Some time in the near past I was a passionate gamer.I played World of Warcraft with such knowledge at moments I even amazed my self. I started as all a noob but soon managed to reinvent my self in the game. I had everything I needed there.But in time I did find out I was missing things like talking to people I can see and their image isnt just pixels.So I did the unthinkable for me and quit 3 years long game play. I did get a RL. and I loved it .Till it got to me and hit me in the face.
Real life is like playing WoW on a PvP server.It sucks !!!!!!!
So as I was devastated I was looking for an easy way out, somewhere to hide from the world I got back to the game.It was same as always , same people, same problems. It was great .Because if you have time to think about things that hurt they will hurt more.That is what those games know ant use against us.It is not any different than any drug. you pay for it , you get addicted to it, you forget the ones around you. All that matters is online,the family you have online and getting the next raid boss because he might drop that great piece of armor.I mean come-on it has a great drop rate 5% . Ask anyone that ever played or still is playing wow to see how good 5% drop rate is.I went 16 times in an instance ( that is 16 different days ) to get a weapon for a friend. And finally he got it.It was so fulfilling to hear him so happy and excited .It was the reward for all the hard work.In about 3 days he got in a raid and got a better one.
There was a time when a friend from the same guild made me an epic gun for free.It was nearly 1000 gold to make it and he give it to me for my birthday , best present I got and even today I say it was among the best presents because that guy actually spent 2 weeks getting the pieces and ingredients for it. Maybe he was bored and had nothing better to do but think about it, when was the last time you spent 2 weeks to make something as a present for someone ?
Unfortunately there are the bad times too.
The frustrated elitist priks that think they know all and how the hell did someone let you play the game when you have no idea how to play it.You need to learn the game and read the forums and the support sites and to understand .. sorry to learn the mechanics of the game.Then and only then you can talk to them and put up with their shit.
Just frustrated people .this ones are frustrated from all sorts of things ranging from work, coworkers, boss,wife,kids etc. They come to the game just to frustrate other people and show off how they know everything and their opinion is to be valued.
Kids.They are the worst of all.Kids with no life,no friends just trying to make some virtual friends and when you do take them in they will do as all kids do get older and leave .No respect for helping them with currency getting them gear ,teaching them the game, putting up with them while you wait for them to lie to their parents that they dont play or they are sleeping and asking all to keep it down because they have you on speakers.
Thiefs. Yes there thiefs in WoW too.They come to your guild or instance ad steal all the stuff they can find.
And last there are the good people.There are actually good people playing the game but there are not a lot of them.About 10 on every 100.Just like in real life.This are genuine good people that do relax with the game play for few hours and off to bed..Mostly this are older hard working family people. The game is bearable just because of them otherwise it wouldn't be playable.
So you see that Warcraft is like real life.same kind of people with only distinction here you can chose who you are you can make yourself in any of this characters and be something you are not in real life and you will start to love it.That is why we tend to hide from life in this games.
But you can always quit a game but cant quit on life.No matter how hard you try to hide for life it will find you and hit you in the face.Look at it as life is playing tag with you only life make the rules so...
you are IT :)
The Clown
