6 Responses to “WoW Fans Face Reality for a Day”

1. My view on this is that the two people that are used as examples in this story are probably two of the saddest examples they could find, and thus would get them the most press. If you are putting your education and/or family behind playing a game you seriously need to evaluate what your life is.

   I was going to say that this was a lame story, but looking at it more and more it seems like it is one part anti-video game, and another part anti-WoW.

   Is WoW addicting, well it has been quite a while since my psychology classes, but I am pretty sure that it could be fit into that definition along the same lines as gambling, but two points. One is you have to let it get to you, it is not a chemical addiction like drugs, it is psychological. Second is that the stories we hear like this seem to all be the ones that will push the most buttons and get people seeing not just WoW perhaps, but video games in general as a bad thing. Now yes, there are sad people that will take all their time and push it into WoW, but is that a problem with WoW, or a problem with people that take the game to that extreme?

   Now this is all coming from someone that does play WoW. I see it as two things. One, the game is put together very well. Yes there are the immature people, not just teenagers, in the game, but it does not take long at all to avoid, or just keep them to a minimum and not loose anything from the game. The second is that the per month rate of $14.99 is a month of entertainment almost anytime I want it. Where else are you going to be able to spend that much money and be able to be entertained just about anytime you want? How is it different from someone that watches TV from the moment they get home to the time they go to bed?

   I will also say this. The title is misleading and bad “press” work. While some may consider this nitpicking, the servers were only down for a “day” for those in the U.S.A. I also believe it stands to note that WoW is not nearly the only game that has server issues, just that WoW right now is the most popular.

   This site is partially for, as stated in the “About” section: “share our passion for the games we love”, and this just seems like a bash at World of Warcraft, and a passion to put it in a bad light.

   Koskun on 03 30th, 2006

2. All I can say is that I’m not sorry I gave it up, at the end of the day it just took too much of my time and towards the end was not much fun either.

   BigByteSlim on 03 30th, 2006

3. Just in case anyone else misses it, the article is humor, satire, etc. Not to be taken seriously.

   Matt on 03 30th, 2006

4. Those WoW players are in for a shock today, most realms are getting “World Server down” error messages.

   Fun fun!

   MX on 03 30th, 2006

5. Freaked me out seeing my name up there for a second.

   John Reynolds on 03 30th, 2006

6. Freaked me out too, but I knew that wasn’t you, considering there’s a game called Oblivion out.

   Matt on 03 30th, 2006