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To return or not to return... to the World of Warcraft!
buckett421
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Every now and then I get pangs of desire to venture off into Azeroth. I usually tell myself what it would do to me in terms of my social life, schoolwork, and chicks to stop me. This particular pang is strong and really hard to fight, but i've got my roommate holding me back.
Anyone else feeling this?
Anyone else feeling this?
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But that's just me.
The fact that you're asking sort of tells me that you've had a problem controlling your usage in the past and that you quit for a reason.
Has the reason changed?
I host a podcast about movies.
Anyways, get a free trial and mess around for the 10 days. If you still want to resub after that then do so. That's what I did the last time I was undecided about resubbing.
I mean, fuck me but this game is repetitive and boring, after reaching level 33 I started to realize that killing a murloc at higher level feels exactly the same as killing a murloc when i was level 10. There was no real progress story wise, or game-play wise.
Just like you said, you know you can do something more productive with your time.
Their may be things at higher levels that you enjoy. That said I've started playing again, mainly a few times a week just farming for gold until the next expansion. I took a vow never to become a raider again though, because of what it was doing to my life, not sleeping. The joys of being in a US top 50 guild and killing bosses some will never see both pre and post BC. Raiding 7 nights a week isn't worth it though.
So my advice if you can healthily play the game and derive enjoyment from it, sure play it again.
Unlike some of my friends I am not totally obsessive compulsive about this game. I know that when I have time on my hands, I will not spend all of it playing WoW, I can always find other things to occupy my mind.
A friend of mine will play WoW 24/7 if he is in one of his WoW phases, but he can still make fun about this obsession and snap out of it when work demands it. If you can handle the game that way that's a big plus.
I also had my big MMO burnout on City of Heroes which I played for 10+ months before I started WoW and I just know that I will not play another MMO to the extend that I played CoH.
I recently returned to the game to see if anything big changed and if they finally implemented any kind of real endgame at all and I noticed that the gameplay of CoH is a big steaming turd, I just stayed that long because of all the people I met and this is another pitfall to avoid, because most people you will meet in an MMO will definitely not turn out to be lifelong real friends you can count on.
So if you think you can handle it in a reasonable way just go for it.
It is always tempting to compare yourself to other players, especially in a game like WoW, but once you realize that there is no need to "keep up" with anyone you can stop trying.
I actually avoid playing on the same server as some of my friends for that reason, because I just know that I am not willing to spend as much time on the game and I do not want to put up with any bitching because I can not or do not want to make time for an instance.
I have never been far enough into WoW to start raiding, but from what I heard there are some "casual" raid guilds too.
Also remember that you play games for fun, once you no longer have fun with a game, either you or the game is doing something wrong.
And yes, I was feeling this recently.
I was weak.
I even got my account back from the hacker that took it.
I started playing WoW in April 2005 to play with my then-boyfriend, because he spent most of his time playing it, and I wanted to spend time with him, share his interests, all that good stuff. I had not previously known anything about or had any interest in the game, and it turned out it was really fun.
Since then I have played casually and seriously, though never at raider-type levels. I went through a really bad time at the end of that year with my classes for what turned out to be health reasons, and started skipping them to do BGs. That cleaned itself up once I sought medical attention for those. In 2007 I had to stop playing because, to be blunt, I was literally living on a pack of ramen a day because my then-boyfriend (different then-boyfriend) got me into trouble by (ugh) writing a bunch of bad checks to the apartment complex we lived in. That was pretty much that.
Right after getting out of that mess, I got together with my now-fiance, and he hated WoW. But CoH! CoH was his big thing. At first I didn't like it, but I got used to it, and really it was mostly about spending the time with him. I started playing it more and more, and spent the last double-xp weekend nailed to my computer. I realized how burnt out on it I was at that point. I hadn't moved from it in about 72 hours, and you know, I decided that what I really wanted to do was read a goddamn book. CoH wasn't even really all that fun in the end.
Suddenly I had all this time. I started to read in my spare time again, and you know what? I think I could actually feel brain cells I had lost growing back. It was really nice. I decided that there would be no more MMOs, and I was going to pick up old hobbies.
About 2 weeks later, my fiance was sad. He said, "I miss playing games with you." I said, "I miss it too, but I'm so burnt out on CoH, and anyway I've found some other things to do."
He said "I'd rather play WoW with you than solo in CoH."
Knowing this to be high praise for me, I went "D'awwwwwww. But you fucking hate WoW and I don't want play it with you just to sit and listen to you complain bitterly about how it isn't CoH."
He said, "I won't! I swear! We'll reactivate our accounts and play together, and it'll be awesome!"
I thought to myself, "Shit. I'll give it a try to make him happy, and he'll hate it, and he'll piss me off, and the whole thing will last a week."
That was about a month ago, and he's been really good. I'm having fun. I play a bit too much, but I'm also having a really hard time finding a job and that's depressing the hell out of me. I'm in the PAA on Dark Iron, so I can pretty much be as serious or not serious as I want and no one will think much of it. I've found some people who are (at level 70) going back and doing all the old 60 content that no one does anymore and I was *just* too late to see, and that's really laid-back and fun.
The new expansion is coming out soon. I'll never be geared enough to see everything BC has to offer by the time it does and no one plays the old stuff anymore, but I know there will always be somebody out there who does want to see it, and I'm in no rush.
I've also found that the only time I really have difficulty controlling my play time is when there's something else very wrong in my life.
Bottom line: The game is fun. Grinding fucking spiders and murlocs isn't fun, but the big picture is fun. Seeing new things is fun (and the game is nothing if not beautiful to look at). You know that if you sign up again you're going to spend time on it. Are you willing to spend that time? Will you look back on your life and feel it wasted? If you feel like this will be a good chance to play a fun game again, go for it, and try to watch how much time you sink into it. If you feel like you won't be able to be casual, it's probably best avoided.
A lot of people said this about AoC six months ago.
Don't make the same mistake I did and buy into an MMO at launch based on hype and promises from developers.
But.. but... Paul Barnett wouldn't lie to me. W...would he?
The MMO is "get a job." And instead of paying to work, they pay you to work.