I believe there is a HUGE community of people out there who know they are addicted, and want to stop, but for their own reasons, havent yet.

Here is how I quit WoW.

First, my qualifications : (skip, boring read) played for about 20 months. At the height, 40+ hrs / week. Deleted 3 70s, due to needing space for new chars on my favorite servers. Could solo MC attunement run. Had an epic flying mount 1 week after expansion. etc etc etc...

Got fed up finally, knew, could FEEL it, that I needed to quit. I Wanted to quit. But simply walking away, I knew my chars, or even an empty account, would lure me back, and it would start all over again.

So I opened an account on a gold buyers website and went to town.

Over the span of almost 3 days, I sold 2000 gold. I made $70. It felt soooo goooood. The game was fun again, I was giddy with excitement. I farmed motes of water from the small lake east of shattrah. I put primal motes of water on the AH for 20g a pop. I was able to 2 shot the eels in the lake, and made a buttload of gold very quickly.

The morning of the 3rd day, I couldnt log in, my account was banned. It was a mix of "ARRRRGHHHHH!!!" and "ahhhhh finally....". The closest I can explain it was like the scene in water world, where the old guy in the oil hold sees the fire coming down, and, knowing it was going to kill him, sighs "thank jesus".

I honestly havent felt the urge to go back, and its been almost 2 months. My friends think Im nuts for going out the way I did, I think it was hillarious, and I feel better than I have in over a year. Im back in to weight lifting, runing, and most importantly, my social life is growing again.

I would definetly recommend this method, as it is permanent, un-retractable, and fun. Have something to fill the void after you do this, pick up a guitar or a 2nd language or SOMETHING, ANYTHING!! :-) It helps. It also feels good to help other people quit, trust me.

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Details of how I sold the gold for real money :

I have a paypal account (free)
I went to mmoinn.com and signed up (free)
I saw on mmoinn.com there was a need for alliance gold on perenolde, and how much they would pay for it
I filled out the sell gold form
In game, i mailed the gold to the character they specified
(At this point I was highly skeptical it would work, I half expected to lose 800g)
minutes later, the mmoinn account had a credit applied to it
i withdrew it to paypal

I took screenies of all this if anyone needs to see them.