Anyone ever been addicted to a MMORPG?

[TheNemesis]

Am I the only one that was sucked in by AO(Anarchy Online)?

 

[RabidMongoose]

I was addicted to a game by Sierra called The Realm. This was before EverQuest and UO went retail. I think I played it during my sophomore year of high school since I distincly remember people going crazy about Green Day on the game's chat channels. Well, my grades fell a little sophomore year and I had to ditch the game. Also, when I was a freshman in undergrad, I played Rainbow 6 online a ton. Me and a couple of other people from the same university that played together were just awesome at it.

Now I don't play anything... MMORPGs just require too much time now to stay competetive.

 

[Reliant]

I try not to play MMORPGs

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
LOL same here. I've made over $10k selling accounts and plats on EQ.

next to what has been accomplished by me and another guy, im gonna have to call you an amateur (Sp?), but still an amateur with very good accomplishments we made probably 600 a week easy on playerauctions.com selling plat alone. ever been to the sewers in cazic thule? well, if you are on prexus, dont bother going there. its permanently camped...by me and another guy. we farm FT3 boots and mosquito earrings. we have 9 accounts between the 2 of us, the most perfectly balanced group possible. get EQWindows...if you have a badass computer, it can run 3 accounts at once. the last character we sold was a warrior to a guy that just graduated from georgia tech...for 2.6 GRAND! powerleveling is EXTREMELY easy when you have aegolism and druid thorn shields anyways, that warrior has over 500 AA points and was basically a total badass. he had a fleshgrinder (12 dmg 19 dly) and a curse-smelted longblade (14 dmg 19 dly)...needless to say, for people that are addicted like myself, you guys know he was a badass and worth every penny of $2.6k


wow, i am a huge nerd

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: TheNemesis
Am I the only one that was sucked in by AO(Anarchy Online)?

I spent a lot of time playing it while it was in beta. But I wasn't willing to spend money on it.

 

[RIGorous1]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
LOL same here. I've made over $10k selling accounts and plats on EQ.

next to what has been accomplished by me and another guy, im gonna have to call you an amateur (Sp?), but still an amateur with very good accomplishments we made probably 600 a week easy on playerauctions.com selling plat alone. ever been to the sewers in cazic thule? well, if you are on prexus, dont bother going there. its permanently camped...by me and another guy. we farm FT3 boots and mosquito earrings. we have 9 accounts between the 2 of us, the most perfectly balanced group possible. get EQWindows...if you have a badass computer, it can run 3 accounts at once. the last character we sold was a warrior to a guy that just graduated from georgia tech...for 2.6 GRAND! powerleveling is EXTREMELY easy when you have aegolism and druid thorn shields anyways, that warrior has over 500 AA points and was basically a total badass. he had a fleshgrinder (12 dmg 19 dly) and a curse-smelted longblade (14 dmg 19 dly)...needless to say, for people that are addicted like myself, you guys know he was a badass and worth every penny of $2.6k


wow, i am a huge nerd

Wow I didn't understand one word you said...

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
when i became a paladin in the order of laurderan i swore an oath to the tribunal to uphold the sancitty of the church of zacriem. i then travled to the west, the pagan lands. i was then unable to return when firey deamons from hell blocked the passage way back to the east. i encountered many great battles during that time. then, these people come and tell me that its time to go to school. i tell them that i attened 20years at the monastary at Quel Thalas, then they said i go to something called a "high school". now im typing this on this glowing box

everything is clear to me now, i'm going to fsck your mom

lol

 

[digitalsm]

One game when it came out the first two months I had played it half the time, seriously 720 hours(1 full month) out of 1440 hours(2 months). After that I rarely played, and to this day I rarely play a MMOG. Mid Nov-Mid Jan a couple years ago IIRC, most was over thanksgiving and then christmas break.

 

[rh71]

MUD (the text based MMORPGs). That was a true addiction in college...

I played on ONYX III... if anyone ever heard of it..

 

[Jittles]

Darkfall is the next MMORPG that I will be playing, bringing back to the days of old school UO before it was made crappy.

No classes, levels, no safe zone crap. 100% PvP in the world woot.

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: DWW
I crunched in diablo 2 and made a killing on eBay.

I got so into the struggle of makin money and loving the game trying to find the illest items I started to hear diablo 2 sounds while I was away from the PC... they just kinda echo'd after a 12 hour game. I mean it was SICK. I was sick. I took a long cold shower, sold everything remaining on eBay, traded my top #2 USEast ladder character and hocked that and copped tons of items, broke them up and sold them on eBay. Deleted any remaining accounts, looked at what I lost in the meantime and have never even though about putting the cd-rom back in. I have it on my desk to remind me of the time wasted.

That was after I dropped out of high school. It became a true addiction I think. Since then I cleaned up, went to college and maintain a perfect 4.0 GPA. Do I still slay fools? Hell Jeuhh... counter-strike is fun...with moderation. 1 hour daily for me. Its like therapy. Occasionally if I have extra time, I'll spend 2 hours. But not more than that.

wow, you must have some damn good self-discipline.

excellent story.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: RIGorous1

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
LOL same here. I've made over $10k selling accounts and plats on EQ.

next to what has been accomplished by me and another guy, im gonna have to call you an amateur (Sp?), but still an amateur with very good accomplishments we made probably 600 a week easy on playerauctions.com selling plat alone. ever been to the sewers in cazic thule? well, if you are on prexus, dont bother going there. its permanently camped...by me and another guy. we farm FT3 boots and mosquito earrings. we have 9 accounts between the 2 of us, the most perfectly balanced group possible. get EQWindows...if you have a badass computer, it can run 3 accounts at once. the last character we sold was a warrior to a guy that just graduated from georgia tech...for 2.6 GRAND! powerleveling is EXTREMELY easy when you have aegolism and druid thorn shields anyways, that warrior has over 500 AA points and was basically a total badass. he had a fleshgrinder (12 dmg 19 dly) and a curse-smelted longblade (14 dmg 19 dly)...needless to say, for people that are addicted like myself, you guys know he was a badass and worth every penny of $2.6k


wow, i am a huge nerd

Wow I didn't understand one word you said...

basically that sums it up

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker

Originally posted by: DWW
I crunched in diablo 2 and made a killing on eBay.

I got so into the struggle of makin money and loving the game trying to find the illest items I started to hear diablo 2 sounds while I was away from the PC... they just kinda echo'd after a 12 hour game. I mean it was SICK. I was sick. I took a long cold shower, sold everything remaining on eBay, traded my top #2 USEast ladder character and hocked that and copped tons of items, broke them up and sold them on eBay. Deleted any remaining accounts, looked at what I lost in the meantime and have never even though about putting the cd-rom back in. I have it on my desk to remind me of the time wasted.

That was after I dropped out of high school. It became a true addiction I think. Since then I cleaned up, went to college and maintain a perfect 4.0 GPA. Do I still slay fools? Hell Jeuhh... counter-strike is fun...with moderation. 1 hour daily for me. Its like therapy. Occasionally if I have extra time, I'll spend 2 hours. But not more than that.

wow, you must have some damn good self-discipline.

excellent story.

agreed...very good recovery and story to tell people who are in the same position. that changed my day for real. wow.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

First Mankind, now Horizons...

 

[DWW]

Just take a few steps back and analyze ANYTHING you put more than 10 hours into. I don't care if its building a patio or a small computer mod project. This gives you an objective viewpoint to determine if its really worth it. Especially for games where you can spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours in them.

I'd estimate my counter-strike clock is at about 3000 hours if I had some way to track the hours played.

Now, looking back on that, if I had a job for 3000 hours I could have a considerable amount more money saved up for a home down payment when I'm done college.

Game addiction is real despite what people say. Realizing it is the first step. The second that you can't go a WEEK without a game means your in trouble. For me with Diablo 2, I couldn't even sleep for fear I'd miss the "ultimate trade".

If anyone needs any help kickin their addiction just pvt msg me and I can offer some more help.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

EQ

 

[PrincessGuard]

I was a DAOC junkie for about a year.

Luckily the lack of high-level content eventually freed me from its grasp.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: DWW
Just take a few steps back and analyze ANYTHING you put more than 10 hours into. I don't care if its building a patio or a small computer mod project. This gives you an objective viewpoint to determine if its really worth it. Especially for games where you can spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours in them.

I'd estimate my counter-strike clock is at about 3000 hours if I had some way to track the hours played.

Now, looking back on that, if I had a job for 3000 hours I could have a considerable amount more money saved up for a home down payment when I'm done college.

Game addiction is real despite what people say. Realizing it is the first step. The second that you can't go a WEEK without a game means your in trouble. For me with Diablo 2, I couldn't even sleep for fear I'd miss the "ultimate trade".

If anyone needs any help kickin their addiction just pvt msg me and I can offer some more help.

yeah, i will second this whole post...the hardest part about the whole situation is admitting you are addicted to a game. most people cant understand it. its not the kind of addiction like a drug or something, but more like you feel like you are heading for a goal of some sort and you want so badly to attain it. this is very real and all of you who will scorn us for saying this obviously have never played or gotten attached to a MMORPG. after i stopped playing EQ, i realized how much of a waste of my life it was. i cant remember anything i did my freshman year of high school and that is sad for me because i feel like i missed out. i was playing EQ every waking moment. well, i just bought star wars 5 weeks ago. i am already a master doctor and master combat medic. i have no more skill points available, thats how much ive played. i realized the addiction last week and i threw in the towel. i gave away my stuff in-game and cancelled my account. i am so ashamed i did this not only once, but twice. for some reason, i thought i would be able to control it. you cant.

 

[obiwaynekenobi]

AC2. They just Added. TONS if new mobs a

new Island
100 new levels (150 levels now)
58 new skills
Including passive and active Skills.
New Chat Servers (because the old one sucked)
TONS of new stuff to do. and quests that take WEEKS To finish and not an hour.

The new Island have those "Kill this beast"

however the Beasts moves. you could spend quite a while looking for it.

Killer armor

Enough content added in sept that SoE would put out a new expansion and make people pay $50 for it.

Turbine put it out for FREE. all of this was in the Septmeber patch.
Every month new content

I love that game

Yes. I'm addicted to ac2.

Yes. it sucked for a long time. it has its issues every MMORPG does, and in all reality. IF my friends aren't on I don't play. It's not even so much the game that I like, it's how much blasted fun I have playing it with my friends.

 

[pac1085]

Diablo 2. Then everquest for a year. EQ turned into a "wait for the guild to get a raid going" before you do anything. Everquest got boring, but I still loved the game for some reason. Then I finally quit. I still think about it sometimes. Its been over a year now. I almost bought it the other week!

 

[thawolfman]

Diablo II if you want to consider that an MMORPG...christ I played that sh!t allllllllllllllllllll day over the summer a couple years ago...

Sad - Really!

-Ben-

 

[Caanon]

EQ release till early 2001.
SWG beta3 till 1 month after release.(so like 2 months)
Don't think I'm gonna play anymore MMORPGs...I have a bit of a compulsion to "beat" them or become powerful fast...which takes too much time/effort.

I still play FPS alot...but its no where near as bad...I just play to have fun, and have no problems going a week or 2 without playing....but when I do sit down I ussually play a long time...but It's fine with me, I just sit down for an afternoon and have some fun.

 

[Chaotic42]

The only MMORPG I play is Battlefield 1942. I like to cast sniper rifle on my enemies.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: OOBradm
the star wars galaxies servers are down right now, and im freaking out. Ive been putting ALL of my free time into that game, at least whats left after school and gf. I cant stop playing it. its bad. i think im beyond help. can anyone relate to this? ITS LIKE CRACK!

What the hell is wrong with you? That game gets more broken with every patch.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: OOBradm
the star wars galaxies servers are down right now, and im freaking out. Ive been putting ALL of my free time into that game, at least whats left after school and gf. I cant stop playing it. its bad. i think im beyond help. can anyone relate to this? ITS LIKE CRACK!

What the hell is wrong with you? That game gets more broken with every patch.

actually, the most recent patches have helped a considerable amount with gameplay stability and general annoying issues. this last huge patch had an incredible amount of fixes. what everyone isnt realizing is that they all start out like this. everquest has awesome content, awesome gameplay, and is solid as a rock, but its also very developed and has been around a while. star wars will be the same way. this is the 2nd HUGE patch SWG has encountered since its release, and after each was a massive difference.