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Edit: I wrote the below while forgetting a few things the OP said in his first post and the whining tone in this one set me off. But reading the first one again I think I see what the problem is.

The OP is bored with the game. He didn't break his addiction, the game is just no longer fun. It happens.

Since my mudding days I joked with friends about our 'gaming addiction' but its in fact a joke.

The fact is you don't want to quit. You know its a waste of time and sucking way hours of your life but you really dont' want to quit, your wisdom is just poking its little head in saying 'is this a good thing?'. Your brain knows its 'bad for you' but you still really like it, and if you are into repetitive game play I can understand it.

MMOs offer friends and 'power', something a lot of people have few of IRL, and with a MMO odds are your RL friends that you have are playing it too. Its becomes your social club and your alter ego. You like your in game self better than yourself, but the video you is pretty damn shallow even if it can shoot fireballs out its ass.

And I did play WoW and quite honestly if I were to play it again I'd feel the urge to vomit too, but mostly because their end game is such trash and I can't believe I wasted so much time on a game which failed so miserably in my eyes at the end. I spent hours grinding in sithwhatever back when the zone was unfinished and being on a pvp server it was scarcely populated.

And I don't mean that symbolically, THINKING about playing wow makes me a bit queezy. If anything will make you want to hurl is thinking about spending hours in that zone.

Now I still play MMOs, too much really for a guy my age, but again its not an addiction is a pass time, the secret though is I have enough other things to do so that I can't do it 14 hours a day.

You want to know how I'd cure this? This coming from someone who has played MMO's since the first muds hit the net yet still got 2 advanced degrees, married, and kids at the same time?

Find a new game.

But wait you say, thats still an addiction! No its a new game, a new hobby, new rules, new people. Soon you will see how stupid the concept of a WoW addiction was, even if you feel you are addicted to a new game. Then find some you like which require less of a life commitment. City of Heroes is a good MMO which doesn't make you feel like you are falling behind if you don't play with your guild 24/7. FPS's don't require you log on at certain times. Even a good single player game can help out a lot as you do something else that you can actually PAUSE and do other stuff in.

Quite frankly WoW sucks, and the only reason you hear about these damn 'addictions' is that unlike early muds we got a lot more worried parents but its the SAME damn thing I saw it then. Most people are just to new to these games to see just how badly WoW failed in game design in the end, so they play on, spending days and days of their lives on it.

So quit whining like a god damn victim unable to control his actions and do something else. Thats all it really takes.

And if you were so concerned and had any balls you would delete your characters. Even an addict can throw out his needles. Instead you want to want to stop playing while tempting yourself with your characters.

If you are so worried fucking do it, and scramble your password instead of giving yourself an out.

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