Losing Self in GW

1,325 hours over 9 months. Nuff said.

gw has definately got in the way of my school work, but it was worth it lol!

i don't feel i play gw much, i play alot but not as much as i would like

I work nights so i would sacrifice sleep to play GW a little while longer.. and the lack of sleep leads to less time w/ friends.. BUT i'll be working days soon and then i'll have enough time for both friends and GW

If you are blowing off real life obligations for recreation of any kind you are being irresponsible, and -blaming- it on a game or anything for that matter is just a way of projecting guilt so you dont have to accept your being a slacker.

It could be worse, your habit could be drinking, gambling, organized religion, etc.

I have 148 pc games and it cost me more than 6000$ to collect them for the past 5 years.Problem is that i stopped buying any new since i bought GW..playing it everyday after i get back from work
GW FTW

You can spend your time in the real world with all of its terrorism, crime, hunger, diease and politics or you can play GW. Its perfectly reasonable to play a lot.

Ended playing GW altogether, Ended Missing College to play GW, or the seriously messed up answer: Ended College?

Pah, my friends suck, I'd rather play GW.
And yes, it is good for my wallet. Before GW i never had more than £40 - now i have £320

EDIT: 2,300 hours over 9 months, even more 'nuff said

I must say that games like guild wars can screw up your life pretty bad. Its just that if you concentrate too much on one thing then you go crazy. So do somehting else too, find yourself a second hobby, play a totaly different game, etc.

Seriously, people ask how somone can come home from work and play world of warcraft all night until he has to go to work again. If that person hasnt got anything else in life thats what he obviously is going to do.

I must add that todays youth doesnt bring enough variation in theyr live and so they get stuck on online games. I had 3 people in my school fail the year because they played world of warcraft the last 2 months of the schoolyear.

So kids, be careful with what you do and bring some variaty in your life.

Currently I'm in Germany right now and my laptop can't handle things like BF2 or anything else along those lines, but it can handle Guild Wars, so I play that when I'm in my room during study breaks. My studies haven't been hampered yet by it and I'm currently reading Blueprint for my Literature course. It's important to have balance in your life.

Yes it is but in a good way and i like it

gw no, gaming in general yes. I work in a games shop, my boyfriend who i live with is a gamer... and most of my spare time is spent gaming I've always been pretty anti-social so it's not a big deal for me; even as a teenager I never used to go out with friends (though i'd go walking with parents at weekends) so having online friends is ideal; i can appear offline in my anti-social moments and online when i wanna chat. Not only that but I can avoid all the stupid stuff going on in the world at the moment. what more could i ask for?

Yeah, I've got around that many. And as much as I love GW, it's only racked up about 1/4 of my gaming time... And that's still 370 hours in the past year.

After all, I couldn't go and ignore The Sims 2, Civilization, Age of Empires, Galactic Civilizations, and all the rest. I'm partial to strategy games, but last year was fairly decent for gaming in general. GW has enough good competition to keep any one game from dominating my life, but if you put them all together, its a problem. I still maintain a 92% average, but if I actually did stuff like howework it'd be much higher.

GW cured my porn addiction. enough said.

lol yeah I had to repeat a year coz of GW addiction, but then i took control of myslef deleted GW but still get urges to play it sometimes))i mean its worse than smoking!So i just play some Halo online now whenver i want or listen to music, watch movies))no GW for me))i odnt want to regret that i spent my life enjoying some virtual crap))

And those are better... how? If you've got an addictive personality, you're not solving anything by redirecting your pursuits; you'll more likely than not begin to develop an addiction to whatever media you use to replace your original "vice".

i play GW alot, but most of the time it's to chat to my guild or a mate or two, not to actually play the game.

now that one you might have to explain... LOL


well, i mean, we all have 'addictions'. i'm curious about the whole marriage thing in games. i mean... what the heck? i noticed a couple of threads about it. to me, that is where i really draw the line. (plus, makes me feel a little more sane!)

I'm addicted but my parents keep me from playing too much and that is of course their job. I haven't skipped that much school for the game, only 2 times (though once was from internship) once was when PvE event was, and the second time was when Factions was released. Right now I'm trying to meet friends and such, but of course GW is something i really like to do!

lil off topic but oh well

1. In true mmo's, it adds to the roleplaying aspect; you forge a life for yourself and of course life involves love as well as death.
2. Some people do it coz they're bf/gf in real life; I personally never did but I do remember when I made a male char first in UO, my bf was complaining coz he'd wanted our chars to get married. haha. Sure beats risking it all in real life