Story 1
"I am 14 and im a freakin addict...my parents seem to care but never try to kick me off or even try to help. i have 2 lvl 70's one that is full t6 and other full t5. thus i have no life i can't even imagine what i would do if i deleted my toons. I really want to quit but i can't. I mean this [expletive deleted] game is controlling me and i can't stop. i have almost deleted my toons but i'm afraid i'll just start up another one."
Story 2
"WOW addiction is no joke. I started to play because cousins and friends played (who are by the way all overweight). At first all I did was play WoW once or twice a day for lets say 2-3 hours. Then out of the blue my cousin stopped playing because he said he was addicted to WoW so he gave me his 70 (rogue). Well after that I was on 6-10 hours a day. I ignored my friends went from working out 4 times a week to twice. I would cuse people who asked me to get off. In the end though I relised by playing WoW I was just supporting big business. Also, why waste money, time with friends for a game? I know people who would be a lot better off without WoW. I just want to try to get all the money I have invested into it back so I am going to sell the (rogue)....."
Story 3
The creator of the Web site, Gary Haran, started it up after quitting Warcraft himself. He said that many of his online friends confided that they, too, wanted to quit but didn't have an outlet for expressing those feelings. "So I created wowdetox.com so that anyone could anonymously write their reasons for quitting the game," wrote Haran. "The first day I had about 20 posts. The second I had 400. The third I had over 900." The site was up to 20,000 posts by the time he sold it several months later. That's a lot of people with a serious problem.
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