How do you think your life would be different?
Would you have become a scientist? A doctor? A cement pourer? Grown to 6’8’’ and became an NBA star?
Or do you think you woulda just played another MMO as much
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Widening the question to online gaming in general: I’m pretty grateful games like this exist in my lifetime. I was a voracious reader when younger of fantasy novels, so probably a continuation of that if pcs had never been developed or invented. Wasn’t into DnD board games and only tried it a couple times in college.
I might have gotten into other mmos, but mostly I have been into single-player games. I don’t actively seek out mmos.(though that could change.)
I’d be lying on a beach on a tropical island, comatose, drinking fresh mango juice.
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I would have kept living at the gym and would have nearly $40k back in my pocket. Was not bad at first. Then Tokens showed up, as well as mounts, pets, toys, mogs, and more. Then the holiday sales for services, and don’t get me started on the near 200 boosts I have bought over the years 
If I never played wow I guess I could be better or worse off. Depends on what I’d be doing instead. Of course a video game should not be responsible for ones betterment, but ironically it has been for some. Though I guess it has had some negative addiction like consequences for many as well.
I’d be playing something else.
We all would, not only do we play the game, we can’t get off the game forums either.
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I would have just played another MMO, 100%. Although I would have missed out on some fond memories from the early days of WoW. Spent an entire summer vacation with a friend grinding out levels to unlock DK’s.
Zero regrets.
Me too. WoW wasn’t my 1st MMO…and I played a lot of other MMOs since it was released.
Hey, maybe some of those that it killed would still be around and we would have a lot more market variety.
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same thing but more diablo2 i guess
I would not have the creativity and imagination I have now. Lots of my art is inspired by WoW.
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My life had pretty much peaked when I started playing so not much would be different.
If Fallout 4 had been optimized (despite owning a computer that could out perform the game) and worked without crashing…I would have been playing that and maybe continued with Fallout 76 and Diablo 4
Yeah, I have ironically Bethesda/Microsoft to thank for getting me into Warcraft after leaving the franchise in 2005 with The Frozen Throne. And at that time, I did not like the friends in my battlegroup who played WoW as well as the subscription. They were a toxic bunch of raiders on Bronzebeard. They stopped playing after Wrath and moved onto other games.
I’d be playing EQ.
If playing this game had even a fraction of an impact on any of these things you listed then you have a severe problem and should definitely quit now
I would have been an astronaut cowboy fireman and humanity would have spread to the stars by now.
Damn bro we could all quit playing and Blizz would still have a reason and the resources to keep producing content just for you.
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Considering I was 34 years old, on my second marriage, and had three when WOW came out, it probably would have been this.
Yea, you never had the makings of a varsity athlete
I imagine if I didn’t play WoW, my ADHD would still have gone undiagnosed until adulthood and my habits at school would have remained the same. I probably would have just hyperfixated on another mmo, probably ESO.
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I doubt much would have changed, if anything. Maybe I would have saved money on PC’s over the years, but that’s about it.
Given that I was already almost forty when I started, and had already had my lifetime’s ration of college and grad school, the answer is probably not much of a difference.
I’d have been screwing around with a different game. Or more than one. But personally and professionally? No measurable difference.