Fugitive Sisyphus
Escape Artist
Why on Earth would you hide it there?!?
My advice to the original poster: Learn how to play WoW and come up a way to play Strip World of Warcraft.
Girlfriend Issues
- Thread starter Zardnaar
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My advice to the original poster: Learn how to play WoW and come up a way to play Strip World of Warcraft.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Dude, she's already gone.
Zardnaar
Deity
I'm 28, she is 25. I don't play Civ that much any more and often play 2-3 hours of Call of Duty 2 on weekdays (Fri-Sun busy). 6 hours of WoW isn't every day but she is usually on it every day unless she s really sick. Not unhappy/depressed more bored.
NKVD
Cossack
totally reverse that with CIV 4 and you got a lot of people here i'm sure.
I eat and cook but after that,s over i'm over my computer and my gf is on the TV. sure we go to the theatre on weekdays sometimes. But what is there to do after a hard day at home ?
I have a question to people that thinks that WoW is cocaine on a CD. Why is it more addictive than Civ 4 or Diablo
Eukaryote
Deity
Do it anyway. That or learn to love the fact that your girl is so low-mantnince.
Rhymes
Drive 4 25 is back
Because since it's online, if you want to be competitive, or even become among the strongests, you have to put an excessive amount of hours. The only limit to how strong your character can become is the amount of time you can put on it.
Plus these guys often form clans to achieve quest, and apparently there is pressure from the clan because 1- They want your character to stay at a competitive level 2- They need a certain amount of players to be online to complete certain quests.
I know this stuff because one guy I was working with was semi addicted to Wow and kept talking to me about it. He had about 1500 hours on his character at the time... Sick.
Yeeek
Seizing The Day
Agreed on some part. I mean, what's the difference between sitting in front of the TV or in front of the computer/console? You actually do something with your brain on one. Now, like i said, any hobby where you become to spend more time on it than with your relative, there has to be some excessive addiction. And this it not good..
Again what is the difference between someone who just got home, sit on his sofa, light the TV and someone who does the same thing but on his computer?
Both are bad actually, but what else we have to do? After a hard day at work, the last thing i want to do is 1) talk about my work 2) any sports. Though, if i was sitting in front a computer at work all day i may differ but my job is rather physical. So i don't need any more jogging or whatever sports.
Six years is a long time to be with someone to just let it go. She has all the signs of a online addiction but you should make sure she's not the one for you.
Have you thought about asking her to see a counselor (together) about this?
Family or friend intervention?
I think the best thing civ4 did for me is it sucks as a SP game but it has pitboss. Now it's only ~thirty minutes/day and spring/summer are coming.
Have you thought about asking her to see a counselor (together) about this?
Family or friend intervention?
I think the best thing civ4 did for me is it sucks as a SP game but it has pitboss. Now it's only ~thirty minutes/day and spring/summer are coming.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Stop giving her attention until she realizes that she isn't giving you any and responds.. or she won't notice, in which case it's for the better.
Yeah, she'll stop playing in a year or two, but then it's off to another game.
Prince_Imrahil
King
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play your games together, tv together, talk (about offtopic stuff, nonsense etc) cuddle, and.............
Spoiler :
b etor said:
welcome to cfc b etor!
anyways to the OP, MENTION and TALK about it to her... instead of discussing with us do so with her!
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
No kidding. I knew/know some pretty hardcore WoW diehards.
Not true.
My closest friend was a total WoW addict, much like Zardnaars girlfriend appears to be. He played about 3-5 hours on weekdays, and on weekends he would super-indulge and play about 10-12 hours a day.
Then his mom made him stop for a week. During the first few days of his WoW fasting, he was pretty restless and frustrated, but then afterwards, he said that he saw "how not fun it was", as he put it. And pretty much stopped altogether.
And no, he didn't really move on to another game. He still games, but not NEARLY the level that the WoW crakkheads do.
Alvaro da Luna
Warlord
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At OP. I used to played SMAC for 14 hours straight, and get up once to three times to use the bathroom. SMAC is worse than heroin.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
She's been at this a year and a half. They almost broke up over it last year, she stopped playing a bit, and then went right back to it. But the game isn't the issue here anyway, it's the relationship. The game is just something saying that it's not the way it should be. There's probably more wrong here than playing on the computer too much...
Nylan
Characters Welcome
Makes me glad that I don't play WoW.
Or have girlfriend problems.
But seriously, I'd try to talk to her about it. Don't give her an ultimatum, just try and tell her how you feel.
Agreed
Try to show her what's happening to her, but the most important thing to remember is that unless she wants to change, she won't. You can do all you want, but it won't make a difference. She has to decide to change. You're setting up the line, but she's still gotta make the phone call.
I've seen WoW completely trash people...so my heart goes out to you.
If it's obvious she doesn't want to change, then move on. Maybe some day she'll come around and you can go back to her. If not, oh well. Your hands are tied.
TheDervish
Scion of the Achaemenids
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Say no more. That's all I had to see!
MMORPG's require a great amount of time; mainly because the designers of the games cater to the powergamers. The powergamers bitterly complain on message boards when they finish the game in 1-2 months (i.e. beating all the bosses, and getting all the best equipment for their class), and the developers kowtow to them.
Fortunately, I tired of WoW after one intense month of playing nothing but that during a break. Your GF needs to enjoy other aspects of life, and eventually she should be able to see it as nothing more than a silly grindfest with cartoony characters.
Bluemofia
F=ma
I did that with Civ III once. So worth it!
