re: What Was The First Game That Got You Addicted To Online Gaming

It's a toss-up between the first Diablo and the first Starcraft for me. Although those never really produced SERIOUS online gaming addiction, but they were fun. There was (and still is) a shitty, shitty game by the name of Conquer Online. I played that MMO for 4 or 5 years, if I had to guesstimate, and it was a seriously bad addiction. As in, turning down your social life to play this game. It was actually a pretty darn good F2P game for a couple of years. Every weekend there was a "guild war" where every guild on the server competed to win the guild area, and the guild that won got some pretty big bonuses out of it. I would sit in that guild war area for 72 hours and get MAYBE.. 15 hours of sleep. I was addicted to the PVP, and I was really freaking good at it. As in people on other servers had heard of me and I never even played on that server, and they would challenge me to duels. I had an e-rep . (LINK me pwning people ) But eventually the company's desire for money kind of overwhelmed the game to where if you weren't dropping big IRL money on in-game items, you weren't going to be competitive. So, I got bored and frustrated with that and then got hooked on WoW for another 3 or 4 years.. and now I am hooked on LoL and DayZ, but I've learned to control the addiction.