Its not like other video games he used to play where he could pause. It is a totally consuming experience that transforms (e:Terry) into gayloch for like up to 12 hours at a time. What's worse is that if we do force him to stop he friends in the game get mad or worse yet, his family in las vegas who all play with him.
Should I have seen this coming. Well maybe with all the fantasy books and stuff, I just never thought it would be so totally consuming being a blood elf in world of war craft. Its like his total everything. I would rather that he be a drag queen. At least there would be more downtime.
He even has the dorktastic headgear now so that he can totally immerse himself in the experience. He thinks he is the only one that can hear the other dorks talking.
I have a feeling this is what he is going to look like just before (e:matthew) murders him someday.
I don't get this fascination with the unreal world. Someone I once knew (but since has gone back to being a stranger) dropped out of high school and went broke due to this evil game. I guess murder is sometimes warranted.
That was a great episode. Not sure if I remember how it ends. But what I think (e:Paul) might want to do is go find a place to play and get level ups (or what ever it is called to get stronger) All for the effect so you and a few friends can attack (e:Terry)'s character and slay him. Maybe even do funny lines through the head piece like "I just wanted to talk" "talking time is over" "Its time to die" Or if one of you gets hit real hard "Its mearly a flesh wound". HA.
oh...this is just like that south park episode. did you guys see it?
Sounds like you need some time based access lists ;)
don't kill each other! im sure it will be better when it warms up, which is pretty much never... i swear some wives have threatened divorce because of wow.
I've played so many MMOs, for so long, that they've all started to run together in my mind.
I've played Ultima Online for a short period. Beta'd and played Anarchy Online and Shadowbane on and off. Played Dofus. (A french turn based strategic 2d MMO.) Messed around with Maple Story. And beta'd and/or played at least a dozen or more others. Including 9Dragon, for which I actually helped act as editor/proofreader for a portion of the help file translations. (Originally korean.)
Haven't been playing all that much in the past few years though. Although 2008 had some time spent in Azeroth, but I eventually dropped that. It's a fun game, but still just an MMO. And MMOs only really have value as long as you have fun and/or you have people you know that you really want to play and have a good time with.
Nowadays, I'm into this free (ie. cash shop) megaten MMO brought over from Japan by Aeria Games. Although I haven't had much time to play as I've spent almost all of my free time since NYD working on a firefox plugin to do basic word replacement to make interpreting japanese wikis on the game easier. (Almost done, just gotta fix this one last annoying problem... UGH)
Anyway, good luck on your attempts to grab their attention. If you're not used to this kind of game, it can really wreck you for a while.
yeah I've been thinking about jumping back in too. Sill I've been trying a low budget lifestyle, and if all you play is WOW it kinda works to eat up tons of hours and provide even more tons of fun, but there are better things to do...though maybe not cheaper.
Otherwise, my friend Casey is video game addict and what would be a short jaunt into Asteroth for me would leave him stranded in that place for a very much longer time. I'd rather spend time with him in other ways. We're thinking about starting a podcast of nerdy proportions soon. If he were WOWin' out we'd never get anything done...
What Blizzard did was to reduce the maximum size of the raiding parties. This means that high end game content is available to more people, which is good because more people feel they are getting their money's worth.
Doing this also had the negative effect of making each one of those people in the raiding party *very* important, as well as hard to replace in a pinch because experience usually matters when raiding. One little mistake fucks people over.
On top of this Blizzard has made the game unbelievably fun and engaging. Millions and millions of people play world wide. The really, REALLY cool stuff in the game takes time and effort. This is a formula for addiction.
I realized I couldn't commit so much time because I had to focus more on professional development and getting my head straight. But now I admit I'd love to go and create a new character to try out some of the new areas of the game. Playing lower level toons is still really fun and doesn't take all day.
I feel your pain (e:terry) and yours to (e:paul) and (e:matthew). That game is too good and soooo bad for everything else in life. I've seen peoples who pay to get into an event where u can play with other people in the room with your computer log onto Warcraft. Even after they moved their computer, monitor and all to some room and they could have done all that without leaving the house, or paying an entry fee.
Anytime u dudes wanna come over and Wario Ware or Rockband with us u let us know.