A Serious Problem...

Beachbum · #1 10-21-2002, 12:28 PM

Hello,
I am writing this note to tell all who does not know already.
I, Lord Trunkz am hereby quitting my staff position (Developer) here on Babylon.
Most of you may be saying to yourselfs "Yeah! Sure! he's quit like 4 times already, hes gunna come back!"
Buy guess what?! Im not! I AM NOT ONLY QUITTING BABYLON, BUT GRAAL TOO!

There hasn't been a single day (except for going on vacation) that I have'n played graal and I am
now realizeing it is an addiction...a Sick addiction at the least!
Graal Has consumed my life and has lowered my selfesteem in the realworld.
I have become a prisoner of my own room! I sometimes play for hours at a time without ever
setting foot outside my room! I come home afterschool and go straight to the big grey box on my desk
and play Graal, not knowing OR EVEN CAREING what's going on in the outside world...
If any of you feel the same way as I do, I am urging you to get out while you still can! Graal
(As well as many other Online Games) can be as addictive as Crack, Heroin, and tobacco believe it or not!
You may not believe me but it is true...

I would like to say Goodbye to all the friends I have made here. You were great friends, and I hope you don't
get too addicted...like I have.

Most of you maybe thinking that im joking about someparts of this, or that none of this is true what-so-ever,
but it is...

Farewell Graalians for I hope the next time I talk to you ISN'T threw Graal, but threw some other form
of communication....

bye bye,
Lord Trunkz

Mustang1988 · #2 10-21-2002, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beachbum
Graal
(As well as many other Online Games) can be as addictive as Crack, Heroin, and tobacco believe it or not!
You may not believe me but it is true...

Is that a fact? o.O
Any proof?

Anyway, bye. Good luck in the real world! :O

Beachbum · #3 10-21-2002, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mustang1988

Is that a fact? o.O
Any proof?

Anyway, bye. Good luck in the real world! :O

as a mater of fact yes! I was watchin tv 2 nights ago and it was a segment on Games and how they affect people, and it was telling how some guy got soo depresed because he played games all his life so he killed himself. and Ben Stine (yes THE Ben Stine), whell his son got soo addicted to that game Everquest that he never went out his room, cept for school and he got all depressed and so Ben Stine sent him to bording school for 1 yr and now hes normal.

AlexH · #4 10-21-2002, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mustang1988

Is that a fact? o.O
Any proof?

Anyway, bye. Good luck in the real world! :O

Someone posted a link a while back about some guy going crazy over Everquest.
He though the monsters were chasing him.
I think he comitted suicide and his parents were taking legal action.
I wish I remember which thread it was in.

adam · #5 10-21-2002, 12:48 PM

This is why Self-control is very important....

Must... Control... Self... Must... Not... Become... Graal... Addict...

Beachbum · #6 10-21-2002, 12:49 PM

All i'm asking is for you guys to pay attention to what you're doing, make sure ur not addicted cuz its hard to quit! I'm not trying to say "Don't Play Graal cuz its bad!" If you think you're not addicted, the goahaid and play, if you are, try to play less....

Kaimetsu · #7 10-21-2002, 12:50 PM

Jesus...

Graal is not as addictive as hard drugs. Don't be melodramatic.

XxxxneosoftxxxX · #8 10-21-2002, 12:50 PM

Just say no to drugs.

Beachbum · #9 10-21-2002, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kaimetsu
Jesus...

Graal is not as addictive as hard drugs. Don't be melodramatic.

How the hell do you know?
I used to be addected to cigerates (and now im not THANK GOD!) and it was soooo hard to quit!
And now im tryin to quit graal and it's just like the smame thing!

and besides im not the onlyone who said that, Stone Phlips from 20/20 said the same thing! lol (serious)

AlexH · #10 10-21-2002, 12:57 PM

Personally I don't see why people find it so hard to quit Graal.
If you want to quit it you will, simple as that.

Kaimetsu · #11 10-21-2002, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beachbum

How the hell do you know?
I used to be addected to cigerates (and now im not THANK GOD!) and it was soooo hard to quit!
And now im tryin to quit graal and it's just like the smame thing!

Cigarettes are a walk in the park compared to something like heroin. Graal is, at most, a mental addiction. It can't compare to the kind of chemical addictions that drugs induce unless there's something seriously weird going on in your brain. Either way, no normal person will end up more addicted to Graal than drugs.

KujaBTK · #12 10-21-2002, 12:58 PM

There are a lot of people who is very addictive to this game. And bye bye!

TheFrozenFiend · #13 10-21-2002, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beachbum
I sometimes play for hours at a time without ever
setting foot outside my room! I come home afterschool and go straight to the big grey box on my desk
and play Graal, not knowing OR EVEN CAREING what's going on in the outside world...
If any of you feel the same way as I do, I am urging you to get out while you still can! Graal
(As well as many other Online Games) can be as addictive as Crack, Heroin, and tobacco believe it or not!
You may not believe me but it is true...

Hyperbole is bad for the soul.

Graal isnt addictive.
Its good for small doses, ie. no more than 1 hour a day, but then it just gets boring.
This year I have probably spent no more than 3 hours on Graal in a single week. Most of the time its less than that. The only exception being the week when 2002 was released and then it was still no more than 5 hours a week.

I have yet to play an online game thats addictive.
Even the ripoff $10 a month game is boring. The "allmighty" online RPG. I got the 30 day free account thing and didnt play it again after the first week.

If you spend that much time on any game then, imo, you do need to do something else. But thats no reason to quit alltogether. Just dont go on as much. Limit yourself to a reasonable ammount of time.

zell12 · #14 10-21-2002, 05:59 PM

Graal is mentally addcive, but so are other online RPG games. I heard some guy killed himself because he own guild rejected him or something.

konidias · #15 10-22-2002, 01:21 AM

No game is to blame for these "addictions" the players make the decisions to play for hours on end. The guy you are talking about was some 25 year old socially inept man who sat in his room all day playing Everquest, and they think he killed himself when he lost his character or something.

I'm not addicted to Graal. I have many other things that I do with my time. I work for Graal, so yes, I would imagine I need to be on it a lot. But it all depends on the person playing. If you play Graal more than you do anything else, then you probably should make a schedule to follow so that you don't play as much.

There is not really a way to be addicted. Drugs can affect your mind and body in order to make it think and act differently then you would like. However, you are in full control of Graal, you just decide that you want to be "addicted" and play it a lot. Needing Graal because you want to play it is a lot different then a crackhead needing a fix.

These kind of "goodbye" posts happen all the time. I still crack up about the guy who talked about how he got a life because he quit Graal and rides on Jet Ski's waving at people.

I think it's quite hilarious how people think they all the sudden have lives now that they have given up Graal, and how all the people still playing are lifeless zombies with no friends.