my brother's everquest addiction

Heners_UK · Post by **Heners_UK** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:20 pm

It'd be a good idea to forcefully take him on a vacation like heners said. away from anything computer-like.

Another tactic could be to get him addicted to something else and then get him down from that.

Stiffer · Post by **Stiffer** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:15 pm

i dunno but i think deleting his account where he has been working on for 3 years will make him kill you, i think its better to sell it for $500 over ebay

Kungfubar · Post by **Kungfubar** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 11:04 am

i was hooked on eq for 2 years, sat on my fat ass all day and played the damn game to get phat lewt~

my account got hacked into, all my items stolen and char deleted

best thing that ever happened to me

Angeldust · Post by **Angeldust** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:52 am

It'd be a good idea to forcefully take him on a vacation like heners said. away from anything computer-like.

Another tactic could be to get him addicted to something else and then get him down from that.

Yeah. Lee try getting him a gameboy or something. Get him hooked on tetris or some other thing like that. He wont be able to connect to the net on a handheld hence the addiction would be shortlived.

okay that was stupid + I'm sleepy.

Or you could try having a heart to heart with him, maybe that'll eventually work.

Goodnight.

Angeldust · Post by **Angeldust** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:55 am

i was hooked on eq for 2 years, sat on my fat ass all day and played the damn game to get phat lewt~

my account got hacked into, all my items stolen and char deleted

best thing that ever happened to me

thats a good idea Fubar. Maybe mr.lee you can get someone ot h@x his account and do that to him. he wont be able to blame anyone, and he'll realize he just lost something he put 3 years of time in, and maybe through that process realizing what a waste of tikme EQ's been.

fufet · Post by **fufet** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:45 am

well i did a little more research about your bro, plays on sullon zek in the guild Hate, www.hateguild.org. by looking at his equip (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=310967) can see he plays a lot too since he and his guild are both pretty high end. dunno if that helps at all, but thought id share

otto · Post by **otto** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:27 pm

yea, i suggest making it look like his account was hacked...but in truth change the password and perhaps sell the items on ebay, then after a little while, when hes over his addictions, give him a cheque for $100 or whatever you get from teh auctions.

Heners_UK · Post by **Heners_UK** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:10 pm

yea, i suggest making it look like his account was hacked...but in truth change the password and perhaps sell the items on ebay, then after a little while, when hes over his addictions, give him a cheque for $100 or whatever you get from teh auctions.

Better yet, this while he is away. It would be less suspicious if he came back to find his account hacked (because he hasnt been using it every day) than to see guilty faces on you and your mum.

KodiaK · Post by **KodiaK** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 4:44 am

ya, cs fucked up my life last year. i would just stay up till 10 am playing it and then sleep till the next night skipping all of my classes in the meantime. ?I think i went to a total of 4 classes winter term last year, it was bad. ?It destroyed my 'mommy and daddy' scholarship and i'm starting back at square one after losing an entire year. ?Then i had this summer without cs cuz of 56k, so i got back this year, and i see now how much my life was out of wack, i still get withdrawls, but games can be a lot more dangerous than people think. ?it has to be cold turkey, just cut them off, then they have to do something else to get their minds off of it, and then slowely you see that you were wasting your life and got absolutely nothing except a lot of fucking negatives. ?He'll get through it, but its not fun. its like a breakup, at first life sucks, but every day that goes by is a day that you recover a little bit more. ?good luck lee and ur bro

SwedeRacer · Post by **SwedeRacer** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:46 pm

ya, cs fucked up my life last year. i would just stay up till 10 am playing it and then sleep till the next night skipping all of my classes in the meantime. ?I think i went to a total of 4 classes winter term last year, it was bad. ?

Whats almost pathetic about this is that CS has nowhere near the addicting capability of EQ.

Just look at fufets earlier post, where he said that he's currently doing the most boring fight in the history of like anything. Well why play it? Because its addicting, and despite the fact that the fight is nothing more then half the people clicking a single button then going afk for like 30 minutes, and the other half clicking the same button every couple seconds for the duration. CS has a certain fun value, but its nowhere as addicting.