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Posted: 10/11/2006 8:40:46 AM |
My ex was hardcore into WoW.
She played far more than I ever did. Had a ton of level 60 characters in a month.
And found a "new love" on the game. Which was when things ended.
OMG Really? Same here! And I know a bunch of people who also have the same story..
Maybe we should start our own website or something. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 8:41:02 AM |
So it works both ways. Don't think it's just guys who do this
Oh i know alot of girls play the games well MMO's in specific but i'm on about the whole gaming industry which is predominently male. I've met plenty of women on my travels through star wars galaxies and lineage 2 but when it comes to FPS it's a rarity to come across a girl who plays them but i can understand why MMO's appeal more as it's more relaxed & more communal unlike an FPS which is just kill/kill/kill | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 9:32:40 AM | I repeat, do NOT start asking and harassing him. It will only piss him off and make him play the game that much more. Anyone who suggests that you should start inquiring him about it, or say that he's playing the game because the relationship between you and him is lacking something, are just ignorant on the entire subject.
Seriously, if you don't like it, then you can either dump him or somehow make WoW part of your life. Such as roleplaying in the bedroom.  | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 10:01:32 AM | | That is sad.....but girls do it too....My friend was on the verge of dumping her boyfriend cause he "accidentally" deleted her characters ( she is 37 by the way...lol) If they didnt live together I think she would have actually done it....I play the odd game but never even close to that extreme....sorry you met such an idiot. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 10:19:42 AM | I have played most MMORPG's, and spent about three years of my life playing EverCrack (EQ1). I was completely absorbed to the point where I had the second most powerrful shaman on my server at one point.
I went on to play City of Heros, World of Warcrack (couldn't really get into that one) and finally, after a few years hiatus, I have a measured amount of time I allow myself to play EverCrack II.
This is the voice of experience talking. I have heard more than one fellow mmorpg addict claim they would choose the game over a girl. This is because they have substituted the real world for the virtual world. A close friend of mine in game even said that the game world was kinder to him.
He has an addiction, plain and simple. It will isolate him, and one day, when the game ends, or he has FINALLY been burned out on it, he will look up and realize what price he has paid for it.
I don't know that he can be helped. Addicts have to want the help before they can be helped. And remember - he's not just putting away a drug. He's putting away his friends and his status in that virtual world, where he is powerful and accepted and wanted. That adds a nice twist on it.
I literally cried making the decision to stop playing the first EQ. Today, I have balance. No one brought it to me, but me.
Wendy | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:18:16 AM |
when it comes to FPS it's a rarity to come across a girl who plays them
Was it two or three years back?
But anyway, the "World Unreal Championships" or whatever it was called, where they had the top gamers from all over the world competing to see who was best...
The winner was a 15 year old girl. I new her, she was in my guild in WoW at the time. :p
Out of the top 10, 7 were women.
There was one study done a way back, that found that for the top FPS games (I think they were talking Unreal, HALO and Counterstrike) 65% of the player base were women.
It's amazing the things you learn when you're bored and have net access. :p | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:21:14 AM |
1. Get his attention. Crawl under the desk if you have to. Get yourself in between him and the game (hint: straddle him).
My ex used to do this all the time. Whenever she wasn't playing WoW, and saw me enjoying some game or another, she'd often try to "distract" me in wonderful ways.
She was quite the nympho, especially after a long session of WoW. :p
2. Use the time he's gaming to doll yourself up. Go put on something sexy and stand there in the doorway beckoning him.
Can't beat being naked except for black leather **** boots. :)
3. If the above two fail, then dress up as a night elf, learn the night elf dance and he should jump you.
Heh, yeah, she'd do that too. Pity she was a cheating ****, cause other than that my ex was pretty cool. LOL! | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:32:35 AM |
1. Get his attention. Crawl under the desk if you have to. Get yourself in between him and the game (hint: straddle him).
DO NOT DO THIS.
If the guy in question is the kind of guy that focuses intently on whatever it is he's doing (as a lot of MMO players are), directly interfering with what he's focusing on, and potentially "ruining" the experience (getting his character killed and undoing an afternoon's worth of item-hunting, or whatever), you will most assuredly not get the reaction you're looking for; you'll probably piss him off.
Think of it this way... if you (the ladies) were working on, say, a jigsaw puzzle, a hard one, and had been all week... and your man walked into the room, swatted it aside (scattering pieces and perhaps wrecking the part you'd been working on all day), simply because he wanted some attention, would you mind?
That's the kind of stuff my cat does. I'd hope my girlfriend was a little more considerate. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:42:03 AM | Actually, I agree with Wonka for two reasons.
One, it's true that you might end up just pissing him off by distracting him from what he's doing.
The other thing, is that you might just be reinforcing his addiction. Not only does he get to enjoy his WoW time, but his girlfriend gives him head when he does so? Yeah, definitely a bad move there. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:47:04 AM | Nah. I'm not saying do it every night..but I know when my ex actually removed herself from the computer long enough for sex, I made all sorts of excuses to get out of raids and such. If she REALLY wants to get his attention, that's something she can do. Honestly, the guy's not that much into her if she makes a very obvious pass and he ignores it.
That's just something my ex could have done to me to distract me from playing. I was addicted for a while but I happily cancelled my account when I realized I was letting it rule my life. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:50:27 AM | I remember being in the middle of a raid, and hearing my ex call me seductively from the bedroom, or I'd have her panties land in my lap and see her naked running back to the bedroom.
I'd usually tell my guild I had to go.
"Why are you leaving?"
"Because while the game is fun, my woman always comes first."
"So, you'll be back in 15?"
"Nah, I might be back in 3-4 hours. Later."
And then I'd log off. And go for a few hours of lovemaking.
As addicted as I might have been, I always had priorities. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 11:56:58 AM | lol adam my ex used to come sit on my lap while i was playing getting me to come to bed but it was always when i was in the middle of something like for instance i was last man on call of duty in the tournament i play & had to try get the plant down and win the round or if i was playing lineage 2 it was normally when my guild would be sieging a castle! Boy did i get pissed sometimes when i got distracted whilst in the "zone" and the analogy of the jigsaw is so perfect that's exactly how it is!
What i used to do though was spend time with her then when she'd gone to sleep creep downstairs and play then while she's sleeping then when i was ready for sleep i'd go to bed and get a bollocking off her being downstairs awake on the computer while she was asleep. I mean i'm all for spending time together when your awake but if she's sleeping and i'm on the comp what difference does it make to her as she doesn't conciously know i'm not there lol | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 12:01:15 PM |
"So, you'll be back in 15?"
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Posted: 10/11/2006 12:02:08 PM | Look, i probably love MMO's more than most here, and have probably played more total hours than most here, WHEN I DIDNT HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.
The second i started seeing my (ex gf now) i didn't even want to play those games anymore, nothing, just wanted to be with her.
Fast forward 18 months, shit happened, the relationship grew sour, i started playing video games again because it was more fun and less emotionally stressful than dealing with her drama. That may seem like a cop-out, but i did in fact try to work things out with her all that shit blah blah blah.
Now, i know some people can become addicted and im not saying that didnt happen in this one case as we dont have the full story to make such conclusions. Although, it is far more likely that this relationship was headed for failure and WoW helped to achieve this end. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 12:04:56 PM | Well, because of her addiction to the game, she didn't often distract me when I was deep into something... by offering to let me be deep into her. LOL! Oh I'm so witty.
Of course, her needs did always seem to be more important than mine. I'd never be able to pull her away from the game. Everything always seemed to be when she wanted it.
Which at the time I didn't realize as much as I do now that I can look back on things. :p
But I'd also try and do things while she was sleeping.
Or when she'd lock herself in the bedroom because she was having another depression attack and didn't want to talk to me. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 12:17:43 PM | lol it's quite funny what lengths we'll go to, to get our fix of gaming goodness!
I'd never be able to pull her away from the game
Did you not try putting on a wizards robe and hat ? | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 12:39:29 PM | OP, not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but I might have a solution for getting his attention away from the game for a few moments anyways.
If he is a male age 21-33, the easiest way for you to draw his attention from WoW, and back onto you (at least temporarily or till the next raid), is to paint your skin pale purple, don a Female NightElf costume,and find a large mailbox to dance upon. Making casual references as to your ability to help him complete the Thunderfury quest, as you dance also seems to work extremely well with this particular demographic. Hope this helped.
Have fun ;)! | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 1:03:20 PM | | A guy chooses video games over his girlfriend because he enjoys the time he spends with the games more than the girl he is with. It is as simple as that. This guy does not care a great deal about you or he would be with you and not his games. I would have to agree that games are addicting, but so are women. It is a choice he has made. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 2:43:07 PM | Now, be immensely careful if you start roleplaying video game characters. If you slip up the slightest little detail, you'll rbeak the fantasy and he'll lock himself in the room with the computer and won't come out for hours.
Like that one Family Guy episode where they try roleplaying in the bedroom and Peter screws it up. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 2:48:15 PM | Did you not try putting on a wizards robe and hat ?
Well, I did... er... make my magic wand available to her.
Of course, then she just wanted me to stand next to her while she played. A bit in front, so she didn't have to turn her head too far from the screen. 
Admittedly, I didn't tend to complain too much at that point. :p | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 5:02:49 PM | Ignore anything Brandilicious says, you didn't see this attention whores thread that I've seen. Listening to women like this will result in you being 40+ an still single with cats
True a man that spends time on WC is a time wasting nerd an it's unhealthy, plenty of other games that don't gobble up your young life like that one does
an on the dirtbike thing O GAWD forgive a man not giving his GF 365 days a year constant attention. This **** probably prohibits her man from seeing his friends over her.
Dykes like her totally turned me off white women. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 6:01:18 PM | | Have you tried getting the game, rolling opposing faction on his server, powergrinding to 60, gearing for PvP, then corpse camping him relentlessly? That would more than likely make him log out for a bit. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 6:02:53 PM | Let me start this right....I have lost my best friend to WOW, would rather sit and discuss raids and which guild members need to be written up for not appearing on time, than go out and have a drink.
The only time I play games like WOW, was to beta test them, too time consuming for me.
Now, I play videogames myself, if I have a gf, I divide the time up pretty well. I don't play that often anyway. If the girl likes games, that makes it all easier, if not....well we work something out.
One ex would get pissed WHENEVER i played a game, and I wont have that...sorry. I don't rag you on your hobbies, leave mine alone.
Another ex didn't mind at all, she would play a few games with me, and thats that. I never had a problem with turning a game off to spend time with her. Too bad there were so many other problems....
Then you have some women who want nothing more than to have you at their every beck and call......THAT will make me purposely play games MORE, just so I don't have to deal with them.
If I am doing that, then its a pretty good sign that I am ready to be single again. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 10:04:39 PM | Actually, I found this quite amusing. Yes, I actually play Warcraf to this day. In the beginning (and it's not just me, one of my ex's really got into it for a short time) it is addicting. Though, your ex obviously has a bad addiction to it, and does not have his priorities straight. Eventually he'll learn what he lost is more important than a game.
That's all they are, games. | |
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Posted: 10/11/2006 10:24:43 PM | That's just cause Spore doesn't come out till Q3 of 2007.
No matter how addictive a game is, you have a problem if you'd give up your partner for them.
Though, naturally, a loving partner wouldn't want to make you give them up entirely.
It's all about balance. Enjoy your games. But never ignore your love. | |
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