addictivivivivness

You wanna stop playing, or at least try.

Move 25 miles from DnC.
Install Command&Conquer:Generals, without the patches.
Watch how the game eats your RAM(up to 1024megs of it, I've seen it happen, it's not a pretty sight).
Watch you PC die a bluescreen death
...and spend hours sifting through driver updates and display configuration, until YOU die the "bluescreen death".

Then you don't want to see your PC again, or at least be ignorant at the fact that it's the only thing that can burn those MP3's to CDA format.

Ah, ignorance is bliss.

Am I off-topic?

I need to spend more time on my PC. i just hate having to wait for it to Boot-up. Boring

right now well I'll start off by telling you all that I'm a mudder and an addicted one at that....

I used to spend so much time on the mud that my char would age 3-4 days nearly every week. Only recently (in the past 2 months) have I been able to stop this, now don't get me wrong, I still play the game and I'm still addicted, but it nolonger consumes my every waking moment...I'm not quite sure how I managed this but I think it could be to do with the fact that I failed out of college because of it.

The only reason why I haven't given it up entirly is because of all of the friends that I know through the game...2 of which I'd say were really good mates who'd I'd trust with anything (one of whom I've never met in the flesh).

To me, its this sort of thing that makes these games so very very addictive. Its nothing to do with having the best kit (on the mud I play there is no best kit/weapons/guild) or having the highest skills (while it might be possible to attain, I know I'd have to spend months on the game, farming xp constantly to catch up with some players....and I like to talk to friends while hunting.

now I've yet to find the place inside myself that would let me delete my main char and leave entirly but I can definatly say that my addiction to this game has made me wise up and catch on to quite a few things that I was doing that were also addictions (which now leaves me enough time to work, mud, play other things, socialise and sleep )))

so yeah...for anyone who thinks that they are truly addicted, and I know its a cliche but, you have to be able to say to yourself that you are addicted and ask yourself what you're going to do about it, I'd recommend taking a read of http://www.olganon.com , but it is much more important to take your own route to breaking your addiction.

now as I said at the start - I'm still addicted to my olg but it nolonger consumes my life...and, TBH, when I came to the realisation that I was getting ****ed up because of the game, getting to the state I am now was always my goal.

oh and anyone who genuinly wants help / advice for getting themselves to the state of gameplay that they want is perfectly welcome to PM me or email me.

Nic

addictiveness is seen by most gamers as something they want in a game and it is advertised as such. e.g. "amazing addictive gameplay" etc

apparently playing games of any kind releases dopamine into the brain, some people have an addiction to this and play games to ease their craving dopamine is also released into the brain by smoking hash, and i guess someone who plays a lot of games would have a high tolerance and therefore have to play more games in order to get the same amount of dopamine. not sure if this is exactly correct but you can search on it if you're interested. I think mmo's are more addictive because they add a social context to gaming that makes playing more fun, kinda like a giant chatroom where u can actually do other stuff aswell as just chatting, personally have only played two mmo's matrix online beta tested and played for ages after it was released had my own faction and stuff and made some good friends was almost a job playing that game, and am currently playing city of heroes, which rocks, except im on the US server, also beta tested ROSE online, and thought it sucked, nobody with a credit card is gonna want to waste money on such a childish game.

The irony of this thread is killing me inside adnans.

Please share with us what you do from 7pm to 11pm mon,tues,thurs and 2pm to 11pm on sunday?

I am leavin b4 the christmas i have to, we are raiding fri,sat,sunday nights and my social life is gone down the tube,WOW is a ledgenary game but i have to think of my life and this time i'm gona delete my char otherwise ill go back again!!!!!!!!!

After months of playing any game I seem to reach my boredom threshold and quit it ,(gave away my 45 priest to a stranger on cs )CS has continually called me back due to the fact that its not lvl based and purely as a bit of social entertainment with my mates.
After 20 years of gaming I get more worried about the total immersive qualities in new mmorpg's -but again IRC /Chat rooms ?general internet useage is massively increasing so will the amount of addicts .I remember porn being the big bad devil on the net many years ago and (most) people got through that.
Society will always have a certain amount of "drop outs" and the net seems to be a better alternative to drinking oneself to oblivion which was the favoured route of the previous generation.

PLay a variety of games
Otherwise youll get addicted to 1

I bought LOTRO, and had Guild Wars...and quit that quite easily and gave all my characters n stuff away

But i only dabble on mmorpgs as i have to split my time between them and FPS and RTS

A nice healthy balance of gaming :cool:

And join a gym ..that way you can say you keep fit and its ok to play I work till 6, gym to 8, then game till 12 most days and then party weekends...which i deem to be perfectly ok :cool:

Like a time-warp reading back at the start of this thread with words like "56k modem" and "pay per minute"

I have a strange addiction that I think is relevant to this thread.

I can spend hours online reading about new games and getting excited about them (MMORPG's). But any time I've played one I've played for 1 hour max and got really bored and never ever played again lol.

I always consider getting the latest big release MMORPG but never do. Well actually last Christmas I bought one. Can't remember the name. The popular one with no monthly fee's?? Anyway It didn't work on my ****ty Intel graphics chip at the time and I returned it. So probably saved myself alot of time and weight.

The biggest gaming addictions I ever had were Dream Arena (Dreamcast) and Civilization on the PC. Dream Arena was like a kind of early MMORPG in a way.

I was really considering getting WoW for the first time soon since my new dell laptop arrives tomorrow. But after advice from an Xbox Live friend who's brother was addicted to it, and this thread I am definitely not buying it now.

Think I'll just stick to RTS and FPS.