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Kids hopelessly addicted to World Of Warcraft

I'm lucky on my own personal main character in that I've probably got the worst reputation on the entire realm and as such have not been in much end game for quite some while.

I was in one of the top guilds and just decided to tell everyone to fuck themselves one day. That kind of sorted the time consuming raid side of things. Your average wow player doesn't have much of a sense of humour and there are quite big cultural differences as players come from a number of different countries. My kind of humour didn't translate well and I guess it saved me from endless karazhan farming but before The Burning Crusade I was totally hooked. It's quite scarey how serious they take their in game reputation, I think that is a sign of someone who is really screwed on the game.

Unfortunatley Blizzard even know about character self assasination and you can now change your name for £7.

I'm cautious in suggesting this means of ending the game to the kids thou :p
 
Drain Bamage said:
Your average wow player doesn't have much of a sense of humour and there are quite big cultural differences as players come from a number of different countries. My kind of humour didn't translate well and I guess it saved me from endless karazhan farming but before The Burning Crusade I was totally hooked. It's quite scarey how serious they take their in game reputation, I think that is a sign of someone who is really screwed on the game.
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My guild leader - on a RP realm - was the most humorless miserable bastard ever. He'd constantly threaten gkick to anyone he deemed wasn't being nice enough! The Irony is that these people who spend there life in Kara will have completely new gear after 2 mins in Northrend... Oh yeah and another thing about the Styr horns - you get an imba blue quest reward - good for lowbies... must stop thinking about wow... must stooop
 
tribal_princess said:
:cool: south park is spot on.
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innit...and inject the showing with a handful of...that's you that is...I've stopped using the Reference Library in Pz becasue of all the fkkn Runescape twattege that goes on while parents "think" their kids are doing their homework.

I geeked my two up to the eyeballs but always gave them other projects too...never an either or...never an if you this you can do that bollocks..if ANYTHING impinged on their lives obsessively it was put to one side for a month or three with other projects which made the former obsession impossible to follow.

When I left..I was the one getting a bollocking by all fer chucking maltesers at the gawping of the box(whatever it shows).

Get rid of yer telly & Nets fer a year...that'll learn'em. And won't kill'em... promise.

Always check yer food for ground glass mind. :D

ps if you want a copy of the SP episode I'll upload it for ya. :cool: :p
 
Kanda said:
Nope, it happens. I could have made well over £5k in the hey day of Everquest by selling my characters.
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i was calling bullshit for the fact that it took Nihilum (top guild in the world) almost 3 weeks to clear all the instances in the game last time they released new instances. Other guilds took a lot longer than that even, therefore sunray saying his mate cleared them all in a few days is bullshit. also there is no way that 20,000 euros would be offered for boosting someone through an instance. the highest sum i've heard of being paid was 7,000 for a rogue with full tier 6 and twin legendary weapons. 20,000 for a boost is just ludicrous. yes i am a geek btw
 
strung_out said:
there is no way that 20,000 euros would be offered for boosting someone through an instance. the highest sum i've heard of being paid was 7,000 for a rogue with full tier 6 and twin legendary weapons. 20,000 for a boost is just ludicrous. yes i am a geek btw
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It's just more hype to fortify the belief that playing the game is somehow worthwhile and has relevance to success in real life.

I went through all this crap playing CS for England. There was plenty hype going around at the time that you could somehow become professional and make a living from being good at a video game. It was all good business for Nvidia and the like. If you look at the very few "pro gamers" you will find they are just marketing tools. I know countries like Korea take gaming too seriously and have huge televised events but at the end of the day gaming is much like watching TV and your never going to get anything from it apart from what it's sposed to be - entertainment.

Back to your statement thou - I did once play with this guy who bought everything. He even payed some chinese to play Alterac Valley while he slept. He bought all of his characters and had one of every class.

SO... I'd say there is money to be made from the likes of warcraft but the coin is not related in any way to being skillfull or good at playing. I'm doubtfull that you can actually be skilled in the traditional sense at playing a video game. Like I said it's purely entertainment and if you thought otherwise you'd just be over doing it on the virtuality :)
 
I never got the point it paying for characters and stuff in games, part of the point of playing is the "reward" from your hard work. Its like cheating on single player games, they get stale a lot quicker.

That said I have mate who is big into eve and whilst he doesn't make money, he never has to pay for his monthly subs either.
 
1g plz :D

Wow is great, but when it became more like work I quit.

But my teen self would not have done, and if I were you I'd be very seriously concerned.

How you deal with them is obviously your business, but if there's any threat to homework I'd be looking to uninstall. These years are crucial.
 
ah, I wasted 4 years of my live playing CounterStrike, I came through the addiction eventually, hmmmm de_dust2 :)

strange how two dozen or so CS maps are burned into me brain, down to the smallest detail.
 
swampy said:
ah, I wasted 4 years of my live playing CounterStrike, I came through the addiction eventually, hmmmm de_dust2 :)

strange how two dozen or CS maps are burned into me brain, down to the smallest detail.
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Hmmmm I haven't played CS source for 3 years now and can still remember every inch of dust2 and office. That is sad.
 
Marius said:
Hmmmm I haven't played CS source for 3 years now and can still remember every inch of dust2 and office. That is sad.
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zomg cs_office my favourite ever CS map :cool:
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I've played WOW since June 07, my son introduced me to it.

Fuckin love it. :)

Level 70 rogue, no elite kit just blue and green and proud as fuck of her, she has agility you wouldn't believe. Level 20 mage i made for disenchanting but I just love that rogue so much the mage never levels.

I also work, have a family, read, watch TV and Movies, have a few friends, not as many off-line to be fair I have more on-line...don't a lot of people now? Isn't that the way it's been going? Fuck I never had any 'on-line' friends before but there wasn't an 'on-line'.

Football, paintball, squash, snooker, pool, martial arts, rugby, pubs, dancing (name your poison/derision/love)......all for enjoying to varying degrees and being with others....we take our problems with us or leave them at the door we get involved to varying degrees. WOW is, in my opinion, a quality game. I played Deus Ex online for 3 years or so, Halo for at least the same but WOW is much, much, much more interactive and social. You also need more physical stuff but physical isn't the definition of social, is it?

I also do lo-fi on sites like this. ;)

I like to go to Duskwood and help lvl 20+s, it reminds me of old Hammer Horror films, that's where I'm going now. :)
 
I banned myself from games 10 years ago after a particularly destructive 2 week football manager session when I should have been finishing (starting) my dissertation and dropped a degree class because of it.

coincidentally I think i discovered urban pretty soon after that;)
 
swampy said:
i hear yah, was my favourite place as a terrorist, with an AK47 though :)
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Ten points if you guess the map
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I can tell you thats opposition spawn they are in and that its a hostage map. Go up the right fork and take a right and you come to a market place.

Be damned if i can remember the name though.
 
free spirit said:
I banned myself from games 10 years ago after a particularly destructive 2 week football manager session when I should have been finishing (starting) my dissertation and dropped a degree class because of it.

coincidentally I think i discovered urban pretty soon after that;)
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Indeed, its one of the reasons I took a really long break from games and just had a laptop for uni, don't have the will power.
 
A mate of mine worked on tech support for RuneScape until recently (not WoW I know but similar levels of obsessiveness I guess)

Half his time was spent dealing with emails from kids threatening to kill him/themselves if he didn't re-enable their account :D Most of the time the emails didn't get answered for a few weeks, so there may be dead kids around the world bleeding onto their keyboards for all we know.

He had a hoodie with the company logo on it, but they weren't allowed to wear them in public as there had been threats of violence towards them in the past :eek: :eek:
 
wishface said:
God i found eve boring; same ship, same space, too complex. yawn.
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Lazy bastard. I downloaded the free trial and had to stop myself after a weekend and prevent myself from EVER signing up to the real thing, cos I like my life. That thing is like Elitex10000 in both depth and complexity. Plus it's like playing a role in a sci-fi novel...very :cool:

phildwyer said:
Why are such games so interesting?
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The same reason that any well written videogame is interesting and rewarding - indeed, the reason any well designed game is interesting - risk, reward, sense of learning & development as you become more skilled, sense of control and mastery when you get really good, constant challenge.

Round Garf's playing COD4 on the PS3 a couple of weeks ago on a hard level, went round a mates to play on his PC on normal level, completely pwned the game - but I still enjoyed every single shot and minute of it. If anything it was better cos a mouse/keyboard pwns a joypad for accuracy and other sniping related fun :D

Bringing other people into the mix merely makes things even more interesting and fun...in most cases anyway...
 
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