At the risk of sounding like a one-track record, this is another ‘Warcraft post. Instead of being an entry, though, it’s some kind of rambling apologia for the lack of further World of Warcraft posts. I’ll excuse you if you pass on this post, or you could just skip straight to the summary at the bottom. I’ll try to make this as cogent as possible.
See, after burning the candle at both ends, you really get sick of blogging what is essentially a fake-narrative (for the screenshots) that always fails to do much justice to the game experience you’ve just had. This makes you depressed: you’re failing your audience, you’re tired (because, being an insane night-dweller it is now THE AM) and you’re sick of playing the game which parodically you actually really, really like. Being burnt out, tired and angsty like this is not good.
Maybe I’m wrong. You’re probably not as tired with WoW as I am, you might even be expecting another entry, so I’d better go some way to answering that desire.
Quite apart from not wanting to blog, after a few days of non-stop adventuring I literally had no desire to play the game any further. It’s a horrible feeling. I still loved it, but I’d overdosed entirely in one long pleasure-binge and I’d had enough. The drug analogy is not entirely off-key - two days later I created another character, a dwarf hunter, and played for five hours straight. The next day, the pet gimmick wore off and I got bored with it again. A few days ago I was back to it - an undead rogue, whom I spent three hours with. Then, boredom.
Today I kicked it with my original character Tik, now level 21, and certainly tough enough to take on big quests and get involved in PvP. The trouble is, I’m still hesitant to get to engrossed because the character will get reset along with everyone elses come retail, so it’s utterly futile to bother levelling or questing. A little annoying fact that’s always at the back of your mind. I look at people 40+ (of which I’ve seen about 5, all on horseback, which does look cool) and just think “HOW?! WHY?!” That also annoys me.
Summary: no more posts about World of Warcraft. I’m still playing it, but…bygones.
For what would have been the contents of the final post, click here. This is the best thing that I’ve experienced in any MMO, ever, and it’s why WoW is a cut above the rest. Some text to go along with it (shamelessly nicked from a forum post I made:
About an hour ago, around 300 Alliance members formed in Stormwind, and marched across the lands to do battle with the Horde scum in their own neighbourhood. There were numerous raiding parties, each holding around 60 warriors. I joined ranks with the troops lead by Dafox, and we took the Deep Run Tram to the icy regions of Ironforge, the dwarven capital. After that we trekked along many roads, across the Arathi highlands to the Hillsbrad foothills, where we would meet our foe.
After forming with all the parties on the docks of Southshore, we trooped back along the roads and engaged our targets. Then, some foolish members of our party attacked the Tauren Mill, which led to a hasty retreat under the attack of hundreds of angry guards*. Shortly after we recooperated, some Horde forces sought us out amongst the trees, and more followed. We crushed them all unsparringly. After around 20 minutes of fighting, the Horde finally managed to summon enough troops to repel us from their territory. We retreated, and fled for safety, victorious in the majority of battles.
* which was utterly hilarious for anyone standing at a safe distance taking pictures.
