The article, at http://www.cinematical.com/...">http://www.cinematical.com/2010/06/01/avatar-days-brings-azeroth-to-dubl..., says:
Quote:... you can learn a bit about what makes four hardcore WoW fans tick in Cormac Kelly's four-minute short film, Avatar Days.
Avatar Days follows these World of Warcraft players through their daily lives, but the catch is that they've been digitally modified to look like their in-game avatars. The effect is striking, seeing a large cow-like Tauren walking along the streets of Dublin or an undead Warlock climbing into a piece of heavy machinery. Kelly shows us these images while each person provides voiceover narrative detailing why they play the game and what their character means to them.
The project was shot and completed in just four short days, as part of the "4 Day Film" category of the Darklight Film Festival. ...
... it is an impressive short filled with some very cool visuals that may shine some light on why people are so addicted to this game. ...
I found the video's (WARNING: Some people may find seeing the WoW avatars to be triggering) symbolism, of people "being" their online avatars in real life, to be interesting. Although it did not increase my personal understanding of why some people become so addicted to the game, I believe that you will enjoy watching it, and you may get more out of the video than me.
- John O.
[em]Carpe Diem![/em] (Seize the Day!)
I too saw the symbolism of how people connect to their avatars...but I found it to be pitiful and sad. Plus I was sad thinking about how I was once in the game and loved my avatars too.
The question is....will you be able/courageous/adult enough to sacrifice that which merely pleases you...for that which will truly fulfill you? That is the question of personal growth.
~~~Dem518
~~~wow-free since 8/22/09
You really have no choice to connect with your avatar when you play for hours a day, I too find it sad that I lost myself in a game. While I know people can play casual, you CANNOT play casual if you want to raid or hardcore pvp...WoW is basically designed to whoever plays the most has the best gear/weapons, really not much skill is involved you learn to use the same few buttons over and over. I thank God that I am free of the WoW nightmare, and I really free sad for those who can't break away from it's grip. I feel even worst for those spouses and kids that get negected because the addict has to kill one more boss or farm gold.
The video makes to my me feel that if I was devoting myself to play so much to a wow, my Real Life very solitary and sad life. Quite serious very blue for my in the Real Life and it it is very dangerous.
I if that I begin to understand that really the video games can be very addictive. And in my case my codependencia is the one that takes me to the isolation and my sensation of loneliness to seeking to cover my codependencia in the video games.
Because I would not can to support that loneliness of royal blue and gray so sad Real Life and I was thinking to look for the evasion in the false and vain promises of a virtual world very full of color since it offers the WOW.
I need to realize of my vain illusion, and that this false promise damages to me. I have leaved the video games for my boyfriend, but I have to be I who decides it for my same.
But this vide to my me makes think about it. I do not deal Englishman and remain with the images and the music, and these images and this music have transmitted this sad reality of a loneliness in the Real Life and of wanting to look for a false identity in a video game online.
A caraceristica of my codependencia is to look for the identity in the demas and now I do to myself the question of which podria also to look for my identity in objects and it that it can mean?
Sorry for my english ! I Hope that text you understand.