Breakfast Topic: I'm late!
by David Bowers 
Jan 16th 2008 at 9:45AM
Today's breakfast topic is not only an opportunity to share horror stories about what happened when you or someone you know played WoW without checking the clock, but it's also a handy reminder to always stay aware of the real world, where time is measured in minutes and hours rather than levels and gear.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Hank Jan 16th 2008 10:00AM
Yeah, I was so busy playing with my kid one day, I missed my first Kara raid.
Naix Jan 16th 2008 10:01AM
*Yawn
In fact this happened last night. I was LFG for WSG premades for about an hour. Than about 15 minutes before bedtime a I saw "WSG Premade with 200+ resil LF any healers." come across the trade channel. I quickly sent a "/w inv me" to the premade leader. We ran ABs and WSG for 2 hours and made like 5k honor simply rolling over anyone in our path. Now I am going on 4 hours sleep and 2 cups of coffee. I can't wait to do it all over again.
Wired Jan 16th 2008 10:07AM
Premades can definitely make you forget what time it is. Gotta love EOTS, 2000-0, 5 min wins :)
Perrins Jan 16th 2008 10:11AM
lol i got home yesterday at midnight from RL work and logged in to finish dailies that should have taken at most 45 min. so i would log off at 1am and get 9 hours before having to return to work right. well running up zanger seems the farmers were not there today so i proceeded to farm zanger for ore. then made my way up to BEM for dailies and farmed it for ore then i did my round and farmed some more ore. ended up with 3 stacks of Ada, 5 stacks of Fel, a stack of Korh and Eter each and logged at 4am. at least i have blacksmithing regents now.....
gliterhammer Jan 16th 2008 10:30AM
ah yes the old "just one more mob, one more quest, one more vein/herb node" problem.
my problem is Guild raid nights followed by "just a quick" dungeon run. Last wednesday we downed gruul and got to chess in kara and it was only when five of our team lost it as they ran into a room full of trash, despite being told not to three times, that we called it as they were clearly suffering from sleep deprivation and or lack of concentration!!!!!
happens to me all the time - i accept my addiction and continue.
this is the only way to get better "sic".
Cap Jan 16th 2008 10:27AM
I'm a victim of the "one more level" bug... when I was a teacher, I would go home during my lunch hour and proceed to level my characters, only to find the time slip by faster than I'd hoped and I'd be late to my 7th hour class (as the teacher!).
Milktub Jan 16th 2008 10:37AM
Sometimes it'll happen in an instance.
"Just one more try" turns into "we had him at 1%, just one more try" turns into "I was lagging, just once more" turns into "my cooldowns are up now, let's give it another go" turns into ... then you realize you're looking down the barrel of two hours before you have to be to work.
But it's not nearly as bad as when I play CivIV, the series that originated the "Just one more ..." syndrome.
Tolento Jan 16th 2008 10:39AM
In the old honor system, I worked my way all the way to rank 14 while trying to maintain a full time job. At about midway through rank 13, I was fired from that job for sleeping at work. Nuff said.
sylectris Jan 16th 2008 11:57PM
yeah, the first time i sat down and played wow one night at about 10:00pm. i realized how long i had been playing when my dad came out of his room and the sun was rising...whoops.
somerandomguy Jan 16th 2008 4:57PM
Pre BC a friend of mine played so much he fell asleep during an MC run, not so bad but he fell asleep on his keyboard and proceeded to charge headlong into shaz whilst the rest of his group wailed for him to stop to no avail! Funny as hell!
LostOne Jan 16th 2008 11:19AM
I know I have the type of personality where I'll keep playing, so I set a timer or alarm to let me know I need to be logging off. My cellphone has an alarmclock in it and it's annoying and persistant. It will beep for a minute, snooze itself for 5 minutes and keep going off ever 5 minutes until you pick up the phone and shut it off. So I have an alarm set for bedtime every night and set the phone out of reach. So in order to shut the alarm off I have to set the laptop on the table and go over to my phone, thus breaking my concentration and my "gotta do one more _____" mentality.
If I ever get fired from a job because of a game, I'll stop playing that game (hasn't happened yet).
LostOne Jan 16th 2008 11:19AM
I know I have the type of personality where I'll keep playing, so I set a timer or alarm to let me know I need to be logging off. My cellphone has an alarmclock in it and it's annoying and persistant. It will beep for a minute, snooze itself for 5 minutes and keep going off ever 5 minutes until you pick up the phone and shut it off. So I have an alarm set for bedtime every night and set the phone out of reach. So in order to shut the alarm off I have to set the laptop on the table and go over to my phone, thus breaking my concentration and my "gotta do one more _____" mentality.
If I ever get fired from a job because of a game, I'll stop playing that game (hasn't happened yet).
Bromius Jan 16th 2008 11:22AM
I have experienced a few changes to my WoW time lately - my wife began playing and I started a website for my guild. The unintended impact has been that now I have an alt I have to play when duoing with my wife and I get caught up in site registrations, updates, etc. The result has been an increased amount of stress and a reduction in my own progression. However I must admit that I like my new roles:)
Jurarandonee Jan 16th 2008 11:29AM
Oh yeah- "the just one more thing".. I didn't understand WOW when my kids first started playing it; I'd yell "Quit NOW! your time is up!" only to be told, "But Mom, I have to (fillin the blank with: turn in a quest, get two more guys, find one more herb, get to a safe inn...), and then I'll quit!"
So it was only when I finally rolled a character and started playing did I understand. And only when we tried to run Wailing Caverns with 6 people did I understand the throwing yourself against the bosses one last time (armor in shreads, all weapons busted) and five hours later you realise you can't even see straight......
The next day people were inviting me to run WC and I kept saying NO- spent 5 or 6 hours in there the other night.....
Not a horror story, exactly, but my kids were saying, "I told you so!"
Cheers,
Jurarndonee
Brent Jan 16th 2008 12:20PM
I have never had this happen, but I have had the experience of thinking only about 15 minutes had passed when it had really been closer to 3 hours!
It felt like when you driving on a long road trip and suddenly you are several miles down the road, and you don't remember getting there.
George M. Jan 16th 2008 12:49PM
We live in an age when it is socially acceptable to say, "I can't go I got to raid."
Patyn Jan 16th 2008 3:11PM
Sadly (or maybe not), I have yet to talk my friends into believing that one :)
rob.land Jan 16th 2008 1:16PM
I logged on one night, started playing, decided to log off after what I thought had been just a few hours. Knocked on my son's bedroom door to tell him to turn off the light and go to sleep, no answer. Opened the door, no son, in fact all his stuff was gone and the room was filled with baby stuff, crib and such. Long story short, turns out I had been playing for three years straight. My son has graduated high school and is in his second year of college. My wife has left me for my brother and she's eight months pregnant.
I think I'll go log in for a few more hours.
Hank Jan 16th 2008 1:47PM
So that's how my widow feels...
/win
Stopher Jan 16th 2008 1:39PM
Most time loss is usually due to an instance run for me. I remember one night my brother and I joined a group for ST around 10 PM. We were doing fine till the tank thought it was a good idea to go play his piano instead of playing, we found this out when another member of the group (I think it was one of his friends) said he could hear him playing it. We didn't get done till around 2 AM. Its not that much of a time loss, but we could have been done a lot earlier.