I’ve had enough of this game. It’s like running in a hamster wheel. You do the same thing over and over, and in the end never really get anything tangible for it. A weapon. Some armor. Pixels on a screen.
I have an addictive personality (runs in my family) so when I started playing this, I soon played it more and more until it filled way too much time.
I have 2 level 80 characters, lots of “alts,” tons of honorable kills, titles, achievements, mounts, vanity pets, and 20,000 in-game gold. So what? I could have read some books instead, gone outside and enjoyed the arrival of Spring, started working on my marathon training now that my knee is finally better—that partly contributed to my descent into WoW, imo, that I was immobile for a while there.
It’s the attitude of the players that has lead me to finally feeling motivated to quit. I was playing just a few hours ago and a player “ninjaed” an item that was rightfully mine. I confronted him about it and then he berated me in terms not fit for a sailor’s mouth. Being talked to like he was talking to me is so common in-game that I have become desensitized to being called things that no woman should accept from a man (or boy, as some of the players are pretty young, at least from my perspective; they tend to be 1/2 my age). I felt ashamed of myself. I turned off the game right after that incident and do not want to not turn it back on ever again!
I have heard cold turkey is the way to go, so bring on that chilly poultry.
