World of Warcraft killed our gaming group!

[Kae'Yoss]

You get up too late

That's impossible. As long as I don't live like the lions - sleeping 20 hours a day, I get up waaay to early.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

Only 1 player in our group has ever had WoW disrupt the game. 1 other player besides him plays WoW. The rest of us just don't like MMOs. Both of them have pretty much stopped playing right now though.

 

[VoidDragon]

Out of 11 people in our group (Only half shows up -_- ) 5 people play WoW. They know not to talk about it during D&D however. The only mention being when the Orc Barbarian said, "Kek-kek-kek-kek" and I gave him a "What the in the nine hells?" look.

But when we are not roleplaying, it's all they ever talk about!

 

[Ibram]

In my current group there are three people who play WoW (encluding mysefl) all of whom have lvl 60s. Most others at the table have played the game, or are at least familiar with it. No one has skiped a game due to raiding (I schedule my raids for thursday-friday night or sunday).

We do make WoW jokes. The "!" over a quest givers head is quite popular as is the "get 10 ears from the goblins" but it does not get in the way of our game... that often...

I cannot see myself abandoning a table top game for a computer game, there is far more interaction around a table then across a modem. IMO compter games will not replace table top games until we can plug computers into are heads.

 

[KenM]

In one of my old gaming groups, there was a player that was so addicted to EQ, he told us one game seesion how happy he was that he was able to go out and get a second desktop computer system set up next to his other computer, so he could play EQ with two characters at the same time, 2 different accounts.

 

[Seeten]

I lead the largest Raid guild on my server. We do everything first on server, and are in top 50 worldwide.

And I organize our raid schedule around the D&D games I play in, the Mutants and Masterminds game I run, and my other roleplaying.

In short, I'm hardcore, and I still find time to rp, and go to the movies, and spend time with my wife. Its about priorities, just like the rest of life.

Additionally, my guild has 55 active raiders, so if I need to play D&D friday night, the raid does NOT fall apart, it goes on without me.

Do not blame WoW for the irresponsibility of people, or lack of interest in D&D on WoW. WoW is dramatically different from D&D and has almost no rp, and certainly endgame raid guilds have zero rp, so if they are talking about raiding, they sure arent getting their rp fix from WoW.

 

[Sarellion]

Too bad KL is so far away. I think I draw the line at 40 km one way to play.

My gaming group sits somewhere between you two at Birkenfeld and Idar-Oberstein.

 

[Hussar]

I don't mean to sound callous... But maybe you’re better off without them?

You might look at this experience as an opportunity to put a new, stronger group of players together. Ones who aren’t distracted by repetitive bells & whistles.

I gotta admit, this was my first thought. If you lose a player or players to computer games, good riddance. I am not a casual gamer and I do expect my players to commit to the time we play together. That may sound like I'm a real facist, I'm not. I just don't play with people who constantly beg off playing. Missing sessions here and there is perfectly fine, of course. But, "Sorry dude, can't play Wednesday, gotta go smash some elves" simply displays their priorities to me.

Out of curiousity, before this, was there a high interest in your game? Did those same players often come up with excuses not to play before? It might just be a conflict in playing styles. Casual gamers vs regular gamers. That sort of thing.

 

[Greylock]

Actually, more correctly, Neverwinter Nights swung me away from that evil, vile Everquest game. I loved the immersion and roleplaying as opposed to sitting up all weekend long on some dragon raid or some such. Actually getting a voice to be able to do something was wonderful. Then I bought the 3rd edition books so I could improve my Neverwinter Nights campaign, and got hooked on the idea to play tabletop.

Very similar to me. I played 1st Ed back in the day, and gave up on gaming as I got older. Then I got BG and NWN, bought the 2nd Ed and 3rd Ed books respectively to enhance my gameplay. After a while, I yearned for the tabletop RPG experience again, found several groups to play with, and haven't touched CRPGs since.

 

[Oryan77]

It took a hit on my old group. No one would admit the truth, but I knew what was up

I learned how much it sucks to meet new people for a D&D group, and barely 1 month in WoW comes out and they start playing it. Then they can't make D&D sessions all of a sudden. It eventually lead to them complaining about "not being able to get into my campaign".

Yeah, I agree with that...how can they possibly get into their new characters & my campaign when they are playing once every 2 months :\