World Of Warcraft Research Paper

World of Warcraft Changed my Life A life changing experience, there were many times that occurred, but only on truly fits the bill. “World of Warcraft” an online multi-massive-online roleplaying video game changed my life. I was at the point where it actually took over my life and decided what I would do every day. Nothing has had a greater effect on me like World of Warcraft. It all started on the summers eve of 2007, I had just recently quit playing another mmorpg(multi-massive-online roleplaying game) called “ Guild Wars “. It’s like WoW (World of Warcraft) where hundreds of thousands to millions of people play around the world every day. Guild Wars was like a drug to me, it’s satisfying and deeply immersive gameplay had me coming back
to it over and over. Time had eventually passed and went on for the next 3 years and I eventually grew bored of the game, till I found a new fix, World of Warcraft. I had heard numerous positive remarks about W. o. W. and one day I just decided that I might just give it a shot. Hooked! Was the only word I could describe in those early moments as real life itself was voided from my senses. The Video Game was pure, utter visual ecstasy to my young mind. Never in my entire life has a video game impacted me as much as this game had on the first day. From that moment forward I lived, breathed, and dreamed about World of Warcraft.
On weekends I woke up at 8am and played till 2am for a total of 16 hours per day. On weekdays I would immediately come home after school at around 3pm and play WoW every day 5 days a week till 9pm for a massive total of 64 hours of game-time in week! In this amount of time I spent I probably could have worked a fulltime job and overtime pay at the age of 14. An addiction to overwhelming fun was what it felt to me and it eventually got worse as time went by. I barely did any school work in intermediate and high school, I skipped classes sometimes, and I lied to my parents all because I wanted to get home and play. During the middle of my 8th grade year I even skipped 2 weeks of school because I’d rather play World of Warcraft. How did I do it you ask? I hid in my grandma’s boat in the morning and when the school bus that dropped me off would come by, I would jump out of the boat and walk into the house like I went to school that day and I had just finished. Eventually I got caught by my Dad and you can imagine how furious he was to catch his son hiding in a boat all day. At this point in my life psychologists and my friends could diagnose me like a crack addict who’s addicted to cocaine except I was addicted to
WoW. Gradually, my social life and health decreased substantially over the years.
WoW was my life and it’s all I cared about, it’s all that mattered in my mind. Finally, as I hit my junior year I realized how short life was and how short high school life would be. I wanted to have fun with my friends, I wanted to have a girlfriend, I wanted to live my life like a normal teenager in high school and that’s what I did. It hit me like cold shower in the early morning that I was addicted. I did everything that I aspired to do as I decreased my play time with the game. I spent more time with my friends and made memories, I had a girlfriend, I lived my life like a normal high school teenager and I enjoyed it a lot. It felt great to not play for once in my life and to just enjoy everything life threw at me. I did miss playing wow, but as I grew up I realized there are more important things to
do. Truly it is a great video game to play, like all things though, it needed to be taken in moderation and what I’ve been doing for the past 2 years is that I’ve stopped playing or I’ve quit playing all together at times. I haven’t been bothered at all by stopping and I’m really happy right now without it in my daily routines. I know my priorities and I know what I have to do and WoW just doesn’t fit my life plan. It took me awhile to take control of my life, but I did it, I finally did it and I’ve never been happier.