So....

It's been awhile since I've raided.. or even logged into WoW with serious plans and intentions. I've been playing around an a few alts that I've had for awhile, but that's about the exstint of my WoW life.

I haven't seen inside of ZA. I'm glad. I hear it's so similar to ZG that it's basically boring. I'm not surpised. I've seen screenies and loot tables.. seems interesting, yes.. but it's the same shit, different instance.

Sorry to disappoint, but I've fallen into that % of former hardcore WoW players that have found a Real Life and are enjoying it.

World of Warcraft is finally just a game to me once again. For 2 years, it was more than that... I hated admitting it and I often had to pull myself out of it to say that it was just a game, but I never fully played it like it was. It is now.. I login when I want. I do whatever I want when I do login. No one relies on me, there isn't a schedule for when I am required to play... no attendance to keep, no judgement of how I did at night. Sure I haven't seen any epics come my way in months, but who gives a shit. I ran BRD and got some upgrades on an alt yesterday... was pretty exciting :p

Next week I may give myself some sort of goal for the game... via Arena. This will NOT be taken on too serious of a level by any means and I won't have high expectations that ruin all of the fun. I'd like to just do arena with friends... and if it requires setting aside a couple of hours a week for it, so be it... but I'm not going to play so much that I lose my job,lol. Whatever comes of it, so be it.. I just want to have fun. It'll be a different aspect of the game seeing as I'll actually be going for PvP gear to put me on the same level as the other people who play in arena. Currently I don't have any arena gear... so it's been fun to do, but limited. Hitting that wall of all gear vs. just your skill is pretty annoying, lol.

So... I haven't quit playing WoW entirely. I don't really intend to right now. The conclusion I've come to is that I was a moron for dedicating way too much time to a stupid video game that is mostly just a cult-like fad and in a few years will fade off and die in popularity. There will always be those old-skool people who stick to it (like EQ!) but some other game will come along and replace it for most, as WoW did when it was released.

I'm happy. I'm happy going out at night... working at night and making tons more money than I do most days... I'm happy having a night-life that doesn't require me to be at my computer desk with a headset on! Happy... who would've thought that WoW was the main reason I wasn't very happy for so long? Lol. Cruel cruel addictive video games.. tsktsk.

/guffaw to those of you who are still stuck playing it every night for 8 hours a night. No offense my friends... but is that really a life? And how often is it really that fun? Eh, who am I to judge... for awhile I thought it was fun, too. Maybe it is what some people consider true fun... and maybe it does make some people sincerely happy to play that way - who knows. To me, it becomes a second job (or first for many) that you'll never get paid for except for in epics that you may someday be able to auction off to someone for real money, but not enough to justify the amount of time it took you to get them.

Give real life a shot, especially you youngins out there. GTFO of your houses and live a little. You bitches that live on the coast.. in Florida and Cali... jesus christ. Get out and do something... I envy that you guys live so close to plenty of shit to do. Try living in Ohio... we have Cleveland... and Ice Surfing on the lake... which is actually a sewage dump. Nummy.

Life won't come to you. You have to make your life fun.. I guess living in WoW is probably just easier, but RL doesn't have to be so bad. Do things in moderation... even WoW. It wouldn't kill some of you to take a break every now and then.

RL Takes the Lead

I raided once last week for a total of probably 3 hours. I only had one night off last week from work and even on the days in which I worked in the AM... I was busy in the evening with other shit or just far too tired to try and log onto WoW and accomplish anything. All in all, money is far better than epics... and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to raid anytime soon, at least not nearly on a full-time basis. This probably means I'll be recruited over and I really don't care.

Some comments have been thrown out by other guild members along the lines of... because x, x, and x, we haven't been able to down Illidan. Funnily enough the comment made referred to 3 people who quit the game basically and one person who transferred... as well as Baz and myself.

So I'm to blame for the guilds inability to down the final boss in the game? Awesome.

Glad that my hours of endless dedication for so long were appreciated. But apparently because my actual life has taken a turn for being time consuming... the only thing that matters is that I'm part of the reason why the guild cannot down Illidan.

/guffaw

It may be somewhat true, but ffs... I'm a god damned warlock. We are a dime a dozen... I'm not decked in full t6... it's not like my dps could possibly that amazing with my imp bitch spec. It's not my fault we only have one full-time raiding lock... and even then, it's played by 2 people!

So I dunno... I'm enjoying the money from my job - and since I'm only working part-time the idea of getting a second part-time job isn't such a bad one. I miss raiding some nights and I do feel bad for no longer being reliable, but when it comes down to it... it's just not that important. I'd rather go to bed before 1am my time when I need to be up at 7am the following morning... I'd rather not be stressed out over pixels and people I'll never actually have to deal with in person. It's kinda sad, but I think I'm officially a casual now... mostly not by choice, but in part it is. There's just no reason for me to take the bullshit and make the game so important anymore - what's important to me is getting a house in some other state.. far far away from the shithole that is Ohio. What's important... is getting out... seeing the city at night again... and deciding on a whim that I feel like watching a movie at 10pm on any random night. What's important... is not planning my week or work schedule around a video game.

I think this is called _being grown up and responsible_. Hmm. I'll get back to you on whether or not I actually like it.