# World of Warcraft - what am I missing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-what-am-i-missing/545785>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 6, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-what-am-i-missing/545785 "2010-07-06T22:14:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-what-am-i-missing/545785/61 "2010-07-12T17:13:58Z")

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I started a thread about noobs over [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12675233#post12675233), if anyone wants to give some advice/pointers.

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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-what-am-i-missing/545785/62 "2010-07-12T21:32:17Z")

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> [@Stink Fish Pot](#):
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> Are there any folks in your guild that are married and/or have children? My wife would never go for the kind of time commitment you have made, and even though you are on the extreme end of playing, I imagine that there are people that play like you do and DO have families.
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> So if you do have a family, how do you balance it with work and the game?

I have a wife (who hates videogames) and two young children. I don’t have nearly the time to play that SFG and some others have.

I usually play 3 nights a week, after the kids go to bed, for 2-3 hours. Maybe a little bit on a weekend. So that’s what, maybe 10 hours per week? That sounds like a lot, but if someone said they watched 10 hours of TV a week you probably wouldn’t bat an eye. It’s not like I’d be going out at night after the kids are in bed anyway.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-what-am-i-missing/545785/63 "2010-07-13T15:01:05Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> So that’s what, maybe 10 hours per week? That sounds like a lot, but if someone said they watched 10 hours of TV a week you probably wouldn’t bat an eye.

Exactly. That’s what WoW is for me–a TV replacement. Instead of sitting on the couch and watching TV, I’m sitting at the computer and playing a game with my friends.

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