Kick your WoW habit with ReSTART clinic

yea switch wow for crack and your life will get THAT much better

Vendoring all your items and deleting the character is alot cheaper.

ReSTART...I see what you did there...But now seriously, 14k to help someones addiction, thats kind of expensive, with those 14k you can buy years and years of WoW subscriptions and be the happiest person on Earth.

Chemistry, so you can start your own meth lab ROFL.

I can honestly see how this can be a problem for people, and I'm happy it's becoming a bit more of a serious topic- but the price isn't going to entice anyone to enroll I think.

Sometimes though... I wonder how messed up a person has to be to become addicted to a game. There has to be more factors than just it being fun- there's probably a history of parental neglect, abuse, what have you, and I actually think some organizations like these will help.

Video games: serious business.

The ironic part: this place is located right next to Microsoft HQ. Talk about serious competition.

The easiest way to quit WoW is to log into each of your characters, type '/played' and add up the time displayed for each character. This is how much time you've wasted playing WoW. This doesn't factor in any characters you may have deleted, but for someone who might consider themselves addicted, it might be enough of a perspective to say "maybe I should stop this. At least for a while"

Move to China and make a political blog. That's pretty effective Internet rehab.

I can't imagine being addicted to a game so bad that I'd consider laying down $14k.

WoW is fun and all...but there are other things in life. What these people need is a distraction from their online virtual lives. There's only so much of the same game that can be enjoyed before it becomes a duty or an obligation.

Tried to me me go to rehab, I say no, no no.

Besides, I have a raid tonight.

Easiest way to quit is to just sell your character. Basically you lose access to the entire account so if you ever get the urge to come back and play you have to start from scratch *and* buy all the expansions.

I occasionally get the urge to play whenever I'm bored but I'm not going to drop all that cash just to get on for a few hours. Problem solved!

I've kicked my own addiction to this game by myself...

You just have to realize how dull, stupid, waste of time and money it is...

I've never played an MMO since... fuck MMOs, i've discovered Console Gaming...

Much better, you don't get addicted, the game ends, the multiplayer is not addicting (cuse it's the same thing over and over, not saying it's not fun and all) AND you can play with your friends too...

I've started using WoW patches, but they didn't stop me playing, but I am more balanced and stable when playing now.

Oh my God, that cocaine energy drink is the most vile, acidic and awful tasting thing ive ever drank. Id rather get nasal reconstruction surgery as a result of years of cocaine use than drink that shit again

I'd rather get addicted to a videogame than spend $14,000 for some old bag to nag at me to stop.

I enjoyed WoW, but I don't understand how one could be addicted.

I played on and off for a few years, and haven't played in like... a year or so.

I realized that I was doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, so I got another game that I could do that with, that didn't cost $15 a month. Tetris.

with $14,000 I can build a fucking recording studio and a sweet custom shop amp/ guitar.

It's cheaper just to play WoW for the rest of your life!

From an ex-Wow player:
I'll help you quit for $10: I'll come to your house, wipe the game from your HD, break your discs, and install parental controls on your computer that will stop you from visiting WoW sites. For $20 more, I'll install Team Fortress 2 on your computer. Problem solved.

Blizzard recently made it so you can change your the faction of ONE character for $30. They're not charging that much because it's a reasonable price for one virtual character. They're charging that much because they can and people will buy it. Just like how drug dealer charge high prices for drugs because they can and people will buy it. Blizzard is looking more like a drug dealer everyday. XD

That's over $311 a day!

How about you uninstall and get a job. That'd be much more useful, especially for parents to do.

I'm not going to get into the "can a game be addictive" argument. People on either side of the argument need to do some research before spouting their misguided opinion.

The simple fact is if ANY activity in your life (gaming or whatever) comes to the point where it's negatively affecting your health, your family, your work or school life, then it might be time to rethink that activity. If it doesn't negatively affect other areas of your life, a 5hr (or whatever) a day "habit" that only costs $15/month, trust me, there are MANY MANY MANY worse things you could be doing with your time and money.

People that actually want to quit, deleting your characters, selling your account, destroying your disks, all that will do SQUAT. It takes one phonecall to get back deleted characters. It takes about 3 clicks to redownload the game. It takes about 3 clicks to reset a "sold" account (even if the info has been changed).

If you want to quit, find something else to do with the time where you normally would be playing. There, I just saved you $14k and told you a method that is almost 100% effective. Almost everyone I've ever talked to who quit and then went back went back because they were simply bored during the time when they would normally be playing. It can be a lot harder than it sounds to find something else to do, but yeah, $14k saved.

Pretty sad this sort of thing happens, don't you think?

If you really want to kick your WOW habit try Aion! Way better! More fun! You'll leave WOW behind in no time!

If you want to kick a habit, man the F*** UP. Why, I managed to quit wow THREE times already! How's that for... erm...

well the easiest way to kick a "wow habit" is to just stop playing... Online gaming is fun since you know the friends you make online have at least one common interest. My MMO gaming certainly didn't start with WoW and it's not ending with it either (come on FF14 and GuildWars2), however, nothing makes me want to fire up my game of choice more than wandering about in the real world hearing people talk about how gamers have no life, then these same people go home and sit down in front of a TV for 3+ hours on end. At least games are interactive.

I won't have to pay $14,000 for World of Warcraft rehab because of the price just purchasing the game and the expansion packs are too expensive to start with then add in the monthly fee LOL just no thank you.