Ok females, and metro guys, I’m sick and tired of hearing warnings about becoming addicted to World of Warcraft. I don’t play World of Warcraft or any other video game that I can’t leave and help with kids in the middle of!! Do I get competitive and want to finish a game even it means staying up late, yes, but I’m the one who decided to start playing at midnight after the family is asleep in the first place. If I cared more about video games than life, then I would just stay at work late and play from there and not answer the phone when the wife calls. SERIOUSLY! Playing video games for a few hours each week after going to work, helping to clean the house, mowing the yard, and helping with the kids is NOT a bad thing. Joy are you concerned with my involvement with the family? Oh look, no she isn’t.
AND while I’m ranting, everyone who has a friend who plays video games, PLEASE just google the freaking game before you talk about it. Here try this one, World of Warcraft, and Warcraft III. Can anyone tell me the difference!?
World of Warcraft (looks like this) is an always on role playing game also known as a MMORG. To play it you join an online community and you spend hours building an alternate life. It was also mentioned in a great article about being addictive and a waste of life (I agree).
Warcraft III (looks like this) is a real time strategy game where one opposing force eliminates the other. When that happens the game is over. You can start and end the game at anytime, if you end early then you forfeit and have to hear about it from Gino for a long time afterwards. You get to control many aspects of the game’s timing, and there is a pause button. I play Warcraft III and I’m proud of it. Negating an offensive that Nathan spent minutes planning fills my testosterone loving man heart to overflowing.
So, with that said, PLEASE parents, girlfriends, wives, and everyone else do your homework on video games and play responsibly. Don’t waste time locked up in a dark room all day playing single player games. And don’t skip any family activities to gather ore in the hills of stupid place with your guild… don’t even be in a guild. Just play fun video games for fun and make sure you support the ones with pause buttons. And quit ruining my life!