Whats up with the delete my character emo vids?

[Theldon]

I see these on youtube all the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2MYfKQdQY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewarcraftmovies%2Ecom%2Fstr eam%2Ephp%3Fid%3D36411

Like WTF?

Instead of deleting him just stop paying for the subscription or something.

[scoli]

it's handiman!

[Otzo]

I'd just sell the char for money.

[auren]

suspend acct imo

[Skalathrax]

its their pathetic attempt to exclude oneself forever from a game that has taken up way too much of their existence. by deleting their char, they try to force themselves to get back on track again, which is bullshit, because this way of "detox" has an about 1% chance of succeeding. instead, they should try to leave the game step by step. thats the only way, their withdrawal will 1: last longer than a couple of weeks maximum 2: not cause more pain than the time they played and tried to "free themselves" from their addiction

nobody gains respect from me for deleting his char. no-bo-dy

[Theldon]

by deleting their char, they try to force themselves to get back on track again, which is bullshit, because this way of "detox" has an about 1% chance of succeeding. instead, they should try to leave the game step by step.

Exactly, they could use those parental controls options in account management to limit game-time or something (a step in the right direction).

That mage had some sick gear!

[Trixx]

What a bullshit video. Test server anyone?

[Otzo]

Could be private server too unless he really did get the WoW pvp tabard from having loads of HK.

[Rekuul']

That shit drives me nuts.

WoW is no different from ANY - OTHER - GAME. Anyone who says otherwise should get a clue. Yea, you blow time getting gear but you can attach value to anything that requires time. You can attach value to your win/loss/ranking on battle.net or any other game that tracks it for you.

WoW is not addictive. People have addictive personalities. WoW is just extremely time consuming to play at high levels so people associate it with addiction. Anyone who forgoes everything in their life for WoW would have almost definitely found another big way (or a million other small ways) to completely and totally fuck their lives up.

I have played WoW *hardcore* at points, and I have left this game so much that its a long standing joke that I quit all the time. I also know tons of people who have spent tons of time in this game and still maintain jobs, kids, relationships, etc. without exploding into an emo-ball-of-fire-ragequit-help-wow-ruined-my-life disaster.

I could continue, but really let me just say that I think its absolutely fucking retarded that this is not only getting circulated and QQ'ed over on youtube but on local and national news in various places as well.

Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break.

-Rek

[Anduryondon]

You can diss Atiesh but not Thunderfury, woot? nerf!

[Sypher]

WoW is not addictive. People have addictive personalities.

exactly

[Margus]

peepz that making videos from their char deletion are just ATTENTION WHORES!

[Theldon]

What a bullshit video. Test server anyone?

This one of many, I pulled this one because of his great gear. There are many others were they pull the same emo, "WoW ruined my life" routine.

[Theldon]

WoW is not addictive. People have addictive personalities. WoW is just extremely time consuming to play at high levels so people associate it with addiction. Anyone who forgoes everything in their life for WoW would have almost definitely found another big way (or a million other small ways) to completely and totally fuck their lives up.

Yeah thats part of the problem too, everything end game takes so long to do, so it's such a big time sink. The game is really addicting though, trying to get the best gear, playing with online-friends.



I also know tons of people who have spent tons of time in this game and still maintain jobs, kids, relationships, etc. without exploding into an emo-ball-of-fire-ragequit-help-wow-ruined-my-life disaster.


A lot of the problem stems from people unable to manage their own priorities. If you watched the "I QUIT WOW" on the Tyra banks show (clip on youtube) the guy was ignoring his wife and new born child, just to play WoW. Which is pretty sad mind you. We just gotta remember that this is just a really good video game.

[Archetype]

just because one person can avoid addiction / dependency on something doesn't mean its addictive. Cigarettes have been proven to be highly addictive, yet after smoking them just occasionally when I get offered one or when I'm drunk etc, I've never felt one bit addicted to them at all.

I don't know if I personally feel addicted to World of Warcraft, but I know there are people who are. There might not be a chemical addiction involved like with certain drugs, but there is definitely a psychological / emotional addiction.

[Skalathrax]

still its not the same, because there are two types of addiction, biologically speaking.
the first one is caused by some chemical i.e. you consume something and it inherits e.g. morphines of some sort, which make you addicted and you want more etc.
the second one is just your body's response to something, which includes actions (like playing a game) that lead to your body releasing endorphines and having the possibility (if repeated often enough) to make yourself addicted to your own endorphines.
the problem is: ANYTHING can lead to the addiction of the second type, because there are no special chemicals etc. needed ;)

and people becoming addicted to wow belong to the second type of addiction. the only thing true about wow is that it needs a LOT of time in order to play it to its full expense. some/many do become addicted while playing it that much, but that's more their body's fault than wow's :D

[Archetype]

That may be true. It still means, however, that WoW is producing addictions in people that are potentially just as harmful in someways as drug addictions are (not as much from a health perspective, but from an emotional / psychological one again).

[Jonny]

I quit wow 3 times now, once for 6 months, once for 4 months, and once for 3 months, and i always decided by free will to come back and say hello to my friends ingame. My guild has naxx cleared, and downed magtheridon, so its not that "casual".

i can quit it whenever i want again, because im strong.

those retards are not.

[dNa]

This one of many, I pulled this one because of his great gear. There are many others were they pull the same emo, "WoW ruined my life" routine.

His gear is crap at lev 70 anyways, he prolly realised that or its just testserver fake shit.
Anyways who cares there are ppl suiciding every minute and ppl care less.

[Qlimax]

I'll admit I play a bit too much, but the bottom line is, when I have important homework, or a social engagement(if i feel up for it), i'll turn off the game and go do it. The other night I left a heroic crypts run in the skeleton room to go see a movie with my friends, easy as that.

[waldo]

i had a roommate that used to be extremely social. he either was out every night or had a bunch of his friends over here. then he started watching me play wow beta and decided he was going to play the game when it came out. we bought it and leveled up together. during this time my roommate got fired from two jobs, stopped going out, and stopped all other non-wow activity.

he ran out of money and was no longer able to pay me rent or buy food for himself. being the nice guy that i am, i gave him the "come to jesus" talk where i said i'd let him stay if he'd pay me back when he got a job. i even drove him around town(his car had broken down) to various places to get job applications. he also borrowed a bunch of gold from someone in-game. nothing made me more happy than coming home after a long day of work and hearing him tell me about how much more gold he paid back. but yet no mention of the real money he owed me.

soon his subscription ran out and he was unable to play the game. he then would hide from me when i was around. when i came home from work he'd sit in his room the entire night. there was no tv, radio, computer or anything in there. not to mention there's no way someone could jack off that much. he sat in his room. only coming out to use the bathroom or if i wasn't home. i also found all those job applications we got earlier in the garbage. finally i found someone who had a job, money and didn't play wow so i kicked the dude out.

it may not be a true addiction, but this game has a hold on people. it effects everyone differently. This VIDEO GAME cost me about 2 grand in rent, bills and food.


FUCKING BALLS

no, it was not khb.

[Rekuul']

waldo, your roommate cost you 2g, not the game.

Anything that is 'involved' is a potential thing for getting someone to shirk the rest of their life. I knew a guy who was really into his car and would spend all day surfing for parts and tuning it in his garage. He blew thousands of dollars and spent the better part of a year laboring on the thing to the exclusion of almost all else and then finally sold it at a huge loss and moved away. It was all he talked about.

It's called an obsession. They've been around long long before WoW. This is the guns kill people arguement. People kill people, guns just help. Wow is an easy way to manifest an obsessive personality, but just as a gun doesn't lure you into killing someone, neither does WoW lure you into ruining your life over it.

-Rek

[Soruss]

i had a roommate that used to be extremely social. he either was out every night or had a bunch of his friends over here.

Sounds like he was addicted to partying before he was addicted to WoW.

[waldo]

and cocks

[Soruss]

and cocks

Top or bottom?

[khan3817]

I quit.

[socratic]

no, it was not khb.

That's bullshit and you know it.

[bierbaum]

Omg Socratics Sig owns could look at it 24/7

[Nulil]

Socrat quit wow to watch awful loli anime all day. I heard he watched the Lucky Stars OP more times then he watched king kong.

[socratic]

Raki ☆ Suta!

The songs kinda catchy, what do you want.

[Otzo]

Socratic, fan of Hellsing? :o need to find a subbed Hellsing OVA 3 =/

[Nulil]

no lolis or "catchy" songs in hellsing, so socrat has no idea what you are talking about.

Maybe if they go far enough to animate the nazi cat girls he will become interested.

[Otzo]

that nazi is actually a very "cute" boy. :P

[socratic]

Hellsing was too short =(

You're full of shit scott, you know you were always the one linking ME Hello Project videos. AMAZING Hello Project videos...

[socratic]

One more for the road.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/Iceman108080/HaruhiDance.gif

[Rekuul']

Soul Kyuumetai is the best song ever and I listened to it 100000000000x. From Hellsing.

[Soruss]

You guys are huuuuuuge fucking dorks because you watch anime...


























... I like the intro song to Gantz.

[Soruss]

Hellsing was too short =(

You're full of shit scott, you know you were always the one linking ME Hello Project videos. AMAZING Hello Project videos...

You sir have sent me on a journey of amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axt9TN0ia9I

Oh those silly Japanese.

[Av]

One more for the road.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/Iceman108080/HaruhiDance.gif

Haruhi Shizuna was pro