You experience sounds very similar to mine. I have played many times off and on and had several high level characters. All things in moderation I guess 🙂 I’ll check out your site as it sounds pretty interesting.

Thanks for sharing your great story!

I share my story here.
My passion for videogames started when my mom gave me as gift my first thing to run a game, its name was Commodore 64. It was the 1985. It was great!

Then it was the time of playing arcade videogames at bars and game rooms, remember?

I really loved Black Dragon, have you ever played it? Well, if you are old enough like me (35 years old), you should!

It was like a WoW at a very beginning, think about it. You need to farm gold to buy armor and weapons and you go through higher levels (the big different part is that Black Dragon has an end!).

I played at many other arcade games during 80’-90’, and I owned console like Nintendo, Sega Master System, and the recent Play Station.

It was with Play Station that I started playing Warcraft. I really loved it, since the beginning. Then arrived Warcraft 2 and after Warcraft 3, so it was the time to switch my gaming platform to a personal computer. I got my first one with a 56k modem connection at 18 years old, in 1996. And it was in 2002 then Warcraft 3 came out.

In November 2004 arrived World of Warcraft, so I had to make a big update to my computer (the first big money spent for WoW) and in January 2005 I was playing in this fantastic online world.

I have choosen Alliance at first. Sylvanas EU server.

I remember leveling up a Human Paladin with all grey items until level 22, when I discovered Stormwind. A simple mob killed me in front of the city, it was my first death and I thought : now I am dead, do I need to purchase again the game? Really funny, yeah.

So I arrived in the city and I discovered the auction house and all the other people playing.

Paladin at that time was a bit boring, so I changed to Horde.

I created a tauren druid, named “Toogood” (when I had chance I have spent 15k gold to purchase the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth – great for the 2 vendors on it, so you could farm per hours without filling your bags).

Day by day the game was even more attractive and I arrived at level 60. Then I stopped playing. I was without guild. I remember to have nothing funny to do at maximum level. I could not do the big raids and dungeons. Then arrived the first expansion, so I purchased it : The Burning Crusade. I created another character, an orc shaman, named “Toobad” (I have the Deathcharger’s Reins with him –Baron Rivendare Mount – I remember farming daily to get it!).

Again, repeat everything.

Level up until 70, both characters and farm items, join quests, etc.

Then I stopped again playing. This time I quitted for good!

A friend of mine joined WoW and convinced me to play back again, purchasing the next expansion : Wrath of the Lich King.

I created another alt, for more fun. It was an orc rogue twink, level 29. A pretty powerful one.

Again, repeat everything.

Level up characters until 80, farm items, join quests, etc.

Then I stopped again playing. It was January 2010.

I saw the next expansions, Cataclysm and the last one of September 2012, Mists of Pandaria.

Of course I wanted to play, to try the new content but it just didn’t seem worth it, there were more important things in Real Life. Bigger priorities. And to tell you the truth, I was even quite bored with the game at that point. So I never joined back WoW again.

I am clean now.

I have also written an eBook, with the goal of helping people to quit World of Warcraft.

If I achieve to help just one player to quit his WoW addiction, then I have reached a great mission.

I try to do my best, always. And I know I do it well. I simply find out that playing World of Warcraft could not bring me anything positive in real life. WoW really drained my energy, during the time I played. All my free time. And this game did not helped me reaching my goals.

I do not want to see myself within 10 years from now, turn watching to my life and see everything I accomplished is a bunch of useless achievements points in WoW or a high gear score with Alt fake characters. I want to be successful in Real Life.

I want to follow my passions in my free time. And you can do it just without World of Warcraft. So stop playing right now. You won’t regret it!

You may want to check my eBook here :

http://www.howtoquitwow.com/how-to-quit-world-of-warcraft-ebook/

All the best !

Yeah, that game kinda develops into an addition for many folks. Best to stay away from that type of stuff!

I think the vice for lots of folks that prevent them from cutting cable is televised sports. I was never a real sports guy as my dad wasn’t into it. When you boil it down, there isn’t really all that much difference in any of these types of entertainments…