Posts Tagged ‘World of Warcraft’
Six Months Without World of Warcraft
Until the end of last year, I was an infrequent player of World of Warcraft and Eve Online. This is actually an interesting thing because I don’t really like either games. I find both to be very repetitive. At elast Eve-Online is well-balanced and pretty well designed; something that can’t be said about World of Warcraft. On the other hand, World of Warcraft at least has some role-playing going on.
After I moved to Munich at the beginning of the year, I canceled my accounts. This was mostly done because I was on a short budget (moving costs a hell of a lot of money). With one WoW and two Eve accounts, that’s about 45 Euro a month or – now get this – 540 Euro a year. No wonder everybody and their pet dog are jumping on the MMORPG-bandwagon!
I had originally considered to subscribe again once my bank account had filled up a little, but to be honest – I couldn’t care less. Yes, there are some people I left behind – especially in World of Warcraft – that I would never talk to outside the game. But you know what? If a friendship can not exist outside an artificial world, then what kind of a friendship is it anyway? And, yes, I did try to keep in touch. My MSN messages remain unanswered half of the time.
“Sorry, I was busy raiding.”
Well, good for you.
