Help with something I percieve as addiction?

First of all, I like playing mmorpg’s alot. Runescape, Runes of Magic, Rose online, maplestory, etc. I stopped playing all of them but I started runes of magic. ITs like WoW as people say, but i never played WoW and i dont plan on doing so.

I am not a game addict, but i regard myself as one. The only time i play games (mmorpg’s) is at night from 11:00p.m to 2:00p.m. If i were home alone, I would probably play all day. I’m sick and tired of this dumb habit. I understand that mmorpg’s like WoW and others mentioend above are a total waste of life. These games give absolutly nothing except for messing up peoples lives. I want to stop playing mmorpg’s totally. Playing these games is sort of what i do in my free time. 3 hours everyday. Its summer, so thats probably normal for most people. But for me its the same thing as playing 24/7. Can anyone help me, give advice, or motivation to stop playing games. I am going to make the first move by un-installing all games on my computer. I did this two times before but I downloaded other mmorpg’s after 6 months or so. Now I want to stop 100% and I am willing to do whatever it takes.

One thing I want someone to clearly explain to me is the point of playing these games. I want to know what good I gain from these games. I always ask myself, "why do I play this game?" I jsut want to stop for the rest of my life and I don’t want this habit to stick with me when I am in college.

Things I have been doing to stop this addiction is

"driving training". MY goal is to finish it as soon as possible and start driving with friends. Takes my mind of games.

Music- listening to music relaxes me. I only like listening to music when I am doing nothing, so this helps.

Reading stuff online (general knowledge/stuff i’m itnerested in: biology) news. I’m going to start reading about car parts so I can fix my own car.

Recently got a program called blender. (Not a game) I want to make small animations like Ice Age. You can make games with it, but i do not want to.

Working out: I can’t go to the gym, can’t drive yet, so i’m creating a workout plan for home: pushups, sit-ups, crunches, leglifts, weights, etc.

Is this a good start to get away from addiction to games?
Please help me in any way.


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Any info or suggestions would be great. Thanks!
Yeah that’s why I didn’t ask for "the best" class. I don’t care what other people play. I’m pro and will be good with any combo :P
But I would like one of the classes to be easy to solo with, and I would like the combo to compliment a group (not including tank).


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Know any good mmorpgs?

Hi, I’m into fantasy mmorpgs and I need a new mmorpgs. The mmorpgs I’ve played and the reasons I quit…

Flyff: I quit because I made too lvl 70s (aoe ele, and bp) and unless you spent you cash on the cash shop for amp scrolls, and protect scrolls you wouldn’t make it much father

2moons: I just couldn’t get into the game, loved the skills though

Runes of Magic: reminded me too much of wow…I lost interest in wow

Dungeon runners: reminded me of a crappy wow… I didn’t like wow so I didn’t like it not to mention there was 100 players on at a time…that’s weak

Shaiya: I loved the idea of different races and no 2 races had the same class but I couldn’t stand the game play

Kal online: I started it…played 5mins…thought it was crap

Cabal online : Looked it up on youtube the combo idea was awesome but for some reason I couldn’t get the Download too work

Gunz: No xplaination needed

Runescape: Idk why I played runescape but it was fun till everything you could do was for membs…and also I got bored of talking to 9 yearolds

I really tried to get into Lunia but the graphics blow..

Really I just want an mmorpg that’s free .. and I know the best mmorpg’s are p2p so don’t tell me to buy this game or that game because that won’t help me

So really a free mmorpg , combos would be nice, Pk (I love pk), a half decent player base (I don’t wanna get called a noob right when I make an account when I log in, that happened to me on 2moons) moving with wasd and not clicking, and not really based on cash shop because I hate games based around buy or fail… I don’t care if there is a cash shop just as long as you don’t have to rely on it to lvl up at high lvls because I don’t want 2 have to grind from lvl 70+ (on flyff I had to kill 10 mobs for 1% at lvl 70!) Oh also none of the chat room mmorpg’s like gaia… thnx


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I even tried configuring the screen like making it 800×600*.


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