I didn’t want to build some city with cute graphics, have a virtual farm or manage a zoo. I started downloading games but I hated “casual” games. My son was born and I got my first Android device (Samsung Epic 4G) around the same time. I just uninstalled WoW, and cancelled my subscription just before the baby was due. My free time was about to get drastically shorter, and I couldn’t spend hours committed to raiding with a group of people that I didn’t even physically know. I was now only playing a couple nights a week until my wife was pregnant. (I know, I know… I’m shocked she stayed with me too.) During these changes my WoW time was on the decline. I met a beautiful woman, bought a house and married that same woman.

I’m a total social explorer, and only want to PvP when I felt like it.ĭuring my 2-3 years of playing 5 nights a week I had a lot of changes in my life.

I even got to the end game content of Vanilla WoW and Burning Crusade (first expansion) and was playing probably an average of 5 nights a week.īack then I had never heard of the Bartle Test, but I wasn’t choosing the right experience to fit my gaming psychological profile. This changed everything for me. I loved the game considering I could actually experience it. This time I chose a Player vs Environment (PvE) server versus a Player vs Player (PvP) server so I wouldn’t get ganked. With no friends around I decided to reinstall WoW. I was maybe gone from the game for a year until I had to travel an entire month for work alone. Gaining a level seemed to take forever, and I was really getting sick of other players killing me. I loved the game but felt like I couldn’t ever enjoy it because it took too much time to play. I started taking breaks from the game and even cancelled my membership a couple of times. This is where I started having a hard time staying interested. At this same time grinding became tedious, I was constantly getting ganked (killed by other higher level players), some friends dropped out of the game and my other friends reached level 60 (which was the max level at the time). After playing for months I became immersed with the lore, history and world. WoW was so appealing initially because of my friends.

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