Face to face is better for mental health. I did something similar by creating a D&D group and participating in that for 6 months as a form of oxycodone to the heroin of EQ.
Your first step to freedom is logging out of EQ and not logging back in for as long as possible. Do not message your nerd friends. Your EQ friends are the hooks that drag you back into the pixel.
As you continue not playing and not logging in, your life will become very boring and bleak. You must go through this withdrawal period as your neurochemicals are too out of balance for you to experience pleasure through normal means. This is where you'll probably fail.
Eventually, the agony and boredom will drive you to start looking for other outlets/ways to interact. The absolute worst thing you could do here is start drinking and doing drugs. The best thing would be to join start exercising 5 days a week and meditating for 10 minutes after you wake up and before you go to sleep.
Keep talking to people. Go outside. Make small talk. All of this will slowly re-wire your brain to experience a level of pleasure that you currently only get through the RNG lottery of pixel paradise.
If you have the money, go to a tropical paradise for 4 weeks during this process. When you return, the challenge is not to log back in. but let's face it, if you're an EQ addict your life is probably in tatters.
It may be hard getting started, seriously EQ is a boring game so you'll thank me later when your dick is 10 feet long and you can bench press your ten daughters
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