online gaming

[proverbs31woman]

Hey I was wondering if any of you have boyfriends/husbands/significant others who play online games.

My fiance has gotten really into World of Warcraft and I'm not sure what to think of it. Part of me feels like its just a harmless game, but lately he's been spending more and more time playing it - sometime many hours a night. He also plays with other men and women we don't even know until really late. :thinking

What do you ladies think? Should I say something to him about it? I don't want to stop him from doing something he loves, but its starting to really bother me. :idunno

[NewWorldOrder]

:thinking I'm a gamer, and I'm a lady. My husband also plays, but you do have to keep things in perspective. It is just a game, but, unfortunately, a lot of people would rather play in virtual life instead of deal with real life. We're playing Lord of the Rings Online, which is similar to WoW but no magic. WoW is very popular. We played it for a while, but got bored with it because there were too many immature people playing.

If you bug him about it, you'll just tick him off. If you feel he plays too much, then talk to him about it. He is your fiance, so this something you'll need to work out now, before the wedding.

[ninesixteen]

my husbands online gaming bothered me for a while, but I figured, if you can't beat em, join em. And now we play together.

[antsinmypants]

My DH is currently playing (off and on) Rappelz. His best friend is playing it as well on the German network, and World of Warcraft.

I really am uncomfortable with Wow... but I haven't really checked into Rappelz. At this point, imho if he's home and not neglecting other duties or getting into porn.. I'm ok... but if I start noticing changes or creepy stuff in the game.. we'll have to have a talk.

[Tenbear2808]

:tsk I game online

BUT I am lazy and play Toontown and Pirates of the Carribean by Disney. :hat

I did check out LOR but too much work for me :hehee

Tried Pirates of the Burning Sea made my head hurt cuz I had to remember stuff :rolleyes :heh

That's the extent of my experience and its left me - :gaah:monkd:hairout:bash

[Mopsie]

I was okay with it until my six year-old daughter pulled up a "Mario" game that someone had obviously constructed on their own featuring Mario blasting away critters with a shot-gun and blood spurtting everywhere. We have banned online gaming at our house.

[Holding Pattern]

My brother plays World of Warcraft too. It is ruining his marriage. Actually, his wife plays too but they play and the child ends up running amok. Also they will play from Friday night to Sunday night and then complain that the weekend is gone, the house is falling apart, and they're in debt.
Remember, these things cost $10-20 a month and if you have 2 accounts, that adds up to serious money over the course of a year. Money that could be used to pay off debts (commanded by God) or to help someone else in need (also commanded) or even at that, the time could be spent as a family in fellowship.
My husband is not into games, thankfully. I was for a while before we met and it took me several years to get over the "urge" it was almost as hard as quitting smoking.

[Betty]

I play alot of computer games, but I don't especially like the online ones. I like sims the best.

[TravisandJill]

well I play on xbox live, which is online through the television. Pretty fun!

[iwillnotstumble]

hey sorry girls for being in here but i thought i would throw my 2 cents in (seen online gaming and thought i would take a peek). I was grossly addicted to WoW for 2 years and tried on and off again to quit i wish i never would have picked the game up to be honest, if you look at wowdetox.com it actually has testimonials of people being addicted to WoW ............... they are on post 26511 right now as im typing just to show you how wide spread the addiction can get and how bad it can be.

The thing with playing WoW was that it was an escape from all the problems and you have fun doing it. You socialize with other people from all over the world so it starts to develop into online friendships with people who also are addicted to the game with you (its worse if you and this friend are leveling at the same time). As you continue you get more and more powerful...... if you couldn't get pasted a dungeon when you were level 20 at level 40 you can breeze through it, and it gives you a sense of accomplishment. Also theres quests where you go out to complete an objective for an npc (non-player character) and get rewarded for your accomplishments (a friend who was also addicted said "thats a lot better then real-life where I do something good I'm lucky if i get a thanks").

The sad thing is this wasn't my first video game addiction the first one was guildwars which was a free mmorpg (mass multiplayer online role playing game) these games are meant to be addictive they want you to continue to play and waste away your life. They always add new content so you can never truly complete the game (im a perfectionist so i strived to get everything done). And all you do is waste valuable time for what? virtual pride ughhhhh if only i could have travelled back in time to slap myself upside my head and said " don't play WoW, the Lord helped you through guildwars now your playing another game like it".

And you know what i remember writing a testimony about online rpg addictions and about my guildwars addiction ( i think it was on the old forums :ohno ) and specifically remember saying i want to try WoW and someone said in bold and capital writing "DON'T DO IT YOU'll GET ADDICTED AGAIN" and i remember thinking that the Lord was speaking through him............. but me being ...... me.... i had to find out the hard way. And sure enough he was right.
Proverbs31woman pray to the Lord for guidance and just be honest with him, even show him the testimonials of some people on that wowdetox.com and ask him to earnestly pray to God about this to find out what we say is true tell him I love him and don't want to see him go through the same stuff i did, and i know the Lord doesn't want it either. YBIC John