Curse

_Todeshand_ · May 20, 2008, 11:57 PM // 23:57

It's fun. That's the reason. I only play for fun, no grinding, no title hunting. I like to trade and get gold, and sometimes I also get sad after losing ingame money, but it's still fun.

GW-Trading is like a normal hobby for me - meeting new friends, having fun, spending time and no risk to lose real life money. GW-Playing, what I don't do that much anymore is also fun, but more like a "normal" PC game.

Commander Ryker · May 21, 2008, 12:51 AM // 00:51

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Originally Posted by Kusandaa

I love gaming, it's my fav pastime, my big hobby... always has been and probably always will be. The difference is that before GW, I was a console gamer. I switched a lot between the computer and the consoles. Now I don't have to move since I game on the computer and I use it... usually at the same time. Yet my mom doesn't yell at me as much when I game on the TV, never understood why...

Imagine being a gamer before gaming was invented. The very first video game didn't come around until I was almost 18 and that was Pong by Atari. I then had to wait 15 years for Nintendo to come out with Mario Brothers. After that, it just kept getting better and better.

Then, about 7 years and 2 kids later I got my first computer just to play Doom. Lots of computer games, platform games followed until we find me here with GW that I totally love. I love everything about it, the graphics, music, the titles and just the idea of it. When I was a kid, I could never have imagined anything as awesome as this and I'm thrilled that it's happened in my lifetime. So, if someone says anything about wasting time, I'll tell them, hell, I'm just trying to catch up. The best thing about having a second childhood is that you can afford your toys.

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Originally Posted by Kusandaa

My husband doesn't think I have a problem. He's a bookworm who likes to game, and I'ma gamer who likes to read :P. I think in the 3 years and a half we've been together, he asked me twice to drop off the game: one 'cause he cut himself bad and needed to go to the ER, the other 'cause he wasn't feeling good at all. In fact he's the first one to tell my mom to chill...

I've been a reader my whole life, I still am but now I squeeze it in. My sweetie wasn't a gamer until she met me and now she is as insane as I am maybe a little bit more.

The best part is that it's something we do together.

Zahr Dalsk · May 21, 2008, 01:06 AM // 01:06

I used to read a lot. Still do sometimes but usually just when I can't access my PC and there's nothing interesting going on. So gaming pretty much replaced reading for me, though certain authors I will set aside gaming for (Dan Abnett, GRR Martin, Terry Goodkind, etc).

Do I consider Gw a waste? Compared to other games, yes. Compared to life... nah. Considering the world these days Gw isn't really a waste. I mean, hey, better than being a US marine shooting or torturing some Iraqi civilians in a show of good American generosity, for example, or a KKK member lynching an innocent black man.

RedStar · May 21, 2008, 01:49 AM // 01:49

I just say that it trains my english xD. Or that at least I'm not wandering inside the house/garden like a zombie.

Kusandaa · May 21, 2008, 02:52 AM // 02:52

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Originally Posted by Commander Ryker

Imagine being a gamer before gaming was invented. The very first video game didn't come around until I was almost 18 and that was Pong by Atari. I then had to wait 15 years for Nintendo to come out with Mario Brothers. After that, it just kept getting better and better.

Then, about 7 years and 2 kids later I got my first computer just to play Doom. Lots of computer games, platform games followed until we find me here with GW that I totally love. I love everything about it, the graphics, music, the titles and just the idea of it. When I was a kid, I could never have imagined anything as awesome as this and I'm thrilled that it's happened in my lifetime. So, if someone says anything about wasting time, I'll tell them, hell, I'm just trying to catch up. The best thing about having a second childhood is that you can afford your toys.

Yeah, I was 4 when my dad bought the good ol' 8-bit NES - 1988. My sister didn't like it much ("pfft, that's boy stuff!"... she was 12 or so, I have to give her that... x]), so I shared it with my dad for a long time (he'd still play on my NES if I didn't have it! hah! x]). He's the one who introduced me to video games, with stuff like Dragon Warrior, Zelda, Tetris... that's pretty much how I grew up. Surrounded by games and by gamers (I have 5 cousins or so who are or used to be big gamers). Over the time the controllers got too complicated for my dad (lawl) and I found myself the only one playing on my PS2 and such, with the exceptions of my cousins when they came over, and my boyfriends.

I think that's why he's never really told me to get off a game NOW - my mom does it all the time, causing me to sometimes missing guild activities or AFK for a long while. She thinks this game is eating my life (especially my currently non-existant social life) and that I'm pretty dependent of them. I doubt she realized how GW WAS my social life because I COULD NOT have a social life here, since this place has little to no youth, so finding someone with my interests is fairly hard, since I'm either considered a geek (gaming, reading) or uber-feminine (Arts/Literrature, doesn't help that I'm gay)... and both are badly viewed around. I'm in a backwater (literally, this is an island), very-religious, small Canadian Christian belt.

No matter how many times I explains this to her, she keeps yelling at me for not going outside to meet other people my age (like hell I'll hang out in country bars...) or finding a job (I couldn't work until 2 weeks back, she's been yelling at me for that since March!). My husband tries to calm her down, my dad joins in too, but the next day she does the same thing over and over again... it's frankly irritating and I don't know what to do about it.

As you guys can see I'm pretty sick of it all - kinda needed to vent about this or gather tips before I explode >_>. It's not because I'm a gamer that I'm wasting my life... in fact I'm not wasting it since I had NOTHING else to do until 2 weeks back. But nope, she doesn't get it and it's bothering me.

Kali Magdalene · May 21, 2008, 04:59 AM // 04:59

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Originally Posted by natural_Causes

I have used this one before:
"At least I don't play WoW!"

While amusing, this doesn't help negate the impression that videogames are a waste of time, curse you.

Snow Bunny · May 21, 2008, 05:20 AM // 05:20

"It's a waste of time to argue with you over this"

wanmoke · May 21, 2008, 10:22 AM // 10:22

Games exist for wasting time. But I'm having fun, and isn't that the point?

People who ask those types of questions don't understand your point of view.

payne · May 21, 2008, 10:41 AM // 10:41

it is a waste of time...as you could be doing much more important stuff...but if you enjoy it then its a good waste of time

<<< words of some un-famous prophet: Jim-Bob the 3rd

Luminarus · May 21, 2008, 10:56 AM // 10:56

The only time its ever happened to me, was this tryhard loser at school so my reply was

Me:"When you have sex are you trying to make children"
Him: "No"
Me: "Why do you do it then"
Him: "Its fun"
Me: "So is Guild Wars"

That shut him up

(and before anyone says anything I am not comparing GW to Sex)

Sierraa · May 21, 2008, 10:58 AM // 10:58

<.< I tell people that I'd rather be a gamer than some slutty prep who has little to no brains.

Gaming is fun. DnD helped my math scores :P And I learned a lot of "If I want something, I have to work hard for it." like the gwen armor. I really wanted norn, so I had to acutally spend the time farming the points. <3 Plus I have access to a network of people who I can interact with and chat with.

ilipol · May 21, 2008, 01:25 PM // 13:25

Everyone uses drugs ... it's just sometimes they're called differently.

isamu kurosawa · May 21, 2008, 01:48 PM // 13:48

well, there could me many answers.

"i'm an Adult i can decide whats best for myself"
"It's my Hobby"
"I have other hobbies too"
"I spend less time playing than you do watching TV"
"I am more intelligent than you and neet more mental stimulation than you do."

Or to condense the lot.

"I spend more time going to the cinema, hiking, rock-climbing, doing aikido, reading, working and going out than i do in game while you sit there watching other people act out fake lives with more depth than yours ever has.
I am healthier, i eat healthier food than you do and i don't smoke. I don't have a weight problem from sitting on my arse all day and my idea of mental stimulation and culture requires more than watching bargain hunt."

I could go on but i have had this conversation with people before. If its not their hobby or what they consider wrothwhile then you shouldn't be doing it.
Now when they reply "But watching TV isn't the same" i have to aggree with them. Playing a game such as guild wars requires you to actually think while looking at the pretty colours.

TV these days is an endless sea of reality tv shite with a few good TV shoes (dexter, californication) not getting the credit they deserve.

Turtle222 · May 21, 2008, 02:59 PM // 14:59

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Originally Posted by Luminarus

The only time its ever happened to me, was this tryhard loser at school so my reply was

Me:"When you have sex are you trying to make children"
Him: "No"
Me: "Why do you do it then"
Him: "Its fun"
Me: "So is Guild Wars"

That shut him up

(and before anyone says anything I am not comparing GW to Sex)

you made me chuckle

Esan · May 21, 2008, 03:07 PM // 15:07

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Originally Posted by Risky Ranger

Have you ever be told that you are wasting your time playing Guild Wars when you can be doing something more constructive.

Yes, often, but the person doing the telling is myself. Sometimes I heed him, sometimes I don't, but I often wish he would just shut up.

Aera Lure · May 21, 2008, 03:07 PM // 15:07

All games are a waste of time by definition.

zamial · May 21, 2008, 03:44 PM // 15:44

10. This keeps me from suicide.
9. I do this while I wait for the pizza guy to show up.
8. You mean this isn't real?
7. and sleeping isn't?
6. This keeps me from having to sell guns to grade school kids.
5. When we want your opinion we will give it to you.
4. What was that? I couldn't hear you because of all the fun I am having!
3. YOU WATCHED THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL AND AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!
2. Don't hate just cause your mommy won't buy you a computer.

AND THE #1 ANSWER IS.......

1. Hillary is my inspiration.

Zahr Dalsk · May 21, 2008, 04:29 PM // 16:29

While we're on reasons to game, mine is that I have trouble speaking with people, because they seem to have such a tendency to massive stupidity. (To those of you saying Guild Wars is multiplayer - no it isn't, I play it H/H about 95% of the time.) Hence I prefer to spend my leisure time gaming.

As soon as the general population of Canada becomes worthwhile speaking to, then I might consider going around talking to people. Until then, I couldn't care less about them, and they can go ahead living their shallow, petty, pathetic social lives. And keep in mind that I'm happier than them through gaming

enter_the_zone · May 21, 2008, 04:45 PM // 16:45

I just point out that all of what we consider important is utterly frigging pointless and all that hard work and striving just leads to an earlier transfer to the rotting corpse department.

Seriously, most of life is completely and utterly pointless. At least gaming keeps me distracted from the screaming black void of nothingness hovering over all our heads.

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Originally Posted by isamu kurosawa

TV these days is an endless sea of reality tv shite with a few good TV shoes (dexter, californication) not getting the credit they deserve.

Oh, bloody hell yes. Dexter is probably the best character drama since Buffy stopped airing. Lost got boring and I feel the solution will be a huge letdown, and Heroes is interesting and fun but not truly deep.