Friend told me to burn my WoW shirt....why?

[DarkRyter]

They're cold and they need fire?

 

[ace_of_something]

Cuz to a lot of people that means you're an instant loser. Unless you're a chick. My fiance has a shirt that has the WoW Logo for 'warrior' on it and another one with the horde logo. She usually gets compliments. Though it helps being cute petite and blonde I'm sure.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Maybe because they hate nonconformity. Do what you want! In fact, go to their houses in the middle of the night and rub the t-shirt in their faces whilst they sleep. it would be a tad hard worming out of a police investigation though...

Or better, put toothpaste on their eyebrows. It burns them off.

But OT, I wouldn't wear a WoW shirt in public. It's just not cricket (cricket being boring, but I've only played WoW briefly, once, so I am neutral on it). Try a more obscure franchise perhaps, or one that doesn't actually give its identity away.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I own a black Wrath Of The Lich King shirt with Arthas on the back that I got from Hot Topic. During the school year I'd walk in with it and at least one or two of my friends would say 'Holy crap nerd! Why don't you burn that shirt?' Neither of them play WoW, or probably even know its a computer game. Why do they hate it so much?

Because WoW is one of those things that people will mock because it's deemed normal to do so. What they forget is that WoW itself is alright, it's the weak-minded morons who become addicted who are the things to mock. My philosophy is basically this: WoW is like sugar. In sensible amounts its absolutely fine, too much is hazardous to your health. But just because some people have too much doesn't mean you should never, ever use it.

 

[obex]

because it is popular.

This and because its on a different OS/console explains all fan boy-ism you never here people whine about shit games on the ps3 and xbox 360 i mean if you wanted to tell me that a game that has a 25% metacritic score is bad i have no problem but they always whine about good/popular games.

 

[Robert632]

because WoW is the spawn of saten of course.

seriously though, they just say that because of 1 of 2 reasons;
1. they played WoW once and thought it was shit.
2. they were aaddicted to WoW once, but will never admit it.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

There just running on sterotypes. Don't worry about them.

 

[jboking]

Probably because there is a bit of a stigma placed on WoW players and they don't want the people who see you together to think that they are also WoW players.

For example: When I was in high school I had quite a few friends in the anime club. One of them came with a shirt on one day that said "HENTAI: my anti-drug"
All of us who were friends with him and knew what the word meant asked him to wear a jacket over it or something. Even though we know most people wont know what that word is, we still didn't want that impression to be placed upon us as well(on the off chance someone who saw us did know what it meant). Long story short we alienated him until he put a jacket on.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

because being freinds with a wow player means he may be a wow player which means they are forever dammed to virginity muhahahhah

erm not to burst your bubble but I played WoW (too expensive to continually run so not anymore) and I'm not a virgin

where u a virgin b4 wow coz if u were then theres yr explanation

No. I lost it a year before i started playing.

see there u go exaactly why u lost it, once wow has its grip on you, u cant give it up, its more addictive than crack cocaine and it costs not much hence ppl play or shud i say use it to fulfill things they would never usually be able to do

It's not addicting. It's average. Run of the mill. Dare I say it. Boring.

The only reason it is as popular as it is is because so many people play it.

Don't bother fighting with a troll man. Logic bounces right off of them.

 

[farmerboy219]

because they probably do know ts a game and they probably do know its shit

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

Have you considered the option that maybe it's just a hideous shirt? Because that's what it sounds like to me.

 

[wildpeaks]

There are better shirts to wear.

But a Wow shirt is much better than a naked fat guy (not that it applies to OP, I mean in general).

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

World of warcraft is cool, I play it I know girls and guys who do.. local to me and all over europe.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Dunno, but apparently they hate WOW.

 

[Mother Yeti]

Because it's a fucking WoW shirt. You're the type of nerd other nerds stuff in lockers.

 

[teutonicman]

Makes them fell part or a group. While yes I might consider that to be nerdy, that is by no means a bad thing.

 

[Susan Arendt]

I own a black Wrath Of The Lich King shirt with Arthas on the back that I got from Hot Topic. During the school year I'd walk in with it and at least one or two of my friends would say 'Holy crap nerd! Why don't you burn that shirt?' Neither of them play WoW, or probably even know its a computer game. Why do they hate it so much?

Because they're too insecure to let you like what you like, plain and simple. Which is a them problem, not a you problem. If you like WoW, and want to wear a WoW shirt, you should. If they have a problem with it, fuck 'em.

 

[Nuke_em_05]

Option 1: I'd say if they're joking, being your friends, they're just goofing around.

Option 2: If they seriously hate it and are asking in earnest... well, it's probably because there are a lot of stereotypes around WoW players. Since these stereotypes exist, regardless of how they apply to any given WoW player, the association falls on you by wearing the shirt, and on them by extension in hanging around you. They may realize that you aren't the stereotypical WoW player, but they probably recognize that others don't, and are afraid of their, and your, "status" being affected.

Option 3: Picking on WoW players has become a standard for people who don't play, or only hear about the extreme cases, it just happens. Your friends are just jumping on the bandwagon.

Option 4: People are stupid (Options 1-3 are simply possibilities under this blanket option).

I'd have put in "They actually played it and formed their own opinion that it sucks, and are trying to force that opinion on you" but I think you said that they, or at least one of them, don't know what it is in the first place. This would still fall under Option 4.

 

[CrafterMan]

It embarasses them. Do your friends a favour and only wear it around the house.

Eh. No. Wear whatever the hell you want. As long as you're covering your skin with some cloths then who cares what others think about your taste in clothes. Politely tell them to "Fuck off."

Amen my friend.

Don't be afraid of expressing yourself

-Joe

 

[Zero-Vash]

Wearing any shirt that represents a video game is a dorky thing to do.

Ever see those guys who walk around with their halo shirts on? Do you ever see them and think, "Those are some awesome guys who play halo." NO, because those guys are always the absolute dweebs who take gaming way to seriously, and are bad at everything else. Personal observation of these individuals would yield the same conversations: They would talk about an awesome in game kill or match or some other shit that doesn't matter. A glance at their report cards tells you that they can't do simple math, complete a sentence, tell you what sedimentary rocks are, why december 7th 1941 is important, and that they get picked last for dodgeball.

Take another example of a friend of mine in high school. He was a big WoW nerd, and all around videogame junkie, but he never wore a WoW shirt, or any video game shirt for that matter. He spent countless hours on WoW, but he was also good at his studies (he was #3 in our class), a selection of sports that interested him, and never once talked about how cool an explosion was, or how awesome a raid on blah blah blah was.

Now granted, you might be good at other things other than WoW, but the image that wearing a videogame t-shirt conveys is that of a person is totally obsessed, that's why they want you to burn it.

I was the second example except I wore my video game shirts. It never really effected my social life. Sure I got bashed sometimes but I was a starter on the football team, had a girlfriend, and was 15th in the class.

You can wear gamer shirts and not seemed obsessed. Just talk about it to people who do play, then talk about "normal" things with everyone else.

OT: WEAR YOUR SHIRT WITH PRIDE!