Current Events > Did you know anyone who failed out of school cuz of an MMO? >_>

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NeonOPPAl
03/18/24 7:10:43 PM
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A classmate in high school repeated 10th grade and I'm 99% sure it was cuz he played Runescape too much >_>

And there were 2 dormmates that failed out of college cuz they would just play WoW all day everyday and never go to class

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Naysaspace
03/18/24 7:13:04 PM
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Other: No.

They were (And still are, 20ish years later) severely addicted to World of Warcraft. They also flunked out/dropped out of their fine arts degree. One didn't influence the other, the dropout was because of other reasons. But the dropout also increased the MMO playing by quite a bit

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Dakimakura
03/18/24 7:14:59 PM
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I dropped out of high school because I just wanted to play video games.

Most of that time was spent playing Runescape then eventually World of Warcraft.

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Iodine
03/18/24 7:55:49 PM
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Yeah I dropped out of college because of my Wow addiction.

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Jaguar34
03/18/24 7:56:55 PM
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NBA 2K11 MyPlayer did that to me but I was working to go to another state
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Bass
03/18/24 7:57:36 PM
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Nah, no one I'm aware of.

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Glob
03/18/24 8:00:15 PM
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The brother of a friend just wasted his life away playing WoW. As in, apart from eating, sleeping and the occasional reluctant attempt at basic hygiene, its all he did from the age of about 15. Last I heard, he was 35 and still living like that. I have no reason to think anything has changed.
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NeonOPPAl
03/18/24 8:37:15 PM
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Glob posted...
The brother of a friend just wasted his life away playing WoW. As in, apart from eating, sleeping and the occasional reluctant attempt at basic hygiene, its all he did from the age of about 15. Last I heard, he was 35 and still living like that. I have no reason to think anything has changed.
Geez

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BloodMoon7
03/18/24 8:38:18 PM
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Stop blaming video games for your poor choices

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bfslick50
03/18/24 8:45:52 PM
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He didnt fail out but his grades certainly took a hit for a semester in college. He even changed his sleep cycle to play with the Japanese players.

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MrResetti
03/18/24 8:47:19 PM
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A friend of mine had a roommate that skipped class for LoL and ended up failing classes
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NeonOPPAl
03/18/24 8:48:52 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Minecraft looked like that in beta? wow

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Hexenherz
03/18/24 8:51:39 PM
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I knew people at my tech school (military) who were too addicted to MMOs and were not completing homework/studying enough to complete it.

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NeonOPPAl
03/18/24 9:32:18 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Well that story took a downward turn quickly >_>

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NightRender
03/18/24 9:33:47 PM
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A friend missed a final from playing too much Dota.

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thronedfire2
03/18/24 9:36:25 PM
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my playing WoW 16 hours a day was only a coincidence

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YellowSUV
03/18/24 9:37:26 PM
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MMO, no. I however knew someone who dropped out of college because of video games in general. He never played MMOs though.

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deathproof12
03/18/24 9:39:55 PM
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I did but it was more out of severe depression than the video games. If it wasn't for Video games it would be hard drugs.
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Ranting__Nord
03/18/24 9:42:23 PM
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I'm sure I could have done better in college without FFXI.

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Kradek
03/18/24 9:53:34 PM
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They've definitely hindered my scholastic objectives, however never failed/dropped out over it and don't know anybody who personally did.

Mine were Tibia and WoW

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mystic_belmont
03/18/24 9:55:01 PM
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I failed a math course because of WoW.

And also because I thought taking math at 8:00 in the morning was a smart idea.

I quit WoW pretty much right after.

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ForsakenHermit
03/18/24 9:58:25 PM
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My brother would have but my parents pulled the plug on him playing WoW. He was in high school and came home with a grade of 4 (out of 100) for the final quarter of his Earth Science class. Had I came home with a grade that low I would have gotten a firing squad.

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Kradek
03/18/24 10:02:58 PM
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ForsakenHermit posted...
My brother would have but my parents pulled the plug on him playing WoW. He was in high school and came home with a grade of 4 (out of 100) for the final quarter of his Earth Science class. Had I came home with a grade that low I would have gotten a firing squad.

I've always found single digit grades somehow more insulting and demeaning than an actual 0. Like, getting a 7 on a test would be devastating because it means I at least understood something, getting a 0 means being totally out of your element.

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joe_stalin518
03/18/24 10:06:07 PM
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Yes it was pso for Sega dreamcast

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NeonOPPAl
03/19/24 12:41:04 AM
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I remember Matt from Super Best Friends telling a story about falling a semester of college due to playing too much Animal Crossing

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Sufferedphoenix
03/19/24 2:28:17 AM
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Glob posted...
The brother of a friend just wasted his life away playing WoW. As in, apart from eating, sleeping and the occasional reluctant attempt at basic hygiene, its all he did from the age of about 15. Last I heard, he was 35 and still living like that. I have no reason to think anything has changed.

Yeah I knew a guy just like that. In his 30s still living with his mother
You know it's a problem When we came back from a store run and his mom greets us at the door with "don't you have a raid at 8 you're about to be late"

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JimmyFraska
03/19/24 2:41:17 AM
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I got severely distracted from my irl job running a guild on an RP server like two years ago.
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Mad-Dogg
03/19/24 3:10:42 AM
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I still finished highschool but I can't lie my grades took a beating since I was hooked on dreamcast PSO in my senior year. I was one of the seniors that still had a full day line-up of classes compared to most who just had half-days and was dipping out at like 12pm or so at that point.

My college experience was worst because that was the time period when gsmecube pso episode 1 and 2, Diablo 2 on PC, plus the og xbox with it's og xbox live enabled games like capcom vs snk 2 eo, return to castle wolfenstein, xbox pso episode 1 and 2, and halo 2 was out. All of which I very much put a crapton of hours in.

(I was also dealing with a lot of chronic pain issues but I still believe I would have been fine if I wasn't playing so much online gaming at that point in time).

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Nirvanas_Nox
03/19/24 3:52:19 AM
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My brother dropped out of high school to play WoW. He ended up going to Job Corps a little after that cuz he realized he fucked up and after that he joined the army.

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Rika_Furude
03/19/24 3:58:35 AM
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I dont know anyone who failed cause of that

i played way too much RuneScape and WoW as a kid and in uni. But I always did the bare minimum to pass
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coolguyjimmy
03/19/24 4:15:34 AM
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I knew someone like that... and I'm not mentioning any names, but he's a semi-successful streamer, earning more than all his peers, and laughing all the way to the Hearthstone.
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PerseusRad
03/19/24 4:17:18 AM
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I dont think so, but chances are I wouldnt know even if I did know someone who did that.
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Sun_Xiao
03/19/24 4:22:42 AM
#37:


Unfortunately no, I came from 1980's generation that MMORPG never existed. I do believe some of classmate flunked at college because all they did were play video games or partying.
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Voidgolem
03/19/24 4:32:50 AM
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No.

Pretty sure I personally would have been better off if I hadn't gotten into WoW and League during my academic years, but it wasn't to the point of failure or doing particularly poorly

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NeonOPPAl
03/19/24 8:45:40 AM
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My math class grade definitely slipped a little during high school cuz of Runescape >_>

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NeonOPPAl
03/19/24 3:21:19 PM
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balls

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EndOfDiscOne
03/19/24 3:29:27 PM
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Yes, I was a freshman in college when WoW craze hit. I had two friends who were roommates with each other who failed out due to WoW.

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cadcrafter
03/19/24 3:37:01 PM
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Nobody I knew except my brother played MMOs, and he failed out of school for completely different reasons

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ironman2009
03/19/24 3:38:01 PM
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I don't associate with nerds.

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TheFuriousInch
03/19/24 4:00:06 PM
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Me.

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NeonOPPAl
03/19/24 4:01:26 PM
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TheFuriousInch posted...
Me.
Was it WoW?

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Hayame_Zero
03/19/24 4:02:31 PM
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Not school, but I had a coworker at Walmart who quit because his mom started paying for his subscription. He constantly said "the only reason I have this job is so I can pay for WoW". Once she finally started paying it, he just quit.

Dude was in his 20s.

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TheFuriousInch
03/19/24 4:07:07 PM
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NeonOPPAl posted...
Was it WoW?
I was too poor for WoW. It was anything free.

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NeonOPPAl
03/20/24 1:36:06 PM
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bump

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