just because you finish Mass Effect, doesn't mean there isn't other games you would move on to. So you just have speculative garbage on what they could be doing. If they think it is important, it is. Doesn't matter if you think it isn't, because you aren't them.

Saying you will quit when you stop enjoying it is a completely legitimate answer. Some people are "addicted" to it. But most people enjoy playing it because they like the challenge or the social aspect. And the difference between a smoker and someone who plays WoW, normal people are going to eventually get bored with WoW and move on to something else. A smoker isn't going to do that without a lot of pain. Most people can decide they are bored and move on and won't feel any pain at all.

Your third question is a bit of a BS scenario. If WoW was closing its door, it would be announced so that people knew ahead of time. You wouldn't just wake up, log in, and find it is gone. Anyone would be upset with that scenario because they are paying a monthly fee and want to play the game they are paying for.

Quite frankly, you haven't quit the game if you are posting here and reading here...since there is no reason to be here discussing a game you don't play. For some reason you have a strange need to justify your actions by getting the approval of others. Or you feel you are some sort of special person that was magically able to break free from the evil WoW and with your flawless logic can convince others to stop playing the game and save their lives. You aren't special. People will quit when they want. If you are really over WoW, then you have no need to be here posting here and you just annoy the heck out of all of us who are tired of seeing 100 I quit posts a day. Go enjoy your life.

[insmek]

Do you ask a football fan when he plans to "stop" watching games?

I think this one sentence sums it all up pretty nicely. If you enjoy something, why in the world wouldn't you do it? And, if you don't enjoy it, why in the world are you still doing it?

The mind--it is boggled.

[Xerix]

This game is that deep for some people? Oh my...

Maybe some people are just deep and they happen to play (and quit) wow.

Nice OP. I've thought about those same questions and it really helps putting life in perspective instead of mindlessly doing whatever feels good at the moment. Life isn't long and sometimes you have to make choices between multiple good things as to which you invest your time in.

[Deleted]

Option 4: Do you find yourself writing walls of text trying to justify why you will quit WoW to other people who don't care?

Answer 4: Stop playing and save us your lame clutter of the forums.

Question 5 - You know you are not obliged to read threads which you probably won't like, right?
Answer 5 - Yes but you are most likely a drama queen yourself... Can't miss a chance to show other people how world is moving around you either!!!!


P.S.: OP I still think you need some medical treatment... And the seminars!!! Seriously!

[Kickbuttmario]

Time wasted having fun isn't time wasted.

Also... kickbuttmario, you do know a "heroine" is a female hero... right?

WoW thanks for telling me lol .

[wimbo125]

1. If you could go back in time to the day you bought WoW, would you buy it again?
Hell yeah, i enjoy the game.

2. If you are still an active player, when do you plan to stop playing?
Never, i love it.

3. If all WoW servers disappeared today and were permanently removed, what would your reaction be?
I would grab a beer and go play basketball or football (soccer for the Americans) and hang around with friends and laugh at Chinese/Korean people for freaking out...

[Raldazzar]

1. If you could go back in time to the day you bought WoW, would you buy it again?

2. If you are still an active player, when do you plan to stop playing?

3. If all WoW servers disappeared today and were permanently removed, what would your reaction be?

1, Yes, I met my wife through here, and if i hadnt, i wouldnt have her, or my daughter. its also a great stress reliever, and brings far away friends together

2, I dont in the foreseeable future! see above!

3, I'd say, Its been fun, and move on finding other games that pique my interest.

[Acousticferret]

What's with all the "I've quit WoW and I think everyone else should too so I feel better about my decision" posts lately? It's getting fucking annoying.

Quitting wow is the new fotm.

[Warwithin]

1. Nope. It's a huge waste of time. I couldn't care less that I might've spent more money money doing other hobbies - I just regret spending so much time behind a computer monitor.

2. It's open-ended. Whenever I stop having fun with the game, I'll stop playing the game.

3. I'd be pissed, but I'd get over it. Not to say that I'd stop time-consuming games, but that I'd toy around with different games before eventually finding one to fill the WoW void.

tl;dr - I play WoW, but regret it; and, if it were to disappear, I'd be pissed but eventually play a different game.

[BozidaR]

If this thread was a troll attempt then it is winning

However just in case you are being serious.

I find threads like these(and the number is growing at a terribly fast rate)very annoying and skewed.This is a typical "I'm quitting WoW please hold my hand thread"

it would seem that as others have stated that you have just basically said pick a or b and this is why and this is how you should feel etc. And question 2. Who the fuck decides when they will quit playing an mmorpg ahead of time. your not pregnent your playing a god damn video game for christs sake. Thats why they are made the way they are. I am my own person ill quit and play when I fucking want to. Ill humor you none the less

1.Yes I would buy it again. It has given me and my friends counless hours of fun. Could I have had fun doing something else? Maybe however usually having fun involves money and if i wanted to go out and have "fun" every day for a few hours before work etc its going to cost me gas which equals money which over time is going to add up to way more then the 15 dollars I spend a month on this game. I have a full time job A relationship that I have been in for over a year now(and still going strong)my own apartment and I am going to college full time. I am 20 years old I think I have a pretty balanced life. If i want to take a few hours out of my day to relax then so be it. I could be doing drugs or shooting people but I'm not.

2.Again who the hell plans on quitting an mmo at a specfic time. I log on and realize oh no this game isnt fun anymore. just like any other game. i stop playing

3.I would be upset for maybe an hour. then i would quit. I dont get upset over things i cant change its a waste of time and energy.

[Noblebeast]

1. If you could go back in time to the day you bought WoW, would you buy it again?

Yes i would

2. If you are still an active player, when do you plan to stop playing?

I don't plan on stopping ever.

3. If all WoW servers disappeared today and were permanently removed, what would your reaction be?

Wouldn't hurt me, I would just find a 100% blizzcloned private server with 1x rates to play, theres a few of them out there.

[Kekkiki]

Being addicted to a game is the worse thing that could ever happen to you. worst than smoking even. because you are literally wasting time on nothing, gaining nothing in return, only some fun of hitting some buttons controlling toon characters. When you could have learned something, like a profession, a new language, read some books, educated yourself, worked out, exercised, made a new hobby, new sport, anything you could have done, could have been much better than a game experience.

Ever since I realized this fact (6 months ago), I have stopped being addicted to wow. Immediately. It came to me like a flash in reality, like a vision, and I decided - the hell with raiding, the hell with trying to get the best gear first, the hell with arena, the hell with everything. Until now I only log wow when truly there is nothing else to do in real life. I put everything before wow. I don't raid, when I pvp, I only queue for random bg, do few dailies maybe, lvl some alts, enjoy the relaxed slow paced game, rather than trying to be that furious nervous player every wow addicted is.

I think what he is trying to tell you all is, unless you take the game moderately, you are just wasting your life away. There are lots and I mean lots of things you could do that would also entertain you and advance you all together, rather than just entertain you in a fictional world with fictional toons and 1 - 2 button, with endless grinding route. Seriously. For all those who take the game THAT seriously, think about it, if you meet a girl friend, would you tell her when she asks you what you've been doing "Hey, I have played wow for 6 years. And now I met you.", or would you tell in a job interview that you have been playing a game 6 hours a day atleast since 6 years and you have no other skills.

It's ok to have some fun with the game, but if you are that much of a hardcore player, then seriously, open your eyes, you are missing a lot in your one-time life time. I hope you realize that soon enough.

---------- Post added 2011-03-28 at 09:35 AM ----------



Please...
Really? I mean, seriously ...?
Being a "raid leader", "guild officer", have made you such a great leader and socialist?
Normally I ignore such idiotic realizations but what can I do, I have a great allergy against bullshit.
You have no idea what it takes to be a good leader. You have no idea how to run a group of professionals and non-professionals in any kind of group except of your wow-friends group which (sorry for the language) any retard could do.
Have mercy on yourself and open your eyes, that feelings you have of "leadership" when you put marks over creatures and expain tactics to several players in raid is part of the game fun. Its only fun. Get over yourself.

I laughed hard at how clueless you can be. If you don't know anything about psychology or how people behave in general, then don't start uttering bullshit about other people's experiences. A leader ingame is like any leader leading a group of people. Video game or not. Lots of experiences can be drawn from leading people in a video game, and there are even scientific studies that have proved it.

Go back to your drawing board.

[Kickbuttmario]

I laughed hard at how clueless you can be. If you don't know anything about psychology or how people behave in general, then don't start uttering bullshit about other people's experiences. A leader ingame is like any leader leading a group of people. Video game or not. Lots of experiences can be drawn from leading people in a video game, and there are even scientific studies that have proved it.

Go back to your drawing board.

Well it depends on the leader. I've had many guild leaders that should've never been guild leaders in the first place for they were just friendly and pussies. While I had some who were very well professional. They spoke like Adolf Hitler, great passion and so on. I bet thats how the EU guilds speak like xD.

If this thread was a troll attempt then it is winning

However just in case you are being serious.

I find threads like these(and the number is growing at a terribly fast rate)very annoying and skewed.This is a typical "I'm quitting WoW please hold my hand thread"

it would seem that as others have stated that you have just basically said pick a or b and this is why and this is how you should feel etc. And question 2. Who the fuck decides when they will quit playing an mmorpg ahead of time. your not pregnent your playing a god damn video game for christs sake. Thats why they are made the way they are. I am my own person ill quit and play when I fucking want to. Ill humor you none the less

Calm down.

As many people have said, people consider this more then a game. And the OP made a good point that because of the addictiveness, it is very hard to quit.

[Lilija]

Well it depends on the leader. I've had many guild leaders that should've never been guild leaders in the first place for they were just friendly and pussies. While I had some who were very well professional. They spoke like Adolf Hitler, great passion and so on. I bet thats how the EU guilds speak like xD.

I gues a game is a great place to test someone's leading skills - after that they know if they got what it takes and even learn a thing or two. Games gives this great opportunity for us to learn from our mistakes, because at the end of the day it's still only a game and harm form mistakes is minimal. Failure leadership in real life would prolly have much worse consequences.

You know why games and all activities considered as playing are fun for people? It's an evolutional mechanism that we share with all the mammals. We learn faster thru games. Also it's a safe environment where you can easily resume after failing.

A little example from my pet I have a rabbit. He absolutly loves being chaised around ... all the sprinting and turning around. Sometimes he runs around without any apparent reason at all. In the wild it would be essential for survival (not that he could go back ... it's not possible to learn everything in safe environment).

Anyway, what I wanted to say that we are programmed by our insticts to have fun from certain activities - the more similarities to life the more we are drawn towards that particular activity. Thru our early years we learn only thru playing, with time we add more practice. Eventually we start learning mostly thru practice but the feeling of having fun is still there as a reward for learning. Since we are complexe creatures, this mechanism occassionally can get broken or out of balance - especially if we feel unsafe in reality. But it's not the activitie's fault - as soon as we fix our problem with reality there is no more reason to hide and fun activities stop being a "problem". Spending too much time (definition of which depends on a person) playing games is not a cause - it's a symptom. A fact of playing games itself is as natural as sleeping, eating, etc...