Dette er en tekst jeg har skrevet for å hjelpe folk som meg selv som har ødelagt sine egne liv med å spille dette forferdelige spillet. Du tror kansje dette bare er tull, men vist du virkelig ønsker å slutte, så anbefaler jeg deg virkelig å lese dette. Det kan hjelpe deg. Og vist denne teksten hjalp deg å slutte, vær snill og gi meg tilbakemelding.
edit: jeg skrev den på engelsk, for det at mesteparten av de som kommer til å lese den ikke forstår norsk, og jeg gidder ikke oversette den :P alle kan engelsk uansett.
How to quit playing World of Warcraft by Steffen L. Gaustad (C)
Intro.
This is a text I've written to help you other poor people playing this game who can't
quit. It dosen't contain scary stories about people who have played for a week in a
row and died from dehydration or whatever, it will simply make you look at World of
Warcraft in another way, and you will realize that World of Warcraft really isn't fun,
you've just fooled yourself to believe it is.
When I was playing World of Warcraft, I played from I came home from school until I
went to bed after the raid at about 01:00.
I played every day for as long as I could, and I knew it was the only reason I barely
had any friends, I fought with my parents every day and my grades were going straight
to hell. I still continued playing. If you are like I was, then I strongly recommend
that you read on. I can help you quit this madness and get a better life.
1. What is World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft, or WOW as I'm going to be referring to it as from now, is a MMORPG
- A Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. It revolves around the Warcraft
Universe and You Play the role as one person living in the world Azeroth.
As you most likely already know all this and mostly everything else about the game,
I'm going to skip this part and get on with the important stuff.
2. What makes WOW so addicting?
From my own experiences, WOW is one of the most addicting and populargames known ever,
and ALOT of people have had their lives ruined because of the game. So What makes it
so addicting, and why can't people quit playing it? There is no real answer, it's the
whole phenomenon itself that makes it so addicting.
People play it hours and hours every day, because they need gold for new equipment,
potions for the raid, epic mount or whatever else they want. It's a infinite cycle,
there's no way to get all the gold for everything you want, and when you're done
getting it, you'll just find another thing to grind, reputation, finishing all quests,
playing PVP, grinding honor, grinding EVERYTHING! Maybe that's the answer to what makes
WOW so addicting - grinding.
3. So how did I get out of the cycle?
The answer is quite simple - I thought about it. I realised that 90% of the time I spent
playing, I spent doing nothing but torturing myself. Grinding whatever it was that I
needed at the time, and wishing I could just steal my dad's credit card and buy the gold
on eBay so I could grind something else then gold, and still wish that I could get someone
else to do it for me.
I realized that one of the few things that kept me playing the game and forcing myself to
grind, grind and grind a bit more, was simply the fact that every now and then, when my
guild beat a big boss, I would get this rush of happiness and joy that would keep me
grinding money for potions for the nest month, waiting for the guild to progress onto the
next bosskill. Of course there's more fun then that, but it's not much.
The only thing I looked forward to in the end was raiding. Almost nothing else.
4. Your "guildmates" and "friends".
The other thing that keeps you playing is your friends ingame. It is very important that
you realize that your fellow players, they be guildmates or just ingame friends, don't
need you IN ANY WAY! Even though you are the Main Tank in your guild, and you feel that
you betray your guild if you quit when they've put all that effort into getting you geared
up and ready for tanking those huge big bosses.
Truth is that you don't betray them in any way. If they enjoy playing, then what's the big
deal if they have to play a little more? They should be happy for you. Instead they try to
convince you to keep playing, keep ruining your own life so they can keep ruining their
own lives. And concerning your ingame "friends", they'll miss you for a week and they will
have forgotten all about you.
If you play with real life friends, then the same applies to them. You don't matter at all
for their gaming experience.
5. You have no real life friends, and nothing else to do in your free time.
Dude! Shut the f*** up! Do you really think you couldn't get at least a few friends if you
tried to? I quit WOW a few months ago, I have a lot of friends, a girlfriend and a life.
I don't play any sports, I party and hang out with friends. And sometimes I play CS or
something that won't make me play 'till I die, and guess what? I LOVE MY NEW LIFE!!!
6. So what are you saying?
I'm saying that everything that keeps you playing WOW is your own brainwashed head, and if
you can just get that into your head, and realize that the only thing keeping you playing
hours and hours when you'd much rather sleep or hang out with friends or whatever, is your
guild, your ingame "friends", and that endless need of gold and equipment.
So think about this. You're not having fun 80% of the time you play. So why not get out
there and make some real friends, go party and basically get out there with other people.
Don't sit there in your room all day and night and play that game, it dosen't give you
anything at all, it just ruins your life in every single way.
7. Congratulations.
Congratulations! You're now a free person, you should have realized that you don't really
want to play WOW and that your life will be so much better from now on. So get out there
and enjoy your new life, I promise you, you haven't let go of anything.
If this text helped you quit playing WOW, please send me an email on
steffen_gaustad@hotmail.com , I would really appreciate feedback on this. Maybe if it gets
popular enough, I'll get a real writer help me fix it up and make a book about it, so I can
get my message out to more people who have problems with this horrible game. And if you
want to pay me back in some way the best thing you can do for me, is telling everyone about
it. Nothing will make me happier then knowing that I've helped people to better lives.
I would like thank Allen Carr who wrote the book Easyway to quit Smoking, it helped me quit
smoking, and it inspired me to write this text.
edit: jeg skrev den på engelsk, for det at mesteparten av de som kommer til å lese den ikke forstår norsk, og jeg gidder ikke oversette den :P alle kan engelsk uansett.
How to quit playing World of Warcraft by Steffen L. Gaustad (C)
Intro.
This is a text I've written to help you other poor people playing this game who can't
quit. It dosen't contain scary stories about people who have played for a week in a
row and died from dehydration or whatever, it will simply make you look at World of
Warcraft in another way, and you will realize that World of Warcraft really isn't fun,
you've just fooled yourself to believe it is.
When I was playing World of Warcraft, I played from I came home from school until I
went to bed after the raid at about 01:00.
I played every day for as long as I could, and I knew it was the only reason I barely
had any friends, I fought with my parents every day and my grades were going straight
to hell. I still continued playing. If you are like I was, then I strongly recommend
that you read on. I can help you quit this madness and get a better life.
1. What is World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft, or WOW as I'm going to be referring to it as from now, is a MMORPG
- A Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. It revolves around the Warcraft
Universe and You Play the role as one person living in the world Azeroth.
As you most likely already know all this and mostly everything else about the game,
I'm going to skip this part and get on with the important stuff.
2. What makes WOW so addicting?
From my own experiences, WOW is one of the most addicting and populargames known ever,
and ALOT of people have had their lives ruined because of the game. So What makes it
so addicting, and why can't people quit playing it? There is no real answer, it's the
whole phenomenon itself that makes it so addicting.
People play it hours and hours every day, because they need gold for new equipment,
potions for the raid, epic mount or whatever else they want. It's a infinite cycle,
there's no way to get all the gold for everything you want, and when you're done
getting it, you'll just find another thing to grind, reputation, finishing all quests,
playing PVP, grinding honor, grinding EVERYTHING! Maybe that's the answer to what makes
WOW so addicting - grinding.
3. So how did I get out of the cycle?
The answer is quite simple - I thought about it. I realised that 90% of the time I spent
playing, I spent doing nothing but torturing myself. Grinding whatever it was that I
needed at the time, and wishing I could just steal my dad's credit card and buy the gold
on eBay so I could grind something else then gold, and still wish that I could get someone
else to do it for me.
I realized that one of the few things that kept me playing the game and forcing myself to
grind, grind and grind a bit more, was simply the fact that every now and then, when my
guild beat a big boss, I would get this rush of happiness and joy that would keep me
grinding money for potions for the nest month, waiting for the guild to progress onto the
next bosskill. Of course there's more fun then that, but it's not much.
The only thing I looked forward to in the end was raiding. Almost nothing else.
4. Your "guildmates" and "friends".
The other thing that keeps you playing is your friends ingame. It is very important that
you realize that your fellow players, they be guildmates or just ingame friends, don't
need you IN ANY WAY! Even though you are the Main Tank in your guild, and you feel that
you betray your guild if you quit when they've put all that effort into getting you geared
up and ready for tanking those huge big bosses.
Truth is that you don't betray them in any way. If they enjoy playing, then what's the big
deal if they have to play a little more? They should be happy for you. Instead they try to
convince you to keep playing, keep ruining your own life so they can keep ruining their
own lives. And concerning your ingame "friends", they'll miss you for a week and they will
have forgotten all about you.
If you play with real life friends, then the same applies to them. You don't matter at all
for their gaming experience.
5. You have no real life friends, and nothing else to do in your free time.
Dude! Shut the f*** up! Do you really think you couldn't get at least a few friends if you
tried to? I quit WOW a few months ago, I have a lot of friends, a girlfriend and a life.
I don't play any sports, I party and hang out with friends. And sometimes I play CS or
something that won't make me play 'till I die, and guess what? I LOVE MY NEW LIFE!!!
6. So what are you saying?
I'm saying that everything that keeps you playing WOW is your own brainwashed head, and if
you can just get that into your head, and realize that the only thing keeping you playing
hours and hours when you'd much rather sleep or hang out with friends or whatever, is your
guild, your ingame "friends", and that endless need of gold and equipment.
So think about this. You're not having fun 80% of the time you play. So why not get out
there and make some real friends, go party and basically get out there with other people.
Don't sit there in your room all day and night and play that game, it dosen't give you
anything at all, it just ruins your life in every single way.
7. Congratulations.
Congratulations! You're now a free person, you should have realized that you don't really
want to play WOW and that your life will be so much better from now on. So get out there
and enjoy your new life, I promise you, you haven't let go of anything.
If this text helped you quit playing WOW, please send me an email on
steffen_gaustad@hotmail.com , I would really appreciate feedback on this. Maybe if it gets
popular enough, I'll get a real writer help me fix it up and make a book about it, so I can
get my message out to more people who have problems with this horrible game. And if you
want to pay me back in some way the best thing you can do for me, is telling everyone about
it. Nothing will make me happier then knowing that I've helped people to better lives.
I would like thank Allen Carr who wrote the book Easyway to quit Smoking, it helped me quit
smoking, and it inspired me to write this text.
Sist endret av snusmisbruker; 9. august 2007 kl. 05:31.