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Sunday, October 23, 2005
My WoW Obsession.I fucking knew that once I started playing World of Warcraft that I was going to somehow get addicted to it. Somewhere in my thoughts, I figured since I don't lie RPGs, socializing with lots of people, and games with repetitive tasks to do (. . ..**cough** Spider-man 2), the odds are that I wouldn't get caught with the WoW virus. I was wrong.My friends bought copies of the game, and as most of you know, each copy of the game comes with a 10-day guest pass. I figured what the hell, and installed it. I understand that the joy of role playing games is that you're capable of being someone/something you're not, but I created a character that's most like me - a human rogue. The only thing that sucks about my character and the "create-a-character" settings is that I can't change the eye color, and there isn't an afro available. I'm a black guy with blue eyes and a bald head; I guess that's close enough. If I had an afro, that would have been amazing. After I created a character, it was time to start my adventure. Keep in mind that during this initial phase, I was still thinking this game was going to be utterly stupid. Sure, I know tons of people who play it and think it's awesome, but lots of people think Kingdom Hearts is fucking amazing but I didn't like that. "It sucks being level 1." That's the first thing that popped in my head. It sucked being level 1, and it sucked almost getting killed by level 5 shit. WTF. So I did some fetch quests, and leveled up. I did some more fetch quests, and leveled up again. I was also playing this while my friends were in the room playing it on their computers - we were killing shit together. Whenever we went to the big cities, I would look around and look at all the level 55+ people walking around and/or riding huge panther-like creatures. I remember thinking that was the coolest thing ever. Me being at level 12 (at that time), and looking at level 60 rogues walking around; finding out that if I play enough I can be level 60 too. "Interesting..." I immediately went into denial. How can something so simple and mindless be fun? Why the hell am I doing this? I'm flirting with a female elf chick named Aryliiussyriousectyouf, even though it could be a dude that created her. When pointing out these questions and concerns, the game would quickly answer with a "VaaaRooooom." The sound of leveling up. And the closer I kept getting to level 60, the less frequent my mind would begin asking questions and concerns in order to get me to dislike it. Now at level 29, approximately 40 hours [of gameplay] later, I don't ask these questions anymore. I'm in a guild now. I help out the fucked up lower leveled fucks level the fuck up. (Say that last sentence out-loud, I did and thoroughly enjoyed myself). Guilds being a bunch of people getting together to form an organization. Now I understand the obsession. It's not about the stupid quests, or the monotony of killing monster after monster that makes this game good. It's the camaraderie that develops with the people you quest with. It's finding cool shit to wear and/or use in battle. But mostly, it's leveling up. The goddamn game shows you how close you are to leveling up with an XP (experience points) Bar, and most of the times I stay up for hours and hours just doing everything in my power to fill up that bar. So why haven't there been too many posts? Why haven't I been on AIM as much as I used to be on? Because I'm obsessed with World of Warcraft. I'd like to thank my friends because without them introducing me to this game, I might have actually made straight A's this semester...I might have even socialized and made new friends. Thanks a bunch. Name: Paraquecon Server: GreyMane [pictures coming later] ¶11:17 AM e-mail me (7) comments top September 2002 / October 2002 / November 2002 / December 2002 / January 2003 / February 2003 / March 2003 / April 2003 / May 2003 / June 2003 / July 2003 / August 2003 / September 2003 / October 2003 / November 2003 / December 2003 / January 2004 / February 2004 / March 2004 / April 2004 / May 2004 / June 2004 / July 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / January 2005 / February 2005 / March 2005 / April 2005 / May 2005 / June 2005 / July 2005 / August 2005 / September 2005 / October 2005 / November 2005 / December 2005 / January 2006 / February 2006 / March 2006 / April 2006 / May 2006 / August 2006 / October 2006 / December 2006 / April 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / November 2007 / January 2008 / February 2008 / March 2008 / April 2008 /
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