For the alliance...
... I know, I know, it's been a while since I last updated. But I do have an excuse!
Okay, so it's not a very GOOD excuse, but it's my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm afraid I've been spending all my spare internetting time ... playing World of Warcraft. What can I say, I'm a marketer's dream, and World of Warcraft is EXTREMELY addictive!
Personally, I blame Doofus. Him and his free 10 day trial pass. Who knew you could become so engrossed in a computer game! But to be completely fair, it's much more than a game. I've played games before, things like Tomb Raider and the like, and they just don't have the same appeal.
I think it's because when you play a normal game, it's just that. A game. You have a goal to achieve and once you've done it then you've won. But with World Of Warcraft it's ongoing. You create a character. Grow them. Improve their skills and their protections. You take them on quests and go visit different places. I never thought I'd get excited about going to a new virtual town or shire, but I do! And it all happens in real time, which just adds to that whole reality feeling. Thus the virtual reality tag, I suppose.
But I suppose it's no excuse for not updating. After all I could do it during my lunch breaks if I really wanted to. It's just a bit unfortunate that over the past couple of weeks I've either been working through my lunches, or I've been down the back with the stitch bitches knitting my little heart out. Oh yeah, you don't want to get between a librarian and her knitting, let me tell you!
So I promise I'll be a little more dilligent in the future. At least I will after my WOW character has visited Darkshire. I've still got to get the case of moonshine to finish the "Dry Times" quest. Oh, and I have to catch all the sunfish at the lake at Redridge, not to mention catching the spiders for the Westfalls Stew ... okay, I admit it, I have a problem ... but I'm enjoying it too much to care...
Okay, so it's not a very GOOD excuse, but it's my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm afraid I've been spending all my spare internetting time ... playing World of Warcraft. What can I say, I'm a marketer's dream, and World of Warcraft is EXTREMELY addictive!
Personally, I blame Doofus. Him and his free 10 day trial pass. Who knew you could become so engrossed in a computer game! But to be completely fair, it's much more than a game. I've played games before, things like Tomb Raider and the like, and they just don't have the same appeal.
I think it's because when you play a normal game, it's just that. A game. You have a goal to achieve and once you've done it then you've won. But with World Of Warcraft it's ongoing. You create a character. Grow them. Improve their skills and their protections. You take them on quests and go visit different places. I never thought I'd get excited about going to a new virtual town or shire, but I do! And it all happens in real time, which just adds to that whole reality feeling. Thus the virtual reality tag, I suppose.
But I suppose it's no excuse for not updating. After all I could do it during my lunch breaks if I really wanted to. It's just a bit unfortunate that over the past couple of weeks I've either been working through my lunches, or I've been down the back with the stitch bitches knitting my little heart out. Oh yeah, you don't want to get between a librarian and her knitting, let me tell you!
So I promise I'll be a little more dilligent in the future. At least I will after my WOW character has visited Darkshire. I've still got to get the case of moonshine to finish the "Dry Times" quest. Oh, and I have to catch all the sunfish at the lake at Redridge, not to mention catching the spiders for the Westfalls Stew ... okay, I admit it, I have a problem ... but I'm enjoying it too much to care...
posted by Kelstar at 7:24 AM
1 Comments:
I am trying really hard to resist the pull of WOW because I know the same would happen to me, I managed to find a non subscription paying alternative though in the form of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion which is similar in the sense you go questing and build up your character etc..plus it has the added bonus of only one payment, the actually buying of the game!
However I feel resistance is futile..the force is strong in WOW.
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