August 21, 2006 My Private Battle With Addiction
Friday afternoon I installed one of the Promotional World of Warcraft disks they were passing out at Comic Con. That’s were almost all my time since then was spent. This morning I realized that I had a problem and I was able to summon up the courage to uninstall.
It has that psychological addiction element down. The occasional reward system where the user performs an action and only gets rewarded once out of every ten or so times.
Peck. Peck. Peck. Peck. Peck. Peck. Peck. Peck. Peck. Corn!
I was playing an Undead Warrior for awhile, but running up to things and bashing them got boring pretty quick, so then I made a Tauren Hunter. Having a gun was pretty fun but for all my time the game stayed the same.
At level 1 it went:
- locate target
- shoot at target while target charges
- when the target closes the distance hack at target with an axe until it stops moving
By level 14 the game play had become:
- Locate target
- send my pet wolf after target
- shoot at target while target charges
- when the target closes the distance hack at target with an axe until it stops moving
You get a lot of quests in the game, but almost all of the quests can be summed up as “Go kill this thing for me and bring back proof”.
I suppose I would have gotten more out of it if I’d of teamed up with some other players but I would have gotten even more out of my time by reading a book.
Playing with other people is the only thing that makes the game fun.
If you ever start up again I’m on Stonemaul.. Horde side.
Comment by animaetrix00 — August 21, 2006 @ 6:05 pm
Don’t feel too bad. I spent last week playing The Godfather on the PS2. 50 hours worth. That was my last full week of vacation, too.
Comment by the_bone — August 21, 2006 @ 9:55 pm
My wife had to fire one of her student workers the other day, turns out he was a huge World of Warcraft addict. Kept leaving early, starting late, rescheduling shifts, all to spend more time playing. You were wise to uninstall.
Comment by mpschuster — August 22, 2006 @ 10:08 am