I wanted to ask you how do you manage your game time with everything else that happens in real life?
For me, if I play WoW, I would get lost in time and just basically not forget about everything, but rather devote much less time for needed things such as studying something on Udemy , or outright attend course lecture and put in on the background.
Not employed at the moment, just recently quit very toxic workplace as a live casino dealer. Loans are there, so want to get employed in the IT field, and making slow, baby steps progress along with my future fiance, to whom I am already engaged.
What about you guys, how do you manage to combine the two, and how successful you are in doing so ?
shadowlands made it very easy to manage time.
Barely log in anyways now.
when wow was good:
work > family > wow
when I was in my teens it was almost like
wow > school > whatever
certainly if there is new content or I try to push something I will devote slightly more time on it but I am better at control now so I will not skip the gym for 2h more game time or something. Just not worth it anymore since the game isn’t that great anymore, so good for me actually that they killed their own game
meaning I don’t have the time anymore to devote much into the game and thus I cannot get high stuff anymore, but that is fine, I know I could if I had the time (just from skill level)
I work from home permanently, so I have no commute taking up time. My husband plays WoW, so we can spend some of our “couple time” gaming. We raid, do m+ and do RBGs together.
Tbh we do play a lot and I want to tone it down going forward (I’m doing way too much on all my alts at the moment) but there’s not been a whole lot to do other than WoW because of lockdown! Soon (hopefully) we’ll be able to travel again and stuff like that.
So I’ll prioritise playing the characters I enjoy (warlock, druid, priest) and playing with friends. It’s not the end of the world if alt number 10 doesn’t go get souls from the Maw each week!
I have time management skills and know how to prioritise things
I have kids, one still fairly young, in school and one an adult and they come first. My youngest is quite fun and enjoys “helping” me play too so there is that.
WoW is a hobby, it’s there for downtime when the other stuff is taken care of.
WoW is a downtime hobby for me, which I manage when I have the time for it. I used to play a lot when I was younger (pre-uni/first year uni) but now it’s something I will maybe give 10 hours a week tops.
I am married (coming up to 8 years) and have two children whom are quite young (second starts school in sept, first already there). I work full-time as a lecturer and educational psychologist and occasionally do freelance ed psyche work some weekends. My wife also works full time, she occasionally dips into wow (has patterns) but has other gaming interests).
We always make sure that stuff like gaming (what we call “me” hobbies) never dominate too much. Since we’ve been together, we always have a “sacred day” which is just about spending the evening (when kids are down) with eachother doing something that doesn’t take our attention away from the other person. We often end up doing this kind of thing maybe 2-3 days a week.
Other evenings, we just both want to “zone out” after a hard day at work or with the kids, and we do in our respective ways, but we’re always talking during it for example.
My ability to manage goals in wow hasn;t changed…my attitude has. I could probably do more If I wanted to (like raid, climb higher keys quicker) but I just don’t want to focus on the game that much anymore. It’s something I like to jump into, then put down. I don’t want it to be “in my head” regarding an upcoming raid night or whatever.
Back when I had no commitments (and not a huge amount going on other than study) sure, I enjoyed the busyness, but now, not so much. The “weekly stuff” wow puts upon me is enough on my gaming “to-do” list without me adding stuff like raid attendance to it. This is why I favour M+, as it is much more accessible in this way whilst still being potentially challenging.
If they kicked torg up into a proper endgame mode, that’d be it for me, a challenging, progressing form of play that is completely on my clock would suit me perfectly. I’d still M+ a bit, but yeah, the solo would dominate for sure.
Must be cool having a significant other playing with you. My fiance is not against MMO, but she is more of a console or coop games person, mainly split screen. I do believe though she played Witcher 3 and TES games, but not a big fan of lore or anything that touches it. And wow for her is pretty much non existent.
How did it come to be, that you have started playing with your SO? What was the beginning for cool play together ?
And then, when we’d been together for about a year, his friend came to visit and, while I was in another room, his friend asked if I played WoW and he said “if she played, I’d propose tomorrow!” So the next day I downloaded the free trial I started playing and I loved it, even if at first it was frustrating to play together because he knew everything and I knew nothing, so I just ran behind him looting the things he’d killed.
Of course he didn’t propose the next day, but when he did finally get down on one knee it was at Blizzcon in front of the statue of Sylvanas!
That is an amazing love story, and quiet truly it’s hard not to show some love to the, if not the game, then to the universe its set it. It’s incredible love story, I ultra happy for you guys and I hope you will slaaaaaay all the baddies together forever
It was fairly similar for my wife’s introduction to WoW. I played similarly to how I do now (now and then) and she just became curious about what I was doing and why, and I shared. I did much the same for her and her gaming hobbies (she’s massively into Sims and does a lot of competition-tier stuff designing challenges for the community to complete, kinda like achievements as it were, as well as designing property mods etc that she uploads onto download sites).
Eventually she wanted to try, so I let her on my account at first, but I said “if you want to keep trying, you should have your own account” so she got one, I RAFed her (because I wanted the X2 rocket hahah) and from there she kinda did it on her own.
We don’t always play together beyond levelling alts etc, as we’re into very different content types. I’m into pvp a bit (when the mood takes) and I like M+, whereas she doesn’t like going into any form of competitive content without me being in the group, bless.
Although about a year or two ago she was levelling and had a dungeon quest and I said “i’m busy, i can’t help you right now” and she solo healed on a monk by herself which was huge for her (usually i’d tank in such a setup) and she was really chuffed (as was I). She’s now more prone to venturing into dungeons without me now but won’t touch M+ atm!
My main task is trying to get her to try something other than a hunter…quite happy to roll 10,000 hunters but she barely gives anything else a chance other than the aforementioned monk! But even then she still makes little discoveries which is cute. When fighting several mobs in SL a few months ago at once she was saying how tough it was and I replied “Just AOE them down” and I found out that this point despite playing Hunter as a class for nearly 3 years, she hadn’t bothered to figure out what multi-shot was for or when to use it!!! Was pretty hilarious seeing something as simple as cleaving mobs making her feel like a total boss hahaha.
The lesson was “always look in the spellbook and read the abilities carefully”. She’s much much better now she actually uses her toolkit!
I play when my 2 kids sleeping, if both of them i play the best :). mine Sleeping a bit sacrificed and it is quite a problem because i drive a lot…fortunately i dont have big plan for 9.1, and i am definitely a causal, i will play less and sleep more
For me it’s 2 extremes either I play a lot and ignore everything around me for that entire duration (usually ranging from 3 weeks to 2 month) or quit WoW and as a result have a lot of time outside the game. In that free time I read or do art
You both have ventured in the deep parts of Azeroth and got a chance to go in together. It’s quiet impressive that she decided to go for the healing monk, and man - that is an amazing class, with cool armors and to be honest - a monk is one of the coolest classes there is. Hunter is also quiet dope, but that multi shot thing was hilarious. It’s quiet unbelievably amazing that couples also can play these games together, personally though, in before when I was dating I was never able to disclose my true gamer / nnnnneerd side, but with my fiance I am able to do so, however she doesn’t play herself
My monk is main alt, but I’m not that into Hunters.
I spent too much of my life as a young man hiding my eccentric nature and nerdy side. Once I decided to pack it in and “let the chips fall” I found the love of my life.
Life is too short to wear a mask all the time. Not to mention most people are actually really perceptive and can tell when you’re not being genuine or “yourself” but how relaxed you come across.
Lol, you’d be surprised how many couples do play together actually.
I first started playing in 2010 via a friend but I didn’t really have the time to play back then and wasn’t really into the game so I abandoned it after a couple of months with one quick return about a year later for some course work then a few years later after meeting my husband and having a baby, on maternity leave and finding myself with a few spare hours in the evening I got an email from blizzard with some free game time so decided to give the game another try.
My husband saw me downloading it and said “I didn’t know you played wow, I used to love that game!” and he downloaded it too and we levelled some characters together, although I preferred wod pvp and he preferred raiding.
Maybe your fiance just doesn’t know what she’s missing Quality time with you, blood elves and/or vulpera…
and they come first. My youngest is quite fun and enjoys “helping” me play too so there is that.
I started playing and I loved it, even if at first it was frustrating to play together because he knew everything and I knew nothing, so I just ran behind him looting the things he’d killed.
It’s quiet unbelievably amazing that couples also can play these games together, personally though, in before when I was dating I was never able to disclose my true gamer / nnnnneerd side, but with my fiance I am able to do so, however she doesn’t play herself 