Are You Addicted to RuneScape? I Was
Are you addicted to Runescape? If you are, it is good that you’re getting so much enjoyment out of playing the game. However, addiction might not be a very good thing. I used to be addicted to Runescape. Here is my experience.
I started playing Runescape in my freshman year in high school after a friend recommended it to me, and I was immediately hooked. In no time, my friends and I were all subscribing members. I would spend hours on the servers every day doing a wide variety of things from questing to skilling to merchanting. My friends and I would meet up and complete quests together. It was obvious – I was addicted.
Runescape soon started interering with my schooling. I would play while doing homework. I would sometimes even play from school on my laptop. Along came the end of the semester – time for finals. When I really should have been studying for finals, I was playing Runescape. How were my grades at the end of the semester? Not good. They weren’t terrible grades or anything, but I definitely could have done much better. By the following semester, much of the Runescape wave that had been going through me and my friends has gone past. I played less and less. I was able to devote much more of my time during that semester to schoolwork, as I was no longer playing so much Runescape. My grades that semester? Not quite straight A’s, but almost. Looking back at my previous semester, I regretted letting my addiction to Runescape take over my life since it prevented me from performing up to my full potential.
Runescape can be very addicting, and once you’re addicted, you may not realize that you’re spending way more time on it than you should be. There’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of all the enjoyable experiences the game has to offer, but it shouldn’t interefere with the more important things in life, such as school. If you think you’re getting addicted to Runescape and that it is taking time away from the other things in your life, then I suggest making an effort to reconsider your priorities. If you don’t, there will be consequences that you will come to regret once you get over that addiction. Having personally experienced it, I can say that for sure.
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Addiction is sucked. I always use my daily schedule to control the duration of my gameplay in Runescape. I was becoming like you too for couple of weeks back then but thanks to the schedule, it’s no longer happened.
With Windows Steady State you can shut down your computer after x hour of playing. I didn’t do, therefore I was addicted too..
But I could take control over my mind and now I feel myself wise:
http://gameolosophy.com/games/online/runescape/why-did-i-stop-playing-runescape/
I love how you guys act like its like a disease.
You can get addicted to DRUGS not a video game. Its called the game being well made and enjoyable not addicting like heroine.
there are differnt kinds of addictions not just drug adictions. you can be addicted to anything that is joyable or profitable. When you start doing something continuously and dont want to quit it becomes an adiction. I was addicted to runscape for a while but I realized its not really that good of a game so I moved on to better things. The most important thing though is to not let it become an idol but keep God first in life. It would be nice if more people were addicted to God
the word you are looking for is habatual not addiction.
the good stuff, you sir are a failure of epic proportions.
Runescape is gay, especially after they deleted wildy, but then again you can also play and have good grades. however I do not play anymore.
I had this exact same experiance.
Addictions can go from eating to drugs, to porn. Some are stronger than others but they all can control your life. So before you say something is not an addiction, do some research… or use a dictionary… But nice article, I have my own article about my way of getting unaddicted to FFXI.
Yeah, Runescape can be an addiction, not just drugs…and its not just habitual.
Nice article…lotsa $$$ I suppose…
I haven’t played Runescape, but World of Warcraft consumes a huge portion of my time.
Nice article, yes runescape is addictive and believe me i should know but i quitted slowly when i thougth about how much i was wasting time. but yea
Great article, I think I should learn from it, get a life, and do more school work instead of playing games all the time.
@Dr. Oct: Belive, I knew people they was playing all day and all night, 12-13 hrs per day, sometimes missed school to play .. Do you rate this normal? An addicted has no offline life.
Interesting
nteresting
thanks for this great piece
@dr octagon
You can get addicted to almost anything, drugs, games, even types of food it depends on how often you play/consume the item(s) and how suceptable you are to addiction!
I am currently in the stage of liking it less and less… It is sad. I wasted from 6 to 10th grade on Runescape… 65m, 250 qp, multiple 99s for nothing…
GREAT ARTICLE.
INFORMATIVE TOO..
i just dont understand it. why get addicted to it? it is not that good, i only go on a game 1 hour a week
THEY BROUGHT BACK WILDY ELEMENT80
Game addiction is worse than facebook addiction.
This is how you not get addicted. Sell everything you have and drop the money on the ground. Then walk away. Now, you’ll never play it again!
lol i quit a long time a when they ruined the game,,
thats what nearly happened to me!