I have never played Guild Wars, Counterstrike, Starcraft, Ultima, Diablo, City of Heros, or Everquest but I downloaded WOW over the weekend. WOW is a ‘gateway drug’ game attracting lots of people like me who are curious, have the necessary geek gear by default, and who keep getting bugged by coworkers to play. WOW isn’t a one dimentional game like Day of Defeat, which was tempting enough. It’s an entire mini universe with literally millions of players worldwide. This game is sticking and the world it created requires it's own economic regulation. It’s way up there with all things Web 2.0; MySpace, Blogs, YouTube, and Wikipedia. All of it is changing and morphing and attracting more and more casual users. The reluctant geeks.
The 3.5 Gig download finished just before half time during my little Super Bowl party, tempting me to do the unthinkable and abandon our newly HD’d TV, the game and our guests. I admit I clicked the shiny new “W” icon in my startup menu, watched in awe as it loaded, taking up the entire screen with cool music in the background. If there hadn’t been stuff to set up, like my character and stuff to read about game play, I may have lingered and endangered my reputation as a polite host and socialized human being. I returned to the game.
Since then I just haven’t had the time, what with a full time job, home life, social life, reading, riding, writing; a life. I don’t know how to fit it in other than stealing hours from sleep, which I may end up doing. But I can think of so many productive things to do with those stolen hours. I've read and heard that the appeal of WOW is it's accesability, ease of play (at least up to level 60) and the fact that you don't loose your stuff when you die (so not having to start over everytime you get killed.) All of that means a casual user can join in and have a blast -even if hard core users shun us. So, as with everything else in my life, I will think about it, study it (Wikipedia, Allakhazam.com, WOW Forums etc), try to fit it in.
A few of my friends at work really want me to play. I think they need more people in their realm/guild or they someday want to be able to raid some huge dungeon that requires 40 players all working together. I feel geeky even writing about it.
I asked Janice to pick out my character name. So far she has come up with LoserPoo.
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