A nice weekend: Friday night out at Dave & Busters for drinks and arcade games, Saturday spent hanging out with a friend for sushi and shopping, and Sunday… Oh god, Sunday I spent all day playing World of Warcraft.

Why?! Why did I give in?! My cousin and her husband have been playing it and somehow I just decided to go ahead and give it a try. I got a free 10-day trial account, but damn… this game is addictive. Already I recall my days of playing City of Heroes… hours and hours playing non-stop, leveling up my character, completing quests, and immersing myself in a whole virtual world. Minutes of gameplay stretched out to hours as I tell myself that this is the last quest I’ll complete, the last enemy I’ll exterminate, the last level up. It’s never the last.

And I haven’t even bought the full game yet.

Should I?

— A Week Later —

I’m level 18 now. I like the game. I play it a lot. However, I am not at the point where everything else in my life halts so that I can battle monsters, explore dungeons, seek rare equipment, and hoard gold. That’s a good sign, right?

My 10-day trial is going to end soon. I think I’ll buy it. Try it out for a month. I can quit anytime, right? Ugh, just saying those words makes it already sound like an addiction.

Whatever. I’ll just have fun with it.

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Reader's Comments

  1. jessica | September 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am

    WoW sucks up your entire life. My ex would turn down sex or pretty much anything with me cuz he had an instance or was helping someone with a quest. it got old pretty quickly. he would seriously come home from work, get on WoW, rush through dinner, and then play it til 2 or 3 in the morning hence one of the reasons he’s my ex. So, beware if you want any sort-of life outside of WoW when you make that purchase, the higher up your character level, the more time it sucks away from you. Good luck lol.

  2. Jay | September 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Oh, God. I demand that the moment I turn down sex to play WoW, someone shoot me in the face.

    Please.

  3. jessica | September 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am

    haha i don’t think id shoot you in the face, but it would definitely be time for an intervention

    oh but i forgot to mention, when hed finally come upstairs like 2 or 3 hours later when im pretty much asleep hed get mad that i was no longer in the mood. nice. ugh he did not deserve me.

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