Calling it Quits
10.16.09
Okay…you’ll prolly wanna sit down for this one. I think I’m over playing WoW. I know, right? As much as I’ve enjoyed playing the game, I just can’t seem to get into it. I thought maybe a break from it would help. Well, it did. It helped me see that I was spending wayyyy too much time playing that game. When I think back on the countless hours that I wasted, time that I will never get back, well, I’m a bit embarrassed. Sure, I had fun and really did enjoy myself, still. Those that know me, know that I was a truly dedicated player. Totally committed to getting my toon properly geared, enchanted and repped. I constantly researched and kept up with anything and everything that had to do with my toon, Alagaesia. Heck, I was even a raid leader. The thing about playing WoW, when you get to the end-game, raiding is all you do. As new content was introduced, that meant even more research and grinding…just so you could experience and survive in the higher-end instances. Well, needless to say, if ever you were to fall behind and your gear quit measuring up to excellent, well, this is going to sound really stupid, but…There’s a whole lot of stress and pressure! I know it’s only a game, everything is virtual, but in a guild, well, even though the game itself is virtual, the guild members are real people and we all depend on each other…virtually….There are constantly members checking your stats, crunching the numbers of your gear and enchants…and if it’s not up to par or heaven forbid you have the wrong enchant or wrong gem socketed, well, you’ll hear about it, by golly!
I’m gonna stop now. I just read back through this and I can see that to someone on the outside of the game, I’m just talking like a crazy person. Bottom line is that WoW wasn’t fun for me anymore and the fun was the whole reason I was playing the game. So now I’m not.
I did play the beta for Aion, which came out in September. I really liked it, so I got the game and started playing it. Truly a cool game, much like WoW, but with a much more spectacular look to it. Believe it or not, I’m not playing it anymore. Sure I think about it, but, like WoW, it takes a whole lotta time to level up and even though that is fun, I can’t seem to get past the number of hours it will take to get to where I want to be. I mean, with WoW, I put in the hours and I got there and then was all…meh. Besides to level properly, you really need to be part of a guild, which means committment and responsibility, just like WoW. That’s the one thing that I don’t want again. Maybe if I found an RPG that I liked. I think I’m gonna shy away from the MMORG’s for a while.
Okay, this particular Nerd-Session is at an end.
Tags: aion, Gaming, world of warcraft, WoW