The Dangers of “World of Warcraft”

by Joey deVilla on June 16, 2006

Paging Joi Ito! Paging Catspaw! Paging our CEO Elliot! Are you aware of The Dangers of “World of Warcraft”? The comic below will show you what they are!

(If you hadn’t figured it out, the comic is a repurposed “Dangers of Alcoholism” comic from the 60s or 70s.)

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{ 78 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Alzabra November 27, 2007 at 1:38 pm

LOL…Hello My name is Alz and I’m a WoW-aholic…

2 geez December 1, 2007 at 4:04 am

The problem with a game like warcraft ( or similar MMO’s ) is that it becomes an escape from real life for many people, the toon is more realistic then it appears to be. I know a “real world” couple that plap together, and it did not improve their relationship :D or social life for that matter.

3 boh December 3, 2007 at 7:14 am

How CAN you compete with the ever-evolving world of Azroth? You can’t… You just deal with it.

4 Oliver Meyn December 7, 2007 at 12:13 pm

This is great – I’m sending it to the guild now. Oopp, gotta go, running the Baron at work!

5 imd1ncybrspce December 16, 2007 at 4:35 pm

It never ceases to amaze me what a bunch of total and complete morons live on planet earth. Your species deserves only one right, extinction. We can only hope the Mayans were correct.

6 Angel December 23, 2007 at 6:30 am

I’ll show you PVP….

Hilarius.

7 giggity December 30, 2007 at 7:14 am

Love it…

8 iyfkjdhfeqrg January 2, 2008 at 4:09 pm

haha great, but you used “effecting” which isnt even a verb. “Affect” is the verb, “Effect” is the noun, but great nun the less.

9 micha January 14, 2008 at 7:25 am

jo!

10 Geinto February 22, 2008 at 11:03 pm

I’m a WoW player and I found this to be hilarious XD

I loved the panel with the car “FOR THE HORDE!”, I cracked up at that ><

11 oilboy February 29, 2008 at 6:53 am

whoo cairs if tha speling iznt korekt. its stil priti funi. yoo giys neeed too ztopp wurying bowt thyngz lyk speling gramma and.

12 bhaal March 24, 2008 at 9:45 am

hahahah… ”ill show u pvp bitch” man, this shit is hillarious!

13 one June 13, 2008 at 4:25 am

Most boring and stereotypical comic ever… How can people find this funny, it’s beyond me. It only proves that the person who made this comic has an adversity against WoW, but has no idea about the gameplay itself, and likes to inflict the bad thoughts about a game on everyone else.
No, I’m not a WoW fan, but I played it from time to time. And this game, just like any other game, only affects people with a lower IQ or those who can easily be manipulated and impressed. And they aren’t that many.

Also – the comic has some grammar mistakes such as ‘effected instead of ‘affected’. Plus, it’s not Azroth, it’s Azeroth.

Get your shit straight if you’re posting something.

14 Cru September 14, 2008 at 10:31 am

I enjoyed it even if “one” has a stick up their ass for details. The FOR THE HORDE car crash was awesome.

15 death September 28, 2008 at 5:24 pm

if horde keeps loosing all the time in warsong ofc marry and john will get worse

16 death September 28, 2008 at 5:27 pm

and world of warcraft is a really good game u should try it before posting stuff like that

17 lollerskates September 29, 2008 at 1:42 pm

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one
Posted June 13, 2008 at 4:25 am | Permalink

Most boring and stereotypical comic ever… How can people find this funny, it’s beyond me. It only proves that the person who made this comic has an adversity against WoW, but has no idea about the gameplay itself, and likes to inflict the bad thoughts about a game on everyone else.
No, I’m not a WoW fan, but I played it from time to time. And this game, just like any other game, only affects people with a lower IQ or those who can easily be manipulated and impressed. And they aren’t that many.

Also – the comic has some grammar mistakes such as ‘effected instead of ‘affected’. Plus, it’s not Azroth, it’s Azeroth.

Get your shit straight if you’re posting something.

/quote

See.. the glory of this thing is the fact that is was PROBABLY made by someone who plays WoW. It’s probably healthy.. That person makes us WoW players look good. They should be able to laugh at themselves. I do it all the time. :)

FOR THE HORDE!
Awesome.

18 Cegan December 18, 2008 at 3:49 am

ok… to all you people leaving comments like “this comic is like 2-3 years old”….. yea SO WHAT… the telephone is 200 years old and u still use it moron

19 bobgoeshehehehehehe December 22, 2008 at 3:56 am

Wow is ok if you play it once and a while like any game! Its a great game and I play it. Its the people that wont even go to sleep, or wont do things with their family for it. Then it becomes a problem like in this! It did make me laugh a little!

20 Wow Fanatic January 20, 2009 at 3:49 am

I don’t think playing WoW poses any threat or danger. Playing WoW something one should not to be afraid of. It is just a matter of control and living a balanced life. There is no such thing as WOW addiction. It’s a matter of CHOICE. Choosing to play WoW.

21 mason March 24, 2009 at 10:27 pm

lollerskates

youre trying to act intelligent, but its makes me want to kick your mother in the face. you have no friends so stop trying to impress people with words like stereotypical. and grow a sense of humor you pathetic piece of shit. its meant to make you laugh not to dis the fuckin game. asshole. and no, im not a hypocrite for calling you an asshole because im just stating the obvious.
and this game is bad for you because its making you inactive. also youre only using the right side of your brain. the left side is used for organization and such, but since the computer is brainwashing you and youre spending the majority of your days playing the game using your right side, the left side becomes inactive thus losing all motivation for organization.
you fail.

anywho, its was funny =)

22 Ashley Herman March 27, 2009 at 9:48 am

That is too funny. And its soooooo true. I just broke my WOW addition of three years; and yes it was an addiction. As my guilds got better, the amount of chatter and goofing off done in chat diminished. And I found that that’s the part I enjoyed more than the actual playing. So I joined Facebook instead. And if I hadn’t, I would have never reconnected with the Accordian Guy.

23 Josephine D. Dell April 15, 2009 at 8:40 am

Hey man nice post, I’ve added you to my RSS reader :) I have a blog about making world of warcraft gold, you can check it out if you want :)

24 Goldbrand May 6, 2009 at 5:03 pm

@mason

Btw, lollerskates didn’t post that, he quoted from some guy, “One”. That’s why there’s a “/quote” there.

And yeah, it was pretty funny.

25 Goldbrand May 6, 2009 at 5:04 pm

And is “stereotypical” really that epic a word?

O_o;;

26 Milk August 11, 2009 at 10:28 pm

omfg /wowquit much? this is pretty genius indeed.

FOR THE HORDE

27 Gravemaster of Anachronos August 26, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Omg I’ve been playing wow for 5 years and my grades are always 19+ with the best mark being 20. Even if you are addicted to wow most people don’t suicide because of it, nor do they forget their families. (In fact wow found my a gf so I’m happy)

28 metin2 yang October 19, 2009 at 1:06 am

Even if you are addicted to wow most people don’t suicide because of it, nor do they forget their families

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