The thing is, I just can't do it. I've sworn them off, because I don't like being on a treadmill. (no matter how convenient it's been made) Too much time and having to pay to waste it. I'll stick to more contained experiences... like L4D2, Borderlands & Fallout.
I don't blame you. Both times I quit (significant raiding in Classic, and then just before starting to raid in BC), I quit cold turkey. "It's stupid that I'm putting so much time into something that means nothing." Account cancelled, didn't fire the game up again for months the first time, years the second. I was even the main healer for a guild's Karazhan (or however you spell that) hopes on quit number two. They probably weren't happy with me.
The problem is. . .it's just so much fun. When it gets down to it, the reason I quit before, and the reason I didn't want to play again, is that I enjoyed it so much that I put too much time into it. I mean, everything you get in a standard "contained" experience is present in an MMO, except on a grander, living, ever-changing scale. It seems silly not to do something because you enjoy it too much, right? Maybe?
Anyway, I'm going to try to play more responsibly this time around (uh, with the exception of my initial binge) but it may be the sort of thing I burn out on again in a month or two. We'll see I guess.
Clean for two years. . .but Cataclysm got me.
- 07/12/2010 11:14:12 AM
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A friend of mine is considering it, but my reply on joining him is an emphatic no.
- 07/12/2010 02:15:27 PM
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I agree, that's why I quit before. Twice, actually.
- 07/12/2010 03:59:09 PM
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- 07/12/2010 03:59:09 PM
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The "mini-instanced" thing you refer to is what they call call "phasing".
- 07/12/2010 02:19:04 PM
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Sure, I understand that part, I just don't know how it works when you pull in other players.
- 07/12/2010 04:07:50 PM
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From what I saw previously...
- 07/12/2010 06:07:53 PM
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Huh.
- 07/12/2010 06:42:58 PM
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The funniest thing...
- 07/12/2010 10:46:19 PM
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- 08/12/2010 03:12:41 PM
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- 08/12/2010 03:12:41 PM
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Re: Huh.
- 08/12/2010 07:45:46 PM
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You noticed the examples I gave were from the plaguelands, right? Did you catch that? *NM*
- 08/12/2010 08:07:13 PM
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Great.
- 07/12/2010 02:21:54 PM
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If you've tried it and didn't like it, the changes won't convince you to play.
- 07/12/2010 04:15:04 PM
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Get me excited then kick me in the head then.
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- 10/12/2010 12:32:54 AM
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- 10/12/2010 12:32:54 AM
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I haven't installed it yet, but it's dead week so I probably won't get to play much for a while
- 07/12/2010 02:53:23 PM
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I am excited, they are going to have werewolves
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- 07/12/2010 03:51:23 PM
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- 07/12/2010 03:51:23 PM
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I'm predicting one Worgen-only guild named Team Jacob per server. *NM*
- 07/12/2010 03:53:21 PM
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I was excited about that initially.
- 07/12/2010 04:23:47 PM
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- 07/12/2010 04:23:47 PM
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pallies are still ridiculously OP
- 08/12/2010 02:12:18 PM
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Re: pallies are still ridiculously OP
- 09/12/2010 01:37:29 AM
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yah, I always forget DKs. I haven't been in BGs since the breaking
- 09/12/2010 02:09:52 PM
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On the plus side, DK glyphs sell like hotcakes, so I'm fine with some OP DK fun.
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- 09/12/2010 04:58:11 PM
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- 09/12/2010 04:58:11 PM
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EVERYTHING is selling like hotcakes.
- 10/12/2010 02:14:37 PM
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Yeah? On my server I can't get much other than DK glyphs to go.
- 10/12/2010 03:23:07 PM
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swiiiming swiimming swiiming swiiming!
- 11/12/2010 11:20:47 AM
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You LIKE swimming? Yech.
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- 11/12/2010 07:47:20 PM
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- 11/12/2010 07:47:20 PM
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You haven't seen Vashj'ir yet, have you?
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- 11/12/2010 10:20:38 PM
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- 11/12/2010 10:20:38 PM
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Nope. 71 now, though. Exams are over on Wednesday, and then I'll make some serious progress.
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- 13/12/2010 06:42:36 AM
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- 13/12/2010 06:42:36 AM
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WotLK and Cata zones are amazing.
- 13/12/2010 02:12:07 PM
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I actually like group quests, as long as I can solo them.
- 14/12/2010 02:19:48 PM
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- 14/12/2010 02:19:48 PM
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Before the end of Wrath
- 17/12/2010 05:31:36 AM
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haha, yeah, I remember being able to solo just about anything in BC with my pally.
- 17/12/2010 08:54:15 PM
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