Your family and gaming - sharing the xp

[Blazul]

I'm bored, the html code i have to fix isn't working and i need to waste some time before i can go home and waste 3 hours doing dailys.

So I thought let's read up on some shared experiance

So the question is how does your family look at your gaming addiction? (we are paying to play. We are addicted face it )

Now I can say while my dad and brother both have their gameing moments (Dad having invested thousands of hours in Simcity and the whole c&c series and brother having his off and on gaming moments (Like our FF10 marathon which burned out our ps2 in one week)) mom is being the obstinate game hater. One of those persons that would prefer gaming was never invented 
Similar calls were the gf's. I prefer just telling them i'm going out drinking with the friends rather then even bothering to explain why I want to raid in wow xD
One of the few tries I tried to involve them into it backfired so badly we actualy broke up over it   (Note: No metter how funny you think giving her a present in a wow box is DO NOT DO IT.)

But I'm deviating from the topic. So no metter how advanced my culture seems to be it's heavily regarded here as a kid's thing. What trouble do you go through? I must say i'm especialy interested into those of you that allready have their successors, how are you managing it for them?

Feel free to post here or in a pm ^^

[Selassie]

I have the advantage/disadvantage of being a relatively old (29) computer game addict, so most of my friends are pretty much like myself (since I've had the time already "phase out" boring people who prefers redecorating their home, long walks, getting drunk a bit too often, watching the darn tv, sports etc.) 

Most of my friends have similar interests, being single or in a relationship doesn't really change anything. It just gives less time for one activity and more for another. If I find myself being in a relationship with someone who has no hobbies..... I tend to flee. People who has no interests/hobbies scares me. They are either alcoholics or workoholics.

So far I've mostly experienced that when I tell people I play wow, they sort of smile a bit and call me a little nerd. Then they ask why I play it so much and I explain that for me it's in a way like playing in a semi serious football team with a bunch of people with similar minds=fun. It... usually ends up with them getting a demo account muahahaaa, the addiction spreads! . The only times people whine about me rather playing wow than hanging out with them is when I choose wow over getting drunk... which is kind of strange.... I mean.... getting drunk isn't really what I'd call a better way to spend one's time really. I never choose wow over music, but since both activities (well raiding and playing in bands) does require planning, it's fairly easy to keep the two separated.

Gaming is still a fairly new way of entertainment. So that some old narrow minded people frowns on it is to be expected. I'm sure both listening to radio, watching the TV, collecting stamps, trainspotting, fiddle around with cars or any other non-getting-drunk related hobbies had it's share of prejudice back in it's days of being a new way of recreation.

/Sini - My name is Andy, and I am an addict!

[Reiq]

Hi my name is Fredik AKA Reîq for 99% of my time when im not working. Yes addict for life xD

I got two brothers, both of them have games in thier lifes, one of them play need for speed and race games like that 24/7 and diablo. My middle brother plays call of duty and games like that, so do my dad (myth freak! one and two). My mom plays thinking games and stuff like tetris and so. Its not a wieard thing and have never been in my family, games have always been there. Sure my dad can ask me what "the fun" is in wow and so on, when i meet him, and why I play it so much, but still he understand after his Myth playing XD

[seresh]

  My Family are obviously happy with me gaming, and join in. In fact the only reason I started playing wow was jo join in with my husbands life, rather than become a widow to a computer game :p

  My friends at work know that i play... and kind of understand the social reasons.
((but they are all students so they would))

  Anyone that is not immediate family, that i think highly of has NO idea, and i wouldnt tell them.

 The problem comes with me... wanting to do right for my family and feeling guilty for turning WoW on in the 10 mins before Lilly-anna goes to bed **feels like a bad parent**
So while they are fine with my addiction, it worries me that i am not keeping a healthy ballance with it, and sometimes i get cross with myself and the game, and over compensate **blushes**


 I have the best family in the world and we all do our best for them eh?

[ryuujin]

hmm family understanding gaming now that is a fun idea i like .

my family are very much beach ppl. my dad is a surfer and my mom a sun tanner hehe. so anything indoors if kinda strange to them. when i started gaming which was prob diablo 1 hehe . if i play a game for than a week in a row then they say im obsessed so you can imagine how they react to WoW hehe. well it easy enough when u have a headset kinda drains out the moaning .

so yea my family not interested in gaming and dont understand the social side of it but they getting better

Hi my name is Aaron and im a WoW addict and proud hehe

[Sethian]

My parents aren't gamers, and they're not fond of me being either, but I've found some ways to handle them.

When I didn't have my own computer, my dad used to complain when he wanted to use it and I had been on for more than an hour. When I got my own he stopped caring.

The fact that I found him surfing questionable sites might have something to do with it. In fact that's how I got my own machine. I'm calling it mutual understanding, he calls it extortion. Go figure.

My mom gets hissy fits periodically, to which I first replied "atleast you know where I am, I could be out there drinking like the other 14-year-olds". That worked for a good few years, then she started at it again.

Since she didn't seem to care, I thought it was fitting to go drinking like the other 16-year-olds. Another peaceful phase, then she had a go at me again last summer...

After the next night out, after coming home and the "where have you been, mister?!" speech I spontaneously threw up on the floor, followed by some guilt games.

So we're living in the eye of the storm again. By the next one I hope I've either moved out for college, else I'm not sure what I should do. Either bringing a prostitute home or get caught smoking pot in my room would be the logical step I suppose.

My 10yo brother has just about every Pokémon game, plays Runescape and whatever I've left in the ps2. He's developed a healthy relation with the Tony Hawk's and Metal Gear Solid series.

[Voslan]

Hey ppl.
Omg this is the best topic ever !

Well tbh my main problem was my parents... they kept telling me that at my age, was around 21 around than, if i play computergames i'm retarded and i'm gonna end up going to college with a AK 47 and blow my collegues heads off What they failed to see was that they bought me a freaking PC when i was like 5 years old so they were the ones that pushed me into this madness . Anyway at some point i left home, rented a place for my own and case closed.

The other problem is girlfriends... that expect me to merry her and have kids asap  I mannaged to keep them away from wow by telling that it's the only way i can disconnect from the daily stress i endure at work and all that crap and i need this time to relax and build up my batteries

I hope this helps

I'm 27 and a proud addict !