World Of Warcraft Addiction Statistics
World Of Warcraft Addiction Statistics
How addicting is compulsive video gaming (like World of Warcraft, online gaming),does it effect you negatively?
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I play warcraft and for a while I was “getting away” from my real life problems with the game. I was playing a LOT and not doing anything else outside of the house for a while. I ended up divorcing my husband (for other reasons) and as soon as I wasn’t with him anymore and was happy I reduced the amount of time I played WoW. Now I only play a few nights a week (sometimes I’ll go all week without playing) for a couple of hours to unwind after work. I am dating someone now who also likes video games but we go out on the weekends. I think it all depends on self-control. I don’t get upset or feel like I am missing the game now (but I used to when I was with my ex-husband and I wasn’t playing). It is a really fun game and I think the part that made me the most addicted was the people I met in the game. They became better friends to me then I think my real life friends were. Now though… I choose the friends I have outside of the game even though I still like to play the game.
If you think about it… a lot of other addictive things have been said to be used to “get away from problems” like drugs and alcohol, but all they do is create different problems. I suppose WoW was my drug for a while but now I’ve got it in check. I guess if I were to say it was like alcohol, I was a wowaholic for a while but I sobered up for a while and now I only play moderately for fun. 
