Greetings , this might not help you , but i'd like to take some time for you and share my own experience of quitting the ladder with you dude , who knows maybe it could have some positive effect !
So listen, I stopped that game like 5 months ago, planned this action during the whole summer where i was completely stuck to strat and missing a lot of working days in the shop where i work at (on free times) ,as i was also playing late-night NA battles sometimes and so waking up at really early hours ( was hard to explain it to my boss , and so i got severely menaced of being fired). Then Had such sick-ass holidays when i was far away from my computer , that when i got back home i already felt less attracted towards the game (it was the right time to move forward, until i'd fall into that addiction engine back again) , and then some other elements made me completely quitting it , as my gf and my mum for instance who really started to nag me about this , and so pushed me to make this decision . In the meanwhile i achieved some unexpected success in music (which is so far one of my greatest escape to this world.) that completely made me thinking about the use of my free-time. Moreover my studies are now a way tougher than what it used to be, playing crpg now would have made me running towards a complete failure according to the time i was dedicating to it !. So i' gotta say that i chose a great timing.
ABOUT THE ACTION :I just uninstalled crpg with warband and gave all my virtual worthing objects away (looms etc). Though the last act isn't that useful as i could borrow all the gear that i want from my clan's armory if i feel like getting back, but at least it felt like an achievement a step towards my separation and moreover i made some nice ppl a bit happier for a while through that.
CONCLUSION:Had a great time in this mod, missed a lot of things cuz of it , but still it was all good , and i had the luck to meet some really awesome ppl , in my strat faction for instance , and so that's also why i still and i will play for them through my internet browser and chill when possible on TS with them to not especially speak about the game but just life and the way it's going.
PS : I have hundreds of games too , and i can assert you that i wasn't playing them at all, crpg was my only focus , and so stopping it , almost meant to me , the end of gaming at 99%
My advice ?World is full of shit and also full of great stuff , the first quest is to find addictions in different domaines than videogames, it ain't easy but when you're done with it , it could really start to help you, second point is the ppl around , interact with them , dig further in your relationships and also spend more time with your family, if you have this luck , if they have a least of conscience they may help you a lot to come over this challenge mate , last point , when you do it (leaving the game) , do it seriously , strike hard , give all your looms away , get rid of all the potential stuff that could make you going back to the game , take it as a challenge, for example, each time i'm tempted to get back to the game , i remember Jarlek's quote about the complexity of leaving cRPG , and then i say to myself , 'You ain't gonna give reason to this dirty Norsk asshole (love ya) ' and hell it feeds me with a lot of motivation , and now by the time i'm getting more and more distant to the game , and time after time getting rid of the last ashes that could bring me back to the game.
NB :BE careful crpg is an addiction for sure, that makes you less productive , but it ain't the only , some around are even worse ( , phone, girl , drug, alcohol , social networks checking obsession) i experienced all of those and i can tell you that they 're a way harder to get rid off , and are an evil pain in the ass for your productivity. winning against cRPG would be a first victory but you'll face tougher for sure. By the way you can still play cRPG while doing a lot of other things and focusing on your core life's stuff (studies, social etc) , though that would mean that you'd play iy with something called "moderation" ..."moderation" is something i never got , it's out of my range ( too hard !!)
Good luck m8, cheers from France. Hope you'll take time to read this post properly as i did to write it for you.
Zaalback
Extra: One of the good old track i used to listen after a long crpg session that was sometimes giving me the mood of ' Why am i wasting that much time for my 2h ? '. I always remember those long nights in EU2-3 with that tune, it sort of helped me to quit at the same time. It became like a symbol let's say.
