Ulroci
04-29-2008, 02:22 PM
I don't meant to go all QQ on you all, so forgive the following vent thread:
Don't get me wrong, I love playing WoW, but the more I play it, the more I realize the effects on a person. If you were to take it into context, an MMO can feel like a second life (I guess explaining SL's success). I came to such a thought last night as I tried to go to sleep. When you first begin, everything is fun and new and you make tons of new friends through your advents. However, as time goes on, you become more serious about what you do and you mature. Your long list of friends thin out as they leave or quit the game much like friends and family move, leave or fade away. You press on though, enjoying your time and keeping up with your closest of close. Then, you reach the near end, you finally hit the level cap and you feel accomplished with yourself knowing that you have only to get the most 1337 gear and you can begin all the good raids. But you sit on that level for a while and get your PWN filled weapons and armor and you look back at your friends again and they begin to thin out further and further until all the friends of former days are gone. It makes you feel like an old man or woman looking back on days gone and remembering faces and times when you and all of your old friends were together for the first time and all the fun times you all had.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, though I've lost plenty of WoW buddies over the last two years or so, I still love to play. Sure, I feel like an old codger sometimes when I think and talk about the "good ol' days", but I'm just glad that I had good ol' days. :3
Don't get me wrong, I love playing WoW, but the more I play it, the more I realize the effects on a person. If you were to take it into context, an MMO can feel like a second life (I guess explaining SL's success). I came to such a thought last night as I tried to go to sleep. When you first begin, everything is fun and new and you make tons of new friends through your advents. However, as time goes on, you become more serious about what you do and you mature. Your long list of friends thin out as they leave or quit the game much like friends and family move, leave or fade away. You press on though, enjoying your time and keeping up with your closest of close. Then, you reach the near end, you finally hit the level cap and you feel accomplished with yourself knowing that you have only to get the most 1337 gear and you can begin all the good raids. But you sit on that level for a while and get your PWN filled weapons and armor and you look back at your friends again and they begin to thin out further and further until all the friends of former days are gone. It makes you feel like an old man or woman looking back on days gone and remembering faces and times when you and all of your old friends were together for the first time and all the fun times you all had.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, though I've lost plenty of WoW buddies over the last two years or so, I still love to play. Sure, I feel like an old codger sometimes when I think and talk about the "good ol' days", but I'm just glad that I had good ol' days. :3