Quitting WoW

[WhiteTiger225]

I quit before my trial period expired. Grinding endlessly just ain't my thing.

 

[AdeptGamer]

How I quit WoW:

1) Realize that console gaming is much better
2) Realize that having a social life comes before a virtual one even if that virtual one gives you so much pleasure. (There are pleasures your virtual life just can't suffice)
3) Realize that when all you can think about is one game, your addiction has reached a dangerous point
4) Realize that addiction to a Video Game can be more hazardous to your life than addiction to drugs and alcohol (apparently drinking is a social thing )
5) Realize that that potbelly that is forming around your waist area is because of your lack of exercise due to your addiction
6) Realize that you are ruining your life, so get off your lazy butt, cancel your payment to WoW and start reliving the years that you have missed

I lost 1 and a half years to WoW from my Freshman to Sophomore period in high school. Wish I could have those back because high school is awesome.

 

[covertmonkey]

Im a self confessed wow addict and have tried to quit several times....usualy i last a few months/weeks then go back yay for willpower but anyways

i was wondering if anyone here has successfully quit wow (and by this i dont meen played till lv20 then got bored others like me who cringe when we see blue quality gear) and how the hell you managed to stay off it.

one person suggested deleting my toons but im not sure i can bring myself to wiping my 310% mount

when asked what i did for a living i said i was a jewlcrafter and a blacksmith the other day, enough is enough me thinks lol so pls help me !!!!!

personally i just started again recently i was out for 8-9 months best way to quit i found was to quit as the expansion came out and then fine something to zerg all your time into for a while in hope you'll forget about wow

Take some goddamn responsibility for your actions. You want to quit? FUCKING QUIT! You want to play? Suffer for your weakness! Maybe if you played a class that was actually worth a damn you'd have learned the gumption necessary to make decisions like this, but your attitude is making it pretty obvious that you chose a worthless DPS class instead. Probably a Hunter. Do you think the World needs a 6ft shitpile like yourself?

obvious troll is being obvious

 

[Deadarm]

I gave my account to a friend but he still lets me play if I get bored enough. He usually gives me the runaround first just to make sure I really want to play it, so I usually wind up farming a bunch of shit for him for like 2-3 weeks before I actually do anything for myself.

 

[Scarecrow38]

I actually like the randomised impossible password strategy, combined with the randomised impossible retrieval question/ answer approach.

Some like the sentimental approach of deleting each item and such but I think you risk the trap of exaggerating its emotional significance which could cause you to actually become more staunch in not wanting to stop.

Better to make it physically impossible to keep going, rather than salting the wound of not playing it anymore.

 

[Deadarm]

Or you could be like this loser and go to rehab:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/sns-ap-us-fea-lifestyles-addicted-to-internet,0,5649277.story

At least that loser was smart enough to hide his face so that the whole world doesn't know who he is right? But seriously what kind of pussy has to go to internet rehab? Probably the same kind that they make the seizure warning for. But then again I've always been able to stop myself if I went too far by simply shutting off the tv/internet/subscription/whatever and it doesn't bother me in the slightest, then after its back on whatever I wanted to get away from I am away from it.

 

[Melion]

Go out, watch the nice weather, say to your self: "Why play when it is so nice out here?" and never look back.

 

[Jamis]

I quit a year ago. The only thing I want from blizzard now, is DiabloIII.

 

[oppp7]

You can't just say "ok I'm going to stop doing my favorite hobby now," because then you'll just be staring at a wall. Try to find something else that's fun to do.

Why do people want to quit WoW anyways? If it's fun then I don't see the problem. If it's boring and you have nothing better to do then find something fun to do...

 

[Go on]

I made a friend put in some crazy parental control times and that forced me to stop playing wow. But i recomend you to gather some willpower and just delete your account.

 

[MR T3D]

here's how i beat it.
step 1: go to collage
step2: stay the hell away from computer and make friends with everyone.
step3: drink
step4: get laid.
step 5: now partied out, you can just study...or bang moar shicks.

***step 4 kind of requires step 3 and 2

 

[MrTub]

Well I used to play wow around 10-16h a day depending if its weekend or not.. had around 120days played when wotlk came out and I cba realy lvl up and get full epic again for the third time. I thought when tbc came out it became half boring... and then Wotlk came out and it kinda suck (imo) so I just quit. Simply as that. If you cant manage your gaming then go into account management and go into parent control and set a 1h a day and just type in a random password, should help you a lot.

 

[Warrior Irme]

Im a self confessed wow addict and have tried to quit several times....usualy i last a few months/weeks then go back yay for willpower but anyways

i was wondering if anyone here has successfully quit wow (and by this i dont meen played till lv20 then got bored others like me who cringe when we see blue quality gear) and how the hell you managed to stay off it.

one person suggested deleting my toons but im not sure i can bring myself to wiping my 310% mount

when asked what i did for a living i said i was a jewlcrafter and a blacksmith the other day, enough is enough me thinks lol so pls help me !!!!!

First thing is first. Figure out if there are free transfers off the realms that all of your characters are on. Respec all of your characters to something your gear will not apply to and bank everything so you don't need to look at it.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

I stumbled on this article a few weeks ago and I thought it was fascinating and now quite relevant to the topic. Note that the views expressed in the article are not my own:

Ben Alexander, 19, spent nearly every waking minute playing World of Warcraft. As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa. Alexander needed help to break an addiction he calls as destructive as alcohol or drugs. He found it in a suburb of Seattle, where what claims to be the first residential treatment center for Internet addiction in the United States just opened its doors.

The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry. It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean them from pathological computer use, which can include obsessive use of video games, texting, Facebook, eBay, Twitter and any other time-killers brought courtesy of technology.


The five-acre center in Fall City can handle up to six patients at a time. Alexander is so far the only patient of the program, which uses a cold turkey approach. He spends his days in counseling and psychotherapy sessions, doing household chores, working on the grounds, going on outings, exercising and baking. Whether such programs work in the long run remains to be seen.

Internet addiction is not recognized as a separate disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, and treatment is not generally covered by insurance, but there are many such treatment centers in China, South Korea and Taiwan. Internet addiction is taken very seriously in Asia, and many psychiatric experts believe that Internet addiction is real and harmful.

Source: AP [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gR2mtpzjKjAnoKXUGq3OdU-EQ1VwD9AG15703]

I am not telling the OP that you need serious help but I actually never realized that the problem of MMO addiction has gone so far that it warranted it's own help center. Either that or Health and Safety have gone bloody mad again.

Still, I wonder what lies next for humanity?. A new branch of medicine catering for WOW withdrawals?.

Oh and more OT: Have you tried graded desensitization. Gradually reduce your WOW play time till you become accustomed for a short playing period. Then slowly take a day off (or every other day) and then move on to taking the whole week off and run with it from there..till you cant be arsed to play any further.

Or

Go cold turkey. Either delete your accounts or put an 28 alpha-numeric code that you won't remember into the account passwords.