“I Finally Quit WoW After 5 Years & 24,000 Hours”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jul 12, 2010 06:26 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Blizzard, Hikikomori, MMORPG, Otaku, Video Gallery, World of Warcraft
The video of the moment a World of Warcraft maniac, who professes to having spent 5 of his 34 years and 24,000 hours of his life playing the hit MMORPG, finally breaks his crippling addiction and deletes his army of alts has recently been attracting a great deal of comment.
The video:
Player 1
Having spent 13 hours a day playing the game for the past 5 years it is little wonder he has no friends.
Although his deleted characters will probably be kept in perpetuity by Blizzard as a means of hopefully luring him back, his items at least are likely gone forever.









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"Having spent 13 hours a day playing the game for the past 5 years it is little wonder he has no friends."
I guess he's a virgin.
there is all ways prostitutes so he may have not been a virgin.
don't forget cyber-sex! hot elven action in that game, eh?
Thumbs up for the guy! Little people have this much courage.
Now he can concentrate all the attention on playing IRL, where his character is still around Lv 1.
true, i don't know what makes him change but wanted to know...XD
not that i need it though...
Honestly... 24000 hours and he doesn't have an army of level 80s with a horde of over 9000 gold... this guy not only wasted his time but did it poorly =/ I played this game for 4 months; in that time I made a level 80 and got it to max gear end game level before selling my account; (before the Holy Paladin nerfs after patch :3)... WoW is boring and meticulous. Can't imagine what you can do with 24,000 hours and not be overly maxed in 1 character...
@Mercenary_guy: There's a high probability that it's love or a crush :) . These things are mostly the biggest drives for a human.
Why the god bless america part in his statement? What good have america done to anyone?
@ 22:49
Did you play in beta? I think not.
4months to end game is slow even nowadays, pre-BC was where we all spent time, that place was ever so lovely, and not as rotted and easy as the shit they have now.
judging by the gay song, he probably doesnt even know what sex is...
Well the songs name is Good life (waking up), so maybe he saw some connection..
You're missing the point. At least he has the guts to right the wrongs he has committed.
What an attention whore, "hurr durr i'll delete my toons and make a video so I can get people from all over saying grats to me"?
Pft, pathetic, just quit it if you want to, or be actually smart and sell it for real life money, go crave for attention somewhere else.
Also, his toons have no gear or titles in this video, was probably a bad player or he is lying about the 5 years he played on this account.
there are some people like me who just never raid. i hate the idea of raiding, and most community guild point system are completely fucked.
i happily play any mmo at the top end of the solo and group ranks, but i will never break into raid.
for playing that much he has pretty craptastic charackters, syndrom of playalot and suckalot
He dedicates a portion of the video to showing how he liquidates a character. I assume that's why his other characters that he deleted are poorly geared or naked.
Aww I wanted to see him at least uninstall the game and snap the disc(s) into pieces.
Anonymous
08:26
have you ever played an mmo and not made friends, who will stick with you throughout the game?
i usualy never do. once you break passed the low level areas and start hitting mid endgame group, you need friends or else you are fucked.
i have at some points waited over 7 hours to find a group, and this is when i was close to the top player on my server, and than the groups i got, i could solo the shit they wanted to kill.
most of the time in a mmo i only play characters up to 3/4 the way, than quit and make a new character and build it up 3/4 the way. the only time i ever go farther than that is when the characters i make are extremely solo friendly.
ive played less than him, have 4 80s decently geared and still have a life outside of wow, he simply just is doing it wrong and is a baddie.
I played Wow for 3 years and quit playing after raiding and PVP wasn't fun anymore what so diffrent?
Everyone, he is clearly almost undoubtedly as bad of a player as alidan if not worse, if you notice, he has the basic WoW UI on his main characters. I'm not saying not having mods means you're bad...but, it sorta does.
Also when you've played for 24,000 hours you'd think he'd at least have more than one 80, you can play like 20 days and have two 80s, and all of the bad alts that he has.
On another note, either he is terribly at math or he's good at making typos, with the results being: he played 100 days or he in fact did play 1000 days, respectively.
"Over 24,000 hours (100 days) spent playing"
Based on how terrible his account is I'm guessing he has only played 100 days, not 1000, and I'm also going to guess that numbers with more than 3 digits confuse him, so he added an extra 0 on 2,400 hours (100 days = no big deal for most WoW players).
Mmmm is it really that strange to have only the one level capped character?
I played off and on for 2-3 years and only had the one level capped character. I didn't much care to have any others tbh
Then again I did level several a new toon to be my main whenever I didn't feel like paying the extra few dollars just to do a server transfer, but they were normally all of the same class anyways.
anyways bravo!
He suxx in WoW that is why he quit...
Nough said.
There's always sceptical fucktards like the most of the comments on this site and if not it's about sex.
@basilio
Indeed...It takes guts to quite an addiction...
Smoking...
Drinking...
Drugs...
Video Games...
A little bit is enough but if you do a lot of those and spend the majority of the day wasting away...Well, you can look in the mirror and see the results...
It indeed takes guts...And the will to move on...
Although I don't think I'll be quitting being a Hentai Archivist and Touhou Futa-Doujin Commissioner anytime soon...
Someone has to do it...For the horde~
At least he quit... Lets just hope its not temporary~
You're right basillo, he's on the good way.
I, for one, applaud him.
I know first hand how hard it is to let go of MMOs after devoting thousands of hours on them.
Quitting is definitely the first step.
The first step is actually to know why you're quitting. If you just quit without purpose, you'll go right back to it.
Wow that's funny I played one MMO for a year for like 2 hours a day got tired of it all and stopped.
Same, that's but my reason is because perfect world is bloody boring and WoW requires a monthly fee.
If i did pay for WoW i'll be hooked.
Getting tired of an MMO is a legitimate reason to quit. I don't see why you think it's "funny".
Well, he was mentioned to be 34 years old. There is that 1-29 range he could've lost it.
@Mizonre
he may have been just saving himself for his one true love. ;)
i thought girls liked that sort of sentimentality...
We wish.
someone should introduce him to anime and the wonderful world of 2D and DFC :)
@Artefact: You know the dude who made this is a dumbshit who doesn't know math and typo'd 24,000 hours, right? It's 100 days played (2,400 hours, not 24,000). Then again, considering you did the math to figure out how long he played vs how long WoW's been out to know that it's roughly 13-14 hours a day shows that you probably do know this and you're just fishing for hits (and probably why you rehosted it so no one could go to the YouTube video). Way to sensationalize the fuck out of something that is basically some dumb casual WoW player deleting his acct. No different than the other million videos just like it on YouTube.
Some idiot makes a typo and all of a sudden this is national news. God, people are fucking retarded. Nothing against Sk. I'm just tired of seeing this same bullshit story on every gaming site across the web because people don't know how to spot a typo.
Yeah, wondered after actually watching the vid too.
My main from lvl60 days got 103days played (didnt play him much since Burning Cruased). I have 9 80s right now and 470days played...
5years*365days*24hours=23725hours
I dont believe someone plays 13hours a day for 1825days...
And damn SC can get slow if it comes to posting.
Why're you assholes rating this guy down? Everything he's saying is 100% true...
Definitive source either way? I'm going off what was reported by Japanese sources so it's a not first hand calculation.
And the video on YouTube was obnoxiously advertising some kind of scam site so it is better not linked to.
anon@6:45 actually watch the vid. 0:57 in particular. artefact should be awaiting you're apology.
Yeah, with anime it would only be 11280hours like my /played with all my toons. Not counting all characters outside my "main" realm, my deleted characters and the ones from us and eu beta.
But i dont play wow for 12hours a day, there are so many other games to try out, animes to watch, music to listen and so on. (well, some thing i can actually do while playing)
And other things you have to do, even if you dont want to...
Wait a minute, i started watching the vid.
He wrote 100 days played, 24000hours.
100days = 2400h, not 24000 *facepalm*
Also nearly all of his toons arnt even 80...
LEARN TO CALCULATE!
Learn to read comments.. someone alredy said that. And also; focus on the main theme in the vid
Letting go is the way to illumination.
Oh come on.
You can have so called "RL" and play MMO's.
But you won't be a pro there xD
Thank God I'm only addicted to MW2 XD
"Thank God I'm only addicted to MW2 XD"
... That's just as bad... xD. BFBC2 all the way :P
But at least it ain't some kind of J-game. ;)
Fuck yes
thank god i'm only prestige 4 on MW2, too many prestige left to achieve before i quite like the wow guy
Hahaha, that's kinda stupid, an account like that could have fetched quite a few dollars! xD
I seriously doubt that.