In my last entry I confessed that I sinned against my long time Warcraft guild, and that I quit the game.
Well, that was my third serious attempt at quitting WoW, and this time I thought it was going to stick. I even gave my account away to a friend. TBH, I never planned on giving up on MMOs, I was waiting for AoC. I thought AoC was going to be the game that forever seperated me from WoW. How dilluted. Sure, AoC has its upside. The combat system is great and the graphics are unrivaled, but it also has major flaws. Everyone knows this stuff, and there are more threads about AoC woes than a drama monger such as myself would ever care to read. But I digress.
You see, as soon as I quit WoW I apped to a hardcore AoC guild and patiently waited for launch. I knew going in that my pc was well below the optimal requirements, but I could never have imagined just how poorly it would run on my system. 3 days of frustration in AoC and I was jonsing for WoW. I asked my friend for my account back, but he had switched mains to my old toon and was not giving it back. For others, that might have been a sign that a return to WoW wasn't in the cards. Not for me. Just the opposite in fact. It pissed me off, and it ended my longtime RL friendship with the thief. I tried in vein to guess the new password, and I eventually just went down to gamestop and bought a new game.
So here I am. 3 months ago I quit WoW, and severed ties completely with a guild I was in for 3 years. I've lost the toon I made all those years ago, and raided with for so long. I've rerolled on a random server, with a class I've never played seriouslly. I will be 70 inside of a week, and apping to guilds based on my experience alone. In my experience of rolling alts on other servers, my raiding experience is more than enough to get a freshly 70, green geared toon in to mid level guilds.
I'll confess it openly: I'm hopelessly addicted to WoW. Considering my previous attempts to quit, or move on to other games, I can't imagine that I will ever leave.
These are the Memoirs & Confessions of a Jusitifed MMO Sinner.
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a little bit disturbing but understandable. i found it hard to leave a few games (EVE, WoW, CoH) but in the end i could control myself long enough to gain another interest (AoC, GTA IV...ect). i think a fresh start is what you needed (i did the same when i went back to WoW. tried a mage and loved it) and a new server and toon means new opportunities to meet friends...and in the end i feel thats the big pulling power of MMO's. as you stated you were in that guild for 3 years. thats a long time to be with a tight group of friends.
I see your age as 25. Are you in a serious relationship yet? A partner would help kick the habbit.
How is your job? if you are not employed, try helping in your community, even if it is taking out the trash for a elderly, or teaching some one some pc skills you have that they don't
Take up a exercise routine. The YMCA is a great place to do that, It's where I go. Even just walking helps.
Read books, take some classes.
Take everything in moderation, food, work, hobbies, etc.
If you don't, it will master you.
You gave your account to him, and then tried to take it back. Yet you call him the thief. Damn, your a crappy friend
Like the Greeks said, take anything in more than moderation and bad things will happen. But like Hrica said, get involved in stuff outside of computers, you don't want to end up ruining your life to a game.
I can not believe you think your friend is a thief now.
lol!
Agreed, Fraxture! Gifts are gifts, you can't just take them back like that. Lucky was the other guy, with whom you broke you ties - why have friend like you? He's surely better off without backstabbing "friend" like you.
Well, I disagree.
We've all been through this. I have had many friends that just got frustrated with a game, got overly emotional or just tried forcing themselves to give up their addiction by giving away their stuff/accounts.
Friends recognize this for what it is and give their friends a grace period.
Real friends don't even give them a hard time when they're handing their old stuff back.
We've all been there. I'd always give back anything I could back to a friend that quit. In fact I have several times.
I agree with Serignuad...a real friend would of seen what he was doing and given the account back...but I can see the arguement too. This is for everyone to decide for themselves.
However...I understand it is hard to give up the game, I did, and I couldn't be happier. I eventually went back but no longer did I do the 8 - 12 hour marathon play times. I spend time with my husband again, I read, workout, and do other things! My life is much happier with MMO's in moderation...though I had to do something drastic just to get there. I sold my computer and everything...talk about cold turkey!
It can be done...it just how badly are you willing to do it? Now if I can just figure out how to quit chocolate!
you realize you can get your old account back through the forgot password option in the account managment? That is, if you remember the information the account was originally set up with.
You can get your old account back, as long as you were the original owner of it (and can prove it with id / cd keys).
What you do is report your account "hacked". You fill out the little form, attach your drivers license ID photo and the CD keys.
It'll take about a week, but if everything matches, you'll get an email that your account was reset + password changed.
Anyway, up to you to do it, but it is possible. ;)
Thief is a not the word because he never actually stole anything but.. if he was your friend he should have given it back .. it shows he wants a lvl 70 toon more than , saving you grinding again.. And your friendship so really imo he was not a friend.
If you ended a frindship over the fact that he wouldn't give you back a gift that was given to him, then you've got bigger problems then your addiction to WoW...
You MUST leave once Warhammer is released. It is a requirement.
Wow, dude...you're a dick.
And warhammer is the same thing but with better graphics and Realm PVP.
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