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I know alot of you feel rejected by love ones playing this game, let me give you the other perspective. This is long but if you TRY to understand it, it may make some sense to you and hopefully allow a way to get that person away from the game. The way they addict people is partly the strategy aspect of the game--it is time consuming. And the social pressures and relationship building in order to make the game seem "REAL".
I played this game for almost 2 years just quit it this week (took my credit card info off of it). I used to play 5 times a week, sometimes for 10 hours a day. I got NO WHERE in this game. I never saw a full tier set in the two years i played. I quit for a couple of reason. One, I was starting school and didn't want this to get in the way, and believe me it would have. Second, i was starting to drift apart in my relationships with family and my partner. Thrid, and most of all, in the end, I felt abused by this game. I really feel like after i realised what this game required in the amount of time and effort, that company was screwwing me out of 15 dollars a month.
First off this is a really well developed game. People who love and are additiced to these games are GAMERS. They love to play games, plain and simple. With games pre-broadband, you could play all the content and be done and feel satisfied for a while--a sense of accomplishment with instant short-term gratification i guess you could say. The other half are just freaks that like to play like they are someone esle (role play) because they are either not happy with themselves and want to pretend to be someone else or they are hiddeously ugly or its the only way people will talk to them ect ect...
This game IS designed to take advantage of that but in the opposite direction of non online games. They make getting high level rewards VERY TIME CONSUMING and LONG.. The game is purposely set up this way to make you pay your money each month. Do not listen to the people who say, "oh well its not the games fault" YES IT IS. The developers made it that way on purpose. For example, right now, you run a raid that can take 3 or more days three to four hours a night and never get anything out of it (in the way of stuff to make your character better). Let me take some time to explain this to you in laymon's terms.
You get together with 10 to 25 people to run what is called a raid. The dificulty of these raids requires that many people. It is like a seperate game from the common areas that people run around in. Most of the time the raid require two of each main class of characters. THE MAIN purpose of these raids is to get what is called "Tier sets". A token drops from one or two of the main bosses in EACH raid which can ONLY BE COMPLETE ONCE PER WEEK. Each token that drops is valid for three characters (what we call classes). Each raid will most likely have two or more of the same type of character that qualifies for this token time THREE. So think about it you are actually in competition with possible 6 other people IF AND ONLY IF your token drops. Sometimes they don't drop and BAAM you just wasted a week. When they do drop for your character, thats no gaurantee your gonna get it because the raid LEADER could give it to someone else since He/she is most likely in controll of who gets what. THIS IS INSANE! It is totally made that way so that it takes you and Enormeous amount of time to get to what is called END-GAME. You have to gear from one instance to complete another. Meaning you could spend MONTHS getting geared just to move on to another raid ect...ect....
See how the game is set up to actually MAKE you spend as much time as possible playing in order to see the content it has. This is the crutch for hard core gamers(people who like to CONQUER or finsih games). It takes a tremendeous amount of cooperation between you and 9 to 24 other people playing together and getting to know each other very well to accomplish this sort of thing, so they get you into a social peer pressure situation as well. THAT is the reason you even waste your time in the first place, so its like a two step brainwashing system.
First you start to play the game, it is challenge to get 70 but not all that hard. By the time you get to 70 or shortly there after, you have met hundred of players on-line some of who you have gotten to know well. They all sit around and talk about all the cool stuff they've gotten in the game. YOU want that stuff, you start to group with them to get it BAAM your hooked through social peer pressure and long term relationship building. Remeber the token for the tier sets? Why would you even want them? Because the people who get them in the game are the "Cool people" The people who had friends and guild that got them to end content. They are BETTER than the other people. BAAM peer pressure. Now admitedly, there are people who don't really care one way or the other, but most of them succum to peer pressures in other ways. Wanting to kill other people so they fell better about themselves-pvp.
I could go on and on and on about this...the bottom line is that if you want to save someone from the game YOU HAVE TO make them feel victimized because they are being brainwashed BAD. THATS what makes this game addictive. I swear blizzard has a staff of little evil phsycologists sitting around thinking of ways to make this game more addictive. I finally had enough of it all, if that company thinks they are gonna drag me around like a hustler they got another thing comming.
They could make the game less time consuming by making these raids have options to reset, after you run something so many times you get your teir rewards regardless of a radom friggin drop. Making end game content less reliable on the number of people you have. Alot of people in game don't want that because they would become bored (unbrainwashed) very quickly. SO WHAT, in my opinion that should happen so you can go back to your life for a couple of month. MORE frequent release of expansion would be the cure to that. BUT NO blizzard is laughing at you all the way to the bank people.
Sorry for typos and such
I played this game for almost 2 years just quit it this week (took my credit card info off of it). I used to play 5 times a week, sometimes for 10 hours a day. I got NO WHERE in this game. I never saw a full tier set in the two years i played. I quit for a couple of reason. One, I was starting school and didn't want this to get in the way, and believe me it would have. Second, i was starting to drift apart in my relationships with family and my partner. Thrid, and most of all, in the end, I felt abused by this game. I really feel like after i realised what this game required in the amount of time and effort, that company was screwwing me out of 15 dollars a month.
First off this is a really well developed game. People who love and are additiced to these games are GAMERS. They love to play games, plain and simple. With games pre-broadband, you could play all the content and be done and feel satisfied for a while--a sense of accomplishment with instant short-term gratification i guess you could say. The other half are just freaks that like to play like they are someone esle (role play) because they are either not happy with themselves and want to pretend to be someone else or they are hiddeously ugly or its the only way people will talk to them ect ect...
This game IS designed to take advantage of that but in the opposite direction of non online games. They make getting high level rewards VERY TIME CONSUMING and LONG.. The game is purposely set up this way to make you pay your money each month. Do not listen to the people who say, "oh well its not the games fault" YES IT IS. The developers made it that way on purpose. For example, right now, you run a raid that can take 3 or more days three to four hours a night and never get anything out of it (in the way of stuff to make your character better). Let me take some time to explain this to you in laymon's terms.
You get together with 10 to 25 people to run what is called a raid. The dificulty of these raids requires that many people. It is like a seperate game from the common areas that people run around in. Most of the time the raid require two of each main class of characters. THE MAIN purpose of these raids is to get what is called "Tier sets". A token drops from one or two of the main bosses in EACH raid which can ONLY BE COMPLETE ONCE PER WEEK. Each token that drops is valid for three characters (what we call classes). Each raid will most likely have two or more of the same type of character that qualifies for this token time THREE. So think about it you are actually in competition with possible 6 other people IF AND ONLY IF your token drops. Sometimes they don't drop and BAAM you just wasted a week. When they do drop for your character, thats no gaurantee your gonna get it because the raid LEADER could give it to someone else since He/she is most likely in controll of who gets what. THIS IS INSANE! It is totally made that way so that it takes you and Enormeous amount of time to get to what is called END-GAME. You have to gear from one instance to complete another. Meaning you could spend MONTHS getting geared just to move on to another raid ect...ect....
See how the game is set up to actually MAKE you spend as much time as possible playing in order to see the content it has. This is the crutch for hard core gamers(people who like to CONQUER or finsih games). It takes a tremendeous amount of cooperation between you and 9 to 24 other people playing together and getting to know each other very well to accomplish this sort of thing, so they get you into a social peer pressure situation as well. THAT is the reason you even waste your time in the first place, so its like a two step brainwashing system.
First you start to play the game, it is challenge to get 70 but not all that hard. By the time you get to 70 or shortly there after, you have met hundred of players on-line some of who you have gotten to know well. They all sit around and talk about all the cool stuff they've gotten in the game. YOU want that stuff, you start to group with them to get it BAAM your hooked through social peer pressure and long term relationship building. Remeber the token for the tier sets? Why would you even want them? Because the people who get them in the game are the "Cool people" The people who had friends and guild that got them to end content. They are BETTER than the other people. BAAM peer pressure. Now admitedly, there are people who don't really care one way or the other, but most of them succum to peer pressures in other ways. Wanting to kill other people so they fell better about themselves-pvp.
I could go on and on and on about this...the bottom line is that if you want to save someone from the game YOU HAVE TO make them feel victimized because they are being brainwashed BAD. THATS what makes this game addictive. I swear blizzard has a staff of little evil phsycologists sitting around thinking of ways to make this game more addictive. I finally had enough of it all, if that company thinks they are gonna drag me around like a hustler they got another thing comming.
They could make the game less time consuming by making these raids have options to reset, after you run something so many times you get your teir rewards regardless of a radom friggin drop. Making end game content less reliable on the number of people you have. Alot of people in game don't want that because they would become bored (unbrainwashed) very quickly. SO WHAT, in my opinion that should happen so you can go back to your life for a couple of month. MORE frequent release of expansion would be the cure to that. BUT NO blizzard is laughing at you all the way to the bank people.
Sorry for typos and such
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