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.