Comments on: You know you’ve played too much WoW when…

By: Ardent Defender

Ardent Defender — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:13:37 +0000

I like the blog entry it just made me laugh. But its so true as well. Many things I work i can think in terms of WoW. But you played too much WoW when you commute for over a hour to work and all you though about was WoW and cant remember the last 7 stoplights you went through on over a hour and a half commute. Happens often! .-= Ardent Defender´s last blog ..Screenshots: Shadow Priest turns 50 =-.

By: Verdian

Verdian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:52:16 +0000

1) While at a conference I was making polite chit-chat with someone in the registration queue. Afterwards a colleague asked who I had been talking to, and i replied “I don’t know – I forgot to check his tooltip”. No joke.
2) “lol” IS a word!
3) Dreaming of myself, but in 3rd person, top-down , behind-the-shoulder point-of-view. I used to have turn-based isometric 3d dreams when i played Civ religiously…

By: Kohlea

Kohlea — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:25:01 +0000

“you know you play to much WoW when the camera angle of a youtube video annoys you and you can’t figure out why you can’t make the angle change with your mouse.”
-This. Happens with stills as well, especially with the boss/mount/etc model previews on MMO Champion.

You know you play too much WoW when…
…you glance to your upper right corner of view to see if your buffs are still up.
…you ask a friend to link something they talk about on Vent or you try to check your calendar even though you’re playing another game. (In my defence, Runes of Magic looks a LOT like WoW)
…you call beer mana drink and stronger shots elixirs or flasks.
…you don’t get tired or sleep, instead, you’re on cooldown.

By: scaresome

scaresome — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:06:13 +0000

These are fun. Like the guy who tries to tilt the camera on youtubes, I find myself running my mouse over photos expecting a pop out with more information. Sometimes surfing the web, my eyes glance to the upper right corner expecting a mini-map (do this driving sometimes too).

By: Cozy

Cozy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:20 +0000

We didn’t work out how much money WoW saved us, but looked at it from the other side.

We added up the game costs and monthly subscriptions over the 3 and a half years that we played, then did a /played around all our toons, and did the maths.

There’s not a lot you can do for 5p or approximately 8 cents an hour.

We probably have saved loads as well, but it’s been more than worth the 5p :-)

By: Morphster of Aggramar

Morphster of Aggramar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:57:17 +0000

@ Nokin, I’ve driven people in RL who were playing on their laptops but playing and driving at the same time . . . why didn’t I think of that? lol
@ Taurston, you are not alone :)

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:26 +0000

I was driving across WI this summer and glanced out the window towards the grassy median and thought, “ooo Peacebloom!”

By: Sarabian

Sarabian — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:08:01 +0000

I also do the “mats” thing. I had forgotten about that, but at the store with my son we like to plan our meals. We see something and it’s now normal for us to say, “Ok, we need to get the other mats for this”. I don’t even see the strange looks of fellow shoppers any more.

BBB, what is worse – you making the Jar Jar reference, or me immediately recognizing it, but not thinking anything of it until your exclamation?

By: taurston

taurston — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:36:36 +0000

you know you play to much WoW when the camera angle of a youtube video annoys you and you can’t figure out why you can’t make the angle change with your mouse.

Happens to me all the time.

By: Malphailuron

Malphailuron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:20:07 +0000

After playing a mage alt for sixty levels, I was supremely disappointed to realize that real life lacked both a Blink and a Teleport: Home.