RuneScape Addicts

Runescape Addicts

Hello, I’m Jason, and I’m a Runescape addict. On a more serious note, I actually was. Runescape was consuming my whole life. I was playing for 12 or more hours a day on weekends and holidays and at least 3 on weekdays. I was obsessed and it was becoming a problem. 

I’m sure many of you can relate to my experience, and maybe not just, or at all on Runescape. There are many other great, fantastic games out there that are potential death traps to those to get into it. Once you’re hooked; like drugs, your attitude towards other things change; you start to think of it constantly; you become antisocial; and overall, you just change. Perhaps, this is extremely over dramatized, but yes, being addicted to games does change you. I’m sure many of you have experienced this at one point of your life with some sort of a game or another.

Here’s my experience: I was introduced to the game by a friend of mine in the 7th grade. I sorta eased into it, playing it mostly because my friends were playing it. Then it started catching on… like a disease, it spread, and I found myself liking the game more and more. I wanted that armor, that weapon. I wanted to “pwn” n00bs. I began playing increasingly. Some of my grades slipped, but I always had high grades and found it very easy to keep up with them. This just exasperated the problem. Because I was able to quickly get through my homework, I allotted myself more time to play, and the more hooked I became. I was enchanted the the friends, skills, armor, and other great aspects of the game. As my real-life friends around me started turning their interest towards other things, I was still caught. I began tweaking and nerding my character in order to progress it further. En-raveled, enchanted, caught, stuck in my own temporal Runescape loop. I enjoyed it at times, other times it made my head hurt after longs hours of the same repetitive motions.

This continued for about 3 years. Towards the latter half of those years, I really began getting into Runescape and poured increasingly time into it. Then, all of a sudden, I no longer had the urge to play. I felt that I’d accomplished everything I had wanted to. I felt as if I had wasted those thousands of hours playing. Looking back, I’m sort of proud of my character that I had built up. I left “him” behind at level 129, with 5 skillcapes. I’m not sad that I left Runescape behind, and I do check on it from time to time. But, now I feel as if there are many better things to do besides playing Runescape. However, I do continue to write articles about it, sharing parts of my expertise for some advertising revenue! Feel free to share you Runescape experiences through the comments below!