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Originally Posted by {m}
OK let's do some calculations...
If this was your full time job, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, it would have kept you busy for 27 months (that's including 4 weeks holidays per year).
If you had been getting paid at the average NZ wage for a male, you would have earned $115,452 in that time.
Though probably you've been doing something else with your days and only playing WoW in evenings and weekends. Say you get home about 6pm, eat until 7pm, just straight on the PC and play until 11pm, plus spend 8 hours on Saturday and Sunday playing. That would mean 36 hours a week WoW time.
That adds up to a solid 2 years and 4 months of spending all your spare time playing WoW. Your profile says you're 28. That means you've spent 23% of your adult life (since 18) doing nothing in your free time but play WoW.
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Honestly haven't played that solid in years, but yes I was very addicted to the game on release up to BC release in jan 2007 and I was unemployed for 5 months during that period (from release to BC coming out) so I clocked up an unhealthy amount of hours.. what you describe there is pretty much what I did during that time, which came at the expense of the programming I was doing at the time. Its pretty fucken scary looking back on it, and it caught pretty much all of my real life friends too.
A count up of the characters I've played since BC adds up to 720 hours which for 3.5 years on 1 game is pretty reasonable in my books. My spare time these days is hanging out, programming or gaming. I might watch 5 hours of TV in a month.