Raiding ruins lives!

Wedding Woes: The Dark Side of Warcraft - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games (http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/wedding-woes-the-dark-side-of-warcraft/1186366)

Hahahaha... She bought it for him... ROFL!

What an intelligent woman. She must have been great in bed if she couldn't even pull him away from his lvl 70 orc and all his e-friends.

That was a great read. Thanks.

My fiancee's uncle just e-mailed me this article. While I find it interesting I don't think the problem is WoW but the people. It could've been anything, playing guitar too much, working on a muscle car non-stop, or shaving goats. It's the person who has no self control that is the problem, not WoW.

I agree it's the player's fault. The only other way it could be is if he was unhappy in the first place about his marriage / home life, and he chose to play WoW instead of be involved in her life.

The situation goes back to eq and before, when someone with an addictive personality latches on to something like that.

It may be the crack addicts fault for constantly using crack, but eventually you have to partly blame the dealer who made the fantastic crack cocaine.

My fiancee's uncle just e-mailed me this article. While I find it interesting I don't think the problem is WoW but the people. It could've been anything, playing guitar too much, working on a muscle car non-stop, or shaving goats. It's the person who has no self control that is the problem, not WoW.

It's a little different than those hobbies you listed. WoW is addictive because of the social aspect. You don't see people getting addicted to normal RPGs like you do with MMOs. There's always a new piece of gear to get, people relying on you for raids (and in a hardcore guild, to the point where if you're not online, they'll call your RL phone number that you've probably provided to the officers), new things to farm rep to get some stupidass mount to show off with.. What makes it worse is that he was a raider. You don't see non-raiding noobs get hooked as badly and as long term. With a guitar or your car, it's just you and the geetar/car. You didn't have to fill in an application to join a guild or have people relying on you when you weren't there at 6pm with your pots ready and ready to summon.
Sure, an addictive personality is at fault too, but WoW and the people you play with are most certainly set up in a fashion to totally take advantage of that and rape those people in the ass with it. Factor in the high number of unattractive losers who feel socially redeemed in this virtual world just by putting time and a few clicks of a mouse into it.

From personal experience.. thank god for BC and other factors that stopped me from raiding. That expansion slowly killed my addiction. phew.

Playing guitar or working on a car a lot of times is social, people join bands and people that work on cars all the time usually have a shop that a friend owns that they can go to and work on their cars together, when driving around on the weekend in the summer notice how many auto repair shops are closed on the weekend but there usually people there on the weekend.

The thing with WoW is that it is very cheap and people can feel like they are being social while not even leaving their home. People also like to feel some sort of progress all the time and they have figured out how to do in a reasonable way in WoW, you work on 1 faction for awhile, then move onto the next faction that you want exaluted with, and then they add another faction to the game so you start grinding though that one.

The game never ends, and you only need to put in minimal effort to see some sort of progress, I haven't seen that the game is the reason for a relationship to fall apart, but I have seen people use a game as a excuse to not deal with the problems in a relationship.

my wife found some woman forums and there is a group of women who are married to Men who play WOW and they call them selfs WOW widows. :lol:

thought it was funny and fit well with this thread

my wife found some woman forums and there is a group of women who are married to Men who play WOW and they call them selfs WOW widows. :lol:

thought it was funny and fit well with this thread

Is your wife a WoW Widow?

lately i guess so ... been raiding lately so i think she would say YES but i dont see it that way

lately i guess so ... been raiding lately so i think she would say YES but i dont see it that way

and thus it begins..!

lately i guess so ... been raiding lately so i think she would say YES but i dont see it that way

i am so going to stat surfing on wow widows for naked pics/web cam fun and local fuck and chucks. thanks dude!!

Also the problem isn't world of warcraft in that relationship. that bitch should start putting out or giving blow jobs and stop crying that world of warcraft destroyed her marriage to her husband.

PS i bet 200 gold shes fat also.

and thus it begins..!

in her eyes Tribes was 100000000 x worse then my WoW playing. in wow i play a lot but i dont work my time around it. Tribes i did. Tribes was the only game i ever scheduled around because of clan practices and matches

Also the problem isn't world of warcraft in that relationship. that bitch should start putting out or giving blow jobs and stop crying that world of warcraft destroyed her marriage to her husband.

PS i bet 200 gold shes fat also.

my wife does not think that way and the whole wow widow thing (atl east in her eyes, I cant say for some of these women she heard about on some internet forums) is kind of jsut a joke and her way of busting my balls. My wife realizes that my gaming is no different then watching TV for entertainment.

Besides im willing to bet most women would much rather have a husband who plays too much wow then a husband who is always at the bars getting drunk with other women

if she was so worried about her damn marriage, why didnt she just put a virus on his computer or break it or something... i bet her fatass was sitting on the computer too. raiding does take a long time sometimes, thats why i don't raid, and it'd have to be on a weekend or something like that if i did. the wife would go fuckin nuts, thank god theres arena. i probably wouldn't play if they didn't have BG's or arena.