Thank you Blizz.
Yep, usually sports works better in my case though and I recommend you try them too 
Glad you can still socialize here, I’m a wow lone wolf since wotlk. Every single time I try to doesn’t work somehow.
WoW helps me forget about reality.
I like to create characters and background stories, with meaningful names.
I remember when returning during Legion expansion, spending so much time in character creation, I got logged off by the game.
I quit after that after realizing making characters is meaningless if you are not playing them.
I enjoy getting lost with my characters in places like Ashenvale or Zuldazar.
Being immersed on a fantasy world.
Seeing places that don’t exist in our reality.
This is why I get mad when some writer’s can’t keep reality from WoW fantasy universe.
I will leave at this point as I don’t want to derail the thread.
Cheers
WoW is definitely better than alcohol and drugs, much much better, but what could be 10 times better than all of this is to face your problems and fix them, and trust me, you can. The harder the problems you have the stronger you’ll come out when you fix them.
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I used WoW to escape from the idiots of RL. Then I realised my old guild was causing more stress than RL!
Everything in moderation…including WoW!
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That was the original reasons i started playing video games, i was bullied in school and played runescape to begin with, then a friend introduced me to wow.
Its a perfect way to escape whatever problems you have.
Good point.
That’s one of the many reasons that led me to quit WoW back in June 2007.
It started to look like RL way too much.
- Successful players in WoW, the ones that got the best gear = Doctors, Managers, Graduates from RL.
- Having lots of Gold = Being rich in RL.
- Guild drama = Family in RL.
- PVP = Competing for anything in RL.
And saddest part is: RL smashes virtual world.
Tried to imagine being a Gold hoarder in RL.
Ended up working for 16 hours a day, I feasted for several months on Domino’s Pizza, Ice cokes, Fish and Ships, Burgers.
Conclusion: WoW can never compete with RL.
What would you prefer ?
5 000 000 Gold or 250 pounds in your account ?
I would take the later.
Cheers.
I mean for 5mil you can buy the in game version of a lamborghini, what can you get for 250£? Maybe half of a suit. If we’re making comparisons of real life to ingame.
Food for thought
You can finance Wow subscription and play for fun not play to play for:
250£ / 9.99£ = 25 months
Also if we take in to cold analysis.
You probably would be better off working in RL for less hours and pay for boosts in Mithic +.
Would I do that ?
Hell no.
I like to keep the money in the bank.
Cheers.
WoW cant make me escape from my problems. My brain always think about other things when I play WoW. Im playing it on autopilot. The only thing that helps me is strong alcohol. I would use drugs too if they were easy to obtain.
I’m currently at the very end of my Masters degree and boy am I stressed! Especially with the way everything has been this year. WoW is my reward to myself when I’ve done a good amount of work during the day, it’s great to have a place I can look forward to being. And I’ve been levelling alts like mad!
I escape into WoW aswell. For the simple reason that my RL isnt even a life.
I have zero real friends and I have extreme social anxiety. As some others here I too was bullied in school, in fact, I was bullied throughout all of my school years. And as a result I cannot handle social situations today.
Been in therapy for this but just that hour talking to someone completly drains me of all energy.
In 2005 I was really down and very close to just end it all. Then I read about a new game that was suppose to be awesome, and it was!
So WoW have literally saved my life…
Im 40 years old, never had friends, jobs or even a relationship.
But I have World of Warcraft! And I LOVE it!
Btw… If ANY of you know a mage IRL that can portal me to SW, gimme a call!
I’ll jump into that in a blink!
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I use it to be lazy and waste away at the screen with minimal guilt. Since I’m “achieving” something kek
I can totally relate to this since i’m using it to escape everything now. Originally I started playing in Wotlk as a teenager and back then it was completely in to play wow because of it’s popularity. It’s actually the only expansion I played with all the content etc… I was around in cataclysm/pandaria (although that really made me quit), but not hardcore.
You know life is getting more serious, you start to settle, first job, ambitious. My life literally went from 100% free time to always work and be tired, life got more and more boring every year. Until this year I collapsed and was diagnosed with burn out and other mental disorders for which I suddenly need medication which is the only reason why i’m functioning now + therapist sessions.
Burn out means a lot of free time again so suddenly my days were completely empty and I started doing random real life things like walking/swimming/going to the store and than this f*ing pandemic appeared and the world has completely gone mad, my brother started playing wow again and I followed, which resulted in me getting cleared pretty much all I still could this expansion and honestly it really helped me.
Although some greens while playing makes it more relaxing, and you care less about the toxic community wow has become. It’s really as in real life, in wotlk we had jerks too but when I came back now I was really surprised which made me actually not become friends with anyone playing this game. People are verbally even worse in this game than irl.
In my first week I even had my family wished dead and I should have been tortured by some random player who really is just mad about a game xD
anyhow tl;dr : I do use it to escape this horrible time we’re living in.
It’s also really nice to read that this topic gets some serious replies
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I cant wait to use the PS5 and Cyberpunk 2077 to escape 
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