Hmm, Good article. I enjoyed it. Probably because it related to obsession.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes i don't get off for 36-40hours at a time... :ohnoes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But hey all that rune pked might be fair =)

Whoot the did you know is back. I also made a topic about this! It's a really important issue in my opinion. Good job!

it can be applied to hard-core, "no-life" RuneScape players or anyone else in game for that matter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROFL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, this part made me laugh. "Hard-core?" Some nerd plays on the computer all day and he's "hardcore"? Thrash metal is hardcore, pixels and light and electricity is NOT. Made me chuckle a bit, heh

Hey everyone, thank you for posting on my thread which is the same as this but made before!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOU ARE ALL AWESOME!

Man have I "been there, done that", good points.

Great article =) I love psychology. I used to think of myself as obsessed with Runescape but i'm not sure anymore. I never turn down doing something with my boyfriend because of RS, although when I find myself bored haning out with people, I do think "I wish I were playing RS" :?

 

 

 

On weekdays I have neough self-control to stop RS at around 9-10...Although I still don't do my hw, but that's just 'cause I am a procrastinator hehe...Weekends I play til i get tired, usually 1 am.

 

 

 

Overall I don't think I'm too obsessed lol

well, my brother says I'm obsessed a lot. I don't think I am and he plays more than me. But I do see what you are saying. If my friends ask me to do something with them I go. Only one of my friends know I play though. All my other friends would just call me a nerd :shame: , so I keep this game low profile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did stay up till midnight once playing this. I do all of my homework and chores (I don't have many though). I don't miss school, although if it's a good update I think about it during school. And if it's a good update I wake up a little early.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS. Great article

this is my first post, i dont know how to add those banners and stuff so excuse me if im breaking a rule or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, my idea on this "addiction" is not about playing rs while you isolate yourself. It's about what your giving up to play it. My friend as become so obessed about this game that he's given up half a decade of friendship in order to play this game as much as he can. My friends and I have tried countless times to try and get him outside with us. Me and him shared an account, and all he called me was for the password whenever i changed it. Honestly, i think everyone that has been playing for a year or more is obessed, those facts about addiction are literal what I'm saying is figurative. Addiction is crossing the line, but obession is something everyone does, ranging from the football jocks to the nerds. Obession is perfectly normal, but addiction is where things go wrong. If your willing to stay inside playing rs with your online pen pals rather than hanging out with your real life freinds then i would say you have an issue. Don't give yourself excuses to convince yourself that your not addicted, if you are just admit it, dont lie about it. It's your choice to do what you want in your life, noone else's. But don't lie to your real life friends or any of your freinds about your obession or addiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i usually do not comment, but i just had to. This issue is very important, friendships made on the internet cannot be as strong as real life ones. These are just my views on this topic.

How would playing more than one year mean you're obsessed? I know I found it enjoyable a year after I played and it wasn't an obsession.

then why do you continue to play?

 

 

 

my idea of obession is not what you think it is i guess, like i said everyone has one.

I continue to play because I like it. I'd put my real life first though.

Excellent article. I think that most people wonder if they're addicted or obsessed with Runescape at some point. I know I do - heck, you can't play the game for 6 years on and off without wondering if you're addicted. :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But this made me realize that just because I play often and have friends in Runescape doesn't make me addicted. I have free time and I use a good bit of it to play Runescape. But I'll log out in a second when a friends calls and wants to hang out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This article wisely says that it's not the hours you play - it's what you give up to play.

Great article, I'm probably borderline obsessed \ the day that construction came out, the update happened about 15 minutes before I had to leave for work. I read the update, and looked at the phone, thinking, they could do without me today.....

 

 

 

But I went to work anyway.

In regards to the DYK about Tears of Guthix...

 

 

 

It only tells you how many days, when it gets down to that day it doesn't give you hours:minutes, it just says later...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made a suggestion in the Runescape forums and was flamed by a few people so I let it drop, but it would be very helpful to know that later = 6 hours and 15 minutes....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree completely, it should give us to the nearest hour at the very least. I got on one day and checked that and it said later today, so I went to juna, couldn't get them, and decided to do something else. At around the same time *the next day* I went back and it still said I couldn't get them...I waited for 5 minutes, and then it let me get them. That was very frustrating...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is my first post, i dont know how to add those banners and stuff so excuse me if im breaking a rule or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, my idea on this "addiction" is not about playing rs while you isolate yourself. It's about what your giving up to play it. My friend as become so obessed about this game that he's given up half a decade of friendship in order to play this game as much as he can. My friends and I have tried countless times to try and get him outside with us. Me and him shared an account, and all he called me was for the password whenever i changed it. Honestly, i think everyone that has been playing for a year or more is obessed, those facts about addiction are literal what I'm saying is figurative. Addiction is crossing the line, but obession is something everyone does, ranging from the football jocks to the nerds. Obession is perfectly normal, but addiction is where things go wrong. If your willing to stay inside playing rs with your online pen pals rather than hanging out with your real life freinds then i would say you have an issue. Don't give yourself excuses to convince yourself that your not addicted, if you are just admit it, dont lie about it. It's your choice to do what you want in your life, noone else's. But don't lie to your real life friends or any of your freinds about your obession or addiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i usually do not comment, but i just had to. This issue is very important, friendships made on the internet cannot be as strong as real life ones. These are just my views on this topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree with you 100% as far as putting runescape (or anything online) ahead of real life relationships with friends. However, you can't judge it by time spent playing. I probably play more than I should, however I still hang out with friends and do not consider myself obsessed. If you had said more than two years instead of more than a year, I would have pointed out that I have played for ~4 years, but one of my friends has played under 2 years and has far surpassed me in the game, and does place a higher value on her rs relationships than some of her real life relationships, and though it no longer falls under the "less than one year" category, she was just as obsessed with the game 2 months into it as she is now. The amount of time someone has been playing has no bearing on obsession. I know a few people who have been playing longer than I have, but have ~500 skill total because they play for EXTREMELY modest lengths of time...that's not obsession in my opinion, I got my skill total on a new account to 500 f2p in just a couple months of moderate playing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry that block is a bit hard to read everyone, I'm not very good at breaking my comments up with spaces for ease of readability :oops:

Lovely article. Perhaps one of the best and most relevent to life article you've ever done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I want to do, asuming it's within the constraints of the forum rules, is to relate ths to a real-life example. Zezima and N0valyfe I think would be the obvious ones to choose. Uloveme too, but then the post would be too long.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When does it become a problem that Zezima and N0valyfe spend as much time on RS as they do/used to? Don't get me wrong people, I'm a great admirer of them, but unlike most people, I'm not actually jealous of them. If I was given the choice between plaing RS all day (which does sound attractive), and being with my GF, going to college, and generally going out an talking with friends; my education and my social life come way before RS. To me, this isn't something that I personally understand and I can't really articulate what I feel about people who spend ages on RS. Because simply, I can't imagine a life like that. To me, living like that would be a miserable, lonely and self-conscious way to live, because there would be no social life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For me, an addiction is a habit that the brain requires as what it perceives to be a necessity. For example, nicotine in smoking is a chemical which "tricks" the brain bio-chemically into thinking it's something that the body MUST consume, or else you'll die. This is why you get sick if you so much as contemplate trying to quit without any sort of strong-will. So in that sense, yes I would say RS, or computer games in general, can be an obsession and a psychological addiction. But when d'yu know if this point has been reached, though? I'll leave that to psychologists with PHds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On a side note, I'd like to say that playing RS for a huge amount of time, like TV, (and by that, I mean sacrifing work/eduction, a social life and recreation for RS) isn't healthy in terms of knowledge about the world about you. How would you know about issues that directly contribute to your well-being, like the war in Iraq, domestic security or politics? I have a friend who goes home after college and doesn't do anything but play on his Nintendo consoles all night, and his knowledge of the world is simply diabolical! I will tell you now that universities will look down on this, and his chances of employment are compromised becasue of his addiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And lastly - what on earth do you (or players like Zezima, or N0valyfe when he used to play RS), who play RS all-day every-day, contribute back to society? As far as I'm concerned... nothing. People like this are wastes of space if they aren't being educated and don't have jobs (presuming they can be employed, of course)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How is playing RS all-day everyday any different (morally) from gangs of hoodies that knock about street-corners, living off benefits from the state?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just remember that - RS is supposed to be a form of escapism from the world - the world isn't supposed to be escapism from RS!

To add on to Ginger_Warrior's post, when Sediti0n quit (he was almost maxed out at the time, right before hunter was released), he said that he had finally realized what his playing of runescape to the exclusion of all else had done to his life. That was why he quit when he did, without even getting the last few (2 I think?) construction levels to be maxed out. I don't know why N0valyfe quit, but I would venture that it was for some similar reason.

To add on to Ginger_Warrior's post, when Sediti0n quit (he was almost maxed out at the time, right before hunter was released), he said that he had finally realized what his playing of runescape to the exclusion of all else had done to his life. That was why he quit when he did, without even getting the last few (2 I think?) construction levels to be maxed out. I don't know why N0valyfe quit, but I would venture that it was for some similar reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think n0valyfe did realise that it was starting to become too much. I know for one that he was at university when he started playing RS and I would presume he either went back to finish off and graduate, or already was graduated and got a job. I think the reason he stayed on was because he'd come all that way. I guess he felt that if he quit now, even if he felt it was obsessiveness, the last two years of his life would have meant nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I suppose that raises another point - can an obsession also be translated into a goal? For example, athletes before the Olympics could be said to be "obsessed" with training, but it's a goal to go for Gold and you wouldn't knock them for it. An obsession isn't bad, but obsessions can turn into addictions and it becomes detremental to your own well-being after that. We're communal beings at the end of the day - being locked up addicted to RS all day isn't actually healthy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFF TOPIC: You know your sig? And how it's focused on bad grammer? There's a gramatical error in the word "dont" lol

I think novalyfe quit because he was bored. I would be too if I had done everything possible. That's just my guess.

I thought for a time i too was obsessed with r/s every available minute of my time playin gettin my stats to a lvl that i would be happy with but never happy. Recently i have slowed down and have realised that i have other things to do other than playin r/s. But it helped me get threw a very tryin time when all i wanted to do was play online. I have met some very generous ppl durin this time and some very nasty ppl but it takes all kinds in this world and i enjoy playin and am currently workin towards gettin to that elusive 99 in one stat. Whether its addictive or obsessive its a g8 game. :P

I don't know why N0valyfe quit, but I would venture that it was for some similar reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same reason...

It was a good article. I hope it made some people think about the time they play on Runescape, and what else they could be using their time for.

Just remember that - RS is supposed to be a form of escapism from the world - the world isn't supposed to be escapism from RS!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So is buddhism. :lol:

Nice article you make some really good points. I really like how you say its not the hours you play, people think that just because you have alot of time to play you are addicted or obsessed and you showed how wrong they are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very good ;)

*looks at this week's tip.it times article*

 

 

 

*looks at the interview with n0valyfe*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

n0valyfe I feel was addicted. AMAZINGLY so. Anyway on topic... I think it's a fair article to say that only a few people are addicted. Addictions mean you are dependant on something and we could all give up runescape if we wanted, we just enjoy it!

an addiction can be bound to anything, not just at drugs and smoking et cetera. the thing that happens when you are getting addicted to something, is when you try out something, and you get a good experience and continue...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

take the example, apples: you eat some, and your body makes it taste good, and you like it..when you eat more of it, then your body won't have to make that much taste, and if you eat enough apples over a short amount of time, then it won't taste near till what it used to do, but you have getten "Addicted" (or get used to) apples, like eating 5 every day or so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seing, this can acctually happen to anything that you get an good experiense with, juts that some things, that is very good/fun, but doesn't last that long, makes a greater chance of getting addicted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

like drugs, a massive "kick", but it does not last that long, or with rs: it's fun when you play it (or as you remember, it at last used to be really fun) but at once you goes off the computer, it ain't fun anymore, and to get that fun again you'll have to go on the computer again. this could maybe show a little about how an addiction work, and why it is so hard (most of the times) to get out of it, if you let it grow too much