WoWdetox is a volunteer-run web site aimed at people with a gaming addiction to World of Warcraft. Here gamers and ex-gamers can share their testimonies freely and anonymously.
| When I stopped drinking and playing WoW, I realized the game sucked. The thing is, I played with people I knew in RL. Yeah there were many I didn’t know, but there were connections, and after awhile, you feel connected to them, too. So it is hard to quit. I wanted to quit, and I almost did. After awhile, I played Sunday nights, basically. Then came along a girl I liked. Known her for six years. Best friends, really. I never introduced the game to her because it didn’t really interest me. But she saw an ad and bought it. I blame the Mr. T ad. So, it temporarily made the game fun, so I played a lot more for six-seven months with her. I wanted to quit after the temporary fun fix ended; I wanted her to quit. She is the smartest, well-read person, but this game is filling a void in her life. She really has no friends. It fills a void in many people’s lives. It isn’t healthy. The game takes advantage of people like this, which admittedly was me for a bit when I was lonely, in a city, far away. And I know to a person that plays WoW, to say that it is “unhealthy” sounds elitist to them, but there is no other way to describe it. Now her life is work and WoW. Conversations were about WoW, typically. Want to talk about something else? Can’t because she hasn’t done anything else except work. So, we got into a big fight. Voiced my frustrations at the current state of our relationship and ended it. It’s painful. She wanted a person to play WoW with, and that is about it. There’s more to life. Now she got her sister to play. So she has a new WoW buddy. I quit WoW and her at the same time. She is in a guild with people I know, so that is weird, but I will eventually drift away from those people, too. I hope she quits for her own good, and that WoW doesn’t kill a promising person. I saw she was leveling another character, how sad…. |
| I was a wow addict 5 months ago, and since that 5 months, my homepage is this website, i come check update every day, only to figure out, I WAS THE ONE NEEDING help 5 months ago
Now i Realise how big this is, The feeling of being free One thing i liked to do when i had a urge to play back in the days, go find yourself a spot in the forest, for me , i had my rock in the middle of a forest near my house, i would lay on it and watch the sky thinking about everything, and realising a lot of things some good, some bad A friend of mine once told me: -If you don't move, you fail. Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose Life. -Fred.P Since that day ive been naturaly working out 7 times a week ( free time ) If anyone wanna talk about it feel free, people already done it for me ,ill do it for you MSN: RatSFacE@hotmail.com AIM:TmXChoco |
| Is there a chat where we can talk about wow? I quited about 2 weeks ago, however I still have a strong urge to play, so i come here and read some post to prevent myself from playing. Sometimes, though i would like to speak to someone that played wow just like me and its trying to recover. So any chat that has deciated WoW rehab room? Or maybe this side can add chat support.
Thx in advance for your answer. |
| As a brief introduction, I've been a gamer since I had the motor skills to play, and that isn't going to change. You would think a game like WoW, where you progress/level up etc. would feel like you have accomplished something in comparison to other games, but let me tell you: it doesn't. I feel as though I accomplish much more (and have MUCH MUCH more fun) playing games like TF2/Quake/StarCraft and rather than leveling up, improving at those games (even to a competitive level). There's nothing wrong with playing games, but when you're not having fun, there's no reason to play WoW. By the way, how ridiculous is all this WoW as an e-sport rubbish? NEWSFLASH: IT'S ACTUALLY MORE BORING TO WATCH THAN LAWN BOWLS. |
| as a drug this game can be compared to heroin. it takes over every aspect of ur life and has cost me one relationship that i had for over 3 years and also played part in a second break-up which i recently had (was not the main reason thankfully) but it made me take a long hard look at what the game is doing to me and millions of other people and I have decided to quit this game on and for all and get back to reality. I went travelling for 5 months and checked the wow forums when i was in an internet cafe :( how sad is that. I plan to sell my accounts if i can failing that i will give them to someone i know and delete that game from my system once and for all. quit wow, enjoy life :) |
| Just sold my account about an hour ago! Got 150 dollars, so now i can afford a xbox 360. Ive played video games since i was little (5yrs old) and i must say that WOW is very addictive and the only game that i play 8 hrs a day,where as Madden i would play one or two games for only 1hr a day and was still happy with the game. Not only did WOW effect my relationships with my g/f but it also did with my family and cost me my career in the Marines since i was too busy to workout before i got there and eventually got a honorable discharge for basically being depressed for being out of shape.. I just got a new job and plan on going to school, so i had to quit wow NOW! i dunno what im going to do now, but i feel good. Think im going to call up some of my friends and have fun this 4th of july unlike last year where wow came first..Please please if you play more than 3 hours a day and its effecting your life, just delete your account or sell it! games shouldnt controll your life with years of lvling and grinding for NOTHING, just to feel powerfully in a game. Pretty sad now that i look at it. Well good luck! Quit while you can! |
| It's summer and the only thing I have been doing is playing world of warcraft. I've been playing it for weeks straight and haven't even noticed.. until now. I just noticed i just wasted about half my summer on a stupid game. I would find myself spending 90 hours a week on the game. Barely eating, sleeping, an d especially barely socializing. I used to get all the girls, hang out with friends all night, but now I am just a loner, pale, and skinny. Anyone who is going to buy WoW DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID. |
| I have not played for 10 days but I can not stop thinking about WoW, not even for a few minutes. It's making me crazy! I don't even miss the game nearly as much as I miss guild chat |
| I still have not managed to do it but I've been thinking about this for a long time. I had a 1 week holiday recently and got a break away from the computer. The insignificance of it all started to come clear. I'm spending probably 20 hours or more a week on it. But I'm also reading websites and thinking about it a lot. They say that 'Preoccupation' is one of the signs of an addiction. I have a huge preoccupation for WOW, what I need to buy from the AH, at what point should I make a call for Bloodlust, you know the drill. It's pretty bad. I wish I had something better to replace it with. That's why I can't give it up, I don't know what I will do. dammit! |
| I had it all in WoW: a lvl 70 disc priest, a lvl 70 warlock, a lvl 70 mage, a lvl 62 druid... 375 professions: tailoring, herbalism (on three chars... go figure), skinning, mining, enchanting, alchemy. I was my own self-sufficient economy and after a while I was loaded with Gold. I would just buy all sorts of mounts only because I could. In real life however I gained 10lb, carpal tunnel, nearsightness, dreamed about WoW, had nothing to talk about when I visited relatives (my friends are gone... dunno what they're up to these days), exhaustion, short-fused temper. Now I quit WoW 2 months ago and I'm thinking about getting that Disc priest back. |
