Saying goodbye [for now] to World of Warcraft
I have this strange love-hate relationship with World of Warcraft. Part of me thoroughly enjoys the game and all it’s elements, but the rest of me loathes it. The mechanics of the game are enjoyable enough, but I often find myself lost in the monotony of it. I know that there is a great deal of lore within the Warcraft universe, but it just doesn’t translate well within the game. Lately it seems that I just lose complete interest within thirty minutes of logging in. So, I’ve decided to cancel my subscription.
The first time I ever played World of Warcraft it was on a friends account. His subscription still had a few months left on it, but school had toughened up to the point that he couldn’t spare time for the game, so he lent me his account. I leveled an Undead Warlock to the low thirties, got stuck, and then abandoned the game. It was fun while it lasted, but I wasn’t going to shell out a bunch of money to buy the game and start my own account.
This changed a little while after I graduate from college. I had a lot more time on my hands, so I figured I’d have less consequences for getting sucked into a game. I originally joined with the intention of one da playing with a group of my friends who had been at it for a long time. I created and leveled a Bloodelf Hunter to the high thirties before I decided I was ready to join them, but unfortunately all their characters were on the Alliance side. So I again started a new character and then began the arduous task of ‘power leveling’ it to catch up to theirs so we could play together.
Well, I still haven’t made it. They’ve all been level seventy for as long as I can remember and I just reached level sixty-one last week. Since I’ve just been concentrating on leveling and not enjoying the game, I’ve done just that. I haven’t been enjoying the game. In fact, I’m really sick of it now. The last time I logged in I think I made it about ten minutes before I logged out. At this point, I’m paying the fifteen dollar a month subscription fee just to keep the account available for when I’m bored. Since I’m obviously just wasting my money, I set my account to cancel after this pay period.
Oddly enough, when I logged into my account to turn off the auto-renewal, I noticed that I was canceling my account on the one year anniversary of it’s creation. I guess I had a good run of it, maybe it was time for a break anyways. I’ll still keep the account in case I was to renew it one of these days, but for now I think I’m going to stick to my Xbox 360.
posted by Christopher Schnese
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I feel like this may seem like a strange sort of day for you – sad and yet liberated…(I know how much you LOVED it at one time).
I’m sure you’ll survive though, and no doubt return one day or find something equally enthralling.
Good luck!
Of course I’ll return eventually. Whenever they finally announce the shipping date of the expansion I’ll probably come back so that I can get to level 70 by the time they release it.