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Title: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 05:45:20 PM

http://kotaku.com/5384643/i-kept-playing--the-costs-of-my-gaming-addiction

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: nickclone on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:10:46 PM

I read that the other day, very interesting. I haven't had a game have a hold over me like that since Quake 2 CTF.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: shock on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:47:29 PM

What's sort of scary is that I can see parts of me in that article during my WoW days.  Luckily I managed to pull out before it got really out of control.  And I had similar situations with my then girlfriend.  It took me breaking up with her to snap myself out of that cycle and I haven't looked back since then.

Thank God.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: iPPi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 01:03:30 PM

Ditto.  I was like that with WoW for about a year or two... not to that extent but it was evident the on my downtime from work and sleep it would be WoW.  Luckily, I've quit and I have no intention of going back to that game ever again.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: W7RE on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 03:57:36 PM

I act like that even when I don't have an MMO to play.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: Quemaqua on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 06:49:46 PM

I don't really feel the need to read it, but I've never really obsessed over a game that hard.  I love gaming in general, but I don't spend all my time doing it and never have, either with a specific game or with multiple games.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: gpw11 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 07:27:55 PM

Interesting, and I like how he doesn't blame it on Everquest, especially considering he was missing car payments MONTHS before he started playing it, but I don't think I'll personally ever look at addictions like "Internet Addiction" or "Everquest Addiction" with nearly as much gravity as actual, physical addictions.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: Ghandi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 09:07:49 PM

I dunno, gpw. Your addiction with a certain video game (http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/9/933069_75634_front.jpg) is, quite frankly, starting to get out of control.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: gpw11 on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 11:14:40 PM

THAT IS DIFFERENT.  I JUST REALLY LIKE FUN.


Fuck you for judging me.

Title: Re: Great article by Michael Fahey on his EQ addiction.
Post by: Ghandi on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 11:31:02 PM

You ran off to play it again, didn't you? I'm surprised you took the time to type a response. How many times have you beaten the game now? Disgusting.

I don't care how much you write "gregg + hanna 4ever" on your arm, it will never happen. We all know how she ran off with Cools so that she could go to his sexy parties.