• A maladaptive pattern of substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period:
  1. tolerance, as defined by either of the following:
     • a need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve intoxication or desired effect
     • markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of substance
  2. withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following:
     • the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance
     • the same (or a closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms
  3. the substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended
  4. there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use
  5. a great deal of time is spent in activities to obtain the substance, use the substance, or recover from its effects
  6. important social, occupational or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use
  7. the substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance (e.g., continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption)

• A maladaptive pattern of gaming, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period:
  1. tolerance, as defined by either of the following:
     • a need for markedly increased amounts of play time to achieve satisfaction or desired effect
     • markedly diminished effect with continued play of the same amount of time
  2. withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following:
     • the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the game
     • the same (or a closely related) game is played to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms
  3. the game is often played in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended
  4. there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control playing
  5. a great deal of time is spent in activities to obtain the substance, use the substance, or recover from its effects
  6. important social, occupational or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of playing
     
  7. the substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the game (e.g., continued playing despite recognition that a carpal tunnel syndrome was made worse by playing the game)

Played WoW for a year or so, drilled tbc like it was a pac man level, got into Kara with guild, got some gear.. decided to step outside for some fresh air and havent been back.. cancelled account as well.

People in this game really have no life and take it far to seriously..

Wont be going back..

For the rest of you whom still play, enjoy, you will one day ask yourself.. "where have those days - months - years gone?"

Lev 70 war - jubei

awe thats too bad im sure u could ahve got more than that for ur lock!. i have sold 2 of the toons ive leveled all i do is transfer them over to new accounts i buy and ebay the account off. :) good cash when the endgame material is complete trash.

that way i hang onto my account and characters in work.

no need to rebuy.

Originally posted by TheBean

You know what got me? Getting to lvl 48, hearing so much about these 8 hour raids, then hearing that I will have another lovely 10 levels to grind. I was angry, decided to PvP, realized the PvP sucked, and quit!

You could try that, but I think it comes naturally at higher lvls

Well I have not quit as of yet, forgive me but I can not find a better MMO out there that can hold  my attention.  However, what you do realize when you hit 60 and certainly 70 is that the instance runs become more demanding.  First they are for the most part longer, which means having to clear a bunch of trash mobs for like 80% of the instances, and more time consuming, and hopefully your class will get a nice purple on one of the bosses.  Then you have to /roll for it with everyone else, I am pretty much done with this game, I only log on to play Eye of The Storm or AV.  I know that when the next expansion comes out I will not get it and that will probably be my reason to quit not wanting to level anymore.

I was addicted pretty bad last year.  It happens after i lost my job, i started playing WOW.  At first it was a few hours everyday, then it was 5-6 hours a day, then12 hours a day, and so on...

I tried to cancel my subs but i was always coming back.  So i did the only thing i knew was going to stop me from playing that game.  I delete all my characters.   I was having 3 level 60's and many many alts in the upper 40's, tons of gold and items, i delete everything !

Right now i re-started playing form scratch on a another server but i don't have that problem anymore, i play maybe 20 hours a week, which i consider normal.

So if you really want to stop playing then i recommend you do that.  Delete every characters you have.

i just think MMO's period are starting to get boring. I played WoW for about over a year did end game and pvping which i thought i liked and quit. Once i hit 70 (60 back in the day) i spent half of my logged on time running around Ironforge on my stupid mount. Then i went to the horde side and played and spent my time running around undercity... Played DDO and still play that casually like maybe 6 hours a week. Burning crusade came out played yeah till 70 and lost intrest right there. Now that i see this new one Wraith of the Lich King (and knowing the storyline) makes me wonder how they'll continue like after Arthas dies. I was thinking the whole Death Knight class was going to be its sepreate faction for w/e reason but if it was would be the case i just hop back on WoW and play the evil guys. After thinking a lil bit though That drealord that Illidan was supose to be working for is still around i think might continue the sequel after Arthas.

in the name evil,death,undeath,my frozen but and that raid group that are standing right infront of me but behind my aggro radias i rename world of warcraft world of warcrack