You may or may not care, but for that situation it’s typically recommended to drink water and/or eat something healthy first then reward yourself.
If you try to avoid it your willpower eventually breaks and most will binge at that point. You can temporarily delay by doing the above (which will at least take up room in your stomach) and then hopefully satisfy your craving with 2-3 cookies rather than looking down and realizing you killed the entire pack of oreos…not that I’ve ever done that. No sir.
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Ugh, I can’t believe the nerve of this thread.
*uninstalls, runs a magnet over the hard drive, drops PC into the ocean*
Good advice and very true. Willpower has limits.
I always look at it as out of sight out of mind type deal. Seems to work for me when I quit games so I’m not looking at the desktop icons.
Spot on but actually acting on the sentiment of quitting means something. It’s the action that’s important to isolate here. Talking about walking away from the game and actually doing it are different things.
Most people get mad, Then come back in 3 months. It’s the cycle of WoW. Well if youre like me and have been playing for 17.5 years.
Cause some ppl grew up with WoW and somehow think that throwing a tantrum to a corporation would work like how they threw a tantrum to their parents
So you would completely waste the money you spent when you could instead be trolling random hypocrites on the forum?
Actually, there’s over 100 million accounts that were started, played, and then abandoned. So no, counting on everyone coming back in 3 months so why make any effort to retain them hasn’t been a big growth strategy.
Uninstalling a multi-gigabyte game used to be far bigger line to cross.
When WoW launched I think I had just upgraded to the 28.8k high-end service in my area. Now I’m on a “low-end” 500 megabit fibre optic line.
Yea, And those people don’t make tantrum post on the forums tho.
But the account is still there, you can throw away the host but the ghost will always find a new one. You need to exorcise the ghost, delete your account.
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All the “I Quit” posts are for attention. Nobody cares if you’re leaving; the only people that care are your guild, friends, and whoever else. Yes, it’s good that they provide their feelings but a whole “I quit” post is just unnecessary.
The people that make the big “I quit” posts are the least likely to actually be quitting.
Most people just stop playing the game and move on.
If they post, they aren’t really quitting.
Dramatic reconstruction, viewer discretion is advised:
I’m not reading any posts on this thread, but responding to title: “Why do People use Uninstalling as if its Permanent?”
Because WoW is a CIA psy op to see what 30 year old men on the margin will tolerate.
This post is satire and for entertainment purposes only.
What else do you expect them to do?
there are more than one @Buttercleave in this thread…
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For a moment there I thought this thread was about folk who use the phrase “Uninstall” as like a threat or insult but nope…just someone taking people too seriously and complaining about people making threads about quitting. Nothing to see here it seems…