Drugs?

[Oziris]

Is world of warcraft a drug or something else becous when u start playing it u never stop playing it then u lose $ in your life,then every shit hapens really!so what do u guys think?In Serbia some kid died becous of WOW he played it 4 or 6 days with out stoping he dident even eat he just played he was like 40lvl or 34 lvl.......

 

[Mecheon]

Of course its not a drug

Drugs go into your body. Medicine? That's a drug. WoW? WoW is an addictive computer game

 

[EMPerror]

well then again, a kid also died from wc3 . He jumped off the 5th floor and he thought he'd join the wc3 heroes when he dies.
Still, noone says warcraft is that much addictive.

 

[Kimbo]

well then again, a kid also died from wc3 . He jumped off the 5th floor and he thought he'd join the wc3 heroes when he dies.
Still, noone says warcraft is that much addictive.

Wrong, that was on Wow.
And no game can be addictive unless you make it to be. The person is always to blame, never the game.

 

[Drake]

Yeah, Dont hate the game hate the player, and there were also a asian kid (i believe) who jumped off a bridge because he wanted to show his friends how he died in WoW, and sadly enough, he died.

 

[Oziris]

Lol my frend is saying when i get internet i will play wow!!!wow is the best !!! and he is telling me that every 2 min in school,out door he is sick....

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Of course it's drug! Game should be removed from internet!

 

[Andreja]

Well look at this this way.I play WoW i love it and still i havent jumped over a bridge or played 26 hours a day.

 

[Kwaliti]

Well look at this this way.I play WoW i love it and still i havent jumped over a bridge or played 24 hours a day.

Lemme fix that for ya

True, blame the player. The first ever major MMO incident happened in Asia, when a guy asked for his friends sword to play with it a little bit, then he sold it afterwards. The owner killed the person who borrowed the weapon in real life. Video games are a huge addiction problem. There was this one time when a person in the US thought GTA3 was for real, then he was beating up people on the street and killed 3-4 police officers and then drove away in a car. He was sentenced to death with a lethal injection. So remember kids: Games are good as long as you know they're games.

 

[Oziris]

I agree with l0w_kwaliti with that gTa

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I've come to level 55... then well.. i was bored.. i wanted to do stuff but nobody wanted to help me etc... then i started playing fable, war3 and cod2 again and now i don't play WoW anymore >.<

 

[Andreja]

l0w i meant 26 hours a day as like never stopping no sleeping no eating you get it? And You Wand Mirror have to learn to do stuff yourself and have alot of lvl 70 friends ^^.

 

[inverted]

Wow is not a drug.
It's a computer game that can be addicting based on how you play it.
If you play it casually vs if you play it hardcore.
All of these incidents about people dying are about .001% of the gamers that play WoW.
What about the 99.99% that don't jump off bridges and just play for fun.
If you are addicted to game just if you can, shut it down for 2 weeks and after that you won't be addicted anymore. For me, i stopped playing and now i have no desire at all to return. I played the game since beta and i realised its just a game and theres a whole world out there, this game is just virtual. If you are addicted get a life.

 

[brad.dude03]

Inverted basically says it all here. Any assertions that WoW is a drug are retarded.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

if you die or waste any of you life from playing a computer game you are clearly retarded, exceptions go to the two guys that had heart attacks while getting super high scores on the arcade classic Bezerk. those guys are clearly awesome.

 

[Perry_]

Ever notice the massive population of Nintendo Fans? Because Nintendo can make great games and not turn anyone insane! Although someone did change his first name to Triforce thats a better alternative to killing yourself over WoW.

I myself play WoW only during Summer at night because I pay by the pre-paid cards and it isn't worth getting for the shorter holidays. I did get quite addicted to it though but I never played during the day. It was like switching into a different person every night .

 

[~Void~]

It's the player not the game. I play GTA 4 and sure I sometimes wish I could run around killing idiots in traffic if they piss me off, but I don't, because I'm not some idiot mental patient with no self-control. I don't think WoW has ever had an influence on me like that, though.

Anyways, I've beaten WoW, I see no point in carrying on past level 70. Maybe when the expansion comes out I will play on a private server but I really do not want to level all the way back up to 70 and then to 80, because my character was deleted.

 

[brad.dude03]

Unless you've cleared Black Temple, have full season 3, the best arena team in WoW history, and full tier 6, you haven't beat the game. There's always something new to strive for.

 

[Andreja]

And now WotLK is coming more stuff Arthas and maybe Frostmourne.

 

[HappyTauren]

 

[punwisp]

if someone had the frostmoure, then that "would" ruin the game, sense it steals souls and all

 

[~Void~]

Unless you've cleared Black Temple, have full season 3, the best arena team in WoW history, and full tier 6, you haven't beat the game. There's always something new to strive for.

Bullshit. I dont fancy the idea of working all that hard for a few pieces of armor, and arena is stupid. That's just my opinion though.

 

[brad.dude03]

Well then, you shouldn't even bother playing the game. You have to have the desire to attain something to make it worth it to go through the trouble.

 

[Anything.]

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/12/chinese-teen-bu.html

This is from a while back.
I swear I only loled a little bit.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

yeh the whole idea of wow is endgame, and the whole idea of endgame is slowly improving your gear.