MMO Aneurysm

I have too many MMORPGs in my life.

Shaiya was my first foray into the multitude of digital worlds, but, whilst sharing several of the same features as many of the mainstream MMOs, just didn't cut the mustard. So a close friend was lovely enough to introduce me to the social vampire that is World of Warcraft. I've been playing it for about three years on an extremely on and off basis. I've just about reached endgame content, and eh...

Despite the huge revamp Blizzard undertook on Azeroth, the slightly prettier places just weren't enough to hold my attention when I hit 85 and entered the rather elitist realm of Cataclysm heroics. Admittedly, I was mainly armed with green quest rewards and a couple of Cata normal drops, so Heroics weren't really my place. About a week later, juggling WoW with every other game I play, and I scraped the bare minimum gear score to venture into a random HC. With excitement in my heart and a strange sense of achievement welling up in my head, I joined the random queue.

I was... bored.

Yes, heroics offer better gear, tougher foes, and overall a more challenging experience, but then I realized I was playing the same dungeons over and over again for the chance to pull myself up onto a slightly higher rung of the WoW ladder. Not to mention the simply insane amount of waiting time if you want to go and do anything that doesn't become a repetitive chore after about an hour of farming that culminates to probably about ten minutes of crafting. For the time I have to play it, WoW is no longer rewarding enough to justify the 8.99 a month. It's essentially the same reason I stopped playing the Sims - I don't really enjoy doing stuff that we pretty much have to do in every day of our real lives.

Not to mention that I'm so familiar with WoW - the lore, the races, the classes, and the dubious social experience - that after three years, it's become old. So I've moved to Rift, which is currently patching. I'm going to embark on my first voyage into Telara later tonight with the same close friend that got me into WoW; which has a sort of poetry to it I suppose! I would post some real life updates on here, but my world has solely been digital lately. I've spent the last weekend playing WoW and watching How I Met Your Mother.

Depending on your perspective, my life really, really sucks, or really, really wins.

-L