Do you regret all the time you wasted playing WoW?

Do you regret all the time you wasted playing WoW?

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81 days, 5 hours on just my main for bfa only.. not really

ya but i think i may have gotten heavily into drugs had this not been available to me to escape into. i needed some way to relieve stress and this was it, diablo 2 as well

Some of the best experiences I've had as a kid were playing WoW with good friends. Unfortunately it is arbitrarily categorized into an activity that is a waste of one's life. Life literally has no meaning. If you have the means to do what you love, even if it's considered unproductive, you should do it and not feel guilty.

Not at all. Nothing quite like getting the drop on some poor clothie as a rogue. Better than sex IMO.

I play ffxiv. I've thought about what I would have done in place of it and I probably would have benefitted from it but whatever

I play too, I just go like "this is my 2 hours a day pleasure, not really a waste as long as i don't spend the whole day gaming"

the original faggot nigger

Nothing came out of retail WoW

I had way more fun on private servers because it was more meaningful to socialize still have friends from 9 years ago because of private servers

I can't regret playing retail because it introduced me to playing private servers

>Do you regret all the time you wasted playing WoW?
You're joking? I'm 28y old virgin NEET parasite and I'm about to play Classic AGAIN. Real life was mistake. Let's relive the best years playing WoW and then welcome the only genuine embrace a lonely unemployed virgin can receive.

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not even 100... filthy casual

no but i regret spending 5000 hours on runescape 3
now im maxed and have no friends irl

No. Played from vanilla-Mop. Playing ffxiv now and realizing what an mmo made with loving developers is like. Looking back I don't know why I invested so much time into an mmo that stopped caring about their players in BC. I could probably sell my account because I have 7 glad mounts and two rank 1 titles from Wrath

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As a 27 year old who has over a year of playtime on steam games ALONE, not counting my years spent playing WoW, I regret it sort of. Life takes us on a ride, though sometimes you gotta know when to step off. I feel old and desperate now, not having made too many real connections and not being as far along as my former peers. Games are fine, but take time to develop other avenues in life as well. Get good at something. Make real friends along with online ones. Hell, if nothing else have a meetup with online ones to secure more possibly everlasting bonds with likeminded people.

Dont fall into the "ill handle my life later" trap, your youth is very precious

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lol whats up dude. i saw you posting in soc like a month ago. you should try talking to a social worker if you arent already

Ive got some plans in the works, no money for any kind of social therapy. Sorta just self medicating with beers and talking on samsons discord with people. Low teir therapy but at this point feels pretty good, got dedicated posters and people who seem to enjoy talking to me.

My computer breaking half a year ago is quite possibly one of the best wake up moments Ive had in life. I sure as hell miss playing Rust, but getting my day soaked up like a sponge grinding out a base and raiding is a nogo unless you have a successful life going, so Im feeling good about having a mundane life again in that regard. I have high hopes despite everything, thank you for reading.

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NO, WTF

WoW was literally some of the best times i ever hard in my life. honestly, WoW between 2004 and 2012 was honestly the peak of my life. like it was the most enjoyable time i ever had, ever. im very grateful to have experienced the beauty of the game, it was an incredible time, honestly

i regret none of it. the only thing i regret was not playing more. i missed out on most of the burning crusade. ahhhh, im sad about that for sure. WoW was an INCREDIBLE game. honestly for me WoW was the best multiplayer game i ever played, and that is the best possible compliment i can give to a videogame. the best single player game is ff7

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dude i used to listen to this song on repeat and just be amazed over how good of a game WoW was. wow is honestly such a unique beautiful game to experience, its a blessing from god to have experienced it, seriously

i got bored of it after like 2014~. basically after WotLK i just didnt really enjoy it, and i spent a lot of time on counter strike and dota. i have over 7000 hours in counter strike and dota combined. cs:s + csgo


im very grateful to have experienced the beauty and joy of videogames. i may be a virgin but ill take what i can get

dude, you and me BOTH, for sure dude. videogames are like the only good thing i have in my life, and im really grateful for them. classic comes out on the 27th, im going to play with a friend. honestly, back then WoW was the only thing i really enjoyed. lm literally kv and 28 years old as well

i used to have dreams about it. i remember how INCREDIBLY and amazing raiding was, how addicting it was, how great it felt like to get your first epic. those beautiful purple words

i used to adore listening to people talk about their WoW addiction, talk about how they'd rather play WoW than be with their girlfriend

FUCK i hate my parents and other people so much for shaming me into thinking it was a bad decision. other people telling me all the time "you'll grow up to be a loser if you play so much videogames, they're bad for you, etc"

dude, fuck all of those people. WoW was the peak of life. videogames are the peak of life. they are comparable to sex and relationships at the very least. i expressed such thought on this video if you care to listen

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You're in your 20s you dumb fucking retard, how is that old?

No

The only thing I maybe regret is playing a druid in early Vanilla. But I don't regret it, because it was really a fun time. Without WoW, I wouldnt have been more productive or more social.

I regret not putting all the time I put into wow into fighting games.

imagine a scenario where wow classic somehow fails. do you think this would lead to mass tranny suicides? would this be the event that finally gets them all to cave?

Just my perspective. I FEEL old, though that could just be part of having a day in day out dedication to something that went close to nowhere with nothing to show for it. My body isnt as awesome and young feeling as it used to be. I have pain in my back if I eat too much. I dont have energy like I used to. I guess Im waxing on, talkin about not wasting your youth but seeing ppl doing what I did makes me feel obligated to point out that videogames are not as fulfilling as one might think. Theyre more like a fine garnish, the A1 steak sauce that you pour onto the steak that is a happy successful life. Just how I feel.

WoW Classic when?
I don't really have that many hours in WoW, but I still remember it as one of the best games I've ever played.

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I enjoyed it, so it wasn't wasted.
If I wasn't playing WoW I'd have wasted it watching TV or something.
I've also made genuine friendships from vidya, so not a waste to me :)

Nice vid man. I do agree a lot with it but I'm kind of a walking proof that you don"t "need" sex love or companionship. I mean I'm still alive, yes I do sometimes get overwhelmed with the feelings of loneliness. But escapism is always there for me. I substitute "real life love" with imaginary one, uneventful, hollow, lonely life with imaginary worlds full of companionship, adventures and love. Does it prove that humans NEED love and will go to great lengths to get it, or they don't need it since they can get by without it or substitute it with something else?

Anyway you'll probably play on US server. I'll be on EU.

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private is full of faggots who cant even play the game, I've searched vastly and the only way to do competitive raiding is retail

Played a tbc server for 3 years, I have maybe a more than 300 days played.
It taught me to be social. I used to be a total shutin but now I'm way more confident and can hold a conversation.
No ragrets.

I was a raid leader and well-known pvp player and I also lost my virginity thanks to WoW. While my normal friends were drinking outside being busy all social my serotonin system was jacked up in this amazing world. Whenever I hear Burning Crusade soundtrack I am back in that place.

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unironically yes

WoW ruined my life, I got addicted because friends from Runescape saying how better WoW was back in TBC/WotLK and I made the switch, couldn't afford to pay the sub so I just went from private server to private server, eventually stopped going to school it got so bad.

Ironically 10 years later I'm still just playing vidya and have no degree/job, but who cares lmao.

>WoW Classic when?
About a week fren

Not really. Sometimes I wonder what I would have done had I not started playing for hobbies. I tried larping as a normie a few different times and going out with friends for a few years at a time. After playing WoW and hanging out with friends I felt WoW gave me more enjoyment. Real life people are too clingy and love talking about themselves and others instead of their interests/hobbies. I think normies make taking serious invested interest in others lives a hobby. Prob why they love "celebritys" and shit so much. Also too expensive. You can get 2 years of wow sub for the amount of money you would spend in one night.

It's how i met my only girlfriend and friends that actually shared more than "we do x hobby together" So not really i guess? It never became a serious problem or was the reason for my shittyness when i started it, just a more social way to forget that i live in the third world, if it wasn't that probably just SP play on my PS2.

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Nope. I still graduated college, still got a good job, still got a girlfriend (who I met on WoW) even though I played the game a lot. I still play it to this day, and I will be playing Classic as well.

Nah. Ive spent like 4k hours since 2005 with retail and private servers. I will continue with Classic in a week and expect the Fresh cycle to start over again in 2024 when I get bored of WoW Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

Who will be playing on Shazzrah EU? Need a friend to play with/talk to.
Alliance

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If I were to pool all of the time from all of the characters it's probably over a years worth of straight playing time (last I checked it was like 8 months worth but that was back during pandaland.

Yes and no, I don't regret a second of Vanilla. BTC and onward I should have just quit. My friends weren't on as often and I just kind of went through the motions.

I regret that I didn't waste even more time on WoW back in the day.

I regret quitting.

playing wow is litteraly the second best thing to happen in my life, the best thing being playing this other mmorpg that is pure shit right now of course.

lich king and draenor are the shit, legion was fucking sick too even tho they fucked the pvp, didn't play bfa yet but i hear a lot of critisizm, wow will never die and i can't wait for the next xpac and some more races.

my wow years were the happiest years of my life. i wish i could go back, but realm phasing crushed the community. since I stopped wow my grades went up like crazy, I started a phd, and I have a part time teaching job on the side, but none of it really feels as fulfilling as wow did

Any EU NEETs planning to play Classic 16 hours a day and want to be friends?

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No,last time I remember blissful happiness was back playing WotLK
but then they kept removing things to make new players more comfortable, the breaking point was when Anzu the Raven God became a guaranteed boss and they removed the BC hard mode keys. I did the most bullshit long quest chain and was unloved as a druid tank.
>fuck paladins

imagine a burn victim. 3rd degree burns on 100% of his face. what else would he do?

yes, it set me on the path to being a permavirgin

Jow Forums sealed my doom, though

Shazzrah EU Alliance by any chance?

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Golemagg, Shazz is looking like the normie shitfest server.

Literally everyone is shitting on based shazz because people spam racist and homophobic things on the discord, meanwhile gaymag and gaynass servers are full of literal redditors who ban anything that's insensitive, homophobic or racist.
Shazz is Jow Forums server.

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I regret it in that it took up time I could have spent being a normie and having sex since when I was in high school I was less of a loser than I am now (I was still a loser in high school but there were a few average/below average girls interested in me). Basically, if I could trade my WoW playing time for the opportunity to legally have sex with 13/14 year old girls I would do so in a heartbeat.

oh and Apes decided to reroll from Golemag to Gehennas.
Golemag will be dead on arrival, while Shaz will be official Jow Forums and WoW EU server. Gehennas will be the meme private server guilds server.

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>discord
Remember, right click report. Classic is going to be a shit

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I don't know about any Discord but seeing as though it's the biggest server and has all the spaniards and zoomers, I'd rather just avoid it.

Afaik the only real Jow Forums guild is on Golem too but idk if I'm joining.

the puppers are going herod

That's a literal normie guild though.

maybe around the end but I really enjoyed it at the beginning. For sure though I over stayed.

Used to, but then i realized how most of my happy moments in life are related to playing the game. Why regret it then i wonder

>I don't know about any Discord but seeing as though it's the biggest server and has all the spaniards and zoomers,
Golemag has 3% spaniards while Shaz 1.9%
zoomers are afraid of being racist or they will get banned on fortnite, guess where most SJW zoom zoomers went? That's right

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That spreadsheet is dated user, the Spanish community announced their swap to Shazz a week after it was made.

Yea, but how many of those were ASK

>he haven't heard about DDOS'ing spanish ISP's on the launch date
APES going Gehennnas was kind of weird

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Wasted? People do what people want to do, there is no wasting it. If you played WoW a lot when you were younger, then good for you, that's what you wanted. Just because it's not what you want now it doesn't mean it was wasted. You're projecting your current desires onto your past self. I don't see how people view life as something that can be wasted. You do the things that you want to do, there is no 'possibility' or 'alternative pathway'.

Fuckkkk I told myself I wouldn't play WoW classic but reading this thread makes me want to play now. I need to build a new PC though. Is this a good idea? I kind of feel like a former drug addict sat infront of some drugs, desperately longing to partake once again whilst also feeling and to some extent KNOWING doing so is definitely a bad road to go down.

If I do this there's no turning back. I will go all the way. I will probably even go for rank 14 again when the PvP system is released. Oh lord what am I doing.

If you're here you have nothing better to do anyway.

its not worth it. i did the same but with dota 2. started playing all day and disregarding shit. didnt evne have fun was feeling like a chore

Gonna sound stupid as hell, but I started WoW in Warlords of Draenor and got hooked to it. This was during Sophomore year of highschool, legion came out on my birthday and I became a mythic raider during Emerald Nightmare, I failed a total of 6 classes that year in HS.

Yes. My /played logged at over a year in real time when I quit and that was just on my main. Altogether I probably spent more than 2 full years of my life playing that game. That's 17520 hours.

I'll be playing on German servers most of the time, but you can chat me up on steam anyway.
id/jry22/

Yes and no.
I got into this game with expansions in school because I actually loved reviews of expansions on magazines (especially MoP and WoTLK reviews) and because things in real life were rough as fuck to me (new school, no friends, abusive mom, etc.) and wanted to isolate myself from real life, because wanted to be cool, and because Nixxiom got me into it, but eventually actually ended up ruining my life. I regret playing it and getting into it. Back when WoD got released, I got into private servers because I'm poorfag with shit computer, and tried out various expansions until endgame, but never did raids, leveled only like 2 or 3 classes to max level, and as result, my grades in school got really low, I lost all creativity I had, got addicted to internet and games even more than usual, got depressed even more than usual, and never made any friends. I continued playing after school because I got hooked and thought shit will be better in future, but it's not. Shit got even worse in college when I started playing retail during end of WoD and until mid-Legion. Community is trash in general, because it's either nostalgic boomers with purple tinted glasses, "no changes" autists, ecelebs, or pornfags/RPfags and furries, there were some decent people, though. In some expansions content is awful, imo, because everything after WoTLK is getting downgraded to oblivion and so on, raids and dungeons getting too simple within time as much as I've seen, but there are also lots of good things.
Kinda think, that it's a good thing that I quit playing it when moving out to new home, but one part of me kind of still wants to get back and smack mobs in dungeons, farm mounts with transmogs, and do weird shit with various classes. Unironically, my first character was rogue on some shitty private server, while on retail, it was death knight. They were hard to play, but I liked them.
>mfw don't know whether I should stay away from it or not after college

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I found out I wasn't actually addicted to wow when legion and bfa hit. Really easy to stop when a game sucks. Hope there's a good expansion before I'm too old. Already almost 30 now.

I started in BC when I was 7 or 8. Still playing intermittently. Can't wait for Classic, gave private servers a try and that open stress test. Seems like it'll be great.

thats like saying i found out i wasnt actually addicted to heroin when they started selling me straight baby powder.
the contents is so significantly different it cannot be considered the same thing

Nope
If anything I wish I could be as invested in it as I was when I first started playing

Based saneposter

>saneposter
>Life literally has no meaning
i couldnt agree less

I have 600+ days /played on my main from vanilla that I played mostly through to whatever expansion let you get to level 80.

Not like I'd be doing anything else so meh.

>be me, several years ago
>first time playing WoW seriously
>pick a medium-pop WotLK blizzlike private server
>play for a few years
>improve along with my guild over the time and end up farming all the hardest endgame raiding
>make dozens of friends at the same time and have a blast with them
>everyone was an adult, a third of the pop were women
>even make close friends
>even find love
>still talk to some of them today
It was a beautiful chapter of my life, why would I regret it?

I don't because I made friends, great memories and also had a lot of fun.
I do regret the time wasted on Jow Forums though.

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is that a rug pattern on your desk, eastern european user?
>I do regret the time wasted on Jow Forums though.
to real

Playing wow was quite possibly one of the only times I was ever truly happy
So no

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over 15000 hours and not a single REEEEgret

I regret not being born into the timeline where I could play WoW classic in my teens. Now I have a career and responsibility and can't waste my life playing the best MMORPG of all time.

>competitive raiding
yikes thats gonna be a cringe from me

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In a sense. Yes. No. I'm not sure.

I had an absolute blast in a few MMOs, was part of some fun guilds, made great friends, and a lot of memories. What I regret is neglecting the things in my real life such as maintaining friendships, forging new relationships, and pursuing a career etc. I'd be much better off now if I didn't spend my "best years" playing videogames that's for sure. I envy those who had that balance between online/ real life.

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Could never get into the game, was pretty boring for an MMO.

>tfw spent years worth of time just browsing Jow Forums

I'm so glad I can't see how much time I wasted here, I knows it's over at least a year of my life.

New server announced for EU - Firemaw PVP
Wonder where spaniard will go

Not really
If it wasn't wow it would been another game

I don't regret playing WoW, I just regret being born in this reality instead of some high fantasy land.

Not really. This game got me through some very hard times. Had I not played WoW, I'd probably just drink myself to death or do drugs all the time to escape my problems, but instead I just chose to do nothing but play this game for a long time.

I don't regret WoW
I kinda regret 3 000 hours in Dota 2 without ever breaking 4k MMR

literally everyone in my life has moved on, its just me for now on, ive tried a couple mmos last year, was checking out ffxiv but i think im going to really commit to wow with my life

It was my childhood helped me through the shittiest of times and helped me with depression a lot.

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Not in the least. I had the time of my life in that game before the modern design.

It probably kept me from committing suicide, just having a complex class to immerse myself in, swapping characters was like playing a different game.

I miss MoP

>I miss MoP
about that suicide user...

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