Sometimes I feel like I am, and its not healthy. Some of my guy friends stay up till 3 am playing WOW ... I think a lot of people do, and it may be interupting peoples' life. Like it can seriously take over my life sometimes, I push other things a side. I'll tell my self that Ill just be on it until I beat a level or so, at a quiting point, but then I don't stop till I feel too guilty too continue, and I'll be on it for hours and hours!! I know it sounds like I have a great lack of self control, but so many other people also seem to have this problem. Should it be considered as an addiction?
2007-01-30 15:52:05 · 10 answers · asked by genuine♥ 3 in Games & Recreation ➔ Video & Online Games
MMORPG's are quite addictive, but it never seemed like a concern to me until the dreaded WoW. I know how addicting RPGs can be, even ones as simple as Runescape. Wanting to reach that next level or just getting to that one point in the game is what takes up so much time, which makes it so addictive. Addiction is presently thought of as how much time you spend on a game. WoW is by far the most dangerous game to start playing. Because usually with great games like WoW you spend hours an hours playing until the games over. The problem with WoW is that it never ends, so those days cranking out endless hours never end either.
2007-01-30 16:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by Zori 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an addiction. There's a show on cable channel A&E called "Intervention", it was on last night. The episode was about a young man addicted to video games. His family did an intervention and he went to rehab. It was so weird, he would not get up from a chair in front of his tv for like 12 hr. stretches. He avoided normal activities and just played video games.
2007-01-30 16:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by flacocajuncujo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely!
I still wind up playing some games till late into the evening.
I've been known to get into a game of Battlefield 2 at 11PM and not finish till 1AM and then turn around and start another round because I'm so caught up in it.
Lately I just won't start a game after midnight just so I can go to bed and get up for work the next day.
2007-01-30 16:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by Mike A F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not too interested in WoW but I LOVE Counter-Strike and I became addicted to it. Pushed homework aside and everything else and my brother took after me so I had to literally sit down with him and get him to stop because when I got into High School video games are still cool but College Prep, Position, an even ladies require alot of that time.
2007-01-30 16:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by AzianAssassin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DEFINATELY! I recently seen on "intervention" (the drug attiction reality show... a man with a gaming addiction! He ended up at a outdoor camp for 42 days. I am actually thinking about sending my b/f there! He is a addict as well.... I have seen it all... 24 hour binge... controllers, flying through the air and t.vs going through walls! All this over madden football!
(im a lady using my b/f nic)
2007-01-30 16:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by sbenga24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I suppose it is possible, I mean I really like my share of the PS2 and Guild Wars, but taking it to the level of an addiction is a little extreme.
2007-01-30 15:56:41 · answer #6 · answered by Agitozecter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look up the show INTERVENTION it is on A & E I believe. Normally they do shows about people on drugs or with some other disease.
Last weekend they did one with someone who was addicted to video games.
It was just as sad as the ones that are addicted to crack.
2007-01-30 15:55:32 · answer #7 · answered by lisa s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're authentic there are different issues worse to be addicted to despite if video games are next in line.Do something it incredibly is better for you like enjoying soccer or basketball or baseball karate.
2016-10-16 08:35:06 · answer #8 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, I am close to someone like this, internet too, he goes into a rage when it is withheld, he is an adult. and he sits at his computer about 15 hours a day.
2007-01-30 16:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by barbara b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so true...my younger brother is addicted to WoW.
2007-01-30 15:59:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋