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ZeroAX wrote:

Retrogamer0001 wrote:

ZeroAX wrote:I wish I had never played WoW and lost 3 years of my life. Regretful enough for ya?

Ditto, but Starcraft 2 for me...

It's that addicting?

Cause you know wow is designed to be a time sink. You have to spend 3-4 hours a day doing the same thing over and over, in order to be able to do what you really wanted to be doing (PvP in my case, Dungeon Raiding for most people)

In my opinion, it's the best strategy game ever made. The online competition is extremely addictive, to the point where I would often play for 10-12 hours a day. If you like RTS games, stay far, far away.

Retrogamer0001 wrote:In my opinion, it's the best strategy game ever made. The online competition is extremely addictive, to the point where I would often play for 10-12 hours a day. If you like RTS games, stay far, far away.

Wow. yeah but it wasn't "designed" to be a time sink. TF2 is also very addicting, but I tend to play 30-60 minutes a day (usually).

Heck I can play just for 10 minutes and I am going to enjoy myself in that short amount of time.

In wow you needed 10 minutes just to log in, check your mail/AH, and fly to the daily quest zone

ZeroAX wrote:

Retrogamer0001 wrote:In my opinion, it's the best strategy game ever made. The online competition is extremely addictive, to the point where I would often play for 10-12 hours a day. If you like RTS games, stay far, far away.

Wow. yeah but it wasn't "designed" to be a time sink. TF2 is also very addicting, but I tend to play 30-60 minutes a day (usually).

Heck I can play just for 10 minutes and I am going to enjoy myself in that short amount of time.

In wow you needed 10 minutes just to log in, check your mail/AH, and fly to the daily quest zone

If you want to play competitively, then yes, you're going to have to invest a serious amount of time into the game learning unit composition, control, and hotkeys, as well as the various race and unit matchups. Terrain and maps should also be studied. Most pros will play +40 matches a day, with most matches lasting around fifteen to twenty minutes. Since the game is so easy to pick up and play, and online matches are so addictive and plentiful, a lot of people dump a lot of time into the game.

Retrogamer0001 wrote:

ZeroAX wrote:

Retrogamer0001 wrote:In my opinion, it's the best strategy game ever made. The online competition is extremely addictive, to the point where I would often play for 10-12 hours a day. If you like RTS games, stay far, far away.

Wow. yeah but it wasn't "designed" to be a time sink. TF2 is also very addicting, but I tend to play 30-60 minutes a day (usually).

Heck I can play just for 10 minutes and I am going to enjoy myself in that short amount of time.

In wow you needed 10 minutes just to log in, check your mail/AH, and fly to the daily quest zone

If you want to play competitively, then yes, you're going to have to invest a serious amount of time into the game learning unit composition, control, and hotkeys, as well as the various race and unit matchups. Terrain and maps should also be studied. Most pros will play +40 matches a day, with most matches lasting around fifteen to twenty minutes. Since the game is so easy to pick up and play, and online matches are so addictive and plentiful, a lot of people dump a lot of time into the game.

My competitive sink hole was the Quake series. I put coutless hours into Quake 2 / Quake 3 and their various mods. I would say I regret that time (100s of hours) but at the same time I think that time made me who I am as a business person.

Buying a 360 instead of a PS3 at the beginning of this generation.

Not buying more Gamecube games when they were on shelves.

Forlorn Drifter wrote:Buying a 360 instead of a PS3 at the beginning of this generation.

That's so weird, that's what I was going to contribute. Perhaps buying a 360 at all would be more appropriate for me. Biggest waste of my gaming money ever.

irixith wrote:

Forlorn Drifter wrote:Buying a 360 instead of a PS3 at the beginning of this generation.

That's so weird, that's what I was going to contribute. Perhaps buying a 360 at all would be more appropriate for me. Biggest waste of my gaming money ever.

At the point I bought it, everything indicated that everything was pointing to the 360 going to be the best all around. Then PS3 started getting good exclusives, and it all went down the hole.

Already posted this in the other thread:

Trading my Genesis, Sega CD, and games for an Atari Jaguar.

Trading a Neo Geo (AES) and a couple games for 4-5 3DO games....

I'll be here all day with my regrets. Some main ones off the top of my head?

Not keeping the boxes for anything.

Not getting into Nintendo Power when I had the chance.

Trading away my original consoles and games back in the day to upgrade.

Not buying Gamecube/DS/PSP games when they were cheap. Now Gamestop no longer sells them...at least the ones around me don't any more.

My biggest regret? Ever picking up a damn controller in the first place. I mean how many hours, days, weeks, months and years could I have back if I never picked up an NES controller and played Super Mario Bros? That got me addicted to gaming and has caused idk how many problems in my life and for what? Some fictional characters getting a happy ending? I might love gaming but given the chance I think I would go back and stop my younger self...

Main one would be trading a bunch of dreamcast games for like 1 or 2 Xbox 360 games when I first got my console at the beginning of the generation. Had no clue I would be spending later years hunting back down most of the games I traded away.