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Comment on Life Update. by Craig

Craig — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:14 +0000

Hi there, I applied for information on t2g courses only a few days ago and had a adviser round this morning… i was feeling verry happy with what i found out about the courses.. i then spoke to my dad who did some research into it, and found disturbing posts all over the internet saying that its not a very good thing to enroll on… just wondering, how did you find this course? and have you finished it yet and got into the industry yet?

Cheers.

Comment on Life Update. by Luke

Luke — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:53 +0000

Hi, Is the T2G course worth the money and when do you have to pay? sorry for being so blunt lol :P Please reply as I have a representative coming on thursday. thanks in advance! :)

Comment on Confessions of an ex-MMO Addict by Jonty

Jonty — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:12:46 +0000

I got so many shivers reading this. I see myself in the words you wrote. It was encouraging to read the article an the comments…

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Zach Reichenberg — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:33:20 +0000

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Comment on Confessions of an ex-MMO Addict by Shar

Shar — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:46:27 +0000

As a hardcore gamer myself, I’ve been through everything you’ve described. And not once, but twice, I’ve left Aion. The first time was a couple of good months ago, 3 or 4, which changed my life and made me much happier. Then about two weeks ago a good friend of mine with whom I rolled most mmo’s, told me about this new low rate aion private server which was “epic” so I thought “oh ok I’ll try it, because I miss the game terribly, but I’ll play in moderation.” Right…..there’s no such thing. I’ve entered the server, started playing the first day, 10 hours, of course, I didn’t want to get left behind. Second day the same..I was lying to myself of course, that it’s only in the beginning, until I reach a decent lvl and can start building gear. But of course that wasn’t the case. I started playing 10 hours per day for almost two weeks. It started making me feel bad again, as it did before when I quit it, mentally more than physically, it just gets you down, depressed you, angers you. I came to the conclusion I need to call it quits again and this time for good.
When a game comes to the point where, no matter where you are, you can’t stop thinking about it and only about it, talking to people who don’t have a clue/ are not interested at all about it, dreaming about it, the first thought in your mind as you wake up being about it, worrying about it all the time, stressing yourself out…it’s not worth playing something that makes you feel that bad.
A game is supposed to be fun and relax you, to be a enjoyable past time activity. Instead it just stresses you out worse than a job, worse than anything else actually.
When I became addicted, as you say, you just stop carrying about anything else but the game, in your life. You start neglecting every other aspect, because only the game is important, only getting high end gear, getting ap and being on that oh so important abyss ranking top.
I lost a good job opportunity because of aion, well, because of myself and my addiction to aion. I also hurt some of my friendship, my real life friendships. And now I realize that it was extremely stupid of me. For what? For some people in a legion whom I don’t even know and live oceans away from me and I shall never ever meet in my life? And those people don’t really care about whether you exist or not anyway.Only if you’re a cleric maybe lol..and then only when they need to do an instance,if it serves their purpose of course. Shallow socialization to people in a virtual space.It’s not even plausible to call it a friendship or relationship of any kind because none of it is real, not one aspect. For a piece of armor which doesn’t actually exist? Sure it brings you great pleasure to be a great player, to be renowned, but at what price? That’s not real, that’s your character being esteemed by others, not you, not the real you. Real you starts losing more and more as virtual you gains more and more. But then, nothing actually exists and nothing in that game actually brings you real happiness, real achievements in life which you can be proud of or which others value and appreciate in you. It’s…just a very time consuming activity, which 90% of the time isn’t even fun. Because most of the time you stress out and get angry either because of “noobs”, or ksers or doing an instance for two damn hours and the item you need so much doesn’t drop and you’ve been doing that instance for two months now. So it only brings anger, stress and frustration most of the time. The good times are scarce and if you put them in a balance together with the bad things that mmo’s in general bring you, you’ll realize that, the good parts are completely not worth the time.
I’m glad that this morning, when I woke up, again obsessing about Aion and what I should do today in the game, I just decided to completely uninstall the game and delete everything about it, except for some old screenshots I had which I’ve kept because those remind me of the 1% happy moments I’ve actually had in the one year and a bit of playing aion.
I’ve decided to drop mmos completely and focus on building my REAL character, in building myself, in “equipping” my real self with more valuable things. Such as culture(you can never have too much of that, as long as you live you learn something new everyday), health, happiness and professional fulfillment.
I’m glad to see more people realize that sometimes, it’s just TOO MUCH and they decide to put a stop to it until the obsession doesn’t cause irreparable damage to their lives.

Comment on Confessions of an ex-MMO Addict by Eilan

Eilan — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:54:17 +0000

It’s all about balance. I was there too, when I started playing Lineage2 in 2004. Played there for 5 years and it was really addictive to the point I had 4 accounts, one of which was my boyfriend’s (now husband). At least we were addicted together ^^
With Aion I tried to take it easier and I succeeded also because my life changed in the meanwhile and I just didn’t have all that time anymore to feed my addiction.
Now I quit as you know, but when I’ll start again in september (I hope), it will be slow and easy, just like Aion. Not out of lack of interest, but because I learnt my lesson.
Balance. A bit of this, a bit of that. But you have to have been an addict to truly appreciate that ^^

Comment on Confessions of an ex-MMO Addict by Zach "Ovid" Reichenberg

Zach "Ovid" Reichenberg — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:17:52 +0000

As much as it pains me to admit it I have had the exact same issues as you.

I have been playing MMO’s since Ultima Online was first released. From UO I went to EQ, from EQ to EQ2, From EQ to WoW. WoW to Aion, and back to WoW. It seemed like a never ending cycle, until I finally got tired of WoW – with over 450 DAYS /played.

It’s been a wild ride, and not an entirely unpleasant one. I did thoroughly enjoy the time I spent in these games – that said I’m extremely happy to have broken the cycle. I’m heather and much more social, I no longer blow my friends off to go “do twins” (inside joke).

I have however found a happy medium with EVE Online, it allows me to play whenever I want and have some free time without punishing me for not being online 15 hours a day. It’s def worth taking a look at, I spend days sometimes weeks off the game without falling behind, due to the offline training.

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justin jacques — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:05:38 +0000

world at war does have better graphics than cod4 no matter how you look at it