<p>Opinions, personal experiences, stories, etc..</p>
<p>roomate plays it…never leaves other than classes, food, bathroom…</p>
<p>really freaking annoying ><</p>
<p>without control it’s as addicting as cocaine and heroin</p>
<p>very unhealthy… it shows on your physical appearance… same with other video games</p>
<p>World of Warcraft generally is too time consuming for a competitive college student who is serious about his/her future. Cancel your subscription and save hundreds of hours over the next few years.</p>
<p>Get a job. Get an internship. Get a high GPA. Get some fresh air and go for a walk.</p>
<p>If you have poor impulse control, don’t play. I have an active social life, spend time with my boyfriend, maintain a high GPA, hold a job and am an officer in two clubs, and I play WoW for a few hours each week (2-3.) No, I’m not a top-tier raider and I’m not in a server record guild, but I can get some Arena and quality instance time in where I feel like it.</p>
<p>In fact - my job on campus is as a research assistant in a World of Warcraft study. 
So it is possible, just… most people don’t balance their time very well, and that’s where the stigma comes from.</p>
<p>Lol. If you play WOW and are in college then there’s a problem. Don’t really need to go into detail about this. Try talking to a girl about WOW and see if she’s still interested in you.</p>
<p>Excuse me, but there are plenty of girls who play WoW. Mostly in the STEM fields.</p>
<p>They play religiously?</p>
<p>You can play it, just moderately. Maybe a dungeon a day or a few battlegrounds</p>
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<p>Er. While I don’t play WoW - the monthly fees drive me away - I’m a fairly religious WC3 BNet player when I get home for the breaks. Actually, I started playing WC2 back in 4th grade when my brother’s friend burned him a copy, and I do know other girls who play WoW fairly often as well.</p>
<p>To the OP: Moderation is key. If you can control yourself, sure. If you can’t, do yourself a favor and cancel your account.</p>
<p>In my dorm, my first year, dorm mate got the roommate addicted. He got REALLY into the game and would watch WoW vid’s during classes on youtube. During the 2nd year, the two decided to live together and the dormmate felt guilty for getting him addicted and he at times made him dinner and literally took care of him b/c he was afraid he couldn’t take care of himself!!! HAHAHa My other dormmates would make fun of him for being Mr. mom.</p>
<p>My boyfriend’s been a WoW player ever since high school. He started the school year with a subscription but canceled to focus on classes. Then around Thanksgiving he got it again, only to re-cancel in in January. He’s very motivated and never had a problem fitting it in with his classwork; he just decided that he’d rather hang out with his friends and have more free time. So if you think you can handle it, it never seemed that big of a deal to me.</p>
<p>^yeah conflicting desires, on one hand you have a really awesome way of escaping reality but on the other an amplifier of problems… so hard to choose >.<</p>
<p>I am so sick of hearing stereotypes about this game… it’s a game. It’s like any other useless hobby. It’s like a TV show or any other thing used to waste time. Use it for fun, and you’re set. Use it as an escape, and you’re probably going to fail life.</p>
<p>I raided (BWD) 2 nights a week with my boyfriend for the first two months I was in college… I made plenty of friends, did really well in classes, had the occasional drunk night and had time to pick up cheering. As long as your face isn’t buried in random dungeons/BGs/leveling all night long, you’ll be fine. I eventually was too broke to keep up with my subscription, haha. I plan on renewing in a few. </p>
<p>As long as you’re a normal person as far as priorities go, you’ll probably be fine.</p>
<p>@kayleealia: I gotta say, video games, especially MMORPGs, are not exactly like your normal time wasting, procrastination activities. These games can easily get people addicted because of the “play more, get stronger” concept. It’s this concept that causes so many gamers to become horribly attracted to it and play hours on end not caring much about anything else.</p>
<p>People becoming truly addicted to say…FPS games such as COD, is fairly less common. Why? Because there isn’t a gigantic motivation factor involved. It doesn’t matter how many rounds you played or how many kills you got while playing online, you don’t gain any new skills or unlock more maps, etc. It’s going to stay the same, and your brain registers that.</p>
<p>Now, why can people not be addicted to MMORPgs? Simply because they don’t care much about the ‘leveling up and getting stronger’ idea. They play just to have fun and take a break, which is the good side. However, a good portion of the players are not like this.</p>
<p>I find it funny that the arguments as to why you shouldn’t play WoW (you could get addicted, it’s a waste of time) could be so easily applied to drinking.</p>
<p>I don’t play but I know people who do. They’re generally successful people who play a little after work now and again. My aunt, her husband, my brother, and his wife all play.</p>
<p>Everything in moderation.</p>
<p>Why are you all wasting your time with college when you could be playing WoW?</p>
<p>Come on now…</p>
<p>The problem with WoW is that it’s the “WORLD of warcraft.” The game is a virtual world, basically a full fledged society. In this virtual world, you can be anything you want if you work hard enough. You get out exactly what you put in. But the real world is tougher and messier. Sometimes you work hard for a long time and get no results. So for many people, the game becomes the real world. The rest of their life is the game. I strongly advocate against WoW and all other similar games.</p>
<p>College and video games like WoW do not mix from my experience…</p>