Spies infiltrating WoW

[Jike Ichi]

Reading that stories really make me sad. I think its a kind of self discipline to limit the amount of time you do on one thing. Doesn\'t matter if its WOW or the \"normal\" beer in front of the TV screen.

I played WOW for 2 1/2 years like Lok, but I never lost contact to my Real-Life friends and my ex-grilfriend (we quit, but the game was not the reason).

The reason why I started to play in fact was that some of my friends in my hometown told me to try the game. So when we where not acutally hanging out at someone\'s place we were meeting online and played WOW together. I also met a few people in game with whom I\'m still in contact. Thats the positive thing.

But its true that it can become an addiction. I met so many nice people who where really giving up learning or meeting people for the game. I wouldn\'t have done that. I always tried to motivate them to do something different, kind of difficult when you\'re also online..but at least I tried.


And to the hobby thing. In fact people without hobbies scare me. I think these are the real crazy people...its like having no meaning/interest at all and just living....Hell, hobbies make people interesting, loveable

 

[squidders]

The funniest thing to do on WOW is teafragging.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teafragging&defid=1268330

It\'s teabagging, but in video games. When playing online or split-screen in a First person shooter game, and you\'ve just fragged someone, you walk over the opponent\'s digital carcass, and then press the crouch command repeatedly to embarass the victim while he or she respawns.

It is truly embarassing, and should only be done by professionals. This means you need to earn some respect before you teafrag somebody, or else you will face the wrath of the victim.

1: \"Dammit! I just got teafragged by some noob!\"

2: \"That was me, stupid!\"

1: \"Golly.\"

 

[mud duck]

Wait a sec! Maybe we should get the terrorist hooked on WoW! That way they\'ll be so in to the game that they will not have time to plan al those nasty attacks!

 

[Friar]

ahhh get all the terroists to play horde and all of holeland security to play alliance and if they all put their focus their maybe the rest of humanity can live life undisturbed, I like how ya think Mud duck

 

[mud duck]

I wonder what the names of the Guilds on a server like that would be? And is there a \"LALALALA\" tongue shout in the game?

 

[Jike Ichi]

lol

 

[veggiemanuk]

Good ole Wow sucking the life out of YOUR life, yup been there done that, first it was City of Heroes/Villains for 12 months then Wow for another 12 months. So god damn adictive, and yes it got to the stage where id rather play than anything else, even to the point of failing a years worth of Open Uni course and exam.

But none of these MMORPGS sucked the life out of me like Counter Strike did. I even have to avoid putting this game on my system or I will end up saying \'Just one last round\' again all the way to 2-3am.

Games that have stats or any form of levels are addictive by design, simple. The only thing that seperates games like WoW from the others is the sheer size of the COMMUNITY and the sheep mentality.

Not long to go until my next fix is released in the form of Warhammer Online.

 

[Gilvan Blight]

I\'ve never quite gotten the additive nature of these games. I always assumed there had to be something behind it besides the games just being so good.

I\'ve played MMOs since the 80\'s back on the old BBS systems. I played the first MMORPG - NeverWinter Nights and AOL Exclusive. I\'ve done more Beta Testing of games then most people have played. I played Final Fantasy Online for about 5 years. I\'ve been playing WoW for about 3 now. I also dabbled in Guild Wars, City of Hereos, City of Villians, Star Wars Galaxies, Eve Online. I currently have Tabula Rasa and Lord of the Rings Online sitting in my to start playing soon pile (new baby puts things on hold). Through all of those games my real life has never suffered. Maybe one night every couple months I would stay up a bit late due to wanting to finish something up in game, but all that was lost is some sleep. My wife plays MMOs as well, mainly WoW and Final Fantasy and we\'ve never had a single relationship issue over it besides arguing about who gets to use the PC (which doesn\'t really last as there are 4 consoles downstairs for gaming on as well, so a comprimse is always reached before voices are raised).

I just don\'t get it. It\'s just another hobby/game to me. I do it as regularly as any other. I haven\'t painted a mini in about 3 months, and that one was one I started 6 months before that. I haven\'t played WoW in about a month and a Half. Now I have played Halo 3 every night this week, but the game is new, and I haven\'t given up anything in reality to play it.

Maybe it\'s because I have been playing these games since they were new, the wow (not WoW) factor just isn\'t there. I\'ve been living \'other lives\' for years, it\'s normal for me. It\'s not this great new thing where I get to be something more then I am now.

Kind of lost my train of thought there... think that made sense even if it didn\'t have much of a point.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Evercrack (great name for it) Cost one of our technicians his job.
He was spending his time at work, at a remote location, playing the damn game instead of doing the assigned tasks, asking other technicians for help because he \"was struggling with the workload\".
Only came to light when he had an accident and we had to send a different person to cover the area and found the activity on his PC.

Boy was that was not pleasant to deal with.