I'm Mike, and i'm addicted to WoW. Sonofzeus(80 human lock on frostmane).

I play every night with my gf. She is also now addicted after introducing the game to her. Theola (71 lock frostmane).

The game world is continuous so you feel like you are always missing out on getting gear while the other guys get ahead. The game mechanics are addictive and there are several ties to the real world like extreme competitiveness, learning how to work as a team, working for reputation and respect, learning how to manage resources and money, learning how to prioritize things and create goals to work towards, etc. If you're young, you can choose to learn from these things and apply them to the real world, or you can let it overtake you. In ways it could be a learning tool, unless you let things get out of hand.

Well, back to my desktop pc, because that's where the action is!

i have played all the warcraft games and followed the lore. it is quite an excellent storyline. the game kinda bores me but my wife likes it so i play. if you listen to the spirit healer it is obvious that there is a barely discernable message there. but its not in english and it is different depending on where you die. some places you cant even hear it (like netherstorm)

I have noticed while playing around the thunder ridge or whatever around Orgrimar, that the rocks and such form vague pornographic images if looked at in a certain angle.

I have quit playing though, otherwise I'd attach some various screenshot that I used to have that point out all the subliminal #.

i'm not too worried about sublminals. where i get wracked outta shape is the obvious brokeness of some aspects of WoW. such as the fact alliance can't pvp for a crap till like 80. that means you have to wait till then to do all your battleground achievements or live in bgs nine hours a day for the next 2 years to get all the achievements (exalted at 10 honor pts a battle and 1 mark a battle ... should take a couple years to finish just THAT!) this means we who play allies are paying for a game that is only half available to us as a group in a battleground. not gonna happen. 3 years of WoW just went down the shooter. they shoulda never added battlegrounds to achievements. big mistake

i did the math.
you would have to do 7 wsgs, every day, non-stop,
to have 12 wins in a month, provided your ally group won that often. (i've seen it go upwards of 2 weeks without a single ally wsg win). the achievement for wsg alone is 100 wsg wins. it would take in the vicinity of nine months, playing every day, 7 wsgs, to make the 100 wins, and that's again, contingent on whether the 1 win in 14 games was consistent. (it's more likely to be 1 win in about 50 during the day and evening hours and 1 win in 14 in the early morning hours. so theoretically, about 2 years to finish just that achievement. but the story doesn't end there because there's also the rest of the battlegrounds and their achievements. since you can't possibly be on the game 24 hours a day for 2 years, you'll never be able to finish the battleground achievements as an ally before blizzard has shelved the current WoW for a newer version of itself.

long story short: allies will not be able to finish the achievements so there's really no logical reason to have battlegrounds on the alliance achievements list. can you spell BROKEN?)


of course, i'm one of those players who likes to finish things as she levels. levelling cooking, levelling fishing, levelling trade skills, getting achievements like fully exploring the areas where i'm currently levelling, etc. So naturally, it seems only logical to also get the achievements for the lowest level battlegrounds. Yeah, it may be logical, but pain is not something I enjoy.

So long Blizz.

[edit on 13-1-2009 by undo]

I've been playing WoW since a month after release (I didn't play in BETA) and have never noticed this but I'm not saying it's not there. Maybe I'll notice it now . Anyway as far as the addiction goes, yes, it is addictive but what I've had to do is take breaks about a month long here and there. I'm on one of those now as a matter of fact and truth be told I'm not sure when I'll start playing again. Still, for some reason, I just can't bring myself to cancel my account because that would mean deleting my favorite toon - my beautiful mage.... which of course means I'm paying $15/mo. to just hold her there. I think that's part of the strategy Blizzard uses - get people to invest years of their lives in developing a toon then they'll never have the courage to cancel their account. I'm afraid they've got me hooked for that reason alone.

By the way, that second video in the OP was ridiculous! Mom crying about her baby boy being addicted and violent yet she hasn't cancelled the account or disconnected the DSL???? Pleaaseeee.... give me a break!

This is coincidental with the sounds. You have to understand that a LOT of people that play World of Warcraft dont speak English as a first language.

Ooooh maybe the other voices say stuff in other languages ooooh?

Regarding the addictive nature of the game - Our human brain has "do it again circles" built in to it by nature. We will do things that we like, again and again, and nothing will stop us or deter us.

There is nothing wrong with 10million people liking a game so much that they spend $100 a month on it.

There are some people who like DRUGS and SEX a lot they spend nearly $500 a month on it.

At least Blizzard does something good with the money and developed STARCRAFT 2 !!!!!! =) =) ^_^

Ofcourse it's a conspiracy...

A conspiracy to waste your life and take your money!

Not so perfect done.

Sub message need 2 trigers to make it work. You can listen this 5.000 times a week and cant work without 2nd triger.

So what is the 2nd triger in the game to activate subliminal before/after anchor?

Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
I played wow for about 2 years, and quit about three weeks ago. I began to suspect subliminal messaging when i ended up having about 8 wow related dreams since i quit. All of the dreams focused on me reactivating my account.

That just means you've played too much WoW.
I've read a number of Question comics, and am in a sense almost "addicted" to the character, not because of subliminal messaging, but because I really like the story. Heck, I've even made my own mask. I've already had several dreams where I either am the Question's sidekick, or I take on the mantle of the Question. Should I sue DC for "subliminal messaging"? or simply acknowledge that it was a dream affected by certain circumstances? and not consider it to be some kind of hypnosis? (which is what subliminal messaging is in essence)