World of Warcraft

ARGH!!!! I hate this game. My brother is so addicted to it, it seriously has ruined his life. He stays in his room all day & night and plays this stupid game. He has depression but doesn't like to admit it, so I can't just turn the internet off, he says the only friends he has are the ones in the game who pretty much all live in America. He doesn't know how to meet people, hence having no friends since he has moved to Auckland (he moved up here about 4 or 5 years ago.

Has anyone else had problems with this game???

Yes. DP was addicted, stopped being addicted and is now addicted again. He got unaddicted by getting a ps3, now all his mates are done with uni for the year so it's back to world of warcraft.

Yup Yup!!
DH.
Not so much anymore, as we have a pretty set routine to our days, and 6.30-8.30 is 'our personal time', so generally he only plays then, and a few mins before work.

It used to be a real issue, BIL started him on it, and when we were going out he would spend his time with me, playing, when I was around. It was one of the things we nutted out in pre-marriage councilling.

I don't want to get rid of it completely, it's his hobby and stressbuster. But I've learned to speak up when I've had enough, and he's learned to listen

*laughs*
This game has been the bain of my existence for MANY years!
DH plays it.

Since Hannah he's been SO much better though. He plays in the evenings once the house is settled for the night (usually from about 9pm) and for 4 hours on a Sunday afternoon. Which used to be ALL day (and piss me off royally) but now it's nice because Hannah sleeps for 2 of those hours so I can do what I like.

He's made some fantastic friends throughit, all of whom have become my friends, too.

I guess he's an exception to the rule (now, that is. Ask me two years ago how I felt about the game and this post would be full of ^$^%$%^ ).

As Flake said, it's a stress relief.
And at least he's home, not off at (for example) sports practice 2 nights a week and a full day of game play in the weekend.

But RoSee, I can completely sympathise and understand where you're coming from.
What does your family think? How old is he?

My friend's husband used to play it day and night and he left her for some chick he met online. They met as their WOW characters and fell in love supposedly

My DF is addicted and is pretty much the same as the person discribed in the first post    He would happily play from the moment he gets up till late in the night. Job hunting really gets in the way of his WOW playing, so job hunting often gets put off till 'another day'. Hence the necessity for me to go back to work in a couple of months. To say i'm bitter about the whole thing is an understatement.

He is 23, and has been playing for at least 3 years. His room is DISGUSTING, he couldn't possibly find time to clean it. He doesn't even find time to shower, and he takes all my plates/cups/cutlery into his room and keeps it there, does my head in! He's only JUST got a job, which he starts in a week. We had to sit there with him and make him write a letter to apply for it, luckily he got the first job he applied for. I'm really hoping he can make some new friends there! He stopped playing the game for a month or so, promised our whole family he would never go near it again coz he could totally see how it was affecting him and all of us but before you know it he's in his room for days on end again... surprise surprise he's playing WOW again! My family HATES it, we are all constantly worrying about him. Before he lived with me he lived with our mum and now she says she would never ever have him back again... We've had fights about him getting out and making some friends, he just has no idea how to meet people??!!

My DH plays! (And he is not young either!)   It doesn't interfere with our lives though and he is very well aware that the time spent on it is about to be greatly reduced!

You just described my brother except he is 17. I'm not 100% sure if World of Warcraft is the game he plays, he plays some game ...but that name does ring the bell.

I used to live with my mate and his family, he was ADDICTED to WOW - bit of a sad story as he ended up dying at 19 from Leukaemia and all he ever achieved in his life was being one of the top ranked players of a stupid computer game, not much of an achievement really.

LittleSal wrote: My friend's husband used to play it day and night and he left her for some chick he met online. They met as their WOW characters and fell in love supposedly

same thing happened with my ex's brother and his partner... crazy eh!