quit world of warcraft

More cravings gaaaaaah!!!!!!! Sangk God I dont have a computer anymore. I’ve been going out more and it helps… alot… talking to real people-Good.

Im still off of WOW and have been getting “cravings”. I wont get back on until I can manage my life and until I have other things going for me. I felt like the world was passing me by and all I had to show for it was an endless amount of grinding for levels and quests.

I’ve had enough of this game. It’s like running in a hamster wheel. You do the same thing over and over, and in the end never really get anything tangible for it. A weapon. Some armor. Pixels on a screen.

I have an addictive personality (runs in my family) so when I started playing this, I soon played it more and more until it filled way too much time.

I have 2 level 80 characters, lots of “alts,” tons of honorable kills, titles, achievements, mounts, vanity pets, and 20,000 in-game gold. So what? I could have read some books instead, gone outside and enjoyed the arrival of Spring, started working on my marathon training now that my knee is finally better—that partly contributed to my descent into WoW, imo, that I was immobile for a while there.

It’s the attitude of the players that has lead me to finally feeling motivated to quit. I was playing just a few hours ago and a player “ninjaed” an item that was rightfully mine. I confronted him about it and then he berated me in terms not fit for a sailor’s mouth. Being talked to like he was talking to me is so common in-game that I have become desensitized to being called things that no woman should accept from a man (or boy, as some of the players are pretty young, at least from my perspective; they tend to be 1/2 my age). I felt ashamed of myself. I turned off the game right after that incident and do not want to not turn it back on ever again!

I have heard cold turkey is the way to go, so bring on that chilly poultry.

I started playing World of Warcraft soon after I finished graduate school while I was looking for a job. I was probably a pretty casual player compared to most because I didn’t do any of the “raid” content in Burning Crusade and focused on leveling characters

When the Lich King expansion arrived I quickly leveled to 80 and raided every available raid on two separate level 80 characters. I scheduled my Friday nights and Saturday nights to be devoted solely to raiding in addition to the time I played during the week. I wasn’t happy, I haven’t had much time to develop new relationships or hobbies, I gained some weight and in general had negative self esteem because of all the time I felt I was wasting.

The two things that made quitting the hardest were 1) I felt like I was letting my online “friends” down, and 2) I really didn’t have any other hobbies to fill the time WoW consumed. The two characters I played were a healer and a tank and felt that if I quit, my guild is going to suffer badly. I did quit WoW for a few months before but quickly went back once Winter came around and I couldn’t do much outside.

Just delete your characters. There is no way in hell I’m going to level up another character to 80 all the way from level 1. Also, destroy your install disks. I know you can still install the game by downloading it from Blizzard’s website (that’s how I did it), but it takes so long to download and patch that you might come to your senses and cancel it during the process.

I was on the beach the other day with some friends and all I was thinking about was my Paladin build and going over stats in my head. Right there I knew that it was too much. Im quitting cold turkey. My account is getting deactivated soon, anyways.

I’ve been playing for a year, I started over the holiday season last year. My roommate had played before and got back into and I was looking for something to do.

From the first few minutes it was fun. It was simple to run around killing boars and picking stuff up. The quests seemed easy and I enjoyed it immediately. Then starting running dungeons and that was a thrill. My roommate and I joined a leveling guild called The Skull Squadron. We had a great tabard and everyone was trying to push to get to 70. At first it was great trying to get several levels in a day. Then they started getting slower. A level a day turned into a grind.

Eventually the skull squadron fell apart. But I got my shadow priest to 70 and started raiding. I got to see Karazhan. The raiding nights were awesome at first but it takes sooo much time.

I’ve experienced the new Wrath of the Lich King expansion and leveled to 80. My roommate is in a raiding guild with me. We’re gearing up and feeling the race again. And I just don’t want to do it.

The people in our guild are great and I can’t imagine a group of better people to raid with.

But I’m not emotionally attached to any of them. I’m not close to the raid leader or the epic healers that keep us alive. I listen in vent to everyone discuss politics or football and I have nothing to say. Socially its not fulfilling. There are so many people I’ve talked to or run an instance with that I don’t even remember their names the next day.

So I deleted the game from my hard drive and I’m cancelling my subscription. I don’t know how to tell anyone that I quit. Real life friends aren’t aware of the time I invested in the game. And my roommate doesn’t understand what I have to complain about. My mom also plays and its still new and fresh to her so she really doesn’t relate.

I know I’ve chosen WoW over going out. I’ve become pretty lazy. I don’t run like I used to. My dog doesn’t get as many walks. I haven’t been anywhere interesting in a while. I’ve just had enough.

I know this is long, but after reading all the great discussions I felt I owed something in return.
Thanks everyone,
~Bryan

I recently quit wow but before I logged off for the last time I logged onto all of my characters and tallyed up the total time played:
260 days 5 hours.
Then it hit me… I’ve played this GAME for 2/3 of a year. I’ve sat, at a computer, for nearly a full year. Think about that.

so….i still have one month of game time left. and i don’t want to waste my money….so…..i think i won’t start this goal officially until february :-P

I realise I’m that much closer to 30 without really noticing the last half a decade passing. That’s kind of scary and I really have not accomplished anything apart from having a sweet set of purple pixels on my virtual character. I’m in one of the top raiding guilds on my server but all I feel about the game now is boredom and duty. Some game huh, where you can feel a sense of duty towards something that isn’t even real.

I’m aiming to kick WoW by March 2009. And unlike last time where I just replaced it with another MMO, i’m aiming for removing my dependency on MMOs altogether and figuring out what I actually want in life. It’s hard to do when I feel no passion for anything and directionless about my life in general. It’s probably why MMOs became such an addiction in the first place – they gave me goals.

I just cancelled my account after 2.7 years, 3 lvl 70’s, various alts and lots of aches and pains in my legs from sitting too much. I did not delete my characters. I think this is one problem many have when they quit is they do delete them and feel a horrible loss kind of like a death of a friend. By not deleting them and knowing they will be there if you do return to the game, I believe makes the decision to not return much eaiser. One thing I must realize is they are cartoons and are not part of me. They are creations of mine such as any other artful project I have created in my life time. I will not destroy them, just put them away yet knowing I can pull them out of the closet if I ever want to. I really think I will make it this time and not go back. I have actually developed some weakening of leg muscles and tone due to lack of exercising them. When it comes to our health, mental and physical, we must put these culprits away. It’s been fun but I want so much more out of my life and life is too short to spend the majority of it in Azeroth/Outlands/BG’s. My little boys, Baron and Boots in the photo, they need more pats and attention. I promise things will be different little ones!