You think this person lost/quit his job? ***WoW Related*** ***UPDATED: NO JOB NOW***

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Well, I'm living with my cousin's place for over 3 1/2 months now. Right he's up right now still playing his WoW (nearly 15 hrs) and I went to bed at around 11pm last night. He's 29 years old and has a good paying job but i don't know if he still has this job thus WoW has really been kicking in for him. Here's his signs that I have noticed about the past 3 weeks:

Signs

- Turned off his cell phone for the past 3 weeks (I believe his company pays his cell phone bill)

- Smoking about almost twice as usual

- He hasn't shaved in about 1 1/2 weeks.

- He is been on his "vacation" for 3 weeks now counting today (monday) from his job.

- The day before he started his "vacation", he told me works sucks and that I should stay in school for long as I can before going out into the real world.

- He doesn't do any housework really (doesn't do dishes, put trash on the counters and not in the garbage, doesn't take out trash when the bag is full or even when the bag is front of the study where he plays WoW, don't put away dishes, a fuckload of clothes in his room laying everywhere). He did vacuum the living floor a few days ago...

- He doesn't go to bed until late at night due to playing WoW (like he is right now (so probably he stills up til around 2 or 3) , and usually after I go to bed (after 1 a.m)

- Uses the house phone a lot more than ever (he never uses it) to get calls from his girlfriend or w/e
 
Oh, he's probably quite addicted and has been let go or whatnot. The extended "vacation" is pretty much a good descriptor right there.

Then again, I've known people who have been in the same exact situation. The only kicker was that there was a final note, usually where they neglect their current boyfriend/girlfriend a whole lot more until they get a nice GAME OVER in the relationship department.

Then that spirals into even ~more~ WoW and...ugh. Downward spiral, indeed.
 
I hope you can arrange somewhere else to live, because it sounds like your buddy might be buying a ticket to evictiontown.
 
Also, his girlfriend is coming by this morning in about a hour and most likely I will confront her about his. Should I do it and if so what should i say to her about this.
 
my brother had stories about his friend who he works with...barely can stay up during the night shift unless he's talking about that WOW shit.

man.....fuck a game that creates an addiction.
 
I was addicted to WOW for a long time. I was hooked on the feud between Terri Gold and Danger for the belt, and Caged Heat was unstoppable. And who can forget the beautiful Beach Patrol and Lana Star, and my fave, the bad girl, Riot!

I loved that show.
 
Ha! This is funny to me, because I just put in my 2 weeks notice, and the first thing I did once the paper hit the desk was install PSO BlueBurst on my work PC.
 
[quote name='javeryh']I call bullshit. There's no way someone who plays that much WoW has a girlfriend. ;)[/quote]That's what I was thinking.

I call shenanigans. :lol:

Seriously though, I think you're right OP. Even the most core of WoW players I know wouldn't spend their three weeks vacation playing it.
 
[quote name='H-Town Info']
- The day before he started his "vacation", he told me works sucks and that I should stay in school for long as I can before going out into the real world.[/QUOTE]

This is awesome advice. My brother told me the same thing.
 
[quote name='emdub']This is awesome advice. My brother told me the same thing.[/quote]

I disagree. I went to a small, conservative school - getting out to a big city and actually having money was such a blast!
 
[quote name='javeryh']I call bullshit. There's no way someone who plays that much WoW has a girlfriend. ;)[/QUOTE]

Well he has been going with her for over a year and half now. Now he started playing WoW like about six weeks ago. Before WoW, he played and shit load of warhawk (about 5 hrs a day) and the warhammer beta (4 hrs a day)

Also I confronted her this morning and she knew what was going on (except. For him playing WoW for like 10 hrs a day during his "vacation" and the 15 hrs from last nite. She told me to talk to him about and he would rather spill the beans than her. I don't know what to expect in about 6 hrs
 
yeah thats why i stay away from those kinds of games. its probably the biggest selling legal drug to date because with an neverendind story and tons to do whats itd be too hard to stop playing.its bad enough how mch im videogames can take up let alone mmorpgs. if they ever come out with a decent marvel comics and dc comics mmorpg the word would cease to function.
 
Do your friend a favor, beat his ass and destroy his computer.

He'll be pissed for awhile, but i should be enough to wake his ass up and get his priorities straightend out.
 
[quote name='joe2187']Do your friend a favor, beat his ass and destroy his computer.

He'll be pissed for awhile, but i should be enough to wake his ass up and get his priorities straightend out.[/quote]
That did it for me, my computer was taken away by my parents I was pissed and enraged for a while but then I got over it and realized that WoW is a real waste of time. I would just "accidently" spill a crapload of water into the computer motherboard or something to fry it, or if he's computer dumb open it when he's not looking and disconnect a couple of things, or cut a cable or two to stop it from working for a while, he'll want to kill you at first but he'll thank you later.
 
[quote name='hec204']That did it for me, my computer was taken away by my parents I was pissed and enraged for a while but then I got over it and realized that WoW is a real waste of time. I would just "accidently" spill a crapload of water into the computer motherboard or something to fry it, or if he's computer dumb open it when he's not looking and disconnect a couple of things, or cut a cable or two to stop it from working for a while, he'll want to kill you at first but he'll thank you later.[/QUOTE]

I agree. I don't think you should destroy his computer though. I would hid it in the trunk or your car or some shit. If he has any problems with you throw an overhand right and KO his ass. It's for his own good :)
 
[quote name='javeryh']I call bullshit. There's no way someone who plays that much WoW has a girlfriend. ;)[/QUOTE]

My old roommate became a serious WoW addict. His girlfriend came out of the shower once and went straight to his desk...and he didn't even look away from his screen. Thankfully, he kicked that addiction. Again. I think we're up to the fourth time, but that girl is didn't stick around after the third.
 
I had an ex that was addicted to all sorts of MMORPGs, Neverwinter Nights, FFonline, SWOnline, you name it he played it. And when his best friend tried to get him into WoW I just about cried and begged him to shut the fuck up because I was pregnant at the time and already battling for attention against three other games he was playing. Plus he was making us go broke by playing so many at once and calling in sick to work so many times. He never got over it. He decided he would rather abandon me and our son and try to find a girl that would put up with it instead. But he didn't get that. Now he's stuck in a marriage he probably doesn't want because if he leaves her he'll end up paying child support for my son and her son, who she forced him to adopt, and their daughter that they had together. fucking moron. Serves him right.

I'll never let my son play that shit.
 
still don't about his work situation but I'll lay off for another week.

AFAIK, since the time I came home from class today, he has only played like 1 1/2 hrs. I guess my lil confrontation with his girlfriend might had some doing.
 
It never ends and there's always somebody out there with better shit than you, explain this to him while you put your foot in his ass. Violence is the only answer sometimes. Most of the time. All the time.
 
Yeah, this game is crack. I miss spent a lot of my time leveling up. I even got my girlfriend hooked on it as well. Instead of kicking his ass, have him type /played.
 
[quote name='ph33r m3']Asian women aren't hot. They just aren't, it's a sad realization but it's true.[/QUOTE]

you must be blind or gay, that may also be a sad realization


but yea he lost something, either his job or his desire to live
 
[quote name='getmeoutofjoliet']I was addicted to WOW for a long time. I was hooked on the feud between Terri Gold and Danger for the belt, and Caged Heat was unstoppable. And who can forget the beautiful Beach Patrol and Lana Star, and my fave, the bad girl, Riot!

I loved that show.[/QUOTE]
i might be the only person that knows what you're talking about in this thread...
 
Physical and sometimes emotional violence solves everything that concerns this pitiful husk of a human being.

Kick him in the nuts to make sure they haven't shriveled up and withered away....then smash his damn demon box...and his TV while your at it...and his wallet and confiscate all suspicious paraphenlia.
 
.....or make sure he knows how addicted he has been to the game and that he needs to seek help before he endangers his life and others

why does everyone want to damage his stuff (which could bring a petty lawsuit) and physically hurt him (which could bring battery charges, or a crazy middle-of-the-night beatdown in return)
 
I still have no clue on to how this WoW Craze is this gigantic. I dont play PC games so i guess ill never know.

i wonder if people have interventions for this game.
 
i've seen people play console games for hours on end too....it's weird, but honestly, i did the same before too

the sims: versions 1 & 2. i could wake up, play that shit, go to school, come back, play that shit, take a shit, play that shit, eat some food, play that shit, and go to sleep

one time i timed myseld and noticed it was too much time. so, i unistalled it. so when the sims 2 came out, i noticed once again the same shit was happening. so once again, unistalled it. hard, but had to do it!


it was just something about having 6 lovers and a wife AND a 100k job that made me happy....hahaha
 
Don't do anything stupid like wreck his PC or terminate his account.

It will just enrage him.

Instead confront him about it.

He is your roommate and you have a right to know about these things.
If he lost his job, grab him by the collar and punch him right in the fucking face, and don't stop until he agrees to change and start doing shit around the place, and get another job.
Sometimes you get fired and get the short end of the stick, it does not mean that you can be a pussy about going on about live though.
Suck it up and tell him to man up about it.
 
My brother became addicted to that crap when he got a bit depressed. Lost a year of his life to that stupid game.
You need to confront him or move out, as he will not act on his own.
 
I don't know why people are suggesting that you break his shit. That stuff doesn't work.

There are these things called internet/LAN cafes...

He can easily just go play the game there. My cousin's parents tried something similar (without the breaking shit part, but just cutting off the internet), and that obviously failed with a LAN cafe just a few blocks away.

You got to actually confront him about it. Explain to him he's not going to last long without getting his shit together and find another job. Not only would he be out of a roommate and a place to stay, but WoW requires a monthly bill too.
 
Man OP, your cousin needs serious help and intervention. He does sleep sometime, doesn't he? If I were you, I would sabotage his PC while he is crashed out, or shut the power to the house and tell him it's a power outage when he wakes up.

You don't want to be caught directly disabling the computer or confronting him directly about his addiction. He could very well fly off the handle, go apeshit, and kill you. I wish I was joking.

3 week vacation? Ninja please! He obviously got canned and is living in denial in his fantasy WoW-land. Dude needs a serious wakeup call before things get worse and beyond the point of return.
 
[quote name='BluesCluesMama']I had an ex that was addicted to all sorts of MMORPGs, Neverwinter Nights, FFonline, SWOnline, you name it he played it. And when his best friend tried to get him into WoW I just about cried and begged him to shut the fuck up because I was pregnant at the time and already battling for attention against three other games he was playing. Plus he was making us go broke by playing so many at once and calling in sick to work so many times. He never got over it. He decided he would rather abandon me and our son and try to find a girl that would put up with it instead. But he didn't get that. Now he's stuck in a marriage he probably doesn't want because if he leaves her he'll end up paying child support for my son and her son, who she forced him to adopt, and their daughter that they had together. fucking moron. Serves him right.

I'll never let my son play that shit.[/QUOTE]

Wow, that's fucking horrible. Sorry.
 
well an update to the this story. I went last night at around 11:30 and i didn't see him play and was on the 3rd floor (mostly b/c his girlfriend was there). I woke up like around 3:30 a.m last night to use the bathroom and I opened my door to peek upstairs to see if he was playing. Let's just say the lights were on and heard some bunch of mouse clicks...

I haven't confronted him yet about his job or the WoW stuff yet (just to his girlfriend)...but if this goes on for another week (especially the job)...something's up and confrontation is just the beginning.
 
[quote name='H-Town Info']Let's just say the lights were on and heard some bunch of mouse clicks...[/quote]Porn?

Seriously though, he's not going to stop playing completely without either time or an intervention. You and his GF have to talk to him NOW.
 
hmmm i thought i posted it but anyways...

i called his workplace and yea the front desk lady told me to call his cell phone and asked me if i wanted to leave a msg as well...
 
Maybe he is just being a pussy about not liking his job.

If so just slap him in the face and tell him to man up.
 
Try getting his account banned while he is sleeping.
Maybe the shock of losing all his hard work will finally make him wake up and realize its all a waste of time and money. I know if I had a max level super rich guy with lots of good gear and I had no way of ever playing him again, I would probably just stop playing.
 
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