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Once you start playing WoW, It's hard to stay away. What do you think?
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pioneers14
My co-worker and I (who both play WoW) were having an interesting discussion the other day. He said that once you start playing WoW you will almost always come back if you decide to go on a break for awhile. I didn't think this was true and that It would be really easy to just stop playing cold turkey. The more I got to thinking though, the more I found his point to be true. Some cases - My brother stopped playing WoW about a year and a half ago. I didn't think he would ever come back to it and he never really expressed an interest to. Well about a week ago he calls me up and said that "he had this urge to play WoW again" so he went out and bought the expansion.
The only person I know that stopped playing WoW and hasn't returned was an old HS friend of mine. I think he quit about 3-4 years ago now (Or before BC came out)
So what is your guys' opinion of this? Do you ever tell yourself your going to take a break for awhile (maybe try out some new things) but then suddenly find yourself in front of the comp screen again? I've had several occasions where I wanted to take a break (to focus on school/try out new games/ etc) and then I find myself playing again :)
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donnymurph
It's called addiction, and it's a complex beast.
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mindthegap5
I havn't played wow in 3 months.
yet i'm still here, and come payday i'll probably start again >.>
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Ashelia
I think it really depends on the person.
I was just on a podcast my friend hosts (it should be up in a day or two, or else I'd link it) and our premise was to have two people play each other's favorite games. One guy had to play TF2 the other had to play WoW.
Interestingly enough, the guy walked away feeling 'meh' about WoW. He got only to 21 or so, got his raptor mount, and quit. He did some dungeons beforehand, leveled a couple different classes to 20, but ultimately he said he felt like he'd "seen it all." Of course, we told him he was wrong because the game is way more multilayered than getting a mount and being a low-level Warlock, but he did have a point: WoW doesn't always hook people from day one and it's not always going to be addicting to everyone.
For me, it took a while. I played at launch, didn't really care too much for it, after I hit 60 I left. I came back around the time MC was just starting, enjoyed it more as Alliance instead of Horde at the time, and really liked Paladin rather than the Rogue I initially chose.
After that it's been sort of a constant thing. Even if I take a break, it lasts for at most a couple of months, then I start it all over again. The end of expansions are my anathema, because I get really bored after four or five months of farming the same raid content, so I find myself tempted to try other games.
But as for my friend, he won't be going back. So if it's a rule that it's addicting, then he's the exception. I think people can get over the game and walk away--or not like it that much their first time and consequently never go back. A lot of guilds break up and many of their players go casual or simply quit. Sometimes MMORPGs just stop working for their lifestyle.
(I must really like this topic, I totally just TL;DR'd it.)
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