My World of Warcraft story

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Hi, my name is not important. But what is important is my story of how World of Warcraft affected my life.

Let’s go back to 2004, one of the happiest years of my life. The year I met her…to me she was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. We fell passionately in love with each other and life seemed so perfect. Not long into the relationship she moved in with me because her situation at home wasn’t the best. This made our relationship even stronger. Even though we lived together we couldn’t spend a moment without each other. I would go to work and she would stay at home waiting for me, and when I would return she would run to me and tell me how much she had missed me…I never had somebody love me the way she did…it was true love.

Slowly after she moved in I realized she spent most of her day by her self at the house waiting for me to come home form work. I always tried to find ways to keep her occupied, but nothing seemed to work. Knowing she liked video games, a friend from work recommended I buy her this game that he plays. I though it was a great idea, so after work I went to the local gaming store and purchased World of Warcraft. I will never forget the words that the guy at the store said to me as I paid for the game…he said ”are you ready for your life to change for ever?”…hearing this I looked at him as if he was crazy and simply replied “sure” and walked away. If only then I knew that he was right…

I came home and surprised her with the new game. At first she didn’t seam very excited but as we installed the game and started playing it, she seemed intrigued. As we both started playing the game we realized it’s really fun and we both liked playing it. However, as we both played on the same account we had to take turns in playing, and shortly this caused arguments and eventually fights. I figured the best thing to do is to buy my own account, it seemed like the perfect solution to the problem. It didn’t take long for her to start spending most of her time playing the game while I was at work. I noticed when I would come home she stopped running to me telling me she loved me and missed me. She would just sit there barley acknowledging me. Usually I would come home and want to use my computer for a while but this started to create problems as she would always be “in the middle of something” and it seamed like such an important thing to her that I would just let her be. Eventually we started getting in serious fights over who will use the computer. As time went by the situation got worse and worse, she played while I was at work, she played while I was at home; she even played while I was asleep. The relationship changed drastically, we stopped going out…we stopped being a couple. We would spend hours together in the house without a single conversation. I tried to make things work, I really did; I missed all the things we used to do, but every time I tried to do something with her she was busy with the game. I played the game to, but with reason, and when I realized what the game was doing to my relationship I canceled my account. Just the mention of canceling her account would make her hysterical. She made friends in the game and talked to them for hours and hours each day…I became just some person in the background. Eventually after countless fights and arguments she broke up with me because I was getting in the way of her and the game and she moved back home. Her parents didn’t care much that she spends her days in front of the computer playing the game; after all they had many of their own problems to worry about. Not long after we broke up she actually went across the state to meet her on-line friends and ended up living at someone’s house for three months and just played the game …that’s the last I heard of her.

I don’t know where she is now and how she is doing…and I don’t know who is to blame, is it my fault for buying the game? Is it her fault for developing an addiction? Or is it the corporations fault for making such an addicting product? Anyway you look at it, the girl that I loved is gone…she became someone else…

To those of you who play the game or know someone who plays it, let this story be a reminder of what it did to me and the girl I loved…but after all, this is just a story right? This could never happen in real life…