Addiction much? My opinion.Follow

Oh, but it is.
It starts off innocently, one here and there. Then you go to a party and try your first Starburst. They keep you going for a while but, before long, you're hitting the hard stuff - Jolly Rancher. Slowly your life spirals out of control, and your family seeks professional help the night they find you crying in your bed at 2AM, muttering "I just need a taste.. just a taste, man.. a taste.. of the rainbow."

Look what you did now you angried up the Projections! Is that music? Oh **** here comes the kick...

Rick James said it best. "Cocaine's a hell of a drug."

Using big names, especially ones that taught entire societies that you can subliminally control and condition sentient beings by a punishment / reward system of conscious behaviors and actions make you the biggest bigot of all time.

Cocaine is unhealthy because it is ingested by a mammal who doesn't have a nervous system impervious to lesions, which you have many apparently.

Using Freud, Cocaine and ****** out of your gourd fails. It is all invalid.

Freud wasn't a behaviorist, from what I've been told. I think you might be referring to Pavlov and Watson?

If there are a small minded people out there that are hopelessly addicted to World of Warcraft (and I know there are), this is not Blizzards fault. Blizzard made games for two purposes: 1: To make money and 2: To entertain people. What those people do with their time, energy, life, etc., etc., while playing the game has nothing to do with Blizzard Entertainment.

Your post is saying Blizzard knowingly produces a game that will get people addicted and this is simply not true.

What's next: Blaming McDonalds for a Big Mac addiction and gaining 300lbs then having a heart attack and dying? Oh wait, that's been done already in the United States. Carry on!

However, I'm still waiting for the day that some parent somewhere files a lawsuit against Blizzard Entertainment cos they let their children play all day, all night, for years, and said child became grossly obese with health problems. This of course is Blizzards fault right? It certainly can't be the parents or even the child's fault?

Edit: For typo

Edited, Jan 30th 2011 8:58am by Seculartwo

Addiction might be a strong word but Blizzard definitely made the game in a way that will make players come back for more.
And they sure as hell knew that there were going to be players who would play WoW 24/7 when they made it and they also knew that the better they made their game the more of those people there would be.
They also really didn't mind because those people equal money for Blizzard and money is what they make games for.

The people who play 24/7 are however the loyal fanbase that's been playing since beta and will be playing until the last servers are closed down, possibly on multiple accounts too.
The guy who plays 1 hour a week is much more likely to just quit for a few months or quit altogether because he's lost interest.

Did you just call addicts small-minded?

Addiction isn't to a specific thing. It's just 'addiction.'
A person who becomes 'addicted to a video game' will become addicted to another thing in place of the video game. The same applies to EVERYTHING with an addiction, though certain chemicals are more likely to be addictive (Tobacco's active ingredients, alcohol).

Pretty much the same way I'd define a crack addict: Someone that would give up friends, family, health, life, work, money and even food to get their WoW fix. Destroying their marriages etc.,etc,. If they don't work and have to steal to pay the $30 bucks for a game card. People have done all those things and more when it comes to WoW, just as they've done the same exact thing with cocaine, heroin/morphine. Bright promising students have dropped or been kicked out of collage due to their addiction to WoW. If you cannot control your need to play WoW, then you have to consider the possibility that it's becoming unhealthy and quite frankly, you need to quit.



No, not at all! You're reading way too much into my post and what addiction is: A disease! Making a website doesn't mean they are an addict. Nor does quitting and coming back. And you're wrong, all this doesn't describe all of us, far from it.

I'm not trying to insult anyone, but face it, there are people (probably some on this forum), that are addicts to the point of it being unhealthy and even controlling their lives. Just as cocaine or heroin does to people. Crack addicts can work, but they work for crack. Same could be said for some WoW addicts. Remember, WoW does stimulate our brains and for some people, that stimulation is more intense than most people. Just like drugs: There's plenty of cocaine users out there that are not addicted, just as the majority of WoW players are not addicted. But none-the-less, there are addicted WoW players and it could turn very bad for them and their families if they don't get it under control.

But with this said, this is not Blizzards doing (as the OP suggests) it's the person that got themselves to that point in their lives. And like it or not, many of them are small minded simpletons to have been pulled into an addiction to a pixelated fictional world.


Edit: for typo

Edited, Jan 30th 2011 10:51pm by Seculartwo

The obvious difference of course is that WoW doesn't have a physical aspect to it, unlike drugs such as cocaine, heroin etc.

Also if you're playing WoW so much that it starts to take over your life I don't think quitting is going to magically make everything better and I think you'd be better off asking yourself why you're playing WoW/what you are missing in real life that makes WoW so attractive.