World of Warcraft and other online role playing games
Since February 2005 there has been with us the online role playing game "World of Warcraft" or just WoW and still it attracts millions of people every day in his spell. But what this is really wow and what is the fascination? Again and again, one reads from the high addictive potential of this game is what it all about? My child is playing World of Warcraft, I have to worry?
To these and other questions I would like the following article elaborate.
What are online role playing games?
A MMORPG or Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game is in German as much as: "Thousands of players play with each other on the Internet a game in which they take on a specific role." How to play such as a dwarf hunter, and with his tame brown bears his crossbow roams covered valleys and dark mines or a green-skinned orc warrior a sword and shield in every battle in the front row.
All this runs a bit like it used to play Cowboys and Indians from her knows. You find yourself in groups, talking to each other and then go together in search of the next adventure. Just stop now before the computer screen, inside, without moving great.
I know the whole thing is hard to imagine if you have not seen it myself. Imagine, they control a puppet with a toy in the countryside there are many other puppets that are controlled by other people, and more puppets that are controlled by a computer.
What is the appeal of WoW?
World of Warcraft is not the only role-playing game, but probably the most popular. But wherein lies the charm sometimes thousands of hours in a game like to invest? Maybe it's the colorful cartoon world that conjures the players despite the ongoing conflict in an ideal world. Or is it the search of adventure that drives many. To make the possibility his piece as you like (at least in part), can make physical defects in the real world betting and of course there is also the recognition by other players, if you have found a very special armor or built a specific title has that binds many long nights in front of the monitor.
How much does WoW?
WoW costs, like many other online role-playing games as well, depending on length of subscription booked between 10.99 euros and 12.99 euros per month. Of course you have to buy the game once before and also still the expansion packs. Thus, it is actually done, but you can for World of Warcraft still spend a lot more money. Companies in China have specialized in "farming" game to collect money to speak and sell for real money, but also the manufacturers themselves sell game items such as virtual pets and make them millions. You are now wondering why you should certainly spend on something like a virtual pet for real money, right? Simply to be able to brag to his friends.
There are also numerous other merchandise for which one can spend his money. Getting into the game world is also free. One can allude the game for a limited period in order to continue playing but must buy the game and take out a subscription. Did your parents you actually taught that strangers should not accept free candy?
Suchtpotiential of World of Warcraft
We come to the addictive nature of WoW and the reasons thereof. I myself have played WoW for some time and can therefore report at first hand what is going on in this fantasy world.
To take advantage of your question first, no, I was not hooked. Although I have spent too much time with the
wow gold game, but when I saw it all I got bored and I have canceled my subscription. Although I am once again after some time turned back to see what has changed, but then I stopped after a short time to play and miss it either. I am working on the assumption that I am not alone and you can say, therefore, that this game is not necessarily addictive.
But let's get to the things that some players bring to all their (free) time in the game to spend. Life in a fantasy world is very simple and makes you forget the harsh reality ever. "Stress at school? No matter. Computer on and off in the world of Warcraft. Since I can be a hero and get the recognition I deserve! "Thinks because some people. But it is not always escape from reality, and the peer pressure plays a big role. By connecting to an association called the game guild, you have the obligation to participate sometimes certain group events. Since it may be that you are traveling in a solid group of adventurers, in which one has its place, but that is given to another, if you frequently missing.
It may also happen that you are in a group of friends traveling with you have to keep up. The characters in WoW have different levels or stages. Vary the levels too high, group members start little with each other, because the game is too easy then for the other or is too heavy. So if you have a group of friends that much time on them to get ahead in the game you are practically forced to invest as much time, so you can keep up. Currently, there are 90 extensions with all levels of experience and sometimes it takes months to the highest level you have reached.
The manufacturers publish always new items which are more difficult to get and use so the collecting passion of many players. Some people does not hesitate at a crowded marketplace in one of the main cities in the game and can be admired from the
wow gold players his clothes, which he has culled several hundred hours of work.
You will now probably think I would have devoted myself. I did not. I have more than one friend who actually had only several weeks to get engaged in a certain defense and that five or six hours a day.
Social impacts
Anyone who spends a lot of time in front of the computer accordingly less time for other things like his friends or the boyfriend or girlfriend. Many Internet forums are full of cries for help with a similar wording such as this: "My friend gambles only WoW and has no time for me, what should I do?". I do not want to know just how many relationships has this game on his conscience.
The players look for a new circle of friends in the game, the real-life friends are no longer interesting. It has also no longer an issue, could you talk about that when the friends do not play the same game.
When you only have this game in my head, it can obviously be very good, that the school grades deteriorate dramatically. I also have known several cases of students who have left their teaching for the benefit of the game. Even some of my fellow students have a semester "sacrificed" to spend more time in the game.
For some it goes so far that they even put no value on hygiene and appearance more. Why showers? Through the Internet line will not transfer odors and the other only see my character, what makes it so what I look like? Are probably the thoughts of these players.
