Dreams and the Great Experiment

The venerable Stop is no longer a WoW player (and therefore, naturally, no longer a WoW blogger).

In his post, he goes over a list of reasons why WoW has, for him, become less of an entertainment and more of an obligationistic time-sucker (verbiage my own).

It got me to thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know). I used to do all sorts of things. I played games (many of these). I coded. I wrote.

Now I spend my evenings playing WoW, a lot of the time. Not recently- in a twisted way, I have Blizzard to thank for the wake-up call- but still.

Those of you who are biting your nails in suspense, calm down a little.

I still enjoy the game, for all its faults. I know this is because I have friends who I can spend time with only in-game, and/or because the game’s challenges haven’t quite worn off. But… it doesn’t need to take as much time as I have been known to give it. I can make time for my own things and reduce the time I spend in WoW. There’s nothing making me play.

So… after tonight- I get to see the beginning of Ulduar, hopefully, with some friends, and I do find that exciting- I am not going to log in to WoW until, at a minimum, Monday. Call it an experiment, if you will. That gives me Thursday and Friday evenings, and all day Saturday- Sunday was (for a marvel) already scheduled for out-of-game things*- with which to try other things.

Perhaps I’ll resume one of my many, many half-finished strategy or RPG games. Perhaps I’ll restart one of them. Perhaps I’ll finally put the last polish on some rules I wrote for tabletop strategy. Perhaps I’ll even get some coding done.

Maybe I’ll even write in my blog (yeah, right).

No, I’m not quitting blogging. Or WoW. Put the handcuffs down. Hey! Help! Aaaaaah!

*okay, so Sunday’s activity is overseeing, demonstrating and playing the Warcraft Trading Card Game look it’s not the same thing okay it just isn’t. stop looking at me like that.