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A lot of time when friends do not spend time together in person, their interests change, and eventually they do not have much in common. When you start talking, the conversation always drifts to, “Remember that time 10 years ago that we did such-and-such”. At least with WoW, when we talk, there is always something “new” to talk about; and while you are playing, you are still actively involved in their lives, so you get to hear stories about what is going on with their job, their marriage, their kids, etc. So, while I would not encourage someone to waste their life away playing a game, I am very thankful that I can hold a strong bond with my old friends due to all of our shared adventures together in WoW.

On another note, I think that is awesome that you spend time together with your kids playing games. My father spent a lot of time playing games with my brother and I when we were kids, and I have always had fond memories of those experiences.

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?