Name one reason why WoW isn't a scheduled A substance...

Name one reason why WoW isn't a scheduled A substance. It's just as addictive and while less destructive than most schedule A substances, it still can have devastating effects

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nobody plays wow.

he is from slovenia, people from poor countries play games that are at least 1 decade behind.
it's basically a new trend when it becomes old and forgotten in the western world.

This

Somebody’s got to done something about these video games. They are creating monsters. -Trump

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Shit, games for the last decade have been trash, anyone with decent taste is still playing the old classics.

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while im looking forward to the wow classic remake I don't understand how anyone could play the current trash

>WoW entered Van Cleave's life seven years ago. He had landed his dream job, a contract position at Clemson University in South Carolina. His wife, Victoria, was pregnant. But already online gaming was taking its toll: he and his wife were late for her first ultrasound scan because Van Cleave was playing Madden Football, a sports game.

>Van Cleave ended up playing WoW for an entire weekend, stealing away to the computer while his family were sleeping or while his parents, who were visiting, played with his baby daughter. Victoria used one word to describe her feelings: "disgusted". She felt abandoned. "I couldn't believe that someone could choose a virtual family over a real one," she said.

>Three years into his job, Van Cleave's life began to fall apart. His wife was pregnant again. Then he began to feel that others in the faculty disliked him and wanted him gone. But he did not try to repair the rifts, instead channelling his anxieties into WoW, a virtual world he could control. "All that tethered me to anything meaningful during this time was WoW, which I clung to for dear life," he wrote.

>For millions who play, the lure of games like WoW is hard to resist. Players create an "avatar," or online character, who operates within a startlingly detailed storyline and graphic world. Playing makes the gamer feel like the star of a sci-fi movie. Characters form teams and go on quests to find items, conquer lands or achieve new levels.

>"People play those games often in a desire to meet their social needs," said Hilarie Cash, a Washington state therapist who runs a six-bed inpatient programme for internet and video game addicts. "There's a sense of friendship and self-esteem you develop with your team-mates, you can compete and be co-operative. It really feels as though it meets your social needs."

>Unlike other games, WoW doesn't end. It goes on and on, with characters roaming through different realms and meeting new people along the way. When Van Cleave reached the apex of one world, there were always other characters to create and more loot to amass. Meanwhile, the game's makers offered expansions every year, which meant new worlds to explore, new levels to achieve.

>"There was always something better and cooler," he said. "You can never have enough in-game money, enough armour, enough support. You've got to keep up with the virtual Joneses."

>The American Psychiatric Association (APA) will not be listing video game addiction as a mental disorder in the 2012 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. However, the APA said there is a possibility a group of reward-seeking behavioural disorders including video game and internet addiction will be included in an appendix to "encourage further study".

>Van Cleave and others insist video game addiction is similar to gambling addiction. By the time his second baby was born in 2007, Van Cleave was playing for 60 hours a week. A few months later, his employers did not renew his contract and said he would not achieve tenure. He was hired for a one-year fellowship at George Washington University, teaching one class, but that meant he had more time for gaming while the stress of finding a full-time job ratcheted up.

>He spent money on gaming and bought two new computers so he could experience better graphics. In 2007, Van Cleave had three different WoW accounts, each at a cost of $14.95 (£9) a month. A secret PayPal account paid for two of them so his wife would not hound him about the cost. He spent $224 in real money to buy fake gold so he could get an "epic-level sword" and some "top-tier armour" for his avatar.

I still play Team Fortress 2

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fuck i threw away my teens on that game

ask breivik about WoW
its obvious a class a substance drug !!!

>Changes in Van Cleave's personality began to appear. Among those who noticed was his best friend from high school, Rob Opitz, who lived in another state but played WoW with him.

>"When things IRL would interrupt what was going on in the game he would get very loud very quickly about those things," Opitz said. "During that time it's kind of like everything was completely over the top.It wasn't that he was a little mad, he was in a full-blown rage." Van Cleave was about to hit bottom.

>"My kids hate me. My wife is threatening (again) to leave me," Van Cleave would write in his book. "I haven't written anything in countless months. I have no prospects for the next academic year. And I am perpetually exhausted from skipping sleep so I can play more Warcraft."

>That night marked the first time Van Cleave realised he had a problem. The self-examination pulled him back from the bridge railing. He went home and deleted the game from his computer. For the next week his stomach and head hurt and he was drenched in sweat – like an addict withdrawing from drugs.

yes and zoomers play the latest overpriced p2w kiddy cancer that gets thrown at them

>van cleave
>not a bait article
Low iq Slovak

Most poor euros play wow private servers.

>van cleave
>not van cleef

>WHY ISNT THE GOVERMENT BABYING ME! I NEED TO BE FORCED NOT TO MAKE BAD CHOICES

Then why isn't cannabis legal

>startlingly detailed storyline
>sci-fi movie
>WoW
what the fuck game are they playing

It's an article about gamers written by people who aren't gamers. What can you expect

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big studio games are psyops

Because a bunch of shitty people started reeeeeing about it in the past?

>WoW
What is this 2006 am i right, all the kids play Fortnite now

I'm three expansions sober and I could not be happier.

i stopped playing sports and hanging out with my friends when i was 13 back in 2006 to play wow all day every day
i'm now 25 and regret ever discovering wow and online gaming in general and wish i had continued playing sport
this shit is literally heroin and should be banned. i fucking pissed away my youth and wasted my good genetics (6'3) playing shitty games instead of dominating manlets in sports

How is it addictive? I bought 1 month once to play with some mates. We got about 8 hours whhen i told them that if we're playing warcraft, it better be warcraft 3. Wow is fucking boring.

Not sure how but I managed to play endless games and still go out get pussy, socialise, get plenty of exercise etc. Fully enjoyed being teenager and gaming from late 80s onwards. Other guys sank hours into watching football and getting blasted on beer, turned into normies. Gaming did me no harm and has defiantly improved my mind by playing what basically amounts to complex puzzles all day. Five kids, faithful wife, life in the countryside etc, all managed without ever putting the pad down. Functioning addict lol.

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when was this specifically because that is very important
modern wow is shit and has been for quite some time but classic/tbc wow was highly time consuming and very addictive

About 8 years ago

8 years ago would put it on the ass end of wrath of the lich king just before cataclysm released so yeah understandable since thats when the game went tits up

>addictive
I hate how everyone throws around addictiveness like its a purely bad thing.
Addictiveness occurs because your brain is hardwired to reward you for doing things that benefit you; while its possible in an artificial world to trick your brain into releasing those chemicals for bullshit that doesn't mean they're bad themselves.

If you get a good exercise routine going you'll get addicted to that too by the exact same process you get addicted to heroin. One is just a healthy addiction and the other isn't.

>Playing makes the gamer feel like the star of a sci-fi movie

kek

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I guess i dodged a bullet. I have never really been a mmo player though. Even playing vanilla wow on private servers is kinda shit, and apparently thats what it used to be like

did you not play Legion? Interdimensional space faring alien meta-demons were the main focus of that expansion. Hell even Burning Crusade had the Dranei whose space ship crash landed on Azeroth when they were running from the Burning Legion. It may not be a sci-fi game, but it has big sci-fi elements within the main lore.
It's almost understandable that they might get that impression depending on which part of the game they saw before writing the story.

I knew a guy who used to sign up for those clinical trial things to get money to fund his WoW addiction. He'd also donate plasma (not really donate since he was paid) to maintain it too. Refused a job because it would interfere with raiding so that's what he chose to do instead.

alright, that's fair, I was thinking vanilla wow since that's when all the dumb addiction shit was coming up but I guess since they talked about expansions they must've included atleast burning crusade

when the vanilla remaster comes out you know you're buying that shit

They shit up all the MMORPGs by cheating and just generally being bad at them. Slavs even manage to be niggers on the internet in every way.

literally hit 10 mil again as of bfa

I'm like that but with Empire: Total War. My life's goal is basically to endlessly simulate military campaigns for the John Churchill's ghost. It's funny that they shoehorned in american shit into this game but I could really give a fuck about late-18th century warfare, early 18th is where it's at. war of spanish succession + great northern war over napoleonic wars any day yo

>Mike Morheim

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literally worst total war after rome 2, and not because of the time period

WoW is dogshit nowadays anyway
it died with WotLk and all the expansions after MoP sucked massive ass
it's basically a second job with no reward that you PAY for
ultimate goy service

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Lol, no. Half of the fun of Vanilla was goofing off in general chat and server camaraderie. That's dead for good.

>implying with nowadays demographics and SJW Blizzcuck it will be the same as back then
nah I may look into it but I doubt it will be the same game that I loved

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cringe af

Yeah, profanity is a reportable offense now and they take that shit seriously. Got a 3 day mute and a warning for saying "shit" and a few sexually suggestive things. This was maybe a month after BfA launched.
Chances are they'll police the vanilla servers just as hard as their main servers... half the magic of vanilla wow really was just bullshitting and trolling in general/trade chats.

shit like this doesn't happen anymore at all

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of course they will
because if there is any fucking bad publicity about the game the funders and stock faggots are gonna blast off
Blizzard is scared of that like many other cuck companies
that's why they ban you for "toxicity" but not for bad gameplay in a competetive game (League)

I still remember an axe being spammed in chat the nicker if I recall

>Got a 3 day mute and a warning for saying "shit" and a few sexually suggestive things.
yeah, except you probably sperged tf out, I've literally gotten away with nigger in trade, and you can bet your ass they will monitor classic servers
>paying for a avatar chat is fun
fucking boomer npcs, go try the private servers and then tell me if you still like vanilla, I bet half of you fags will quit before reaching 60

simple humor for simpler times

yep it's sad the community is long dead. Nobody focused on min maxing every moment of the game back then. Shit me and my friend in vent used to play hide-and-go-seek in the Goldshire Inn for hours and laugh until we were blue in the face over stupid shit that wasn't even part of the gameplay. The no lifers ruined MMO culture

They'll probably buy it to begin with but it has zero staying power. Vanilla is absolute ass by today's standards, and most people will get bored/sick of it after a few months at most.
Blizzard could change aspects of vanilla that were objectively bad like useless specs and bad experience curves, but that also risks losing the "hardcore" puritan fanbase that wants an authentic experience. There's no winning this fight

>talking to people and making friends isn't fun
get a grip

on my server they would do this with Thunderfury since the full name is ridiculously long

it's not even reddit tier
>simpler times
it was even more prominent on nostalrius and the other hyped up vanilla shitholes as of late, where they have /world and eveybody and their faggot ass npc gradmas spam reddit memes and thunderfury etc...
>>talking to people and making friends isn't fun
in fucking wow hahahahaha fucking incel, go that irl instead of glorifying your PS! graphics version of msm

im ready for the nicker + ziggler spam

that's a meme everywhere,even to this day

WOW is boring as fuck and I can't imagine ever getting addicted to such garbage. What are you even on about?

>too young for Evercrack

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It was more about the class than spec anyway. Every class had their use and strengths.

this
nowadays you log in ,do your shitty world quest,your weekly and spam m+/raids
PvP is fucked up anyway and dead so no one does it anyway
back then it had this community and magic
people sometimes soft roleplayed on non rp servers

>yeah, except you probably sperged tf out, I've literally gotten away with nigger in trade, and you can bet your ass they will monitor classic servers
I said two lines total, got kicked, logged back in and got a message to check my email. Trade chat was doing its thing saying slightly sexual things about Sylvanus, so I decided to kick it up a notch with
>I want to eat corn out of mommy Sylvanus' shit
and
>I want to lay down in front of mommy Sylvanus and let her stomp on my nuts and spit in my mouth.
Less than 10 secs after that last line I was looking at my character selection screen. I doubt I got reported for those things; there was probably a mod watching the chat just waiting for someone to fuck over.

we had thunderfury too but Krol Blade was the main meme on Elune. I transfered off Elune to Sargeras during BC but longed into Elune some time during WotLK and the Krol Blade spam was still going years later

>video games
grow up you pathetic weebs

what the fuck is with the google captcha giving me 9 fucking prompts

and ya as someone already posted, the MSM was crying about Everquest in early 2000s before WoW even existed

I played alot of WoW, but I quit cold turkey after the end of WotLK, and quit all video games a few years later. Video games is a waste of time and degenerate.
Sylvanas is still the best tho.

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Wow was fun in its first 2 years. It was new and exciting and hard as hell. Then millennials bitched that it wasn’t casual friendly (aka they wanted participation prizes). It went downhill from there.

I only retro game now on my emulators

>weebs
I don't think that word means what you think it means

basically this

make a society worth interacting with

Gaming is degeneracy. Improve yourselves. I make videos on self-improvement, it might be helpful to some of you here.

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>it's basically a second job with no reward that you PAY for
This. This is what always killed my end game progression, the amount of commitment to grind needed for upkeep alone.

The entire service model is "stay on platform" wasting that gametime doing absolutely nothing productive.
Meanwhile blatant mechanics abuses stay in game for months. Class balance basically a joke where the newest class is op'd on purpose for the expansion monthsand then dev's favorite classes gets boot shining with "git gud" shouts. You'd never go to a burger joint again where the table next to you gets champagne and beef when you get a double cheese with a hair in it and the waiter asks you to be patient and wait for next batch.

>t. newfag
A weeb is anyone who is into faggot hobbies like video games, korean music or animes.

Are you stupid?

When WoW came out, it was known as the casual MMO of the day

have you even played vanilla?
>I want to eat corn out of mommy Sylvanus' shit
>I want to lay down in front of mommy Sylvanus and let her stomp on my nuts and spit in my mouth.

I was about to say someone prob reported you, but nah you did this to yourself

Who else remembers downloading the nude mod and dumping gallons of semen to dancing night elves????????

>people here wasted their life as a teenager playing wow and learned nothing more than grinding
>grow up to work a 9-5 job because all they can do is grind

>spent my teens playing eve
>learned investing, opportunity cost, the importance of research, supply and demand, working stocks, and managing a business
>now im worth millions, keep a handful of bikini models on my private yacht and retired at 32
get on my level plebs

Weeb is a degeneration of weeaboo which was a word-filtered version of wapanese, a term combining "white" and "japanese" used to describe whites obsessed with japanese culture, usually via anime. WoW is about as western as it gets, is this your first year on this website?

I played evercrack WAY too much as a young teen.

My favorite was EQOA, the ps2 version. To this day I find it the best casual mmo ever made.

spending 1 minute plus auto attacking a mob/ whateverbolt spamming and drinking for 20 seconds after every fight is hard
fucking boomer npc I swear to god, there's a lot I don't like about current WoW, but you fucking morons wouldn't even be able to manage any current rotation

>believing revisionism from google search
Fucking kek, you are a genuine newfag weeb.

Wow is one prime example of what political correctness can destroy
I absoloutely hate these fucking faggots with their female avatars / dog avatars, who project their sexuality onto these virtual characters
they destroyed "gaming"

>plus, i get oddly aroused by buttplugs shaped like an avatar

I've been here since it was word-filtered to begin with
It's not my fault if you have to damage control over being called out on being new

I was able to quit very easily after they made everything retarded in Legion. The pruning was the last straw for me.

People in the top guilds on my server knew each other and were IRL friends. We met up often and I still talk to maybe a dozen or so of them to this day. You kind of come off as a bitter loner.

going on the RP servers and trolling the hardcore RPers was a lot of fun too. A bunch of us in went on a RP server and reenacted the lord of the rings as level 1s carrying a ring from elywnn forest to molten core on foot running from skull-level mobs the entire way while gathing a large crowd of followers just laughing at what we were doing

>t. butthurt weeb faggot
lmao

>I was about to say someone prob reported you, but nah you did this to yourself
This coming from the guy who bragged about saying nigger and not getting a reprimand from it. Priceless.
Also, you're missing the point. Mods from old school wow circa Vanilla/BC never screwed with people who participated in shitposting in general/trade chats so long as you weren't being a spammy fucktard. Hell, even back in Vanilla when I was trying to get banned by spamming "NIGGER" in Org trade chat nothing happened. Mods today will slap you with multi-day mutes/bans on a fucking whim and you have to walk on eggshells hoping you don't offend someone.
Feel free to remove the stick out of your ass faggot.

>You kind of come off as a bitter loner.
he swings and he misses
>People in the top guilds on my server knew each other and were IRL friends.
my point exactly you fucking moron, people who glorify vanilla for the "community" are fucking morons, and I'd rather play with my friends than random ppl, which i still do, which is why this game is still fun for me, unlike the niggers who try to fill their empty lives with superficial interaction with other ppls avatars

lmao I raided mythic in Legion you fucking moron
you act as if leveling was fucking content,yes it was for first timers and casuals
I am talking about the raids,environment,professions,class identity and overall less min-maxing
much less guides,infos and other shit which ruins the fun of WoW
it became steamlined for faggots
no one says Vanilla was hard,it was just more enjoyable and more of an mmoRPG

Anything can be addictive. Might as well label televised sports as an addictive substance. Did you know some people pay multiple hundreds of dollars per month in order to watch every game?

What did they mean by this?

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You must have missed the part where I said we were friends? It was fun to play with a group of hundreds of people that you've met IRL. But I guess that isn't as fun as dinking around in your personal instanced fortress or whatever you do in WoW nowadays.