This morning, I browsed some Websites before starting to work as usual. I read an article posted on a blog site, which is about the author's travel for World of Warcraft. From the first time to play WOW to drop it for some reasons, and finally he appeared in Paris for the Worldwide Invitational 2008. What's the feeling during the journey? Now enjoy the whole article with you.
Blizzard WWI: Wrath of the Lich King Hands-On
"You can play for as long as you want, just don't take any screenshots," the Blizzard administrator told me as I sat down to play the Wrath of the Lich King build at Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational 2008. The thought of taking screenshots of the game didn't cross my mind at all until that point. Eventually, I would realize why.
My World of Warcraft career is a rather long one. I played in beta for awhile, I got the game on release and played then too. After about a month of it, I got upset at a quest in The Sepulcher and stopped playing for two months never getting my character past level 17. Three or four months later at the urging of a friend, I got back into it again. This time, I didn't stop.
I find myself a guild master of a raiding guild, raiding 4 nights a week, attempting to keep up some Arena teams and struggling with that. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday nights were offlimits for my social life as that was my quality time with my guild. However, about 4 months ago, I got tired. I burned out, I started to see why. It was just the same thing over and over again. I wasn't really playing the game to play the game, but I was playing it for the friends I had made, the personal experiences and laughs we shared. WoW was a tool: A way of making new friends and keeping them.
Just this week, I finally cancelled my account. I hadn't logged in for longer than 5 minutes in about 3 months. I just didn't have it in me to play anymore. It was not any fun. But now, I find myself in Paris at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational with Wrath of the Lich King breathing down my neck. I avoided it on Day 1. The crowds were insane, but this morning I finally sat down feeling the guilt of having just cancelled my account and being fortunate enough to sit down and play it when so many people who are currently enjoying the game aren't able to even look at it.