Victim of WoW
WoW.. I’m not reffering to the usual gesture of expressing amazement. It’s an acronym for the multiplayer online game-World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft
I personally don’t know much of the game, don’t intend to know, don’t want to try. Why? Because I’ve seen enough victims out there. Go try Google and YouTube WoW, there’s plenty of news regarding addicted players.
I’m now one of the victims of WoW, indirectly a victim. My newly met assignment group member is a WoW addict. He literally play it 24/7, he confessed.
Every time I meet him when there’s an assignment due, he will tell me he hasn’t finished it and there’s lot to be done. I totally regret of getting into a group with him.
Luckily enough that this assignment that I’m suppose to work with him is managable, for now. What should I do? I’m suppose to ditch him and report it to the lecturer, but I’m not bad enough to tell him off.
I pity these addicts, they are slowly disconnecting themselves from the reality. This groupmate of mine shows me THIS when we were discussing about our assignment in the lab. It seems that prostitution in MMORPGs are very common now. Should we be concern about the younger generations getting their hands dirty when farming for virtual gold?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
The link was really an eye-opener. I would never have expected that it would have reached this level of desperation and addiction.
I also know a few friends who are soaked up into this game like it was their real life. Trully the South Park representation of it is scarily true to its point. Having a proper conversation with a group of them is almost impossible. All they talk about is quests, items and all that BS jargon I can’t be stuffed about. Experiencing that makes me feel a bit shy of even playing DotA on a daily basis previously, haha.
I had a fren who once argued that playing WoW a day costs like 50c daily so its fairly cheap. The argument is that going out is expensive, which is true. What would your argument be for that? hehe.
But trully, this is another passing social facade. Most girls can argue that their guy friends are spending too much time on games, while most of the time they themselves are soaked up in Facebook and Myspace. Its just following the trend to not get left out. What do you think? =p
September 6th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
There are a lot of things we can do without spending much money, there is no need to argue about that. I totally agree that playing games at home is cheap. I myself do that to pass time too but we shouldn’t measure our time in monetary value.
We measure our life of our experience, not what we do and how much it cost. Being rich in life is not how much you have/save, is how much we have been through.
Feeling left out? I feel so too sometimes. I can’t be bothered with that because I have my life to go on, not following others. If you can’t cope in, get out.
I’m sure everything we do has its benefits. We should spend time on each activity moderately, not dwelling in it. Moderation is the key to a balance life.
Cheers =)
September 7th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Haha, I agree with the balance =p. Sometimes it’s not that we can’t cope in, its just accepting ourself that we don’t fit in and cherishing the uniqueness of ourselves. Take care there. =)