[quote]Myosin wrote:
[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
Whats the difference between getting addicted to an MMO and any other platform based game? It seems to me that MMOS are far more pervasive with escapism due to the vast content it has… I play PS3 and what not but always try and monitor when my behaviors turn from fun just platforming to that easy to trigger dopamine chasing carrot, teeth gritting, gotta get to x,y,z that happens chasing the next mission/objective/achievement, FYI watch yourself cause it may happen far more then you care to take notice…
Anyways other then that everything in moderation seems to be the theme in life lol [/quote]
There’s entirely too much to do in WoW and likewise MMO’s for any person to ever really get bored of it. I mean the quests and levelling to new areas, which are overwhelmingly abundant, is what one would most likely see to be the core aspect of gameplay, but even aside of that there are countless side-quests, repeat quests, faction quests etc. The expansiveness comes in that all divisions have sub-divisions, and most of the sub-divisions have sub-sub-divisions that grow outward exponentially until you’re at a point where all the bases are covered.
To me it always lost it’s flavour towards the late game, as I assume it does with everyone. Things start to slow considerably and a casual experience starts to become a ‘job’ where the focus shifts more to things like raiding non-stop for slightly better equipment and min-maxing PvP DPS. It’s there that the real threat of addiction starts to rear it’s ugly head and you end up going through the motions of just making inert tweaks over and over. Even when you reach a level end point, you’re still tasked with taking on raids and PvP tournaments, there is no defined end and that’s the predominant reason I was so held in by it. Not to mention starting the whole cycle again with a different class once you realise you could do way more damage over time with a necromancer than you can a paladin. It’s soul-wrenching, the only way I got out of it was to sell away my account and not have any further information on it.
- Confessions of a Former Level 70 Blood Elf Paladin in The Burning Crusade expansion, back when that was a thing.[/quote]
like 4 or 5 years back I tried playing WOW from a friend… I could see how it happens to people but to me it was too much just point and click and got tired of it after like level 20 lol, idk I just get kind of strained looking at computer screens too long anyways… Usually I can’t play video games too long without some sort of headache or migraine… Anyways yeah basically some of that crap is like instant servings of emotional numbing, dopamine absurdity crack for certain brain structures, personalities, pre depositions etc…
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Look into a pair of Gunnar Optiks gaming/computer glasses. It sounds like a gimmick but after experiencing the headache/eye strain from hours of FIFA, Battlefield 3 and SWTOR, I had to give them a shot. Night and day difference, well worth the cost.[/quote]
I hear you bro, I just feel like I don’t really want to over ride my bodies natural instinct of saying enough video game time lol, I also always have a tendency of wanting to finish story lines as quick as possible which is a bad mix, It prevents me from becoming glued to the screen too long and neglecting other responsibilities.