Wowcrack

With the new World of Warcraft expansion coming out today it made me remember my addition and how glad I am to have moved on.  My addition to the warcrack began before the game was even released as I had the opportunity to join both the server stress test and the open beta. After playing the game a few nights on the stress test, I was totally hooked to the warcrack. I became a druggy of WoW and I didn’t even know it at the time. I had had my taste and I wanted more. My dealer (the friend who told me about) was also addicted but not as much I had become. I had to know everything about the game and was going through withdraw from open beta time until WoW officially open. Like an addicted I bought the game as soon as I could where my real addiction began.

 I played WoW for about 1.5 years and in that time I had advanced two characters to level 60 with several more to various levels. The game its self was a never ending addition where I had to get more and more just to be satisfied. Now it wasn’t enough to just play the game for at least 4 hours a day 7 days a week but I needed to get new items for my characters. I wanted to have the ultimate character, be the ruler of WoW. After a while my addiction started to fade as there was no way to level up and no reasonably way I could obtain the better gear than I had already have obtained with out finding 39 new friends who were bigger addicts than I. Though their addiction was stronger than mine, those people took the “fun” out of playing a game. The so called “endgame” experience was about going into the same instance a billion times killing the same things over and over and over again until you finally get the one item to drop. Now that it dropped you either had to roll against all the other players that wanted it or have been doing these runs longer than anyone else (they keep track and distribute items based on times gone). Needless to say, the drugs affects were wearing off at this point. 

So like a good drug distributor they introduced a new pill to fill the void. PVP had moved to the top of things to do. However this was again a giant time sink as you would have to wait at least 20 minutes just to get in a game.  Now that you are in the pvp battle with your fellow crack addicts you still needed to win. If you were lucky you went in with your friends talking over teamspeak and had a chance. But then come the mega addicted who do have 39 other friends that spent the hours to get the mega-awesome-superduper-wtfzomg-gear and they destroyed your team. This actually keeps you from spending months pvping to make it to the top of the pvp ranking only to get some more sweet gear. As an average peon in the land of Azeroth you realize its like real life. I spend too much time working for things that only a few have and I don’t have the desire nor drive to achieve what they have. In the end your addiction is no longer there because the game has become a job instead of a game. You look back going wtf was I thinking, wasting not just hours but days and even months of time of your life playing a game and giving up real life experiences. Don’t get me wrong I still play games and enjoy them on generally a daily basis. But now when my friends call me to go out I don’t have to tell them I can’t because I have scheduled time to go on a raid with my virtual friends to get a chance for new uber gear.   

Thanks for reading my rant and for those of you still addicted to the warcrack I want you to know, you can get off the smack. Happy hunting!

-RatBaastard