War Robots Helped Save My Life & Knocking Other’s Time/Money Spent

I’m glad the needle is pointing in the right direction for you.

 It just got me thinking, “who are we to judge and make such assumptions” You never know what someone has gone through and why they have chosen to play the game the way they do. Be mindful of that. There may be a good reason for it.

Gather â??round boys and girls. Itâ??s Story time.

I want to get real for a moment. I am not posting this as a moderator but as a player and a person.

I stopped posting on the subject of F2P vs. P2W shortly after the release of components and there was a reason for it other than the fact that we were flogging a dead horse. The reason being, that we donâ??t know what is going on with someone in real life.

Over the past few months I have seen a lot of posts ridiculing others for the amount of time spent playing and of course, plenty of hate for â??Whalesâ?. I can understand why itâ??s easy to think negatively about both of these, especially the latter.

One of the things I (along with many others) have been accused of is having â??no lifeâ? for playing too much. Another one is, â??being able to spend more money on the game and just not wanting toâ?. I have seen many others be accused of â??spending too much moneyâ? because they have â??an addictionâ? or because â??they suckâ?.

These things may be true in some instances, but we can not always assume that they are. Most times we have no way of knowing.

Now I am going to get personal.

When I found this game, I was still pretty fresh out of rehab trying to stay clean for the umpteenth in the past 20 years. I knew this time would be different from all the others because I had literally lost EVERYTHING I had in my life. My friends, family, job, vehicles, house, apartments, even my life as I was clinically dead for 11 minutes. My last drug induced DUI, I woke up doing 55 mph down the sidewalk and thankfully, all I smashed into was a guard rail and some trees and not someoneâ??s family.

I was real bad off. I was a daily user for 20 years. Near the end, I was under the care of pain management and had prescriptions that if I sold them on the street would bring in about $2500 USD a month. But I took & injected them all and ran out in 15 days or so every time and on top of that, I was spending roughly $50-$100 on street drugs and knocking back about a case of beer a day. I knew if I didnâ??t change, I was going to die, or worse - end up killing someone else.

The reason that Iâ??m telling you this, is that after I got out of rehab, in order to stay clean, I needed something to do instead of what I used to. Something to keep me busy. To keep my mind busy. Through this game, I found it. It worked because I couldnâ??t think â??Ok, two enemies heading toward me. How am I going to handle this?â? AND â??I want drugsâ? at the same time.

Iâ??ve been clean for 14 months now and things have gotten much better. I almost never get cravings anymore. But there were times that I didnâ??t even know how I was going to make it through the next 5 minutes. This is where War Robots has been so instrumental in my life and my sobriety.

I still have bad social anxiety and I much prefer to spend most of my free time alone playing the game than â??going out with friendsâ? or something. I do spend a few hours outdoors every day but I play about 4-6 hours a day because thatâ??s what I enjoy and it works.

So you see, maybe itâ??s not much of a life to someone else but the alternative could be much worse. I could LITERALLY have â??no lifeâ? if I kept heading down the self destructive path I was on.

And no, I really CANâ??T afford to spend more money on the game than a dollar here and there because I have none. Everything I own could fit in a few boxes. As pissed off as I am at Pix, I WOULD spend more money on the game if I could. A lot more. But it wouldnâ??t be because I switched addictions to â??spending moneyâ? or because â??I need to to competeâ? cause â??I suckâ?. It would be because aside from it being my preferred source of entertainment, as silly as it sounds, War Robots helped save my life.

My point is that I really donâ??t take much offense to things people say, especially online. But others might. It just got me thinking, â??who are we to judge and make such assumptionsâ? You never know what someone has gone through and why they have chosen to play the game the way they do. Be mindful of that. There may be a good reason for it.

P.S. I want to make it clear that I am not upset in the least. I did not make this post out of resentment or hurt and nothing in particular has happened recently that made me decide to finally post it. Itâ??s just something thatâ??s been on my mind for a while.