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'm done! I walked away from this damn time consuming game. It's a great way to isolate, and keep people away. I hope a can stay away. I am trying to sell my account. I just want it out of my life. |
| My brother got me into WoW. I tried to stay away, because it wasn't interesting, and I saw what it was doing to him. The girlfriend I had at the time left me, so I started playing out of boredom. Well, it's been five years now and WoW only made the whole situation worse. I dropped out of college, couldn't hold a job, and developed a drinking problem. Anyone looking at these and aren't happy with their life, WoW will not fix that void. Do what's in your heart and don't become a slave to an unending game that means nothing. |
| Ive read through pages of this and have yet to see one addressing the phsyical hell wow puts your body through. Years of sodas and no movement make your body go to hell, medically this game is unacceptable. Try raising your arms up in the air for 3 minutes and tell me how much faster they get tired. Its unbelievable , this is not just wow however this is the internet as a whole. use it for resources to hell with the rest. Goodluck |
| well im 14 and im rlly addicted to wow i play some times for bout 15 hors straight and its just ruining my life ive recenlty failed the 8th grade and its tearing me apart i feel worthless cause of this game |
| Luck helped me stop playing WoW. My subscription to WoW ended right when i met a girl. I spent time with her and sort of forgot about world of warcraft. I had some cravings to play wow again but, i decided to start a new language instead (because of the extra free time). Later she dumped me, but i will never me mad at her because she freed me from that terrible addiction. Please try to quit world of warcraft your get so much of your life back, but first you have to undo the damage you've done to it. It is painful at first but when you suceed you feel great. |
| Blizzard,
Great work in creating such an amazing game. Unfortunately (for you, fortunately for me), I've realized that your success lies on the addiction this game bestows upon its addicts...err, gamers. Since I stopped playing about 3 months ago, I've applied a few patches and expansions to my world thus making WOW obsolete. I've decided to move on and focus on the things that really matter in my realm and not on DPS and gear score. My world no longer relies on completing a daily dungeon; I no longer wait for that weekly raid to feel complete; I wake up each morning and face my challenges even without a health potion in my bag. I now earn as many enblems as I so choose by devoting my time to bettering myself through reading and learning as well as spending time with my real guild; family. Heck, I couldn't even use the 3k Gold I have in the bank to put a down-payment on a new home; a lot of good it made all those hours I spent grinding in Booty Bay. I must admit that this game was fun, but how can I continue to endorse this practice while holding my beliefs about the tobacco and alcohol industries (and drugs)? Addiction is addiction. In any case, playing left me less than satisfied at times since this game doesn't seem to fit well with the occasional gamer. It's difficult to ask questions (both in-game and in forums) without getting a lashing for asking "newbie" questions. While that isn't the fault of the game, my monthly subscription also gains me a membership into the accompanying community so they go side-by-side. At times it felt like the "chicken or the egg" conundrum, you need to play the game to gain experience but you need experience to be allowed in raids. Hardly anyone reads manuals and most of those that don't, don't know the storyline line-by-line and just want to destroy things; maybe this game isn't for them. Maybe this game isn't for us. Again, I congratulate you for making such a great game. In the end, however, it's a game for the life-less and well, I gotta get back to mine. Good luck. Draghonite |
| I have "quit" world of warcraft many many times before cause sooner or later i allways get the urges my life outside the game was getting so fucked up my only way to avoid being bipolar was living in an alternative world. i've always read deleting ur characters is the only way to quit but this seemed way too much to do and i never did it, until one day i wasnt thinking thinking i just told my friends am quiting wow and deleted all my characters and then deleted WoW. and OMG i am so happy i did this, the urges stopped coming to me since i cant really go back to wow i got my shit together, started passing again in college :D. I know how hard it is. dont think, just send a friend all ur gold and delete ur character, belive me u wont regret it. Just ask yourself this after a year from now which would u rather have happened today: continue playing WoW or quiting WoW? |
| My daughter had been struggling in 5th grade making D's and F's. She had ADHD and I was in denial about it. She would spend hours doing homework until it was time for bed. She would ask me for help but I was too busy playing WoW to bother. Finally one evening while out to dinner she said "Mommy, you never spend any time with me...even when I get my homework done." It hit home. I've been clean from Wow for a year and 3 months. She was finally diagnosed and we got her help for her schooling. She ended the year with not a single D or F and passed the 5th grade. This summer we spent a lot of time doing things together and are closer then ever. |
| I'm a middle aged woman who was ridiculously addicted to WOW.
I tried to hide from my family the number of hours I played. I practically nodded off at work many times because I'd been up way too late playing the night before. I would get up at 6:00 AM on weekends to play a few hours before anyone else was up. On my day off from work, I would play all day, and then the last hour before the family got home from work/school, I would race through the house cleaning up so it looked like I did something all day. It finally came crashing down this weekend when I spent HOURS trying to level up my "profession" -- it all suddenly became crystal clear what a waste of time this was!! In 10 minutes time I gave all my gold to guild mates, wrote a few goodbye notes, left the guild, and cancelled my account. Done!! Now I hope I don't look back. I know I will miss it, but I feel like a weight is lifted from my shoulders. Good luck everybody who is quitting the game!! |
| All he does is play WoW, make fail stocks/investing attempts in a futile attempt to have an anti-social 'job', and live with his mother while in his mid 20's. No real work, a dwindling bank account, a cheater mindset, a sadistic personality, no ambition, a secretive lifestyle. If you're so 'good, honest, and pure" why do you have so much to hide? Eat, sleep, Warcraft. 'Nuff said. |
