With Activisions acquisition of Vevendi games, who is the parent company of Blizzard entertainment I thought I would share my World of Warcraft story.
Massive Multi-Player Online Game’s where never of interest before. I had made it all the way to the second year of college before taking the leap into a lonely, sleep deprived life.
Living in the dorms there are several things that you do as a roommates. In room 231 we watched South Park every Wednesday. At the end of the Emmy award winning episode about World of Warcraft, I posed the hypothetical “Are people really like that?” My freshman suite-mate, McFly we’ll call him, said he had friends back home that are like that. Of course this lead to the next logical question. Yes, McFly played WOW.
After watching him play for a few weeks my roommate bought the game. I was still reluctant. Although raiding and the quests seemed like fun, I pretty busy, and this game seemed to be pretty time consuming.
Two weeks later I bought it, and I hated it. Too vast, and open. Game play so intricate that I spent more time talking about what to do to my character than doing it. I tried hard to get into it, but I didn’t have the time. Chunkfest, my night elf rogue was suck at level 25, and I didn’t care if he ever leveled again. Then I realized Blizzard was still charing me monthly even if I didn’t play. So, I logged on once again.
Soon though, it grew on me. I found myself lying to friends (including Girlfriends) to make the time need for this game. Sad part, I wasn’t even that good. My roommates over powered me and I was always the end of jokes within our end game guild (at least by the ones that would talk to me).
There was good that came from my time in Azeroth, mostly McFly and I became the best of friends, and now we can all joke about that brief time we were addicted to pixels on a screen.
