Oh yes. Another thing. If we were to allow the proposition that yes, World of Warcraft is somehow addictive, something on par with alcohol, then you NEVER quit. There's no such thing as a "recovering alcoholic", it's a "long-term, willfully sober alcoholic". You're still no closer to having a reasonable relationship with alcohol, which scores of people prove every day is possible; you're staying away and not touching something that you cannot control.
By that same token, a "WoW-addict" that doesn't play WoW isn't recovering. He'll never "recover". He'll always have a problem with WoW, he'll never be able to play it in a reasonable way. Now, at this point we return to "there are no WoW addicts", as unlike alcohol for an alcoholic, it's quite possible to stop playing WoW and not having it define your life from that point on.
Shotgunbunny said:
I tried to play it 3 times, each time because my mates start again and each time I ended up quiting after 2 weeks.
Seriously, WoW is a pretty shitty excuse for a game. I mean, everyone I know who actually plays it, always says the same thing: "The community is great and it doesn't become fun until endgame!"
Last I heard, it's the game itself, the ENTIRE game, that makes the game great....not the community....
No thanks kids! I'll just stick to Aion, at least that gets interesting halfway through the levelcap, and it has something WoW should have had at launch: Decent open world PVP...battlegrounds, my ass.
Your friends are morons.
If it "doesn't become fun until the endgame", then nobody would ever have gotten there; they'd be bored, and quit. For me, WoW was fun, interesting, and told great little stories, gave me great amusement, from the very beginning. The endgame is fun too. Now, I'm not raring to go create another character to experience it again, because hey, I've done it already. The endgame content, on the other hand, there are some parts of it I haven't seen yet, thus that still holds some fascination.
You're well within your right to not like the game, but a sorry excuse for a game it is not. It is a masterpiece. Not flawless, not perfect (hell, far from it), but it is a masterpiece nonetheless. It is massive, lots of people derive enjoyment from it, and while it cannot please everyone, it does a better job of just that than most other games in the world. Since the purpose of the existence of a game is to give people entertainment and enjoyment, it is massively and admirably succeeding in being the definition of a "good game".
Personally I found Aion to be dreadfully boring, but I will not say it is BAD... I simply didn't LIKE it. If there are people out there who enjoy it, as you seem to, then it, too, is a good game.