Quitting WoW is hard.

I haven't played at all today, and my life feels dry and worthless. I can't find a damn thing to do, other than fap and watch anime. I suppose I could study Japanese, but even that just can't pique my interest for very long.

Any former WoW players have tips on quitting?

DO NOT GO BACK TO PLAYING.

WoW sucks time that you could be using to better your life. I've played. Trust me.

Just find other things to do. Even when you want to just play for a little bit, don't. Quit cold turkey. DO IT BITCH. PM me if you're finding it really hard to try and do other things.

I've never played WoW, so I suppose I'm lucky. :P

I actually was planning on getting myself banned by exploiting what I believe to be a bug of sorts.

Good idea. Do it. Then you won't be too tempted. I'm not kidding when I say you should be doing better things.. like hanging out with friends. Hanging out with friends > WoW

When I let my WoW subscription lapse (done it twice so far), it's usually because I just get bored of the game. I got pretty burned out in Ulduar and while Icecrown looks cool, I think I'll just watch it from the sidelines.

When you stop a really time-consuming activity, the first few days are gonna be the hardest to adjust. I'd say try to do something weird and different for a day or two, even if you never pick it up again. Like try drawing or read a book you wouldn't read or get a hacky sack or something. It might not stick but it will help get your brain out of the pattern of expecting to spend your free time playing WoW.

That is what MMORPGs can do to you if you play too much.

That is also the reason why I still read a lot of books. (I can finish 2-3 in a day :O)

I forgot to mention that all of my good friends play WoW. Including one guy who's in the 3rd most progressed realm on our realm. That makes it a lot harder.

Help them quit too. WoW is a black hole that sucks all of your time. Seriously.. quit. Make more friends, party, just do some shit. D:

I like how people are trying to blame the game instead of the gamer when someone is having problem with playing too much, ever heard of self-restraint?
Playing WoW and having time for other activities, like hanging out with your m8's, is not a hard thing to do, really.

Don't quit it, just take a break instead.
I've been on a break for like 5 months now, but im gonna start playing again when Cataclysm comes out, probably a little before so i can ride around and check out all the old shit one last time before it changes with the expansion.

I do know some people who can play WoW reasonably, but I've learned that people who were addicted to WoW once will find it very hard not to get addicted again.

That's why I say quit.

This is very interesting topic. Thou i cannot say any answer thou.

I just started playing a bit again since my friends started playing too, but they gave me free game time i didn't pay anything. My problem isn't to consume time; I really don't have anything to do >.> and i don't like doin' any party stuff and more likely cannot hang out friends since there are no friends anywhere nearby within a reasonable distance D=

As some of 'em are playin' WoW or L2 too.
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I know it's illegal stuff, but you could try to sell your account for few bucks at least somewhere D=
Some peeps still do that stuff.
I'd rather would like to play other games as well, but friends play only wow and so easiest way to find 'em is from WoW.

This is kind of why i hate monthly fee games; you need to pay and pay to play it >.>

EDIT: Klown, i hope ya take the trial first then grab the Cataclysm upgrade, soem free game time D=
Can't understand why some peeps don't bother to do it; week free game time, Hell how you could ignore that? Better be rich.

Better to learn oneself some self-restraint and keep enjoying the game than flat out give it up imo.

Yeah, just quit cold turkey. Cancel sub, uninstall, ect ect. Find a new hobby to consume your time. Maybe something where you can get a feeling of accomplishment.

Time to pick up an X-box controller and start achievement whoring like a motherfucker, amirite?

I've played for about 2 years, during that time i stopped about 4x, 2x when expansions just came out :P. Last time i played was about 4-5 months i believe, i just got bored and never picked it up ever again.

I think you'll get to a point in your life, where you'll just go and leave WoW for good. When you do you'll realize how much free time you just got XD

I suggest you get on a 7 step program and WoW patches and chewing gum. Join a group and ask your doctor about any safe medications he or she can provide you.
The road is a tough one, but you can do it.

Edit - LostQuartet, did you and WoW go through a bad break up because you really seem to hate it lol.

^agreed, words of wisdom

played it for 6 months and then I quit. Get pretty boring quickly

For some people (myself included), that's the thing. I'll admit to having terrible self-restraint, and I procrastinate like no other. I've taken 5-6 breaks from WoW over a 4 year period, some shorter than others. Every time I came back, the game held my interest for awhile, then I became bored with it, but continued to play for months on end, when I was not enjoying the game one bit.

Quitting is the best option for some, and they just need to find something healthier (or another game) to do with their time. I'm weak, and lack the motivation to do something productive with my time, so I still game a lot, and spend just as much time on the net (I always played windowed, and was constantly on the forums), but I've slowly worked my way into being slightly more productive with all the lost time.

My time is infinitely more enjoyable, than when I was raiding, questing, or just sitting around Ironforge chatting. I've read up a bit on Cataclysm, and while I think the whole changing of the world will be interesting, and maybe produce some fun, I've finally realized that it's not my type of fun, and definitely not lasting.

What I've been trying to get at rather unsuccessfully thus far is that quitting can be hard, even for those who don't any longer derive any joy from the game. Taking breaks can help, but in the end it's putting a band-aid on a gaping wound for people like me.

More to your point, even if I had self-restraint, I don't think I could personally go back to WoW and enjoy it now. So quitting entirely is the right choice for me, and probably the right choice for some others.


OP, you should follow Klown's advice, and take a break. Then after a few months (or however long you can go, I guess), then really think on it. Do you still enjoy the game? If so, then a break was a good choice, without doing anything drastic. Stretch it out for as long as you can, and try to find something that interests you other than WoW. If you're successful, you'll spend much less time on the game, while still being able to log in every now and then and enjoy the game.

If you don't enjoy the game however, and just have nothing else to fill up the time, and thus it's the most attractive alternative, you'll probably have to resort to extreme. What took me realizing that I had no interest in the game any longer was getting hacked. I did get all my stuff back, in a rather quick two days, but once I came back to the game, all of my desire was gone. Hell, I had just added 6 months of game time to one of my accounts, and had a good month or two on the other. About a week after I got my main back, I didn't log in again.

Obviously it may not work for you, since I did get everything back, and really could have gone at things with only minimal loss of game/raiding time, but it just took a simple switch in my head. Getting banned, attempting to sell your account, or something like that isn't something you should consider unless you're entirely sure you don't want the game in your life (meaning you don't enjoy it, not you're just tired of it for now). If you have any doubts, you'll only end up with nothing, and might even be coaxed into starting all over from level 1.

I'd suggest uninstalling, or have a friend put a child protection password on your account, that only lets you play for a certain amount of time (not exactly sure how the child protection feature works, tbh). If you're able to break away from WoW, either entirely, or play less, you may slowly start to lose interest, though the first few days, weeks, or months can be brutal, depending on all factors (self control, other things to do, etc).

In short: Find something else to do, even if it's just another game to play for awhile. Try to find a hobby other than video games/anime/tv/internet if you can. I find that if you're doing something not so focused on technology, it's a whole lot easier to put it aside, where if you're watching something on the computer or tv, it's there right on your mind. Only resort to options such as getting banned if you're sure WoW is absolutely something you don't want in your life, and try to break away from the game, even if only a little at a time, before that.

Hopefully this needlessly big wall of text poses some help to you. I know breaking away from WoW was tough for me, but I've been free of it for almost 7 months now, and have no desire at all to go back.