DARN IT!
WoW is starting to suck me back in again, I really want to cut away from it but my wife is still an avid player. Im not even sure what I want from it anymore. I try to kid myself that I am having fun but im really not. I handed over the guild leadership as I said I would, but in that instant it sucked me right back in.
I think I might know what it is I am missing, the cameraderie. I think I like MMOs which I can jump in to, have some fun with friends and just generally enjoy the game. WoW does not do that for me anymore, seeing content which will not further my character at all (as WoW is at the moment) is no fun for me.
But theres the problem all over again. How to stop my addiction to this ball of suck. I need to go cold turkey and find a new game but I cant do it if my wife is still playing, still raiding, its taken over her life even more than mine but she is too blind to see it. All I can think to do is to transfer my chars off their current server, that pretty much stops me raiding with my friends. But im a chicken shit, I cant do that to myself, cant delete them either. Only saving grace is that my subs run out in November, but what is there to stop me simply starting it up again.
WoW WAS a good game, but I think I need to get myself out again, I was doing SO well! Now im addicted… sort of again. Writing this blog really opens my eyes as to what im doing, I mean I was raiding last night, and was going to tonight, but now im signing out. I need to find something else to do! Subs I have are LOTRO which is fun and I should play, WAR (cant say anything about it atm sorry) EQ2 which is great fun, but I need to find the right guild, one which is talkative and fun, and CASUAL. maybe on another server who knows. And a couple of random games ill prolly never play again.
I think I know what my problem is with a lot of games… they are more fun when played with OTHER PEOPLE!!! Shock horror!! I remember in DAoC finding a AVC group of total randoms for some AoE for an evening. Then WoW came along and the “dumbass kiddies” with it which destroyed my faith in PUGs. Now when I play an MMO I hardly ever group up….. unless its duo with my wife. Ive not even given grouping a chance at all in EQ2 since I came back, nor LOTRO, maybe thats my problem, and I should jsut cut loose. Maybe ill reactivate EQ2 again and try grouping, or try it on LOTRO. The only thing EQ2 has over LOTRO atm is that I play a Berserker, a DPS tank, whereas in LOTRO im a guardian, a def tank…
So the main question is (if I get anyone reading this) how do I quit WoW in such a way to stop me coming back? Transfer? Deletion?
DARN IT!!!!!!!!!
September 24, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I can relate to your problem my friend. Not with WoW, but any other game out there. I keep getting sucked back to EQ2. LOL I dont want to leave the game like you want to leave WoW, however. I did at one point in time, but not currently. But I know how you feel in WoW, the disconnected feeling. I’ve known it in most games I’ve played, be it WoW, Lineage 2, Guild Wars, whatever. At some point I always got disconnected.
It was always the players that I met and played with, that made me enjoy the game to begin with, or again. Like in EQ2 currently, I came back to start fresh, new server and everything with my wife and a hand ful of friends I’ve known for years. For some weird reason, we chose the PvP servers, which…is odd because we’re not big on PvP. But low and behold, we do enjoy the server after all. There is more comraderie on a pvp server than any other server I’ve ever seen. I guess its the good vs evil thing. On most servers its guild vs guild, your guild trying to be the best etc etc. But on Venekor server, good helps good and bad helps bad. I get random heals, rezz’s, and not to mention “out of the blue” backup during fights.
Of course I dont mean to throw this in your face at all, my point is its the people you want, not the game. I think you already know that, but you relate it to WoW because that seems to be what your most comfortable with, not to mention there is the wife-faction to argue as well. Character development will always cap out, thats something you should get used to my friend. But playing with good friends never gets boring, even if its with new toons or not.