Fighting urge to replay WOW

so i used to be in a hardcore raiding guild until april when it died.. top 80 in the US.. raiding 5 hrs a night 5 days a week..

since wotlk came out i have been looking up old friends on armory a lot lately, even going to throrycraft sites and all my old usual things.. i feel extreme nostalgia . on the flip side i have a bad feeling in my gut about starting again.. it destroyed my social life and my studying in highschool took a hit, i am now in college but am afraid the same effect could happen.

i know their are a million reasons to not play wow again, and thats why i quit.. for the longest time my friends praised my decision and i felt great about now going to a new guild after my old one died out.. i was fianally free.. but now i feel left out of WOTLK and just want to play again.. and i cant play casually.

should i play again? or plz convince me to not play.. god i'm confused

so i used to be in a hardcore raiding guild until april when it died.. top 80 in the US.. raiding 5 hrs a night 5 days a week..

since wotlk came out i have been looking up old friends on armory a lot lately, even going to throrycraft sites and all my old usual things.. i feel extreme nostalgia . on the flip side i have a bad feeling in my gut about starting again.. it destroyed my social life and my studying in highschool took a hit, i am now in college but am afraid the same effect could happen.

i know their are a million reasons to not play wow again, and thats why i quit.. for the longest time my friends praised my decision and i felt great about now going to a new guild after my old one died out.. i was fianally free.. but now i feel left out of WOTLK and just want to play again.. and i cant play casually.

should i play again? or plz convince me to not play.. god i'm confused

nimatoad2000

 You answered your own question. The game is nothing but a grind for better gear - not worth the time and effort.

while yes i do regret playing it because of the toll it took on my life (270 days played time ) but while i played it was fun.

what a lot of people that never raided hardcore dont understand, is that when your at that level.. your racing all the other guilds up there.. so its not as much of a grind, but rather a race. when your at the head of progression with ppl of skill at your side.. its fun.. when your at the lower end.. your reading the strats already written for you.

also another point, the game can either be a grind, or very fun, depending on your raid grp.. if everyone is anal and just there to kill bosses and not have fun, itll be like a job, but if its a fun yet productive environment like my old guild.. i actually looked forward to play.. even when we were farming black temple for our 4-5th month

I was in a very similar situation I was a hardcore raider, was one of the first 70s in the BC, was in the guild that had first clears and kills up through Hyjal, I had 3 other 70s and 4 other mid level alts. I quit after I was AFK for a few months involving military stuff, and when I came back and saw that my guild back stabbed me and kicked me but that everyone and their moms had the gear I busted so much ass for, and it was at that point I realized how pointless it is to play the game, its just a grind to be the first with the best gear to brag to people you dont even know... And that is why I didn't buy WOTLK cause it would just be the same thing, even though I cant help but feel nostalgic when I see a couple of my friends play who are still involved deeply, they say pick it up play casually but when it comes to a game like that.... I gotta be the best and play as hardcore as I can, and I just frankly cant let my school, social life slip away again like it did last year.

DONT GO BACK TO WOW it isn't worth the time and effort anymore.

while yes i do regret playing it because of the toll it took on my life (270 days played time ) but while i played it was fun.

what a lot of people that never raided hardcore dont understand, is that when your at that level.. your racing all the other guilds up there.. so its not as much of a grind, but rather a race. when your at the head of progression with ppl of skill at your side.. its fun.. when your at the lower end.. your reading the strats already written for you.

also another point, the game can either be a grind, or very fun, depending on your raid grp.. if everyone is anal and just there to kill bosses and not have fun, itll be like a job, but if its a fun yet productive environment like my old guild.. i actually looked forward to play.. even when we were farming black temple for our 4-5th month

nimatoad2000

I have two lvl 70 toons and raided hardcore for a few months - I came to the realization that the game is not worth it when you can be doing better things with your life. 270 days played is crazy - I have about 100 or so. It sounds as if you already made up your mind and are going to go back to the game. Your choice, but is it worth the mindless hours for fictional gear and the decline in your social life and more than likely a decline in grades...I had to give the game up - it's difficult to manage a social life while raiding 5 hours a day...

battosai you and me are very similar.. i also wanted to be the best, and being in the top guild of my server and holding the #1 5v5 arena team on the server for a good while.. i certainly obtained that goal.. but yeah its all for nothing in the end.

but i sit here.. and i just finished fallout 3 and farcry 2.. going to get codwaw and until gta4 which shouldnt take long to beat.. there wont be many games to play.. the great thing about wow was u always got a game to play.

while i played wow the only websites i would go to were wow forums , worldofraids and elitistjerks for theorycraft... i used to come to GS forums a lot .. and now i do again

i come to GS forums when i'm bored and have nothing else to do, and recently.. that has been a lot of the time...

battosai you and me are very similar.. i also wanted to be the best, and being in the top guild of my server and holding the #1 5v5 arena team on the server for a good while.. i certainly obtained that goal.. but yeah its all for nothing in the end.

but i sit here.. and i just finished fallout 3 and farcry 2.. going to get codwaw and until gta4 which shouldnt take long to beat.. there wont be many games to play.. the great thing about wow was u always got a game to play.

while i played wow the only websites i would go to were wow forums , worldofraids and elitistjerks for theorycraft... i used to come to GS forums a lot .. and now i do again

i come to GS forums when i'm bored and have nothing else to do, and recently.. that has been a lot of the time...

nimatoad2000

In Vanilla WOW, I was one of the very first players to earn Rank 14 Grand Marshall on my server. I spent many nights without sleep, as much as grinding into the early morning. After that venture, I decided enough was enough. It was time to quit before I watch my life decay.

so i used to be in a hardcore raiding guild until april when it died.. top 80 in the US.. raiding 5 hrs a night 5 days a week..

since wotlk came out i have been looking up old friends on armory a lot lately, even going to throrycraft sites and all my old usual things.. i feel extreme nostalgia . on the flip side i have a bad feeling in my gut about starting again.. it destroyed my social life and my studying in highschool took a hit, i am now in college but am afraid the same effect could happen.

i know their are a million reasons to not play wow again, and thats why i quit.. for the longest time my friends praised my decision and i felt great about now going to a new guild after my old one died out.. i was fianally free.. but now i feel left out of WOTLK and just want to play again.. and i cant play casually.

should i play again? or plz convince me to not play.. god i'm confused

nimatoad2000

only play if you can avoid the bolded, underlined part above.

WoW is a lot more fun if you take it slow, enjoy it, and savor it. When I got to 70, I did some instances (5-man only) and a Kara run or two (only part way) said "OK, thats cool" then stopped and made a new character. Oh ya, and it took me three years lol. I dont care though, I was going to school and working almost full time through out and I got my one or two hours in a day and it was great.

Games are a hobby, not an activity. When youre done with your day, then you play WoW. When you play five hours a day, your life doesnt revolve around what it should, it revolves around WoW.

So, unless you can play is modesty, do not play at all.

battosai you and me are very similar.. i also wanted to be the best, and being in the top guild of my server and holding the #1 5v5 arena team on the server for a good while.. i certainly obtained that goal.. but yeah its all for nothing in the end.

but i sit here.. and i just finished fallout 3 and farcry 2.. going to get codwaw and until gta4 which shouldnt take long to beat.. there wont be many games to play.. the great thing about wow was u always got a game to play.

while i played wow the only websites i would go to were wow forums , worldofraids and elitistjerks for theorycraft... i used to come to GS forums a lot .. and now i do again

i come to GS forums when i'm bored and have nothing else to do, and recently.. that has been a lot of the time...

nimatoad2000

Yeah true WoW is a game you can always be doing something on unlike a console game you beat in 5-20 hours a game play, but what I came to realize that is the potency of WoW, you get sucked in doing random little crap over and over and over again to build a new item make money to buy a new mount, it becomes so mind numbingly boring, but when I played hardcore I was in the top guild on the server farmed and grinded for the guild and such it was insanely boring and such, its just you play it so much that you just start forgetting whats going on in reality and compramising time to play WoW, I remember the excuses I made for myself to skip class to play or to get out of work early to raid Naxx a while back and to do all the end game in BC... Plus they nerf everything you work so hard for gear and get about 2 months of bragging rights before every moron has your gear, after that dawned on me I just cant do it anymore, I know if I got WOTLK on my PC and started to play I would get sucked right back into it so I avoid it I play my console games get my video game fix for the day, I have a productive Airforce job go to school full time and have a cool side job so my life has gotten so much better since I quit WoW, more energy not so strung out all the time and just over all dont feel like such a super nerd either :P

i already made a deal with myself to never play wow again, and i will never break it, but that dosnt stop me from wanting to play soo much... i made this thread to have ppl tell me to not play.. to supress the urge... so thanks.

it truely is like a drug.. if only i was rich, didnt have any concern to make something out of myself in life, had no ambitions, goals or anything else.. i could sit at home playing wow all the time.. but unfortionately.. i want to be somebody in life .

Don't give Blizzard what they want. If you go crawling back you're no better than the rest of the crack..urgh I mean, WoW addicts.

i already made a deal with myself to never play wow again, and i will never break it, but that dosnt stop me from wanting to play soo much... i made this thread to have ppl tell me to not play.. to supress the urge... so thanks.

it truely is like a drug.. if only i was rich, didnt have any concern to make something out of myself in life, had no ambitions, goals or anything else.. i could sit at home playing wow all the time.. but unfortionately.. i want to be somebody in life .

nimatoad2000

Good deal. I too get the urge to play but I realize that WoW is such a waste of time. There are quite a few people out there who have had their lives' negatively affected by the game.

so i used to be in a hardcore raiding guild until april when it died.. top 80 in the US.. raiding 5 hrs a night 5 days a week..

since wotlk came out i have been looking up old friends on armory a lot lately, even going to throrycraft sites and all my old usual things.. i feel extreme nostalgia . on the flip side i have a bad feeling in my gut about starting again.. it destroyed my social life and my studying in highschool took a hit, i am now in college but am afraid the same effect could happen.

i know their are a million reasons to not play wow again, and thats why i quit.. for the longest time my friends praised my decision and i felt great about now going to a new guild after my old one died out.. i was fianally free.. but now i feel left out of WOTLK and just want to play again.. and i cant play casually.

should i play again? or plz convince me to not play.. god i'm confused

nimatoad2000

As others have already said, dont do it! The key parts are in your post. If your the type of player who have to be all or nothing, WoW can be a serious risk you your life, career and health for that matter. Ultimatly it's not worth it. Havinga  beer or two or gating wasted with your friends on occations (if your of age) is also all good. If you have problems stopping, if one drink leads to another and another. If your live is suffering from drinking, then you need to stay away from alcohol. The same thing holds true for WoW.