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WoW Addiction

Author:  MyPistolsIn3D [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:04 pm ]
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So, Im sure many of you have friends or are yourselves addicted to World of Warcraft.
My mission, on behalf of a close friend is to find a way to disable her family members computer from
being able to play said game.

Anyone here know of or could create some sort of program to load onto said family members computer
effectivly disabling warcraft?

Author:  StealthArcher [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:05 pm ]
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Cut off that computer's internet?

Author:  MyPistolsIn3D [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:07 pm ]
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not really the point. Point is to get rid of WoW, not the internet.

Author:  HeavenAgain [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:28 pm ]
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block blizzard's port and change the router admin's password Very Happy??

Author:  Tony [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:15 pm ]
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That's pretty much the best way, as everybody is saying -- you can selectively block World of Warcraft, at the router level, from accessing the internet.

Author:  apomb [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:24 pm ]
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have an Xbox 360 ddiction... staying up till 430 am when i have a class at 830 is no good... and theres no remedy to that. lol

Author:  MyPistolsIn3D [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:54 pm ]
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so i have found this

Block the following ports on your router:

port 3724 (TCP port for WoW)

Port 6122 and 6881-6999 range (TCP port used to download patches)

can i do this is control panel, if so i cant figure out how, or does it have to be in the game's options?

thx

Author:  Clayton [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:01 pm ]
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If you have a router, you're better off to do it from there.

Author:  Tony [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:07 pm ]
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from the router's control panel. Log into your default gateway (commonly 192.168.0.1 or sometimes 192.168.0.100 -- consult your router's manual if you don't know) and find port/firewall options.

Author:  TheFerret [ Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:41 pm ]
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Use the parental controls on her account to select how long she can play for is the best bet...

Author:  Dan [ Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:49 am ]
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Althought the above idea about blocking the ports will deftaly work in terms of it will cut them off from WoW for a short time period, it does not help fix the core problem witch is the addiction. Forcely removing WoW whould be like choping the top off an ice berg, you sitll have the issue witch is below the water.

People who are turely addicated to somthing are not going to stop just becues you block a few ports they will find a way to get around it, tehcnicaly skilled or not. It might slow them down but they will no doughtly contact bizlard suport or just try directly bypassing the router. Seting parental controls whould give it away even sooner and you whould need access to there acount.

If you realy whont to help them you have to talk to them about the issue and how it is effecting the peoleop around them and there own life. You can't forcvely stop some one from being addicted to somthing they have to whont to stop.

Author:  Nick [ Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:05 am ]
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I agree with Dan, not only are you disabling something that's not yours but also your not doing much to stop the problem and if your friend is truly addicted, once they find out you disabled WoW they might abandon you as a friend

Author:  Tallguy [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:26 pm ]
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I don't know why anybody would want to block WoW since it is the greatest game ever but if you have too . . . if the person has NORTAN, tell it that WoW is a potential risk and NORTAN will block WoW from accessing the computer . . .or just change ther password on the persons account Smile

Author:  Tony [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:48 pm ]
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Tallguy @ Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:26 pm wrote:
I don't know why anybody would want to block WoW since it is the greatest game ever

I also hear that crack is a pretty good drug. Laughing

Author:  Tallguy [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:49 pm ]
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Thats good 2 Know lol:)

Author:  Dan [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:55 pm ]
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If you relay relay whont to block them from WoW the best method whould be to login in to there account and destory there items on every charitcher they have, then delete each charticher they have on each server.

Next download an old script kiddy telportion hack for WoW, make a new charticher and use it. The account will instaly get band for 72 hours. Then block it at the router level and wait for the 72 hours and do it again and the account will be peridently band from the game with almost no chance of recovery.

Althought as i metiond above, this is only a superfishal fix and you should realy talk to the person about there addiction.

Author:  ericfourfour [ Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:10 pm ]
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Another method:

Note: This will only work if your friend uses game cards.

1. Get a job at EB games.
2. Whenever your friend tries to buy a game card, tell him your out of stock.
3. ????
4. Profit!

Author:  TokenHerbz [ Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:17 pm ]
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Just get him to do what was done for me. Have them give you their password, and change it, After a few weeks the interest is lost, because truth be told, the games not THAT fun when you play excessivly (its just a time killer), so when its taken away, you'll be board and find other means to pass the time. After a few weeks you wont care about the game. The End.

Author:  ericfourfour [ Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:06 pm ]
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I stopped playing when I ran out of money. That gave me enough time to reflect and figure out how much time I was wasting.

Author:  jamonathin [ Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:05 pm ]
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I've been playing WoW for a couple years now, and I get moments of hardcore addiction to it. I've tried canceling my subscription, uninstalling it on myself, but all that does is piss me off when i try to play again, and hence waste more of my time setting it back up.

What you have to do is get your friend outside of the house. Get involved with school activities and work. To break my addiction I joined walksafe here at the University, i study at the University instead (being away from home), and take extra shifts at work. Get your friend away from the computer and off into RL lol.

Its the best method imo, because like Dan said, your friend will find away around a block. Get out, get involved, and the addiction will decrease and it will become a casual play.

Author:  TokenHerbz [ Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:30 pm ]
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casual means what though?

I mean i was playing it after work until bed. I was convinced i wasn't playing to much because my real life wasn't effected by it, meaning i still went with friends to get drunk on the weekends, still went to the movies and biked around, did stuff threw the week.

But i still pushed 40hours / week gaming time... with a full time job and other things. I guess my sleep was effected but being an insomniac i didn't think to much of it, but playing that much is kinda of excessive...

I ended up getting 4 70's, 2 epic ones (with 2 epic flying mounts), and got bored of the game entirely, yet i would still play, creating new characters to level up threw the same crap i just did 4 times in a row, to blow time out the door instead of doing more productive things. After my account was hijacked, it sunk into my head and the total amount of time wasted was worse then i thought.

I was a wow fiend, I get bored once in a while and think i could play it for a day a week or so, but i don't renew my account because its boring, kind of, its hard to say but when i was playing it was boring and it wasn't at the same time, which i think makes it an addiction.

I don't want to smoke these cigarettes but I am anyways, same idea. Just because you got off those cigarettes doesn't mean you wont start up again, you cant smoke casually, and in my case, i don't think i could play WoW casually. so i don't even try. Just my thoughts on wow, i don't know how come i typed so much, my mind ran off hehehe... don't ask why.. Smile

EDIT: I was just thinking this over, Is there such a thing as "Casual Smoking?"...

Author:  jamonathin [ Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:34 pm ]
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I think a good example of a casual smoker would be that girl that says "oh i only smoke when i drink"

You're right though, casual is an iffy word - depends on the person's defintion of casual. Casual playing (of WoW) is a saturday or sunday morning, the odd weekday after school / before bed. Even then it's quite extensive because they're usaully 5+ hour time slots. To be playing WoW casually, is still overplaying to anyone who doesn't play the game. If you think you're a casual player, go tell someone you know, who has no idea what WoW is, how much you play a week - or what your /played time is.

The only other game i sub WoW out for now is Guitar Hero 3 - and if you're any good your hands will start to ache after a couple hours of play that you'll be forced to stop =).

The problem with world of warcraft is that you can make so many 'online friends' that they start to become you're buddies. Vent doesn't help the situation either because you become closer to them.

Get yourself away from home, and active in extra cirricular activities - expand your RL. If that doesn't help - add up your /played time with all your characters, and wonder where your life went.

Author:  Tony [ Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:11 pm ]
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jamonathin @ Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:34 pm wrote:
I think a good example of a casual smoker would be that girl that says "oh i only smoke when i drink"

That's actually a mix of conditioning and lower cognitive abilities while drinking. Psychology is a complicated field, and sometimes the addition is stronger in a familiar situation. After a few drinks there's also less will power to fight off the nicotine craving.

My friend's ex was just that girl who "only smoke when she drinks". The problem was that she _had_ to smoke whenever she had a drink, and she'd be running out every 10 minutes for another hit. It might be casual in terms that it's not a 24/7 thing, but whenever she was out, it was a serious problem.

Author:  Tallguy [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:15 am ]
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if ur friends with an addicted person, just drag them out of their house to play ball or somerthing, get them away from the computer


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