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Are you addicted to runescape? I sure was. :x

 

This is basically my runescape life and how the addiction affected me.

 

 

 

I know most of you arenÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t like this but I know there are some people out there who let runescape affect them as much as it affected me.

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2003 I started runescape and playing with real life friends doing what newbs do. After around a year they all left and it was just me left playing it at this stage I was addicted to the huge amount of actives you could do and the fact that while you play you are continuously improving. One of the main things that drew me into runescape was the money and the huge market. I soon found myself doing tasks that could rake in money Nat running and merching where the main forms of money making for me. While merching I came across many scammers... this tempted me scamming people for money seemed so easy. Luckily I had a conscience and couldnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t do it so I just carried on making money my normal ways.

 

 

 

By this stage I was playing runescape around 4hours a day, I would get home from school play with mates until 5ish then spend around 4 hours on runescape. As I became more addicted the amount of time I was playing runescape rose and rose until finally I was playing runescape all of my spare time. I would visit all the help sites (including this one) and I would look at how people made all their 100's of millions.

 

 

 

Then the worse thing possible happened - I came across runescape staking. I noticed how instead of running natures for 10hours for 1million I could simply win it in a stake in under 1minute. I made up an account with a large number of spaces in the name and set up on creating a staker. The name of the staker I used was (p---i-----e). This account was made for defence staking meaning he had high defence (70) high attack (70) and mid strength (30-40). I also made another account called (p--I---e). This account was the opposite of (p---I-----e) and its sole purpose was to trick people. Earlier I mention that I didnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t like to scam - but the huge amounts of cash that I could make took over my conscience and greed was the only thing in my mind.

 

 

 

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Thats a good idea of how to make yourself quit. But you could have given it all to me :notalk:

Well when you loose everything in game, run out of memembers, and two of your very close friends are banned (1 was legit 1 wasn't) you really feel like quitting.

That was a nice read and I like most of it. Your comment at the end, why not quit now and save 1000 hours of your life. Here is my opinion: I know someday I will quit runescape, it's inevitable, and like you most of my real life friends have quit as well as a lot of the good friends I met while playing runescape. You don't have to give away all your stuff to quit, but instead this is what I plan to do when the time comes. Buy rares...yep, really that's all you have to do...buy a bunch of rares, and then just quit, cancel your membership and just sell everything so you only have cash, and then buy all the rares you can.

 

 

 

That way, if you ever decide to come back, just to visit, or maybe you have a lot of free time coming up, you can come back and experience all the things you missed.

yea.. I have to agree stocking up on rares might of been a good idea - but I wanted to quit for good, i wanted runescape out of my mind. Knowing that I had rares increasing in value would probably make me want to start playing again.

i quit for 1 month

 

 

 

i dont play that much anymore. having a gf really helps you quit/back down.

I began playing with rl freinds, but they have long quit. When I was addicted I had members played constantly and had cravings. However Isoon discovered the guitar and quit until october '06. I came back played til january and lost interest.

 

 

 

I play consistantly now but rarely for more than one hour a day I spend most of my computer time on my clan website, here and msn now.

Balanced life is the key :wink:

i play about 30min a day from 2 hours a day so im not addicted much and if i start gettin addiected i sell all my stuff use it on skills and start again :D

i put the more important things first. i do all my homework and study for any tests coming up, then go to a friends house to see if they're busy or not. if they're busy, then i no-life rs. i have to though, otherwise i'll never make money :evil:

 

 

 

but that is a touching story, but some people just don't want to quit rs. take all those all 99s people for example. that takes 2 or more years, and they're still playing. they just don't want to quit because it's still fun. if you find rs still fun, you should play it. ok, time to use some random emotes that are never used.

 

 

 

=; :^o O:) =P~ :uhh: :-# :-$ :boohoo: =D>

I would only quit if I got banned

 

so if I am nice I'll never quit :D

I would only quit if I got banned

 

so if I am nice I'll never quit :D

 

 

 

:XD: trust me someday you're gonna get bored. oh wait, that was just my non member account 2 years ago

I quit because my computer sucks.. :wall:

That's a great way to ensure you stop playing, if that's what kept you. For most people it is. For some people they might just consider it a small habit that they turn to when they have nothing to do, but when you play it for so many hours a day, it's really more than a habit. It's funny you just wrote this now, because on runehead I wrote an article about addictions

When I was addicted: I played 10 hours a day during the Summer.

 

I shunned my parents.

 

I had a few friends, but sadly, they were RS addicts too. (Some normal :P )

 

 

 

Now: I play 2-3 hours a day on the PC, which is 1/3 of my time at home. I chat with friends and my GF :) , and play CS, which leaves me content after an hour of it.

 

 

 

I have tons of friends, who I hang out with on a daily basis, and I couldn't be happier with life.

 

 

 

Although my grades are fine, A's and 2 B's this semester. :|

Runescape is part of why I don't have a girlfriend in real life :| but I know that when I do decide to spill some game I will quit Runescape and only play if I got some friend time.

 

 

 

I did infact "quit" for 3 months and that's because I had no internet but meh I always wanted to go back on so I'm addicted but I don't wanna do therapy but I might in the future.

I don't consider my self to be an addict. I play about 2-3 hours a day but now going for 99 fishing :twisted: .....I plan on playing 4-6 hours a day. #-o

Luckily, my best friend plays rs so we have lots of fun. Rooming next year at college.

i can manage my runescape time properly and not be addicted in which case i hardly socialise on rs i normally do the fastest exp wise training as such so i find i could play forever at around about 10 hours a week or something :-k

 

 

 

if your addicted i wouldn't be so ashamed \

i rarely go on now.. its like every 15-30 days for 5 mins to talk to people when i am bored to death, but since December i haven't really played except a few days ago.

 

 

 

When i did play before, i wasn't addicted.. Maybe 1 hour a day.

Balanced life is the key :wink:

 

 

 

Quoted for truth.

Balanced life is the key :wink:

 

 

 

Quoted for truth.

 

 

 

is there a quoted for truth trend going on around TIF?

I don't all it addiction, I call it enjoyment

 

 

 

The only reason I play this game for hours straight is because it's time consuming at higher levels. You can't get a lot accomplished in an hour once your levels get quite high. I'm sure some people can but they won't enjoy the game as much.

Balanced life is the key :wink:

 

 

 

Quoted for truth.

 

 

 

is there a quoted for truth trend going on around TIF?

 

 

 

Well, it looks better than just to quote and write nothing new.

Balanced life is the key :wink:

 

 

 

Quoted for truth.

 

 

 

is there a quoted for truth trend going on around TIF?

 

 

 

Well, it looks better than just to quote and write nothing new.

 

 

 

not what i meant, like everybody is quoting something because they agree :evil: :shame: =; :XD: