World of Warcraft ruined my life!

I've Played WoW for bout 4 yrs now.. but I've cut back the amount I play whenever my wife is home.... I actually find that I eat less while playing (maybe cause I'm more occuplied and engrosed in the game)..... just sitting watching TV is my killer... I've always have to be munching as I'm watching...


Relem: Wildhammer

85 Night elf hunter
75 human rouge
60 worgen warrior
45 human Female warLock

**WARNING: I'm about to stop making friends ---

I don't know if this has been covered - I wasn't going to read 4 pages.

Games don't ruin lives. Period. I played many games, including WoW for 4 years, several 85s, scheduled raids, yadda, yadda...

The bottom line is things like this only ruin lives if they are allowed to. I was able to play for 8+ hours on days when I had nothing to to but not play at all on busy days. It was fun but there are more important things. I still play games. I still love it!

I was able to run a business, have a relationship, take care of my son and be a responsible member of the volunteer community while maintaining a 3 day raid schedule. It didn't cause me to gain weight. It didn't turn me into a cave dwelling troglodyte, afraid of human contact.

I have been on the recieving end of a failing relationship due to a gamin addiction. It was up to me to do everything I could to prevent the issue and when I saw no other solution we parted ways. I did not allow it to ruin my life. If the person I was with rather be online than spend time with me I needed to move past it.

Just think about it. Warcraft - ANY game - didn't ruin your life. You allowed it.

I've never really been into WoW, but played plenty of console games. I haven't been gaming much in the recent past, though. Between work and home committments, I just haven't made the time.

Plus, I bought a guitar (well, two now), and I've been playing guitar for an hour or so in the evenings instead of gaming or zoning out in front of the TV. It's hard to munch when you need BOTH hands to play.

My best friend had so much trouble in her marriage because of Wow, her husband would come home from work and stay at his computer until 3 or 4 in the moring, sleep for a few hours and go to work.....and come home, spend all night at the computer once again.

When I met my husband and found out he played WoW, i thought "oh crap". But I played it with him and we love it :P I think its just a matter of additude towards it/the person playing.

Before we got married, my husband was a guild leader, and would spend 40-50 hours a week playing, organizing raids (back in vanilla when it was 40 man) helping low levels to level up. Now we do spend a considerable time on WoW (he has 5 85's, i have 2 of them-Druid and Mage), but we also do other stuff as well, no longer part of a raiding guild so not as much focus on it

My husband jokes that he has two babies, me and his 85 Druid :laugh:

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enough said.

I played WoW for about two years back when it came out. I loved it! Of course I had no life. I actually LOST weight playing, though.
All those burned dinners while raiding...

I played Aion for about a year. Great MMO, I must say.
Played Lord of the Rings Online for 18 months. Loved it.

Beta tested StarWars the Old Republic but decided against it because I will be dropping everything the second Diablo III comes out.

Beta testing Diablo III currently and desperate for them to release the game already!!!

I was addicted to Everquest hardcore back in the day to the point that their FanFaire was a quarter mile from my apartment one year on the same street I lived on, and instead of meeting people I talked to daily, I stayed home and played since the server was emptier and I could get the best camping spots. Played WoW for about 5 years too, but never liked it that much, it was more just social time with friends, but I did put insane amounts of time into that game sitting on my *kitten*. I don't think I've touched an MMO in 2 years though and much happier for it.

Though I still do play occasionally, mainly at work when traveling to kill time. but I only play games that don't require close attention and are easy to walk away from now. Currently that is Skyrim, Civ5, and Football Manager 2011.

My ex used to play Final Fantasy literally every night from 5:30 pm to 3 am in the morning. I think he played while I was at work too, but he won't admit it. He'd sleep till noon, and he didn't have a job like, EVER. I will never never never date another guy that plays games. Ever.

Huge gamer here. Though when I was at my most addicted to WoW (playing from 8am until about 3am in the morning at one point ) I was also at my lightest since I would skip meals whenever I raided which was 5 nights a week!
Gaming's always been a big addiction for me starting from as young as 7 when I'd spend as many hours playing FF7 as possible.
Now I'm married, just completed my degree and don't have so much time to raid/play video games but i do still love to get an hour or two in there on the weekend! Anyone on EU WoW servers feel free to message me for RealID.
Any friend invites welcome too New here so would be great to encourage people and to be encouraged ^.^ Looking to lose about a stone as that's when I was at my healthiest and fittest!

not weight related but I really think this videogame was one (along others) reasons to end a 5-years relationship with my ex-bf....

I used to play! I was also addicted, as was my husband. We had level 80s of every class during WOTLK, between the 2 of us. My main was a 80 Draenei Paladin (on US-Khadgar). We were in top guilds and were often realm firsts. But... we didn't do ANYTHING else. I eventually got a job where I had to actually work during the day and evenings, so I quit first.. then my husband joined me and quit also. But I miss it sometimes. I think MOP looks fun. Someday I'll go back, maybe! But carefully!