why do I play MMO's when I don't really like them?

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to be honest I don't like MMO's all that much a friend got me into WoW 4 and a half years ago and my money is pretty tight I owe money to alot of people because of it. I don't like warcraft don't really like much about MMO's yet I keep paying for alot of MMO's and skrewing my life up playing them.

I have Asperger's Syndrome dunno if that has a bearing, i'm overweight and would love to live in a trash dump to get a bit of relief from my units mess.

why do I play MMO's if I don't really like them? I used to love reading and I still do but don't as much.
I play almost every MMO that comes out to see if i'll like it but none seem as good as WoW even though I don't overly like WoW.

its gotten to the point where I question my sanity lol

I can't say why you play MMO's. But the reason I've played WoW for about the same time as you is that it's an easy, quick way to socialise with an easy escape if it turns to crap; you just move to another server. The gameplay itself doesn't keep me playing, it may be a factor for a while but eventually it's the people I play with that keep me paying the subscription.
It's a whole lot easier to sit down, log in, play for a while and meet a few people than it is to go outside, find an activity you enjoy and can do with others and meet even 1 person you get along with. Even then, if things turn ugly for whatever reason, it's a lot more difficult to start over somewhere else in real life than it is in an MMO.

That's pretty much why I play MMO's; it's an easy way to socialise with very little risk.

I like playing WoW because I like leveling things up, getting new abilities and I just like collecting stuff. I've spent more than a few days just running around collecting metal, partly to collect the metal, but also to level up the mining skill.

I also enjoy the stories and the style of everything, but mainly I just like collecting and leveling up.

This might explain why you keep playing even when you don't want to:

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