play less World of Warcraft

my boyfriend is rather introverted (is that the right word)
well now he is, and when he started playing i saw it as a way to spend time with him if i couldnt see him face to face
now i play twice as much as him and i’ve gotten nothing done at all.
i want to cut back not quit..lots of time went into it and the people are kinda cool.
but the people i can see and toucher are cooler.

And i’ve wasted it all on this damn game. I started a month ago as something to distract me when I didn’t have anything to do when I got off work. I played the game every other day but I was still only a low level so playing times never ranged to hours. Then I got promoted and was left with 2 weeks free because my contract didn’t start til then.

See where the problem came? I’ve spent two weeks playing every damn character to see which suits me more, Exploring new areas, Farming, Making twinks, Getting my mount for my main, Getting ganked by 70’s and killing plenty of Horde (Death to the Horde, KEK.). But what have I done in real life?

I don’t want to quit because it is an awesome game but I really don’t want to be a slave to a game. What to do…..

So it’s been two whole days that I haven’t played WoW and I thought it was a worthy achievement for 43things.com! I’m surprised how easy it is to get hooked to the game and surprised how easy it is to just drop it and go outside with friends. I’ve played for about 6 months with one lvl 64 and a ton of alts. When I think about the 6 months I could have been doing something else, it makes me go doh smacks head but at least I’m stopping now. My account dies in one day and since I don’t have my cc on the site, it won’t be renewing. “Warcraft… it’s been good for the past 6 months… but we’re OVER!”

Other things are too much fun. I haven’t played in a month and a half. Going to quit and make it stick this time. If I end up playing again I’ll come back to 43things and post my shame. Hopefully I’ve got this beast put to rest … once and for all.

SERIOUSLY.

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I quit a few months ago.I have to say my life has dramatically improved since then.One thing that helped me quit is I realized I wanted to make more progress in my personal life as opposed to having this fictional character make all this progress.It seems silly but one of the major things that keeps people playing is the fact that the game constantly rewards you, if you focus your life on doing other things that can give you that feeling you’ll find it much easier to put down.

The holidays and picking up a new 5 part book series put a big squelch on the WoW beast. Unfortunately after two weeks of not playing I spent too many hours playing yesterday and the day before. The appeal of my other goals should help stem this some. I don’t want to quit … I just want to be able to stop playing this silly game during the day/evening/night when other more productive or fun things could be done.

“It’s a game … you can put it down,” shall be my mantra.

I haven’t played in a long time, and my husband just accused me of having given up on it, so I think I’ve accomplished this goal. I’ve simply found other things that were a higher priority and haven’t had time. Now I need to work on my other goal of “get to level 60”. :D (If I can find time again, that is.)

I’m not sure if I really want to quit or not.It’s not really the game that is so great its the people I play with that make it so fun otherwise I would have quit a while ago.It gives me something to do which keeps me from spending money which in the long run will help me get my own place to live and do a few other things that I want to do.Not sure what to do!(It does keep me up late sometimes which stops me from waking up at 6am to go to the gym like I used to!)