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How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives
An anonymous reader writes "There's a great blog post about how World of Warcraft can ruin lives, it's written by a person that was for a long time a member of the largest council on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world." This is a story that is very familiar to a lot of folks. I know people who are actively wrecking their lives and risking their jobs by playing too much of a video game.
Good point. Let us not forget that WoW also wrecks the lives of the unborn.
He played the number of hours equivalent to 70 days (1680 hours)+. That is equal to 42 40 hour work weeks. Almost a years worth of working full time...played in a game. Now, figure in a full time job, eating, sleeping and there isn't much left. He was a WOW zombie.
And to all you scintillating geniuses pointing out that there are much older guilds in the REAL world: no fucking shit. The "world" to which he refers is obviously the World of Warcraft.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
RTFA, and get some contextual scoping people! The author doesn't claim his guild is the oldest in -all- existence, it's the oldest ON HIS SERVER.
Quoth the raven:
The guild Mr. Yeager got me into and with which I became an officer is the oldest and largest on the server I played on.
There are lives at stake here!
Mod parent funny! It ain't flamebait. He's talking about the South Park episode"Make Love, not Warcraft". It sort of illustrates the point the article is trying to make.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
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South Park - World of Warcraft Episode part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQjR9EOwHuw&mode=r
South Park - World of Warcraft Episode part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5rP4OcHVg&mode=r
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True. This is what I'm experiencing right now as a player that can only play an hour or two at a time. Once you hit 60, all you can do is upgrade your gear. To run an instance it takes 4-5 hours (not including the hour or two of chaos if you have to get everybody organized) to get something like a 33% chance at getting a decent item. However, if soloing, there are no quests that take even 15 hours of game play to get a similar item. You can do rep grinds or try to get Darkmoon tickets for superior or epic items, but those run somewhere around 60 hours of gameplay to end with decent results at level 60. Even just farming for money will take 30-50 hours of game play to buy a decent blue on the AH. The only thing that even comes close is the manufacture of some items with trade skills but there aren't really enough to bother with and even then you're usually left to do grinds to get the money to buy the pattern and mats rather than some sort of quest with a storyline.
Wow! Let's do the math here...
40,000,000 hours ~= 1,666,666 days
1,666,666 days ~= 4566 years
So kids watch 4566 years of television all before they are 12!
Jeez...if I knew how to do that, I'd take up WoW again!
You don't mean "chemical", you mean "physical". Addiction to cocaine, heroin, cigarettes, alcohol (and others) can cause negative physical consequences when the body is physically addicted; in other words, the body has adapted to the presence of the drug, its no longer "normal" NOT to have it in the system and so things don't work properly (look up heroin withdrawal symptoms). This contrasts to marijuana, gambling, sex, and video games, to which people have been validly addicted to but there are no PHYSICAL symptoms when they abstain. However, all addiction is chemical, and these latter types are (as I understand) causing elevated levels of dopamine in the body, similar to what cocaine and methamphetamine do artificially.