Breakfast Topic: Relieving stress

Posted Jan 8th 2008 8:01AM by David Bowers
Filed under: Breakfast topics

Usually we think of WoW as a way to relieve stress that we acquire in real life. Yet sometimes stressful things happen in WoW, and we need to find ways in real life to relieve them. I find that whenever something like this happens in the game, from battleground whining and insulting, to trouble finding good roleplayers, it does me a world of good to write about it on WoW Insider in some constructive manner. Not only do I address the problem in myself this way, resolving my own attitude towards it, but I do something that, I hope, helps other people who are experiencing the same problem in their own gaming as well. Many WoW players have blogs of their own, and I presume writing there has a similar effect.

What do you do in real life to relieve stress from WoW-related problems?

Tags: blogs, insulting, relief, roleplayers, rp, stress, whining, write, writing

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-08-2008 @ 8:21AM

MechChef said...

I stop playing WoW for a while.

1-10-2008 @ 2:33PM

JaeZeela said...

Go out for a power walk or jog. Funny; I've been doing that more and more lately!

1-08-2008 @ 8:26AM

pallyjohn said...

I normally cut off the WoW sounds and play music and hit the BGS....i dont care if i win or lose just want to set some stuff on fire :P

1-08-2008 @ 8:35AM

Paw said...

I run to the horde lowbie zones and run around the players whistling, winking, hugging, etc. I follow them everywhere they go for a while cheering when they kill something. Basically, I annoy them. And it relieves some of my gaming stress.

1-08-2008 @ 8:42AM

ThorinII said...

ALT+F4 FTW!

1-08-2008 @ 8:44AM

Gungehammer said...

Single malt whisky

1-08-2008 @ 8:46AM

pallyjohn said...

ALT+F4 FTW???? more like *anger spasm* axe + computer tower FTW! lol

1-08-2008 @ 9:22AM

insidian said...

It's a game. It's there to relieve real life stress.

1-08-2008 @ 10:10AM

SimpleSurvival said...

signed for truth

When wow becomes stressful, what you need to do is take a 1 week break... Seriously (or not) its just a game. Its not like minesweeper... When you die in the game, you just have to run back to your corpse.

The worst thing a person can do to themselves is take a trivial matter seriously... If wow isn't fun... DON'T PLAY IT!
Don't get stuck in some senseless routine where you torture yourself just out of habit.

1-08-2008 @ 11:08AM

Exanimo said...

I'm a true Wow addict so blogging about it (with matching title: http://fulltimewow.blogspot.com) doesn't really gets my mind of Wow too be honest. But i suppose that is the intention. :)

1-08-2008 @ 1:30PM

kunukia said...

I take a nap.

1-08-2008 @ 2:10PM

mcclary said...

Guitar Hero anyone?

1-09-2008 @ 6:36PM

ketsya said...

i play my low lvl char =)

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