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.
| I missed my Sons 5th birthday party. I didn't get him a gift or anything at all. I completely forgot about it. My guild setup a raid for the same day. I had been preparing for it all week. I'm the off tank usually and this time I got chosen to be the main tank as the other guy in my guild went on vacation. I was more excited about this than my own Son's birthday. I forgot about it completely I was so busy studying and researching the dungeon and bosses. My wife told me I was supposed to pick up the cake and bring it to funtime Pizza at 12:00 on sat (like chuckycheese) but I forgot to I thought she meant next saturday. I spent the day wondering why it was so quite. Apparantly my wife took our two kids and their friends to the funtime pizza for his party. I turned off my phone and prepared myself for a day full of WoW. They all got back at 9:00pm my guild and I had just got to the 2nd boss. I'm sitting at my computer being the moron I am not paying attention to anything with my headphones on and my screen goes black. I look over and I see my computer in pieces. My wife knocked it off the table (to say it lightly). When I looked at her I didn't know why she was so upset. Untill she started screaming out about how I let down our Son and that I'm hardly ever there for him or her or any of our kids because I'm always paying attention to the game. She explained to me how all the kids waited an hour for me to show up with a Cake and it never happened. I felt like pure crap. Worse than forgetting to bring a cake I forgot it was even his birthday. My wife was upset with me she had our kids stay over at their friends house just so she could discuss our future it was a long night. I let this game eat up at me and destroy my marriage and my relationship with my children. Now I'm on the verge of a divorce. I don't blame my wife for hating me. I wouldn't blame my kids if they hated me either. I hate myself for what I have done to them. I don't remember a single time in my adult life where I honestly cried but that night I did before my wife. It hurt so much to know what I was doing. My Son is always going to remember his father letting him down and not being there for him. How do I make something like that up to him? How can I get my wife to love me again? My Wife was right "I did this to us". |
| World of Warcraft: It's like throwing meat in the middles of a flock of circling vultures. The fastest and most dedicated gets the prize, that will later be shit out. The community aspect of the game is completely gone. Those long, hard hours; where you had to adjust your actual life; means nothing. People that have characters with higher gear scores than you, will consider you insignificant. It doesn't matter if you sound intelligent or not. They're better than you because they've accomplished something Blizzard set into the achievement or character panel. I used to be there. The top of the game and it seemed totally worth giving up actual life. Was it really though? Absolutely not, because years or less down the road I looked back and realized that it was simply a wasted time. I'll never meet these people. Those that I do, extended past the game itself and didn't care if I downed so many bosses before everyone else. Basically, I hope no one plays this game thinking it means something. It doesn't. For those that want to play casually, this is a fair warning. Those hardcore players will look down at you because you don't invest as much time as them, but think about the positive things you can do outside the game while they're reading strategies and killing bosses they wipe on 30 hours a week. In conclusion, just quit the game and do something else. Running, learning, or whatever is way better than this endless game that lures you in with insignificant goals. |
| world of real life | > | world of warcraft |
| I have just quit wow for the 10th time now, but I must find the srtrength to resist before it does any damage to my marriage! I have uninstalled wow and deleted my accounts so many times, but weeks later I would find myself reinstalling and buying a new account! I have wasted so much money on this game I am beyond ashamed of my self. This must be it! I cannot go back this time! I will focus on writing my book which is what I really want! |
| I've decided try wow again after a long break. The community still sucks, the gameplay still sucks, the graphics feel as outdated as ever. This games seems to be getting more and more pathetic as time passes. Hopefully this was the last time I'll decide to go back and check it out. Waste of money and, more importantly, time. |
| I bout this game upon release. Very excited because I had played the entire Warcraft RTS game series as well as Starcraft and intruiged by the game. I went from playing it entirely to much to eventually becoming bored with it very quickly. I had some real life friends that played who lost interest with me.
Later, I decided to revisit the game. Battlegrounds had been added and I decided to level from level 1 the class I had previously played and PvP. I played until arenas was released. After playing a class (frustratingly) that happened to be terrible in arena I quit again. This time I quite for a year and got into the best shape of my life and made significant head way in my career. I decided once more to play casually this time and create a twink. Trust me when I say that you can't play this game casually. Casual play in WoW would be considered hardcore with any other game. I went from running 30 miles a week and being in amazing shape to gaining 50 lbs. My friends stopped calling, my new GF was starting to get annoyed and my career was starting to suffer. I found myself out of shape, tired, and lonely. I quit again and I came here to reassure those who are faultering that all you need to do is fill in WoW with your dreams. Yeah chase a real dream. I am! And running again. 17 pounds lighter already asd feeling better all the time. I still play video games... just not WoW. I will never touch another Online RPG again and you better believe my kids won't either. |
| Well, I tried to quit a few times. When I first bought the games years ago, I was just killing monsters and grinding levels, I never got any professions or focussed on quests, I got bored and then I quit.
Eventually, my friend got addicted and he drew me back into it, the second time around, I did everything, quests, professions, etc. Eventually, after playing for so long, day in and day out, I finally decided to try and quit. I was doing quite bad in school, my grades were lowering so I needed to stop, it was so hard. Eventually, I discontinued my subscription, uninstalled the game, and I was clean. Though now, as I sit here in the summer days, I am reminded of the many hours a day I played WoW with my friends, on weekends we'd stay up all night. I'd bring over my laptop to my friend's house and we'd play all night, drinking energy drinks to stay up. I eventually moved away, and I was so upset and depressed about moving, as I left all my friends behind. I tried to think of some hobby to do, that's when I jolted my memory back up of the old times, I reinstalled it, used an old guest pass, eventually, I got hooked again. I'm trying very hard still to just LEAVE it for good, but it's too damn addictive :( |
| I quitet wow, and im very glad that i did it (:
I have a irl friend who play wow and evytime i ask him if he wanna hang out he always say that he cant. I used to be like that so i could play wow. Quit wow real life is more important its a freaking game.. Sorry for bad english :DD |
| Well, where to start. Beggining I guess.
I started playing little lees then a year pre WoTLK launch. Was bored, girlfriend was out of town for a week, and friends talked me into it although I always laughed at them for playing. Now I am not nearly hard as hit as some people from theses pages, but nonetheless. I am in a OK guild, with cool people, older folks like myself which dont have too much time to play. During this period with 2 2months break I leveled prot warrior and a hunter at 80 with numerous alts of various levels. Geared my 2 mains with ICC 25 items. Now PvP started to call me, and I went into farming spree for gear. To be honest I am afraid to type in /played, really am. I neglected real life stuff like, health, friends, simple social interactions, however not in any too serious manner. Still have all of my friends, my family, my girlfriend and my job. I would simply postpone my seeing them to some other raid free day. And I had it all under control for quite some time.Or had I? Now I am facing new job, with wonderfull new prospects and the first thing I thought about it was ''great I'll be able to play wow on the workplace now, nothing big, some farm here and there. I tell you, it was such a big slap on the face I can not begin to describe. New job offers working with students, science and academic career, and first thing I thought about it was farming?????!!!!!!!!!! I am not addictive person, I dont drink, I dont smoke, I dont do drugs, used to read a lot of books (in these 2 past years hadnt read a single one), used to be very, very active person, eating habits remaind the same, but activity decreased and WHAM - 40 punds up the scale in just 8 months. Yet somehow, along the lines, WoW creapt in and took initiative. Now, I am not blaming the game, I knew what I am getting into, pros and cons, it was soleley my decision. I thought I can be casual, have a few laughs, and leave. Truth is you cant. Game is designed to not let you do that. In human nature is to want more, and wow just works on those instincts. I dont blame the people who make it. Blizz is a firm that wants to make the profit like any other firm. Grats to them they are doing a smashing job. But I wont give a dime anymore for World of Warcraft. I only have two regrets. MY guildies, which truly are an wonderfull bunch of people. in these 2 years we never argued, never yelled at each other, we always have a wonderfull time with each other. Other one is that I allowed myself to get tangled in this mess in the first place. Allow me to stress one more time: Now I am facing new job, with wonderfull new prospects and the first thing I thought about it was ''great I'll be able to play wow on the workplace now, nothing big, some farm here and there. I tell you, it was such a big slap on the face I can not begin to describe. New job offers working with students, science and academic career, and first thing I thought about it was farming?????!!!!!!!!!! I just hope I am quitting for the last time. Subscription is cancelled, remote AH is cancelled, tommorow I am gonna say goodbies to my guildies. After that Ill delete all of my toons, and as someone posted earlier, make a new mail to which Ill transfer my battle net account with an insane password and username, never write it down, logout and hopefully never return to it again! |
| Around two weeks I guess! Each of those days away from wow I was reading fan sites/forums for hours at a time. >_< I told the guild I was quitting until Cataclysm and would see them later. I saved up what little money I had for a gamecard and the expansion when it comes out. Three days in and I almost bought a game card but stopped. Either way deleting my account the "proper" way as to not be tempted again. I have always had problems with addictions through my life. Ladies/games/drugs/fansite forums/whatever else. I've toppled the others but WoW. I went through spurts of intense gaming in the past (Diablo 2, Modern Warfare, etc) but always stopped after a while because it just seemed easier. With wow there is always something you haven't done, always something you will never do but want to. I'm reminded of a circle, doesn't really have an end. I have always been a solo gamer, and wow was different as I had to talk to people. Made some friends but none that held me there, for me it stayed a solo game and I just hunted achievs all the time. What made me quit was having to wait around for the guild for an hour while they set up the raid, and another 2 hours to get 4/12 ICC. Waste of time. My laptop broke and I stopped facebook/msn for a year. What I didn't tell em was I got a new one like next week and just pretended I was internet-less. That was to hide the addiction, to not let people I cared for know what a loser I'd become. I have no job, I live in a basement at 23 leeching off my widowed Mom of 3 years. I failed at highschool from addiction to substances. While Dad was dying slowly of cancer over almost 2 years I was addicted to a rpg website, still remember the plea in his voice telling me I didn't spend enough time with him. I do the same thing years later with my family. I play to escape the life I never started, the missed chances, and the failures I have become. I would love to get things together, but am afraid I won't be able to once I try. Sorry for the long post. Made my feeling stronger and hopefully it helps someone else! *bookmarks* |
