Also I agree with Hardflip on this, I can’t see the point in a game which revolves around constantly doing the same thing again and again for hours just to get to a higher level.

It requires little skill and to me just seems rather dull.

An economist actually did a study of this and estimated that the GDP of some of the MMORPGs out there is equivalent in size to the GDP of several African countries.

What I don’t understand is the concept of “wealth” especially in World of Warcraft. People actually loan other people fake money and expect to get paid back for it. There is no real economy, you beat up a bunch of mobs in Scarlet Monastery and you’ve made all your money back. I just find it weird that in fake games with fake currency or fake medals or fake whatever, that people are still as possesive of them as they would be of the genuine article in real life.

Its not the money that has the actual value, but the time spent gaining it. If I loan someone 200 gold I damn well expect to get it back because it took me quite a while to earn that 200 gold. If I suspect I wouldnt get it back I wouldnt loan it in the first place, because I have better things to spend my gold on.

it feels too much like work, and i have an ego problem too. i want to be *the* guy. that’s one of the things i like about some games (though not the entirity, so long as the game is fun that’s enough) is that *i* get to save the world, win the girl, solve the mystery and so on.

Well… for awhile.

I have finally given up on WoW now. Haven’t played it in two weeks. This all came to be when during a Molten Core run (one of the final dungeons) I got conned into running it until 4 in the morning. I was one of the few Shamans on and I had Earthfury gear (Tier 1 Epic armor for Shamans) so I said sure, even though I had work in the morning.

I continued and we finished, and I immediately left the group and logged off. I was still on Ventrilo and heard that since I left the group to go to bed, I got no points for doing the run (points are used to roll on epic items). So basically I stayed up way too late, did too much work, then got punished for needing sleep. I was so angry that I finally realized, “Why am I doing this?”.

The quest for new gear and whatnot is nice, but I really have better things to do with my time. I’ll never have the super gear that the few others have. I have school, work, and other commitments. Even PvP takes too long to get good stuff. Seriously, how much will getting a dagger with a 5% chance to drop really affect me in the long run? I’m not making money off this. I’m not getting assault by hot babes running to me for my dagger. It really doesn’t help me in the long run at all.

So with my addiction quelled for the moment, I have finally started to regain my social life, and I’m doing artwork again. Even met a special lady friend. These are all things that WoW could never give me.