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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 2955434" data-attributes="member: 4134">Summer took many players away, too. And again, they didn't have the curtesy to say anything. No "sorry, but in summer, I'd rather hit the lake". Probably because, if it rained, they showed up, making us the fallback plan. Of course, they decided this at about 4 PM on sunday. We usually learned that they weren't comong about 4:30 to 5 PM. And just for the record: We started playing on 4 PM. I remember having two months or more where each sunday we'd drive here to start playing, only to go back shortly after when too many players called it off. I quit those groups shortly after.Since then, whenever stuff like this happens: People just not showing up without telling anyone and games being cancelled because of it, I quit the group. I can waste my own time. I don't need those antisocials for it.And as far as I know, profiting from one's addiction is a crime  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Actually the similarities aren't even funny anymore: They have to keep spending money to get their fix, they shut down their social lives, some even stop going to work (I had such a case - though that guy has always been unreliable and not right in the head). And there have been cases where people died from an overdose.I wonder how many street corners are crowded with people who'd do everything for "that magic bow"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I wasn't completely serious with that choice of words. I still hold it against Blizzards that they gave so many people I knew (or thought I knew) a channel for their madness. Before the game, I could actually talk to these people. That's the conundrum here: Are you guys lucky to find the few that are okay, or am I unlucky and for some reason every single WoW player I know personally or hear from from people (I trust) who know them personally has become insufferable since starting to play. But for me the fact is that every single WoW player I know of (1st- or 2nd- hand) is a complete nut about it. Really. I haven't met a single guy who won't shut up about it. Maybe some of them don't mention the game, but I think sooner or later they'd mention that they play, without going on about it for hours.We're on one wavelength here. Problems arise when two people (including the DM) shut out the rest of the group for long periods of time. Problems arise when people start wasting other people's time by always cancelling at the last moment, at ending the game early, and the like.</blockquote>

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