Whats the worst case of video game addiction you've ever had?

Whats the worst case of video game addiction you've ever had?

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I never get addicted to anything, i wish i could get into a game so much that i get addicted to it but it never happens
I feel like i'm missing out on something

It's called growing up, OP is probably about people's youth

I'm only 18 though

Multiplayer FPS, I can never seem to stop, not completely

none. more of a media/internet addiction than anything, only because there's nothing else to do

My ongoing addiction to actually git gud

>Bathroom, Bathroom

WoW was definitely one of those games I was addicted to when I was in my teens

My porn addiction and video game addiction combined together and now I'm living in a hell of jacking off all day to porn games with no desire to play normal vidya

WoW
now its PSN trophies

When I was 15-17, I got addicted to PSO. I dropped out of school and it was a bitch re-acclimating myself once my addiction ended. I was constantly rotating between parties, either just playing or chatting. Almost never logged off except for maybe 2-3 hours a day for sleep and would just AFK for fifteen minutes a few times for food. I didn't mind being a NEET while it was going on, but someone I knew in the game and real life committed suicide in front of me because his life went to shit for the same reason. Stopped regularly playing after it happened.

My posture is totally fucked up. Thanks Gameboy.
Other than that I never got addicted to an actual game that I'd only play it exclusively or in excess.

star craft.
i still need to never touch anything about it again. hd, sequels, the original, none of it

i cannot go back to those days. i was too good and it almost killed me

My friend was DEEP into WoW back in the game's early days. The computer he played it on ended up breaking, and he had to go cold turkey on the game. He had no money to buy a new, so had to tough it out. He has later admitted that the computer breaking was probably what saved his education. He told us how it was almost like coming of off drugs. He used to play so many hours each day, and suddenly he couldn't anymore. He said it was almost like he got the shakes.

>tf

I once met a guy who was a professional skateboarder but quit because he got addicted to WoW and couldn't be bothered anymore.

I saw his room once, it was absolutely covered in empty bottles of soft drink and empty chocolate boxes and wrappings, I had never encountered anything quite like it before or since.

But how can you get addicted to PSO? I love this game but the end-game content was poor, right?

A mixture of not actually playing, but chatting with other players; the real world wasn't as fun to me; I have a grinding addiction; etc. I would spend days trying to get some sort of rare drop "just so I could have it".

I don't blame the game at all, but WoW has ruined so many futures. Addict personalities are not fun.

Consider yourself fortunate you don't have an en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addictive_personality

>committed suicide in front of me
Jesus Christ

WoW, played non stop for like 3-4 years. Now I can't get addicted to shit and I can't tell if its just me that's changed or games in general.

There is no way PSO had enough grinding content to satisfy your 2 years addiction.

How long have you been at it for? Any progress?

Once played Runescape for 24+ hours.
I came to my senses at some point and immediately stopped, never played it again.

I was legit addicted to Pokemon as a teen, so much so I had withdrawal once from not playing it for a few days.

I stopped after I finished the Pearl pokedex, playing and trading from 8 different games to finish it was what killed my desire to ever revisit the series.

Call of Duty

>committed suicide in front of me

What?

It was only "in front of me" in the loosest definition of the word. We met at the top of a building one night (he asked me over for a few drinks). We drank a little, talked, had a few laughs, etc. After a few hours, I got tired and left. After I exited the building I heard something, turned around, and saw my friend jump off the building and die. He probably thought I had already left since it was dark.

This is the game with end-game bosses with 1/20880 drop rates, nigger could play for years

>I have a grinding addiction; etc. I would spend days trying to get some sort of rare drop "just so I could have it".
This was me with Diablo 2 back around 02 to 04. Smoke a bowl or 3, maybe some vicodin, maybe some adderall, maybe some vicodin and adderall and just zone out and do hell Baal runs over and over and over again. I played Team Fortress Classic back then as well and would do the same thing before matches, or just fuck around in pubs all day while high. With WoW too when it came out, minus the pills. Thankfully I've kicked my drug and game addictions since I had to grow the fuck up in order to not be homeless.

Probably TF2 during my high school years. Played too much of it and in hindsight should have focused lot more on studying.

My worst addiction is Sup Forums itself. Even though I'm an autumn 2010 newfag, I honestly think that I've spent more time on Sup Forums than on video games. There's been a lot of times where I would spend all day on Sup Forums, or spend all night on Sup Forums and fall asleep at 7 AM. I'm not sure why I keep coming here, this place was way more fun in 2011.

>mfw I'm not good enough at video games to get addicted to them so I've become addicted to slouching in my chair and watching Youtube videos like a vegetable instead

what the fuck

Internet addiction hivemind.

>tfw over a physical year of time spent on WoW
I still don't know if it was worth it.

shit

>heard something
>it's not a splat
>or a "here we goooooooo!"
0/10, didnt happen

>BING BING
>WAHOOO
>ONE DOWN

I played Persona 5 for 8 hours a day the entire month after the game came out. Also, Runescape in general over the course of many years.

You have no idea how bad it can get, my dude.
I knew a guy who was nearing 1000 days /played in Cataclysm. Roughly 3 years spent on WoW over a 7 year time period.

Sure, you didn't gain any skills from it, but at least you had fun. Besides, most hobbies don't give you any skills anyway, what matters if you're responsible outside of your time spent on it.

Destiny, I’m not proud of it but that game got 3 years of my life

>I saw his room once, it was absolutely covered in empty bottles of soft drink and empty chocolate boxes and wrappings
gotta be honest, that sounds like it would be par for the course for a "professional skateboarder".

Runescape almost made me fail my collrge freshman year

d2 for like 7 years.
probably put in 10-20k hours.
only quit after account was hacked and everything valuable was stolen, happy d3 was such shit because id have played that for the past 5 years

When I first got XCOM EU I spent the literal entire weekend playing it, only stopping when I fell asleep in my chair. I've never played an MMO, so I don't have any experience with really crippling long term shit.

Not that bad desu. Sure you played a shit game for three years but unless you legitimately played that game for three years for longer than 6 hours a day, you ended up okay. If you played for longer than 6 hours a day you need not reply, we will already know you're retarded.

>Have backlog of literally hundreds of games, due to me buying lots of cheap stuff from second hand shops and Steam sales
>Keep pissing away all my time on Sup Forums and YouTube

WoW
So, pic related

>unironically using the term "backlog" when referring to something that is supposed to be an enjoyable hobby
kys

Only the raids when they came out made me no life it but I played it everyday for 2 to 3 hours up to Rise of Iron. I learned my lesson but I’m still retarded

I have 96 platinum trophies and I don't think I'm going to stop with this autistic shit anytime soon.

trying too hard.

Haven and Hearth. After my only gf broke up with me I became a hermit and played it all day and night for months until I needed to work. Just me alone in the virtual wilderness, too much of a pussy to do it IRL though.

Since 2009
Still not making a dent in any pro scene, but better than the average player

You have a frivolous spending problem because you can/think it'll fill a void. Just accept you'll never play games the same as you once did and you'll feel better.

Did you get hacked right when they implemented ladders? Right around that time was when they let you register email with them in case you lost your password, and if someone made an account on the asia server with the same name as your useast or uswest account; there was a bug where they could register their email on asia and get your US password emailed to them. Lost my lvl 80+ hc zealadin who was like top 20 on the ladder that way... quit after support said they wouldn't restore my character.

Okay my bad.
Thanks for letting me know

FFXI. I played that shit on and off from 2005 to 2015. When I was in college (2006-2009) I would cancel plans with friends and my girlfriend just to play that shit. My grades went to shit too. The people I met in that game just got me you know? The bonds I created in that game cannot be replicated. I still talk to a few of them!

My worst time was when I was 16. I was raiding in WoW 3 days a week, and we were doing surprisingly well.

I just applied for a job washing dishes at a restaurant nearby, and I went in for my first shift.

I was ready to tell them what days I could work, so I could work around my raiding schedule. When I got there, they'd already booked me in for FIVE days, all my raiding days.

I walked out before the shift had even finished, went home, and played WoW

Good memory

Don't feel too bad, we all get got sometimes.

Pokemon and animal crossing during the summer when I was in middle school.
Had nothing better to do since a kid could barely go anywhere on their own.

I mainly collect PS2 games (I have a shitty laptop that can't do PS2 emulation), and I feel like it's a compulsion for me to "complete" my collection, by getting every game that's worth playing.

I have almost 300 days played on Runescape, during late highschool I was spending between 6 and 10 hours a day on it.

nah, pretty sure it was a maphack with a keylogger built in. this was a while after they started doing ladders.

This thread got me thinking about my oldest wow char that'll be 13 years old in December. Just did a /played on him and he only has 95 days 11 hours... which isn't nearly as bad as I was expecting.

It's cool you collect those games. Just play them if you want, or be cool with collecting them rather than playing them. Sure it's a huge library but I believe you can have fun.

>tfw this is just one character
post 'em

I'm playing video games in all my free time since I was 8 or 9. I love video games. Real life is uninteresting and nobody likes me. Video games are great. I can do things and the characters like me. Every day I do the bare minimum (first at school and now at work) and daydream about what will I play today. Then I go home, I stuff myself and play until I fall asleep. I like many different games, sports and racing not so much. My only regret is this will eventually come to an end and I have to kill myself. I bet people keep making great games in the future and I can't experience them. This makes me sad.

I'm 34 now.

Was addicted to Minecraft back in high school, beta 1.8. Used it as pretty extreme procrastination causing me to fail my first maths assignment.

Also procrastinated with CS: GO through uni, first foray into light alcoholism was also getting drunk every night after hospitality job and playing CS through until 3-4am.

Then when I really got depressed, I did pretty much nothing but play AC: Rogue for a solid few weeks (and other games for weeks before and after, but that was the main feature).

spent almost every hour in one week playing Conan Exiles a little while after it's release. Kept on for the next few weeks too but not nearly as much time since I was back at work. Hadn't played any of those kinds of games before so it's probably why I got so hooked, but I've never been so absolutely involved in a game world like that. Starting fresh alongside everyone else in the server, finding a good place to set up base while making relations with the neighbors and learning from the global chat who to watch out for and who to side with, all while exploring the world and getting stronger and better equipped to fend off a raid or explore the more dangerous areas, I felt like a goddamn pioneer. Every time I was away from the computer I was worrying that people were getting an advantage of time over me. Eventually I got burnt out after taking too many losses and getting sick of the people in my clan so I called it quits and haven't returned since. I don't think any vidya experience has matched up to that.

>I have to kill myself
Why tho?

Currently Dark souls 2. I’m not even very good at it, but the adrenaline of a boss fight gets me feeling alright

When I was an edgy14 year old, I was obsessed with counter Strike source and my neighbor was watching my sisters and I while my parents were away. My neighbor came over and told me to let my sister use the pc (I took several days of school off to play css). I turned around and yelled "fuck off ". Lmao I was such a piece of shit back then.

>dodged WoW years ago because parents moved house 5 streets away with the shittest internet
christ, that would've sucked the shit out of me

Used to put Adderall up my ass to get really high and play vidya in binges that would last days. Would barely eat, no sleep. This was a regular occurrence for a couple years, not sure how I didn't die in all honesty

What game?

Closest thing to addiction was just when I do a civ game wanting to see it through to completion. Only did it when I was able to pull that off (NEETdom or semi NEETdom).

Thankfully whenever I have real shit to deal with I don't sacrifice the obligations for vidya. I guess to an extent I did with warband beta in 2010 at college but that was more because I was a lazy fuck and I hated that university so I'd skip class rather than go the mile or so to class (or take the bus).

At the uni I transferred to (which freaked out at how my GPA went from 4.0 at the first uni to 2. something at the second I spent a semester at) I wasn't a lazy cunt though.

The only reason I can keep gaming is because I live with my mom. As you may guessed playing all in my life seriously restrict my job opportunities and my health issues started to pile up after I hit 30. When my mom dies (btw she has cancer so I can't even hope much) I won't have enough money to support myself but even if I could make it somehow I won't have time to play.

I don't see any reason to live without video games.

I've been playing taiko for the past 6 hours and I have a final tomorrow.

TF2 and Maplestory both
I've spent most of my free time playing all kinds of private servers for Maplestory
outside of gameplay including games, habbo hotel also took alot of my time I should've spent with outside-friends

Never been truly "addicted" to something. I can get really interested in something and play it extensively for days or even weeks, but then I'll just stop, and it never, at any point, ever comes close to dictating anything in my life (not that I can do anything anyway without legs).

Biggest "addiction" I guess would be halo 3. I played it day in day out for months when I was still in school, stayed up late, though it never affected my grades. Custom game modes (zombie stuff was my favorite) were great. So was crashing people's 360s by dumping dozens of explosive crates in a pile and setting them off and force quitting the app before I crashed.

What a waste of life you are.

Strangely, I am weak to some kind of things, like World of Warcraft, modding Fallout and now working on Warcraft-related wikis, but i've ever been addicted to gambling or multiplayer games

I conquered about 80% of the world in Crusader Kings 2 with my Saxony "Adolf Hitler" Dynasty playthrough. That was a couple hundred hours.

Sims2 and Civ5 were two games that once I realized I was playing them from sun up until sundown without noticing that I hadn't eaten, I just uninstalled them and never went back.

Same, this was when WoW had just come out. I would play free mmo's beforehand and my dad asked if he could run around and kill things with my character, then he bought WoW and became a worst addict than I was, and I was pretty hooked. He only stopped because abruptly he couldn't anymore after a brain infarct and heart attack. He played for I think close to 10 years.

A enjoyable case?

I had no idea what valve or team fortress was. Come release of the orange box I picked it up for the 360 (Was playing FPS on console at the time whatev)

I just got super absorbed into it and for months I'd just play and play and play. PC updates kept happening and even as the community shrunk everyone was super friendly and excited about getting new weapons/maps (lol). One of the best online communities I've ever seen.

Not in a good way? Overwatches lootboxes taught me I have a serious problem and addictive personality. I managed to break myself away but I'm a shitlord who actually bought boxes because the rush got to me. Now that all games are trying to do it to nickle and dime me I'm starting to consider another hobby.

When I was addicted to ffxiv and rmt'd above 1k+ over time

user :c

World of Warcraft.
Didn't destroy my life or anything, but I missed out on getting laid till after I dropped the game. Chick in our group of friends was attracted to me, wanted me to go with the group to see a movie, told her I had a raid that night. I took it as I had a prior engagement, she took it as me blowing her specifically off, so she stopped dropping hints that she was attracted.

My dad's addiction is what cured me of playing WoW myself, growing up in my teens all he talks about was WoW when he was off the computer. The pc was in a small room upstairs and my dad would stand next to you for 10-15 min saying nothing to see what you were doing and if you were playing, I had a massive fight once cause I was doing my bank payments and he was standing there and he almost threw with some plates. For 10 years my mother would be sitting downstairs alone every evening, I felt bad for her for a long time, whenever they fought he would be yelling that he was going to throw the pc out the window. If he got home he would be downstairs for 15 min, grab a beer and head upstairs till diner was made and if he had to do it then it would be minimal effort but he'd be super nice just so he could go upstairs. He also said he thought selling things and checking AH was not actually 'playing the game'. He also never raided, merely grinded and did dungeons.

League of Legens or Dota before that.
All my friends were hooked on wow.

5 hours of lol a day in high school. Destroyed my gpa and didnt learn jack shit. Now Im a retailcuck

secondlife

i think i finally dropped it today though someone wanted me to fill out a notecard that was basically a long checklist and i just didnt want to

Wow that's rough, sorry about that user.

Nigga there's a fuckton of things to hunt once you reach ultimate level.

Some people go in full autismo mode and do the same quest over and over for months just for a single item.