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.
September 1, 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.
September 1, 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.
September 2, 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.