Part 1
Background, My name is Emil Charpentier and i've been living on and off in a virtual world, in a game called world of warcraft. I started out my gaming three years ago. I am doing a social study over two weeks now (thirteen parts), and i would like to get as much constructive critism from other players aswell.
World of Warcraft changed my life completely and i've struggled alot in my life and i think most of the gamers done the same and we face constant challenges aswell as in game as outside in the real world as we are living double lives. If you are a gamer in the same age as i am (17y) then you problably started out playing a game at the same age as i did (12y) and at first i faced many challenges for an example i've had alot of fights with my family regarding the time i spent infront my computer and over two years in middle school i lost contact with my parents. i stopped seeing my dad for a while aswell because i saw him as a obstacle trying to prevent me from my beloved game, i couldnt imagine he were trying to help me even though he told me so. By getting a timer on the router or getting a lock on my computer which were shutting off my computer, my hatred for him grew...still i believe that many gamers feel the same in some way? But we get alot of new buddies (or atleast i did) through gaming and thoose guys are still my best friends.
World of Warcraft changed my life completely and i've struggled alot in my life and i think most of the gamers done the same and we face constant challenges aswell as in game as outside in the real world as we are living double lives. If you are a gamer in the same age as i am (17y) then you problably started out playing a game at the same age as i did (12y) and at first i faced many challenges for an example i've had alot of fights with my family regarding the time i spent infront my computer and over two years in middle school i lost contact with my parents. i stopped seeing my dad for a while aswell because i saw him as a obstacle trying to prevent me from my beloved game, i couldnt imagine he were trying to help me even though he told me so. By getting a timer on the router or getting a lock on my computer which were shutting off my computer, my hatred for him grew...still i believe that many gamers feel the same in some way? But we get alot of new buddies (or atleast i did) through gaming and thoose guys are still my best friends.
Inside the game you cant notice this and neither would you want to know. the mystic with meeting other players and not knowing anything except how they appear in the game is one of the many exciting things.
Question of the day - How do your parents react to your gaming? Good, and why? bad, why?
For me it was incredibly easy. I played for 5 years without breaks and then I stopped to think "Is mindlessly raiding for some purple pixels all I want?". I realized it really wasn't, and quit on that day.
SvaraRaderaI have felt NO DESIRE WHAT-SO-EVER to come back.
None of the whole "needing to play" cravings like people would have you believe. Hell, People had got me so scared about quitting being tough and similar to quitting drugs that I never actually tried before.
Now that I did try, it was the easiest thing in the world. I had forgot about WoW after about a week, and now I haven't played since November 2009.