Jun 11
Feeling Lonely – Stay or Go?
Posted on June 11, 2008 under Thoughts | 2 CommentsWorld of Warcraft is an ever-changing game. While reading this post, keep the date it was written in mind—changes may have occurred since then!
Short story: I’ve been considering transferring. I know this is a post not everyone will be interested in, so I thought I’d summarize it there and put all the details behind a “more” link if you’re interested in giving me advice.
When I first started playing WoW, I had to choose basically between two servers/factions. I could play on Maelstrom-Horde, an RP-PvP server where a lot of my workmates played. Or, I could play on Shadowsong-Alliance, a normal server where a good friend and also coworker of mine played. It didn’t take long on the PvP server for me to decide that wasn’t for me; also, most of my coworkers didn’t play as much as I thought they did, and were rarely online when I was. So I made my home on Shadowsong.
As time progressed, I made a lot of friends on Shadowsong. I leveled a bit, had a bazillion alts, and finally got one character to 70, with a couple not far behind. Life was pretty good.
However, as time has progressed, things have happened. My good friend is very, very well geared on most of his characters and is getting in on the 25-man raid bandwagon. The friends I have made are rarely online anymore, from reasons ranging from moving and not having Internet to fizzling out of WoW. My time online feels more and more alone.
I’ve gotten my druid (at least with her tanking gear) to just at starter-Kara level (as far as what I’ve read online). I’ve applied to some guilds, but most are trying to start 25-mans and refuse to recruit non-Kara-geared players, or else are awesome and would love to have me, but are an Eastern time guild, etc.
So, I’ve been considering moving, leaving Shadowsong to find someplace I can grow both in skill and gear, and make WoW once again that place I can’t wait to log in to to see who is online, and group with folks I enjoy having fun with.
It’s not like this is a spur of the moment decision I’m thinking of making. I’ve noticed that WoW seems more lonely for quite a while now. I’ve read /hug’s starting over series (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4). But, I’m still not quite sure if it’s something I really want to do. For one thing, I’d have to find someplace to go first. Where would I go? Why would I go there? I’m not sure.
I’m not quite sure if this post really has any point to it, perhaps it’s just me wanting to get this stuff off my chest and out into the open. What do you guys think?
Related posts:
- Decisions
- Even a Single Kara Pugger
- The Slightly Deeper End of the Big Kids’ Pool
- Foray into Multiboxing: Dual-Boxing with Recruit-A-Friend
- Not Joining the Bandwagon
by Selfmadecelo, on June 11 2008 @ 10:15 am
I know where you’re coming from. I did play a lot on Maelstrom but I played mostly on my days off till around 5PM sometimes till 8 or whenever I had to go to work later in the day I would play in the mornings. And it never failed when I had a day off you would have to work or if I was on in the morning you were going to work so that’s why we hardly saw each other online. After a while everyone that I was playing with wasn’t around anymore. Snow left the server, Joe hardly played, my friend Jerad played a lot but late at night, and my friend Matt played a lot but leveled a lot faster and left me behind then he didn’t play as often. So it wasn’t too long before every time I got online I had nobody to talk to. Especially after my guild left the server. I would get online, see nobody on my friends list and really have no motivation to even play the game. Because if you can’t play with someone who is fun to play with and keeps you company the game really isn’t all that fun. And so thats when I started playing less and less and eventually quit. But of course then I came back on a server to play with Joe and was botting a mage that was AWESOME! until Blizzard decided to ban me. But that’s neither here nor there.
I guess the bottom line is you have to do whatever it is you have to do to have fun playing the game or else it really isn’t worth the $15 a month ($30 since you’re paying for two) and countless (well not really countless cause you can see your /played) hours of sitting there playing a game.
I’ve moved onto Call of Duty 4 <3
by Cynra, on June 12 2008 @ 5:32 am
Well, one thing I’ve noticed is that you seem very heavily involved in the blogosphere. You interact with a lot of fellow World of Warcraft players who most likely aren’t on your server on a regular basis. If you aren’t finding what you need on your server, why not talk to some of those people? Transferring to friends’ servers or rerolling with a group of friends is always fun. Sometimes even having close friends with you when you reroll can make the whole leveling experience more tolerable — or even fun!
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The alternatives would be to chug away solo are you are now, hope that someone or something wants you around on your current server (and it looks like you’ve gone through most of the possible paths), or, well, stop playing. Because, honestly, the game should be fun. And if you’re not finding the game fun then you probably shouldn’t be playing.
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That said, I think a lot of it has to do with the pre-expansion doldrums. Fortunately, I just got into an awesome guild of people I’ve known for almost a year now and their antics are keeping me from feeling the same malaise. Good luck with getting out of the funk!