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1. Major Addiction Problems

A Doctor claims 40 percent of World of Warcraft players are addicted –the belief is that MMORPGs should come with warning labels on the box, much like cigarette boxes do today. In addition, she feels that computer-related addiction (not just gaming, but also excessive chat and Internet use) should be considered to be legitimate mental disorders, and thus be eligible for health insurance.

http://www.wowdetox.com/ & Source

2. Wow Can Be Deadly

Nicknamed “Snowly”, a 28-year old gentleman in Beijing died recently after playing the MMO WoW continuously for multiple days during a holiday period. His friends who played WoW said he was a key official and very active member of their community and always connected to the Internet.

Although we should point out that WOW does come with a health warning.

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3. Wow Ruins Marriages

Marriage and WoW don’t mix well. One example is a wife who felt her husband’s addiction to the game had ruined her life. When first together, things were great but he failed to tell her that he played this MMO every night. During the 18-months of their early marriage, his addiction to the game progressed. This woman ended up 8-month pregnant and confined to home alone during the days, only to have her husband come home and jump on the game. Every weekend was spent playing WoW. In fact, what should have been a wonderful time in their marriage was a disaster; he even let her collapse on the floor, helped her up to the sofa but asked her to “stay right there” while he logged on to the game! Unbelievable but true!

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4. Playing WoW can Cause Aggression

James Swan, age 27, was drinking alcohol and playing WoW in a room shared with younger family members. He quickly beame belligerent and so loud that Hazel Summerall, his 50-year old mother, told him he must keep down the noise. Swan grabbed his own mother by her hair and tossed her on the bed. He repeated this with a younger brother. His mom attempted to call 911 and the man ripped the phone out of the wall and then head-butted the wall resulting in a large hole. Swan threw his mother to the ground and was choking her until Swan’s grandfather appeared and tried to calm things down. This failed to help and Swan began threatening to also kill his grandfather. The older man retrieved his revolver. The younger man then grabbed his grandfather, causing the gun to fire, grazing Swan’s ear and exiting the living room window.

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Plus, look what can happen when a kid is told he has to stop playing World of Warcraft:

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5. Socially Inept/Bad Players

World of Warcraft allows annoying people the chance to ruin a game with the anonymity that online play provides. You either develop a lot of patience for the unskilled and clueless who fail to use the features available to their role or you just become like them. Losers can be seen here:

http://bit.ly/cjWvjN

http://bit.ly/bPY1IE

…..and don’t miss the real psychos, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1Qcflxak0

6. WoW Reduces Sex Drive

Warcraft Reduces Sex Drive – Watch more Funny Videos

Warcraft Reduces Sex Drive – Watch more Funny Videos

Here are some funny videos about WoW, aka the best male sex drive reducer in the universe. This game takes over the users’ bodies completely in that they never do anything other than play WoW, including wanting to have sex! Some couples where the female had a much lower sex drive maybe be grateful but not all women feel this way. No longer is it “sorry, I have a headache” on the woman’s part but men saying “I’d rather play WoW all night long”.

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7. Monthly Subscription Fee

At first it WoW may seem cheap at only 50 cents per day but this works out at $75 ever 6 months! Yet if you have been playing 5 years then you will have wasted $750 on playing this sad little game.

Why not spend the $150 on more constructive activities like saving up enough money to move out of your parents basement!

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8. You Can Lose Your Job

After playing World of Warfare non-stop for an entire year, one player stopped. He began slowly, but the higher level characters made it seem as if it was going to improve as he levelled up. As an FPS gamer, he was bored clicking on a boar multiple times and, in retrospect, wishes he’d stopped right there. Having gotten to IF, he saw neat-looking characters and began to think all the clicking might be worth it, always believing that the next level was going to be exciting. Once he entered a BG he became completely addicted, started looking for a PVP guild. He founds the best gear was only available by doing the dungeons, forcing him to put more time into the game to level up.

He met other players online who were obviously addicts of WoW also. Things snowballed and he was coming home from work to play until midnight, then until 1 am, getting a little sleep before showing up at work at 7 am. Well, soon he was playing until 4 am and trying to get to work – late of course. Finally, he was fired. He lost weight and strength he’d build from playing soccer in the past. He realized he had blood stains on his laptop from wearing into his wrist from placing it in the best spot to hit the keys AWSD repeatedly. Suddenly he began to notice hunger, but he couldn’t stop to eat because he wanted to be online to catch certain raiding groups in WoW.

Then he noticed how small and dark his world (basically his room) had become and how long it had been since he’d had any real face-to-face social interaction. Realizing he was living alone with a screen, he accepted he was not living in Wow but in a rather scary mental and physical state. Even after having stopped playing for a month, he still gets urges. He knows he can beat the addiction but he’s had to learn the hard way what playing World of Warcraft can cost.

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9. WoW Can Make you Fat

Researchers note links between playing WoW and other video games with overweight adolescents. The sedentary lifestyle adds to researchers’ concerns about mental health. The findings reveal that both male and female WoW players are at risk and that female gamers have significantly more diagnoses of depression than females who do not play video games while male gamers have higher body mass indexes than if they do not play Wow or other games.

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10 – Grinding

You grind away at WoW for hours at a time, struggling to level up, get cash or important upgrades in this huge MMO. No matter what you do, after a while, WoW starts to seem too much like a full-time job – but without the pay checks. You’ll feel as if you are working in a sweatshop. There are better and more profitable ways to use your time.

Indeed there are actual sweatshops our there which work to build characters up and farm gold, which they then sell on to people who have better things to do than grind.

11. Quests Are Repetitive

Every quest is simply the same process: accept the quest, kill the enemy or find objects, bring objects back, quest complete so start another one which goes the same way again and again. What’s fun about that? Other games have done it right with missions or quests being unique and taking you into very different scenarios each time. WoW doesn’t offer this at all. There are lots of quest but they aren’t very exciting at all.

12 – Corpse Runs

Your character has died yet again and you’re ready to pack it in for the night. But wait, WoW makes a game of dying, pulling you further in. You get two choices: revive yourself using a spirit healer and risk major weapon damage, or travel back to the minimum penalty. Of course, you’re usually at the farthest point away from the spot you died. Just to salvage matters, you end up trekking back to where you died and probably decide to finish the quest that killed you the first time.

13. WoW Can Be Bad For Your Health

After playing WoW for 24 straight hours, a schoolboy collapsed into convulsions. Reports say the 15-year old and his buddies were playing the new WoW version, Wrath of Lich King, when this epileptic-like seizure occurred. With little or no sleep and little food, the kids played all night, according to the boy’s father.

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