World Of Warcraft Research Paper
World of Warcraft Changed my Life A life changing experience, there were many times that occurred, but only on truly fits the bill. “World of Warcraft” an online multi-massive-online roleplaying video game changed my life. I was at the point where it actually took over my life and decided what I would do every day. Nothing has had a greater effect on me like World of Warcraft. It all started on the summers eve of 2007, I had just recently quit playing another mmorpg(multi-massive-online roleplaying game) called “ Guild Wars “. It’s like WoW (World of Warcraft) where hundreds of thousands to millions of people play around the world every day. Guild Wars was like a drug to me, it’s satisfying and deeply immersive gameplay had me coming back
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On weekends I woke up at 8am and played till 2am for a total of 16 hours per day. On weekdays I would immediately come home after school at around 3pm and play WoW every day 5 days a week till 9pm for a massive total of 64 hours of game-time in week! In this amount of time I spent I probably could have worked a fulltime job and overtime pay at the age of 14. An addiction to overwhelming fun was what it felt to me and it eventually got worse as time went by. I barely did any school work in intermediate and high school, I skipped classes sometimes, and I lied to my parents all because I wanted to get home and play. During the middle of my 8th grade year I even skipped 2 weeks of school because I’d rather play World of Warcraft. How did I do it you ask? I hid in my grandma’s boat in the morning and when the school bus that dropped me off would come by, I would jump out of the boat and walk into the house like I went to school that day and I had just finished. Eventually I got caught by my Dad and you can imagine how furious he was to catch his son hiding in a boat all day. At this point in my life psychologists and my friends could diagnose me like a crack addict who’s addicted to cocaine except I was addicted to …show more content…
WoW was my life and it’s all I cared about, it’s all that mattered in my mind. Finally, as I hit my junior year I realized how short life was and how short high school life would be. I wanted to have fun with my friends, I wanted to have a girlfriend, I wanted to live my life like a normal teenager in high school and that’s what I did. It hit me like cold shower in the early morning that I was addicted. I did everything that I aspired to do as I decreased my play time with the game. I spent more time with my friends and made memories, I had a girlfriend, I lived my life like a normal high school teenager and I enjoyed it a lot. It felt great to not play for once in my life and to just enjoy everything life threw at me. I did miss playing wow, but as I grew up I realized there are more important things to
On weekends I woke up at 8am and played till 2am for a total of 16 hours per day. On weekdays I would immediately come home after school at around 3pm and play WoW every day 5 days a week till 9pm for a massive total of 64 hours of game-time in week! In this amount of time I spent I probably could have worked a fulltime job and overtime pay at the age of 14. An addiction to overwhelming fun was what it felt to me and it eventually got worse as time went by. I barely did any school work in intermediate and high school, I skipped classes sometimes, and I lied to my parents all because I wanted to get home and play. During the middle of my 8th grade year I even skipped 2 weeks of school because I’d rather play World of Warcraft. How did I do it you ask? I hid in my grandma’s boat in the morning and when the school bus that dropped me off would come by, I would jump out of the boat and walk into the house like I went to school that day and I had just finished. Eventually I got caught by my Dad and you can imagine how furious he was to catch his son hiding in a boat all day. At this point in my life psychologists and my friends could diagnose me like a crack addict who’s addicted to cocaine except I was addicted to …show more content…
WoW was my life and it’s all I cared about, it’s all that mattered in my mind. Finally, as I hit my junior year I realized how short life was and how short high school life would be. I wanted to have fun with my friends, I wanted to have a girlfriend, I wanted to live my life like a normal teenager in high school and that’s what I did. It hit me like cold shower in the early morning that I was addicted. I did everything that I aspired to do as I decreased my play time with the game. I spent more time with my friends and made memories, I had a girlfriend, I lived my life like a normal high school teenager and I enjoyed it a lot. It felt great to not play for once in my life and to just enjoy everything life threw at me. I did miss playing wow, but as I grew up I realized there are more important things to