What Makes World of Warcraft So Addictive?

Progression is a double aged sword. When content comes out, its less about the content and more about the numbers…

I've played the game before but I never got addicted to it. The longest I've played is two hours at a time per day. I've heard of people who binge hours on end playing this game. I was for a fact prone to video game addiction as a kid, but being 36 years old now video games don't have the same pull on me as when I was a kid. Don't get me wrong. World of Warcraft is a really fun game and I liked it. But I tend to bounce around from game to game because I have a lot of them. I'm never on one game for too long.

thanks for putting into words how our comfort zone expands when we do new things! sometimes i hear it repeated over and over but sometimes i gotta know why, so i can have a goal. thanks

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Can someone name me the soundtrack at 6:51, please?

7:23 haha that made me laugh

Nope, haven't been back since the start of BFA and zero intention of returning.
I am well and truly over WoW.

It's a fantasy I want to live out. World of warcraft released when I was 13 years old😂 but I didn't get my first pc until I was 20-ish and I didn't try wow out til I was 30. I refuse to spend money on it for now. I love elderscrolls online. But I'm level 13/20 on WoW before subscription. I don't have the time to pay monthly and only get like 10-15 days of a month worth out of it if it's all I take time to play.

I’m addicted to the game.

I learned about this game thanks to my uncle, I was 10 years old and I was watching him tanking BWL last boss on his mighty warrior named Ramhmandin, i remember that stupid sound that ventrilo did back then.
I was totally blown away by the game, I went to him more and more often to watch him play. I didn't have many friends and not even a dad to show me football or men's work, but my uncle made up for it a bit.

Then it was Christmas and my family was in mourning because my grandfather died so the atmosphere wasn't very happy but when I unwrapped my present and saw the green box with the words World of Warcraft the Burning Crusade I was so much happy.

My uncle paid me a monthly subscription and we played side by side, I created a Night Elf hunter called Razazki, I didn't understand much English back then so I had no idea what to do, I managed to do a few quests but otherwise I just killed mobs.

Obsessed with the game, free time, no friends, bullied at school but I had an uncle and WoW and killing mobs continued, this is how I got to lvl 44 and I was in tanaris. I remember that my uncle pressured me when I would have max level so we could go raids together, I have no idea how much I had /played at that time, but it could have been maybe 30 days.
So he decided that his friend would level me up to make it faster because i would be 70 on my own in like 1 year just grinding mobs lol 😂
And so i gave him a name and password (i know very bad idea) and in about a week my uncle called me saying that I could log in to the game. I signed up but I was a little disappointed my character was not max level, it was 61 but I was still very happy. It was chaos for me, I had scattered keys, many spells on the action bar, and a different pet than the one I was used to. I didn't know where to go or what to do, I was lost and I wasn't enjoying the game anymore.

In December 2008, I received a gift from my uncle, I excitedly opened the gift, I saw a blue box of WoW Wrath of The Lich King.
I was so happy that I went to install it the same day. My uncle was already lvl 80 playing unholy death knight.
I wanted to play my hunter but it didn't work for me. So I made a new paladin character because uncle and his men needed a healer.
But I didn't enjoy this class at all, maybe it was because I was a noob and I played in holy spec 😅

So I tried other classes, I had the whole list filled, I enjoyed something from each and I couldn't decide. I ended up making a death knight because I wanted to be as badass as my uncle.
I enjoyed being the scourge of all living things, a creature under the will of the Lich King himself, sowing fear and hopelessness in all living things, a master of unholy, blood, and frost magic, a ghoul summoner. And I got to level 78 and where I also stopped playing for a while. Then Cataclysm came out, my uncle showed it to me and asked if I liked it and if I wanted it, I said it was up to him. I finally got it and installed it played for a while but never got to max level which is a shame because I wanted to play with my uncle, we would do everything PvP and PvE together. Then Pandaria came out, I asked my uncle if he still plays because I haven't seen him online for a long time, he said no because he doesn't have time for it anymore and because WoW isn't what it used to be.
So I also stopped playing, firstly because my uncle stopped paying for my subscription and secondly, I didn't have the Pandaria upgrade.
Two years later, my aunt, my uncle's wife, called me that my uncle had died by hanging. It later emerged that he had major depression and anxiety. I have never been so sad in my life.

I tried Shadowlands and played my warrior, I tried PvP a few raids, torghast, it was a pretty good expansion but very unbalanced.
I don't even know if I want to try Dragonflight anymore.
So here I am in the private Wotlk servers, reliving the past all over again.

I don't know if anyone will read this far 😅
But the memories are what keep us drawn to the game.

I never got addicted to WoW… I only raid logged and then would go play a different game afterwards.

Same thing with politics. It becomes an obsession and brought me down a dark path

For me it’s the freedom of choice and the variation of said choices.

You don’t have to adhere by any rules, you don’t have to be a hardcore raider or a mythic pug runner, you can enjoy the game in any form possible.

Arguably you can have an amazing solo experience and do it at your own pace. Now granted BFA and Shadowlands had a lot of big lore holes and bad writing but Dragon-flight so far has been great and the fact that they have enabled replay ability via players option to choose any expansion bounce between them for the lore is what makes the game great.

Been playing it for 12 years now and not planning to stop. Definitely was more addicted to it in my teens but now being an adult pushing 30 I’ve realized that I can always come back to it

Came bk after stopping for 9 years

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