/. discovers MMOs can be addicting

[Antarius]

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...30201&from=rss

In other breaking news, George W Bush was elected president!

But seriously, this is one of the worst articles about one person's "addiction" to a video game that I've ever read.

Certainly MMOs have an addictive nature to them, but this article is inane, a lonely jobless loser, who lives at home, joins an "evil raiding guild", where he takes on the demanding roll of "class leader" aquires 30 epics and then realizes his life is in shambles and he's now a fat fucker to boot.

Don't you guys hate it when someone you thought was a reliable guildmember all of a sudden has an epiphany and decides they need to go "cold turkey" because they're so addicted? And so they e-bay or sell or just stop playing their character which your guild has helped equipped over the past 6 months to year.

Give me a stable 70% raid attendance 4-5 year guildmember over the 95% burnouts any day of the fucking week. My current guild raids 4 days a week, about 5 hours each day. Amount of time played does not necessarily = skill. Sure, our progression is alot slower than in some guilds, if through nothing else than through lack of learning attempts on new encounters, but hell, 90% of my entire EQ transfer guild burnt out within 6 months in the game, Horde on our server never really recovered in progression verses the Alliance, surely a balance needs to be struck.

I don't know how some uberguilds, manage to stay afloat for years with 90%+ attendance requirements with 6 day a week 5 hour a day raid schedules with farming expected on top of that.

[Kreugen]

Fuck heart attack players. Fuck every EQ-era FoH knight that came in, amassed twice the gear I had, then disappeared right off the fucking planet.

[Vagoo]

we had a discussion about this earlier on the patchtimer.org forums. general consensus was that the guy was a tool.

http://forums.patchtimer.org/thread.cgi?thread_id=3060

[nosf]

Boohoo, he can't time manage real life and a hobby. If this guy had any real friends, they'd have fucking slapped him upside the head a long time ago.

I'd love to know what guild/server he was in/on.

[WarderX]

People without a sense of moderation always amuse me.

[Tbird]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[Soygen]

Originally Posted by WarderX

People without a sense of moderation always amuse me.

Seriously. I'm so sick of people blaming shit on their inability to exercise some self control.

[Sean]

That guy is indeed a fucking tool. And comparing drug abuse to MMOs? Come the fuck on. Every person I know who has seen both real drug abuse and MMOs is and would be insulted by even trying to compare the two.

He's just crying that he turned himself into a loser. Boohoo.

[Aegorian]

gained 30 lbs over a year? easily possible, but jesus christ... did the dude not think to get out of his chair, sit on the floor and do a quick set of situps/pushups/whatever while flying on a griffon/wyvern/whateverthefuck?

retard...

[Ravvenn]

I'm not reading all of that, but let me make sure I got the first paragraph right.

He played WoW for a whole year and felt the need to write a goddamn story about it?

Newbies are so silly.

[Khorum]

As soon as I got to the part where he mentioned he used to be a DJ surrounded by drug using clubby friends, I knew this kid was a winner.

[Soygen]

I used to be a DJ, spinning mad tracks and hooking up with hot chicks at raves. Then I thought to myself, "This isn't enough. I want to be a class leader."

[Clug]

Originally Posted by Antarius

I don't know how some uberguilds, manage to stay afloat for years with 90%+ attendance requirements with 6 day a week 5 hour a day raid schedules with farming expected on top of that.

Mainly by luck with getting some of those no-lifers in officer positions early in the guilds life and non stop recruiting due to burn outs coming and going.

[Gahid]

I guess you could say I had a WoW problem. I decided to quit WoW because I didn't have enough time in my life to dedicate to raiding/farming/honor. I tried to juggle a girlfriend and a social life with the game for about two weeks and I decided I didn't like playing the game only part-time, so I quit.

But I also used to have a drug problem, and you can't really compare the two. It took me a year and a half to finally kick the drugs and two weeks to kick WoW.

Computer "addiction" is only a case of -temporarily- misplaced values and/or depression. There is no detox. I'm sure the rate of recovery is very high. The rate of relapse very very low.

Calling a computer problem an addiction is a real slap in the face to anyone out there who was really addicted to something.

Originally Posted by some asshole

I've seen it destroy more families and friendships and take a huge toll on individuals than any drug on the market today

What cloud does this guy live on?

[Tabris]

Originally Posted by Antarius

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...30201&from=rss

In other breaking news, George W Bush was elected president!

But seriously, this is one of the worst articles about one person's "addiction" to a video game that I've ever read.

Certainly MMOs have an addictive nature to them, but this article is inane, a lonely jobless loser, who lives at home, joins an "evil raiding guild", where he takes on the demanding roll of "class leader" aquires 30 epics and then realizes his life is in shambles and he's now a fat fucker to boot.

Don't you guys hate it when someone you thought was a reliable guildmember all of a sudden has an epiphany and decides they need to go "cold turkey" because they're so addicted? And so they e-bay or sell or just stop playing their character which your guild has helped equipped over the past 6 months to year.

Give me a stable 70% raid attendance 4-5 year guildmember over the 95% burnouts any day of the fucking week. My current guild raids 4 days a week, about 5 hours each day. Amount of time played does not necessarily = skill. Sure, our progression is alot slower than in some guilds, if through nothing else than through lack of learning attempts on new encounters, but hell, 90% of my entire EQ transfer guild burnt out within 6 months in the game, Horde on our server never really recovered in progression verses the Alliance, surely a balance needs to be struck.

I don't know how some uberguilds, manage to stay afloat for years with 90%+ attendance requirements with 6 day a week 5 hour a day raid schedules with farming expected on top of that.

Agreed 100%, I'd rather have a fucking 50% attendance player that will play for 2 years than some flash in the pan who plays 24-7 for 3 months then realizes their life is ruined and quits.