I just realized I'm addicted to WoW again...
Sad? Yes.
Irresponsible? Yes.
Simple? Not as much as you'd think...
Honestly, I thought I was free from the blasted MMO once I got Warhammer Online and figured I could change to a new game that apparently didn't force you to sell days of your life away. Now, I changed all the way back in December, right after the holidays, and I figured it was a good time to be leaving as Wrath of the Lich King was starting to emerge from it's cocoon from Hell, plus my friends were all getting WAR as well and I thought it would be nice sitting down after school punting dwarves while making a macro that simply said "Orks! Orks! Orks! Wagghhhhh!" every couple of seconds. (Unfortunately I am the fool in this case as well for I failed to realize that anything said be my friends should be taken with a dump truck full of salt and razor wire.) So, I signed up for WAR, and went onto Blizzard's website for what I thought would be the last time to cancel my subscription. I was terribly, terribly wrong.
For you see, when canceling my subscription to World of Warcraft, I failed to realize that I would still have the months I had already paid for on the account, which was 6 months, ending in July. Shortly after I found out how bad Warhammer Online was, (and having no one to keep me on there) I started playing Star Wars Galaxies, maybe a couple nights a week. Soon, I grew bored of my old favorite as well. Now, after this, I had revamped my entire computer and any corresponding hardware for Dawn of War II, but Dawn of War II wasn't quite out yet and I decided to get on World of Warcraft, to take the graphics card out for a spin and the such. Delightfully pleased that even on the highest settings WoW could put out, my computer held together like Gerard Butler in a cape on a rocky pass, I exited out of the WoW once more to play the piece of shit I would come to know as Crysis. Fun!
After playing Dawn of War II, and playing anything I had received for my 360, (and finally beating Steambot Chronicles with all the extra knick knacks! Fuck yes!) I grew quite bored. I would rent the occasional game that was on my "Meh-dar" and see movies like Twilight, just to gawk at how delightfully bad they were, while also reading books of the same title, just to gawk at how delightfully bad they were. My brain started to stagnate, and instead of doing something productive like homework or painting the massive pile of Warhammer 40,000 models on my desk, I got a bit depressed with how boring my life had become. Actually, that's a bit of a lie, for a month or so I would play left 4 Dead with my friend regularly and I also got the DS version of Chrono Trigger (which I blew away in 3 days thanks to my 1337 skills), and needless to say such tasks kept me very happy. This was all until the beginning of Spring Break, however.
To celebrate Spring Break, my best friend decided to cast off his usual Aura of Prick and bought us Resident Evil 5. Sadly, we beat this abortion in a mere 5 hours on the hardest difficulty and only had fun because beating each other with the stun batons is hilarious. Once he left, after kicking my ass in a game of Warhammer, (which we actually decided the winner with a coin toss)I grew bored again, and seeing as how Resident Evil 5 had been in all senses a steaming puddle of premature ejaculate, I went on my computer, and went on, yes, World of Warcraft.
Now, I probably wouldn't have stayed on this form of heroine with magic pew-pew's if it were not for the fact that on Monday, I received surgery that will leave me unable to speak and move a lot for the next week. In a manner of days, I've created a very large, disciplined Roleplaying guild, created political ties with just about every guild on the server, and two characters around level 60. Even with this I grew bored, however, and set my eyes on new horizons, Wrath of the Lich King. Having no money, I downloaded the trial version off the website and just got done power questing in the new starting area to get my ret-pally to 70, and on the brink of 71. I also made a Death Knight, but at this point, who hasn't? (speaking of which, does anyone else find it odd that Anakin Skyw-er, Arthas is not in the game besides the DK starting quests and in the little visions you get of him running? Meh.) Now, upon being 1,556,999 of 1,557,000 exp needed to get to level 71, I realized that I had been killing mobs for 'that final kill until ding-time' for almost an hour now. My Supreme Chancellor WoW Addict of a sister then comes in, telling me how much I fail because you can't level up with just the trial. After wrenching some of my hair out and sobbing in shame (okay, not really, but I wanted to), my sister, like the drug peddler she is, gives me the money to go buy Wrath of the Lich King for realz-realz and no playz-playz this weekend.
It has now dawned on me that it is already Friday, my Spring Break almost over, and all I have done is play World of Warcraft, not having spoken to either my girlfriend or buddies for extended periods of time save the beginning of it. And as much as I hate to say it, I'm going to order it off the site today! Muahahahahaaha!
...
Riiight after I go see Dragonball: Evolution...
Sad? Yes.
Irresponsible? Yes.
Simple? Not as much as you'd think...
Honestly, I thought I was free from the blasted MMO once I got Warhammer Online and figured I could change to a new game that apparently didn't force you to sell days of your life away. Now, I changed all the way back in December, right after the holidays, and I figured it was a good time to be leaving as Wrath of the Lich King was starting to emerge from it's cocoon from Hell, plus my friends were all getting WAR as well and I thought it would be nice sitting down after school punting dwarves while making a macro that simply said "Orks! Orks! Orks! Wagghhhhh!" every couple of seconds. (Unfortunately I am the fool in this case as well for I failed to realize that anything said be my friends should be taken with a dump truck full of salt and razor wire.) So, I signed up for WAR, and went onto Blizzard's website for what I thought would be the last time to cancel my subscription. I was terribly, terribly wrong.
For you see, when canceling my subscription to World of Warcraft, I failed to realize that I would still have the months I had already paid for on the account, which was 6 months, ending in July. Shortly after I found out how bad Warhammer Online was, (and having no one to keep me on there) I started playing Star Wars Galaxies, maybe a couple nights a week. Soon, I grew bored of my old favorite as well. Now, after this, I had revamped my entire computer and any corresponding hardware for Dawn of War II, but Dawn of War II wasn't quite out yet and I decided to get on World of Warcraft, to take the graphics card out for a spin and the such. Delightfully pleased that even on the highest settings WoW could put out, my computer held together like Gerard Butler in a cape on a rocky pass, I exited out of the WoW once more to play the piece of shit I would come to know as Crysis. Fun!
After playing Dawn of War II, and playing anything I had received for my 360, (and finally beating Steambot Chronicles with all the extra knick knacks! Fuck yes!) I grew quite bored. I would rent the occasional game that was on my "Meh-dar" and see movies like Twilight, just to gawk at how delightfully bad they were, while also reading books of the same title, just to gawk at how delightfully bad they were. My brain started to stagnate, and instead of doing something productive like homework or painting the massive pile of Warhammer 40,000 models on my desk, I got a bit depressed with how boring my life had become. Actually, that's a bit of a lie, for a month or so I would play left 4 Dead with my friend regularly and I also got the DS version of Chrono Trigger (which I blew away in 3 days thanks to my 1337 skills), and needless to say such tasks kept me very happy. This was all until the beginning of Spring Break, however.
To celebrate Spring Break, my best friend decided to cast off his usual Aura of Prick and bought us Resident Evil 5. Sadly, we beat this abortion in a mere 5 hours on the hardest difficulty and only had fun because beating each other with the stun batons is hilarious. Once he left, after kicking my ass in a game of Warhammer, (which we actually decided the winner with a coin toss)I grew bored again, and seeing as how Resident Evil 5 had been in all senses a steaming puddle of premature ejaculate, I went on my computer, and went on, yes, World of Warcraft.
Now, I probably wouldn't have stayed on this form of heroine with magic pew-pew's if it were not for the fact that on Monday, I received surgery that will leave me unable to speak and move a lot for the next week. In a manner of days, I've created a very large, disciplined Roleplaying guild, created political ties with just about every guild on the server, and two characters around level 60. Even with this I grew bored, however, and set my eyes on new horizons, Wrath of the Lich King. Having no money, I downloaded the trial version off the website and just got done power questing in the new starting area to get my ret-pally to 70, and on the brink of 71. I also made a Death Knight, but at this point, who hasn't? (speaking of which, does anyone else find it odd that Anakin Skyw-er, Arthas is not in the game besides the DK starting quests and in the little visions you get of him running? Meh.) Now, upon being 1,556,999 of 1,557,000 exp needed to get to level 71, I realized that I had been killing mobs for 'that final kill until ding-time' for almost an hour now. My Supreme Chancellor WoW Addict of a sister then comes in, telling me how much I fail because you can't level up with just the trial. After wrenching some of my hair out and sobbing in shame (okay, not really, but I wanted to), my sister, like the drug peddler she is, gives me the money to go buy Wrath of the Lich King for realz-realz and no playz-playz this weekend.
It has now dawned on me that it is already Friday, my Spring Break almost over, and all I have done is play World of Warcraft, not having spoken to either my girlfriend or buddies for extended periods of time save the beginning of it. And as much as I hate to say it, I'm going to order it off the site today! Muahahahahaaha!
...
Riiight after I go see Dragonball: Evolution...
for a start im a massive fan of the board game so the idea of playing as a Dark Elf ro Chaos gave me a big throbbing nerd on! And as you said it wasnt a total grind sandwitch its like the closet thing to a casuel MMO yet.
