Mmorpg Addicts R Us.... Are You?

Hello, my name is areawe and I'm an mmorpg addict. I have always been crazy about RPGs. I was introduced into mmorpg by my sister who innocently purchased a copy of Asheron's Call over 4 years ago. Little did I know that I would be hooked for the rest of my life! I played AC for many years and have recently switched to World of Warcraft. I'm captive! mmorpgs have changed my life. I actually moved accross the country because of a couple I met in AC and grew close to online. I have talked to many people who met online and ended up getting married in real life. How addicted are you?

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I'm not crazy until I'll go over the country for it, I'll just sit on my home and running the com and playing it online.... and I also know some from my own country...

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Well i meat my actual wife in mmorpg. But must be real RPG mmorpgs, not just hack & slash. last 2 years play Neverwinter nights on RPG serwer, meybe they are not ideal mmorpg but got close.


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I wouldn't say I am severly addicted on another note yes I would.

I started almost 6 yrs ago with Everquest and played it until Star Wars Galaxies was released then picked it up and played both slowly drifting away from Everquest.

After coming to the conclusion that Star Wars Galaxies couldn't possibly be completly run by SoE due to the massive amounts of bugs they kept constantly having I eventually left it for Everquest 2 coming along with it machine upgrades and what not.

Then World of Warcraft was released and bam away went Everquest 2 don't even touch it due to the graphics and processor requirements that even after upgrading my machine weren't good enought to run the game as graphically beautiful as it should be without having severe amounts of lag.

World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, and Everquest as well as a few others in between on emu servers such as Lineage 2 and free ones like Knight Online and a few others.

Now I do / did spend alot of time on all of these combined let alone daily as in get up go to work come home log in eat somewhere during the time of playing get off at like 3 am shower head to bed wake up 3 hrs later and repeat.

After about the first week or so of gaming my time would diminish to playing the game and I would go back to my more regular routines such as reading, playing my PS2, chatting with friends on messenger and working on graphic design/web design projects that I would have set for myself that reached the pile of ignorance beside my desk during my times of playing.

So, to me I think I become initially addicted for long enough that the newness of the game wears off and that is the extent of it as I know nothing is getting done in real life and I am just delaying it.

I still log in 1-6 hrs weekly on WoW and 1-2 hrs for Everquest but have long since dropped Star Wars Galaxies, and Everquest 2.

Addicted maybe but seems I am able to break the addiction after a little bit of time maybe it is the repeativeness that the games offer after your in them for a while or maybe I just don't have the interest anymore.

I am at the point now of deciding wether or not to sell my WoW account which holds a 60 warlock with almost a complete set of next to epic armor quality and 1 piece of his epic armor and 41 rogue who is well equiped and a few minor toons on there as well just trying out other classes. (that is another subject in itself)

So, I do believe it is possible to get addicted but I also know that it is very possible to break the addiction that can come with it if you really want to.

 

 

 

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I like mmorpgs such as Empires online. The Dark Kingdom. Factions which is now down forever. They are FSO servers incase you are wondering. FSO=first star online. You can master skills and stuff.

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I love mmorpgs such as Empires online and The Dark Kingdom ive played both almost religiously unfortunatly thou i didnt have the time to continue with it but hopefully next summer i can start up and find a few old friends

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I am so addicted to MMO's also. Unfortunately, my computer sucks, and the only MMO's I can run are basically Runescape (ew) and Ragnarok Online. I've basically lived my life on RO, until recently, I've done basically everything in the ragnarok World, and am bored. So... basically, Im waiting for a job for some cash... need a better computer.

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I can't seam to get away from a MMO i am always lookin for a new one so i guess that means i am addicted to them (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) i can't play any stupid computer won't let me *kicks the comp.* its always crashes on me in a game (even when i can play the game) one of ma favoite MMO site is www.MMORPG.com you can find lots there XD

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ive started playing online games about 3 years back
i downloaded the MMO OZworld and then i was introduced to the MMOrpg
Ragnarok Online

yeah, the start was cool~ i got hooked to the game, but i guess time changes everything~, many bots and such have proliferated inthe game w/c made me lost interest in playing~
ive switched to other online games like khan,mu,pristontale,fairyland,skyblade and such and ive landedon ROSE online this year~

im planning to get guildwars and wow since i want to get into the RPG factor in mmorpgs~
and also im waiting for games like DDO and such since they offer a larger rpg factor~

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I'm not addicted enough to move across the country, but I do love MMORPGs

Diablo II is my only main one really... new patch is out.

I've played since.. it came out really off and on, and i'm still not as good as the people that practically devote their lives to it.. lol.

Diablo II Forever, or until my interest runs out.

Panda

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