Patch 3.2 got me giggling like a baby. I was simply overwhelmed with joy! I didn't (and don't, and probably won't) care a slightest bit about the new raiding content, however the the new BG - Isle of Conquest - got me extremely excited. It is full of fun toys like ehhh...pretty much every vehicle Blizzard can through at you. And I love it. The new BG is a nice break from Lake Wintergrasp, which started to really get to me (and I bet to every regular Wintergrasp-enthusiast). So I would step on it on my way home from work to get to the new "toy". All in all, Isle of Conquest is a work of art. And of course we can't forget mounting up. It is now fun! Some new pants and a ring you can buy in Lake Wintergrasp and some hot druids. And a new animation for fishing...I think. Anyway, thank you, Blizzard.
With that said, I still feel a sense of boredom with the game. Don't get me wrong, the new features are fun, but the new car smell will wear off soon enough. And it is wearing off. So I' m even thinking of laying WoW aside until the next expansion, which has me pumped out of my mind. Maybe I should contain myself for a year and a half only to prance on sweet new content rapaciously? WoW Cataclysm does sound a bit cheap to me actually. But I don't effin' care! Destroy the world to make room for new ideas? Knock yourself out, Blizzard! WoW does need some major reshuffling. But for now, I'm just bored.
The problem for me lies in the fact that I don't see any other MMO coming out in the near future that could draw my attention like WAR did. I'm simply playing WoW because I've fot nothing better to play. Single player games are practically dead for me, even though the experience in this type of games may be 10 times the Isle of Conquest, but playing alone and surrounded by nothing but NPCs is just sad. But I very often question the point of playing an MMO. If not for just leveling your toon. Gear gets redundant after a while and you'll never finish the achievements. So why spend your free time doing what ultimately proves to be pointless?
I guess it is human nature to socialise in different ways, even if those are based upon pissing off the opposite faction in PvP. But playing with/against other people is what makes MMOs so attractive to me. People shape the inanimate world of the game and give each realm a certain spark that fosters the development of the server. Even the fact that some dummy can drop the prices at the Auction House makes you want to log in just to keep up with things. And it doesn't have anything to do with the "I can be a hero in this imaginary world" crap. Yes, there may be some hardcore RPers who take on a personality, but for a vast majority of players their character is an extension of themselves. And you cannot take on a different personality in-game. The anonymity of the on-line world brings the real core of the people playing. You can try acting as someone you are not in the real world, but you are what you are in the MMO.
The whole division between RL and on-line is incorrect to my mind. That means calling YouTube unreal. Real people shape the "on-line world", while MMOs merely provide a certain framework for people to socialise in. Yes, that framework can bore you at times and it makes you take some time off the game. But if you are generally into gaming and gaming with other people, be it your friends or a PUG, you pretty much see the point of playing in the long run. An individual wants to be part of a team or community; doing stuff together and overcoming obstacles is what drives people to an MMO. That is the point - sharing you experience, your joy or frustration with others. It is kind of like when you are watching a really funny comedy alone, you wish there were somebody to laugh it out with.
And there are times when you want to do something else or just take a break from that which used to be fun. It is the natural course of events in society. But in the long run you will come back simply because humans are social creatures. We are addicted to other people and to keeping up with them or competing against them. MMOs are just another way of doing that. A comfortable and sometimes safer way.
With that said, I still feel a sense of boredom with the game. Don't get me wrong, the new features are fun, but the new car smell will wear off soon enough. And it is wearing off. So I' m even thinking of laying WoW aside until the next expansion, which has me pumped out of my mind. Maybe I should contain myself for a year and a half only to prance on sweet new content rapaciously? WoW Cataclysm does sound a bit cheap to me actually. But I don't effin' care! Destroy the world to make room for new ideas? Knock yourself out, Blizzard! WoW does need some major reshuffling. But for now, I'm just bored.
The problem for me lies in the fact that I don't see any other MMO coming out in the near future that could draw my attention like WAR did. I'm simply playing WoW because I've fot nothing better to play. Single player games are practically dead for me, even though the experience in this type of games may be 10 times the Isle of Conquest, but playing alone and surrounded by nothing but NPCs is just sad. But I very often question the point of playing an MMO. If not for just leveling your toon. Gear gets redundant after a while and you'll never finish the achievements. So why spend your free time doing what ultimately proves to be pointless?
I guess it is human nature to socialise in different ways, even if those are based upon pissing off the opposite faction in PvP. But playing with/against other people is what makes MMOs so attractive to me. People shape the inanimate world of the game and give each realm a certain spark that fosters the development of the server. Even the fact that some dummy can drop the prices at the Auction House makes you want to log in just to keep up with things. And it doesn't have anything to do with the "I can be a hero in this imaginary world" crap. Yes, there may be some hardcore RPers who take on a personality, but for a vast majority of players their character is an extension of themselves. And you cannot take on a different personality in-game. The anonymity of the on-line world brings the real core of the people playing. You can try acting as someone you are not in the real world, but you are what you are in the MMO.
The whole division between RL and on-line is incorrect to my mind. That means calling YouTube unreal. Real people shape the "on-line world", while MMOs merely provide a certain framework for people to socialise in. Yes, that framework can bore you at times and it makes you take some time off the game. But if you are generally into gaming and gaming with other people, be it your friends or a PUG, you pretty much see the point of playing in the long run. An individual wants to be part of a team or community; doing stuff together and overcoming obstacles is what drives people to an MMO. That is the point - sharing you experience, your joy or frustration with others. It is kind of like when you are watching a really funny comedy alone, you wish there were somebody to laugh it out with.
And there are times when you want to do something else or just take a break from that which used to be fun. It is the natural course of events in society. But in the long run you will come back simply because humans are social creatures. We are addicted to other people and to keeping up with them or competing against them. MMOs are just another way of doing that. A comfortable and sometimes safer way.
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