I can sort of relate to this. For a few years, I played over 4 or 5 games at once. I played, DAoC (Dark Ages of Camolot), The Realm Online, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft, Asherons Call, and a few other small ones that I cant remember, I realized that this was costing over $60 a month, all paid for by my parents. They couldent afford it, but they couldent help it because I ask for absoutly nothing else. I never even asked for anything for christmas, or any other holiday. I say that I take only one drug now, Thats Ultima Online. I cant stop playing it. My life consists of this:
1. Wake up 2. Go to school 3. Get home and go stright to the computer from 3:00 - 11:00 4. Go to bed 5. Repeat
I will tell you what I plan to do, I cant do this now because I am only 14. I plan to get a job with EAGames, more specifaly I plan to work for Origin Systems Inc., a devision of EAGames that runs Ultima Online. Untill then I work on freeshards, although this provides no money, I run my own freeshard. I am almost positive that there are freeshards (or freeservers in this case) of WoW. He can own a freeserver of WoW and get donations out of it, but cant charge for playtime. I know this is available because people make thier living by owning freeshards of Ultima Online.
To sum my rambling up, I would just tell your friend to get a job playing games, specifically he can go to Blizzard Entertainment and see if he can get a job for World of Warcraft. This way he has a stable job, can support himself, and he can still play his game. This is not getting rid of the problem, as all of you guys have suggested, but simply improving it, turning his obssesion into someing useful, and important. There is not much more to say here, except that I hope this advice works for you.
- Drayvock
"Why care for only yourself, when you can care for others at the same time?" - Johnathan Howell
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I can sort of relate to this. For a few years, I played over 4 or 5 games at once. I played, DAoC (Dark Ages of Camolot), The Realm Online, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft, Asherons Call, and a few other small ones that I cant remember, I realized that this was costing over $60 a month, all paid for by my parents. They couldent afford it, but they couldent help it because I ask for absoutly nothing else. I never even asked for anything for christmas, or any other holiday. I say that I take only one drug now, Thats Ultima Online. I cant stop playing it. My life consists of this:
1. Wake up
2. Go to school
3. Get home and go stright to the computer from 3:00 - 11:00
4. Go to bed
5. Repeat
I will tell you what I plan to do, I cant do this now because I am only 14. I plan to get a job with EAGames, more specifaly I plan to work for Origin Systems Inc., a devision of EAGames that runs Ultima Online. Untill then I work on freeshards, although this provides no money, I run my own freeshard. I am almost positive that there are freeshards (or freeservers in this case) of WoW. He can own a freeserver of WoW and get donations out of it, but cant charge for playtime. I know this is available because people make thier living by owning freeshards of Ultima Online.
To sum my rambling up, I would just tell your friend to get a job playing games, specifically he can go to Blizzard Entertainment and see if he can get a job for World of Warcraft. This way he has a stable job, can support himself, and he can still play his game. This is not getting rid of the problem, as all of you guys have suggested, but simply improving it, turning his obssesion into someing useful, and important. There is not much more to say here, except that I hope this advice works for you.
- Drayvock
"Why care for only yourself, when you can care for others at the same time?" - Johnathan Howell