WoW story

Posted by Shatter on April 2, 2008

Your Story

Obviously we've all heard more bad stories about WoW rather than some good but hopefully you can read mine and take away from it what I consider a happy ending.

I started playing soccer when I was four years old, had played center full back and sweeper. In high school I was captain of the soccer team for three years straight, played for my provincial team, and tried out a few times for the Jr. Canadian team. In my senior year I was hit in the air and spun as I landed on my right foot. So my body spun but my leg stayed planted on the ground, which led to every tendon and ligament being torn inside my knee.

I had surgery to try and repair my knee and by most standards it was successful, I can now at least jog and walk normally but could never play soccer again. For 14 years of my life I had played soccer and it was my release from the worries of life, parents divorcing, school becoming overwhelming, everything that plagues a teenager.

After that accident I didn't have that release anymore, and I started to fall back on other things to give me that release. Would party more than usual with friends, would drink more than what would be a good amount, smoked more marijuana than Willy Nelson, basically I hit rock bottom.

After barely graduating high school I went to work at a local retail store as a car audio installer. A few of the guys there were playing a video game called World of Warcraft, at first I thought it was a pretty cartoony looking game and didn't want anything to do with it. But after being talked into it I tried the game out and actually liked it. Soon there after I had bought my own account and began playing. Six months later I was a class leader in a Molten Core guild on the verge of killing Ragnaros with the guys that I worked with, that night Ragnaros died and me and my friends got together for drinks after. I personally did not feel that sense of accomplishment or release from reality where all I thought about was the task at hand till that very moment where I was raiding with friends, not since playing soccer.

And so for me raiding in WoW provided for me that release where I don't worry about my schedule, bill's, etc. Mind you I work full time, pay my bills on time, and still have an active social life. I'm just saying that it filled that hole that not being able to play soccer had left.

In the end I kept raiding into the expansion, went on to kill Illidan while he was the final boss of the expansion, and only now have taken a break to focus on other things in my life. When the next expansion comes out I plan to play that, keep on raiding till nothing is left, and devote my time again to something else. Its nice being able to balance the both, and I hope everyone that may be fighting an addiction to a video game can find their balance.

Re: WoW story

Submitted by Heathervye on May 18, 2008.

Your story is probably more common than a lot of people might think, and I'm delighted to hear that you're able to fill that emptiness in your life that comes from having been a very competitive and goal-oriented person and having had your ability to achieve that in the way you were literally trained to for years taken away from you. You have an interesting take on being able to channel that competitive edge in WoW in a positive fashion and still maintain your balance in RL, and I think that's great.

I'm sure someone will tell us that you could find some better, RL competition you could be entering.....so how exactly would chess or say, bowling be better simply because they meet in RL? I have friends ingame, some whom I know in RL well, actually, some whom I don't, and a couple of the ones I haven't even met in RL I consider as good friends as the ones I lived downstairs from. Physical proximity is not all there is to friendship or competition. So I'll reiterate that I consider your WoW runs to be equally fulfilling and the naysayers should find something else to whine about besides the same tired RL is ALWAYS better adage. Yes, one should maintain a balance, you shouldn't be chained before your computer 24/7 drinking the latest in ginseng- and caffeine-laced energy drinks to stay up and eating perennial hot pockets from your in room fridgie and microwave. PLEASE! If you don't know you need to have balance in your life with any hobby you take up, you've been hiding your head under a rock since the 70's. Assuming you've been alive that long :D

I haven't had a lot to say on the forums so far, but I'm the love interest in the couple, Heather (hi, guys!). One of the things I don't know if they had much chance to bring out in my story, given all the limitations of size when you're struggling to pack so much into so little time (DVD extras have been mentioned....) is the fact that I originally started playing because I started to get chronic migraine headaches that they couldn't diagnose the reason for. Early on in the diagnostic process, my brother asked me over to his house to see this new game he and his wife had gotten, Everquest, I liked first person role playing games and he thought I would love this game because you could play it in first person but with OTHER PEOPLE! In a whole gigantic world to explore. I think we spent the first hour just trying to fetch my sister in law from her starting city because she was a wizard and my brother and I were a ranger and a druid so we started a couple of miles away in a hidden glade. Damn those decaying skeletons! And those gnoll pups! We were hooked for life and have played EQ and then EQ2, which actually fits our playstyles better, much less hardcore :lol: , since March of 1999. I play a lot of TIME, but I rarely raid, because chronic migraines are not really what you want in a raider. Nor do I enjoy the stress of constant raiding anyway....I prefer helping people in my guild out, and spend most of my time mentoring, or playing alts with lower levels in my guild. Though I guess that I was the 19th fury to hit level 80 on my server will not help my case for not being hardcore, hmm? But I was on vacation when the expansion came out.... :roll:

I find EQ to be better than narcotics in many cases, and yes, I've been on narcotics, though I am not currently. The migraines are more controlled now, but they left me with fibromyalgia, for which I see a massage therapist once a week. I take meds and low level painkillers, but when you're in constant pain, which I always am, it's just a matter of degree, EQ2 beats out books, which I love and I still go through a book or two a week, movies and tv. It's a great mental distraction, between the people you're talking to and everything you're doing in the game. I know exactly what you mean when you say it's a release from the worries of life. I try to exercise as I can but when nearly any physical exertion gives you a migraine or makes the one you have worse....I work five to fifteen hours of overtime a week in the job I'm in at the moment. I can't afford to miss work. Until there's a miracle cure for whatever is wrong with my brain chemistry, I just have to endure as is. Even if there were an immediate cure, I can't see that I'll do anything too differently besides actually start utilizing that health club membership as I wish, because I used to exercise and I would like to do so again! A migraine is just up there with shock therapy as a deterrent....

But I have used EQ and EQ2 to stay in touch with my brother and sister in law when I lived half the US away from them, and even now when I'm in the same county and we hardly ever get together because of our schedules. And I have RL friends I met in South Dakota who are in my guild with me that I see every night ingame. Their kids still call me Aunt Heather and get on Vent to talk to me. And at some point soon, I expect their oldest son will join our guild when he gets his own computer (we have some special rules for kiddies in our guild who have parental supervision, but we have a very close knit guild that can allow that). A phone call to my friends in SD is never going to be the same as grouping with them on Tuesday nights. It really is the closest we can come to going out to dinner barring the ability to teleport! This may not be the traditional method of doing things with your friends but it is OUR way of doing things with our friends in this day and age. We still have people we do things with in RL. We just do BOTH. And there is nothing wrong with it. Whatever my reasons for playing EQ so much originally, the enjoyment and friends that I've found will remain a part of my life whether the illness does or not.

My WoW story

Submitted by Jeff Ragsdale on June 18, 2008.

Reading both these posts makes me sad. I was into WoW for about four months (got my Tauren Shaman, Rockdale, to lvl 61), but unlike you guys, was not able to keep a balance between gaming and real life. The lure of "just a few more hours - can get other things done tomorrow" was just too great, and I had to quit altogether.

For me, it was about getting into a particular guild more than anything else, even the gaming itself. For making any MMO come alive, nothing beats voice chat, and I came across an incredible guild that made me the somewhat decent WoW player that I eventually became. Playing a shaman toon, I found that healing was what I did better than anything else. When I had a guild member (and this was and is a major guild in WoW and other games - I never joined it, though) say to me, "you kept us alive", I was bowled over. Coming from this particular person, that meant something.

But I was shirking life. I was shirking responsibilities. The guild that I never joined, but hoped to once I got my gaming skills up-to-par (though in the friendship aspect I was doing exquisitely), was incredibly supportive, but again, I could not walk that fine line between gaming too little to get anything of consequence done and gaming too much. After four months of WoWing it to death, it took me a full month to get things in real life back in order once I quit WoW.

Yet, I don't regret doing the gaming at all. This is due in part that the stuff I put off to do more gaming got done (thanks be to God for the patience of one or more real-life people) finally with no lasting repercussions for me. But it is due for the most part to my learning a bunch about myself through the process of discerning whether gaming really was for me or not.

I love my online gaming, but it does not love me, unfortunately. I am also grateful that I have not gone the other way and start demeaning gamers as worthless degenerates going straight to hell in a handbasket. Second Skin (though I have yet to see the movie) has helped me to realize that for the right person, gaming can be healthy, fun, and even a lifeline.

And now I'm rambling. Time to sign off. :-)

Many thanks, everyone!

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The story was really moving - I have had a some problems with games in the past, but I think they were quite minor, because I did everything needed, not more but enough, but now I always try to be by best and playing isnt a problem any more, just few hours just to get my brain going :)
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