I played it for two weeks, thought it was boring and quit. Like most MMORPG's I tried other than Star Wars Galaxies. And SOE made sure to change it to be a cheap WoW clone, so I quit it as well. Guess I just don't get WoW. Sorry to hear about your friends though. =/

I played it off and on for a year but quit due to boredom.

The real problem with the game is that you spend all this time leveling to 60 (now 70), believing that you're creating a more powerful character, and when you arrive there, there's suddenly nothing worth doing that doesn't require a small army to do.

In other words, you strive to become more powerful in your environment until you reach an environment where you are nothing without the help of many others.

And don't even get me started about gear. You ARE your gear. That's it. Personal skill takes a huge backseat to the items you have on.

In the end, what drove me away from WoW was the fact that the game has no consequences, and that includes everything you do in the world. It's just an entire game filled with repeatable content and in a world where everything is repeatable, nothing is enjoyable. It's like e-Disney World: you go on the rides (quests), see the sights (world map), and when you leave, it's like you were never there at all.

I always have and always will live by this mantra. If I have to pay more than once for a game, it is crap, no matter how awesome it is. Therefore, WoW is a crap game. I have no interest in crap games, I will not touch, play, read about, or do ANYTHING with a crap game. No fun factor is worth over a hundred dollars a year every year.

Note, I am not saying the game is crap, READ what I wrote, I am not bashing the game based on anything it offers, I'm bashing EVERY GAME that forces you to pay to play. I am against that model for a game, and call all games of that model crap.

rendo = my kinda man.

 So, who's for staging an intervention for Soriku?

i played this addicting game. Fortunately, i learned that the game was addicting and asked my parents to remove it so that i would not get involved with it again.

I haven't known anyone that is addicted to WoW, but my sister was addicted to maple story.

Her grades dropped and all she would do is play that game and not give a crap what happened in real life.

My parents told me to erase the game and block the internet from her computer, and it worked.

 um...yeah....that was what I wanted to say.

I've been pretty firm that as long as it's been $15 a month, I'm not going to get addicted. . .

Now Diablo 2 on the other hand... lots of time lost there

I started with Everquest. Played for 6 months and called it quit. It was hard for a week or so and kept thinking of going back. After 2 weeks, I never looked back.

I don't think that is much addiction though.

I never played WoW.

I tried Everquest2 for 2 months on release, I decided to quit cause of no time.

In general, any MMO is as addicting. You just gotta wise up and be able to walk away when it's reaching critical.