This is so much different than other games, where you log on and basically create your character each time you play. This makes it easier to walk away from, since you know that character will basically “reset” once you walk away from it.

A nice middleground, I think, is a game like Battlefield 2 or Call of Duty 4 – you essentially can choose a different character to play with each time, but the difference is that you can earn awards that go to your ACCOUNT (not your character).

Plus games like those don’t have people who are ridiculously over-geared (i.e. people who have no life outside of WoW), so it’s a more even playing field.

I quit WoW twice, then the third time I finally learned my lesson and stripped my character down, donated all my money to my guild bank, then quit!

It feels good to do other stuff, if only to play other games, like you’re doing.

I’d hope that people start to become sick of the game by the expansion but don’t forget that the game launched in 2004 and now in 2008 they hit 10 million subscribers…and growing. Pretty astounding numbers.

How are you holding up?

I meant to delete my toons but didn’t. I did, however, trash all of my level 70 gear, items, and gold…including vendoring the entire primal mooncloth, frozen shadowweave, and Whitemend priest sets along with about 5 Kara epics.

It definitely helps reduce the craving when you realize that joining would mean you’d have to play a naked, broke dwarf priest sitting in Ironforge.

The tough times for me seem to be when the wife and baby go to bed…since TV is just crap and I’m sick of Madden for the X-Box. Maybe Warcraft 3 would be “the patch” of fighting a WoW addiction?