MMOs for dummies

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Azisien

But you could get a good month or two out of it before you realize its not actually good, its addictive, and those are different things.

Pretty much true. When my "brother" (very good old friend who we basically adopted for a while) ran out of money and was forced to quit WoW, he went through some pretty serious withdrawal for a media addiction and had to re-acclimate to real life (he called going out for things like shopping going on raids for like a month afterward). After that he bumped around to pretty much literally every free MMO on the market until recently to help fill the void. Now he's back on WoW, spending money he knows he has no business spending again.

It's not like he doesn't even know the dangers of addiction. The guy's not stupid and just managed to quit smoking late last year. He just got into WoW because he had friends join up. Those guys all still play, too.


WoW: more addictive than nicotine. :T