Should i quit mmos

Very quickly, I became hooked. From grinding all of my skills to reach quest requirements to logging on every couple of hours to do farm runs. I spent hundreds of hours killing the same monsters in hopes to get the super rare drops. I believe I had over days of game time logged when I finally quit the game after 12 years. Runescape was my life. All of my friends played that game, which slowly changed to all of my friends were only met online through that game. But, when you stop doing an activity that takes up all of your free time..

Which is when I was introduced to World of Warcraft. Its been around as long as Runescape, but easily has over 5 times the player base across the globe. I started playing wow at the end of Cataclysm, but really my addiction started in Mists of Pandaria in I was introduced to progression raiding, and have been hooked on that competition since then. Coming up with strategies, analyzing your gameplay to improve pull after pull, picking up tips from watching other people play on stream or in videos, etc..

I never got to play at any insane level, I peaked at US 37th, and was often in the top players of my class. But the rush is the same regardless of when you get there. Working as a team to fix each small issue till the fight finally clicks and you get the kill. The ferocious war cry of nerd screams is something you just dont experience in any other atmosphere. About 2 years ago I joined a guild that I had looked up to for years. They were often one of the top guilds on my server and had a few big name streamers.

It was also the start of my anxiety. Some games are definitely artistic masterpieces looking at you Witcher! Whether you decide to start gaming again or not, remember: it will always be easy for you to slip back into your old habits. It goes from harmless hobby to a core part of my lifestyle. I am never satisfied with how much I play and always end up thinking about the game throughout the day, even when not logged in. It is simpler when you just cannot game instead of trying to game in moderation.

There are no choices, no rationalization, no willpower required to stop at a planned hour. People describe it as freedom. How does gaming make you feel? Competitive games bring rage into most people. How do you feel about losing 5 games in a row? How do you feel about teaming up with incompetent players? Immediately I notice a dip in my personality, studying, working out, and staying up longer. It's just hard to walk away, I will tell myself I will do a few rounds to unwind but those rounds end up consuming the night.

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Want to stop procrastinating and start working? We can't all get paid to play MMOs nonstop 40 hours a week so do keep this in mind - son this ain't yo job! You don't work you don't eat kid, and it's a hard world out there! It's a no brainer that MMOs are social games. What would an MMO be without guild rivals, world chat, whispering to your roll dog about some noob getting his ass handed to him in that quest and there's no denying the power of the almighty friend list.

I can't tell you how many times I realized all I wanted to do was set a game on fire only to find myself having tea and cookies on a burning ship when everyone with good sense had already jumped it throwing up the deuces. That's when you need to realize that you are no longer spending time to play the game, but to hang out with your homies in guild chat. If you find yourself logging on just to spend time with people, and immediately roll bounce when none of your friends are on, then its pretty darn obviously that the game has lost its appeal to you.

Dude, you guys need to just Facebook me because obviously this game isn't doing it for me. As stated in my previous point - this ain't yo job son! What's the reason you play in the first place? You get to blow off some steam, misplaced aggression or what have you, all while being able to live out some epic fantasy. I mean, when else am I going to get to be a spell slinging dark elf of a tragic race? Never that's when! But the moment a game stops being fun and starts being an obligation, it's re-evaluation time.

I quit my last MMORPG because not only was I 'forced' to party more than I was able to fly solo, and being of a particular class meant I always got snatched up quick when it was time to party The game stopped being fun when I realized that everybody and their mama kept trying to boss me around, bitch me out even when they needed ME though Of course I would have toughed it out if I had liked the game more, but my willingness to just screw it and bounce said a lot more about how I felt.

If every time you log on, you find yourself bogged down by the never-ending quest list, bored already of the daily montage of kill-collect-grind, don't even know the lore of the world you're supposed to be saving, and you're not down for any of the ish they keep trying to get you to do If you start comparing and ranking your game to others, then its the game itself that's put a limp in your walk.

Once you begin to feel like you're just reliving the same old same old then there's no point in you wasting your time here anymore is there? If you would rather watch paint dry then play that game for another hour, it's time to look elsewhere. Granted there is always a lot of other factors that go into the decision to jump ship. I mean what are you going to do with all that free time now?!