The Overwhelmings.

Here is something I never thought I would say let alone think: World of Warcraft is hard now. I guess I should put that into some sort of context. I can't remember the last time I had an active subscription to WoW, probably over a year ago. So recently a couple of my friends were treated to a tour of the Blizzard offices in Southern California, and I couldn't help thinking that if I was still actively playing WoW I too would have been there. I patch up my game, pay for a month of game time, load into the game and WHAM!!! Suddenly I was overcome with the worst case of the overwhelmings. Yes I made that word up.

I logged into the game and I instantly had no idea what I was suppose to do, why I had the stuff I did in my backpack or even why I was where I am. It's like when you move away from your hometown, and after years of being away you go back to visit only to find that everyone and everything has changed. 

My thirty day subscription is almost up and I honestly am finding it hard to come up with a good reason to keep playing. There was a time in my life when I played mostly MMO's, it was not uncommon for me to have more than two paid subs going at a time. Not anymore. I still and will probably always have a paid sub to The Old Republic, but with the plethora of F2P games and my increasing number of backlog titles I find that I am less willing to pay for a MMO that I am less likely to invest time into like I did in the past. But that's just me and my terrible game time management skills.

Then again, WoW may not actually be hard, my mind just might be trying to tell me that I've already spent way too much time with that game and it's finally time to move on and never look back. Maybe.

The Cataclysm of Man Hours Lost!

So I wonder how many man hours will be lost today around the world because of WoW's new expansion Cataclysm? And you know what else? Three Activision-Blizzard releases are going to account for the majority of the sales for the PC this year, very unfortunate.

I suspect that I am one of the few that will not be partaking in WoW's newest content, and I am perfectly fine with that. I did do the midnight launch for the Burning Crusade, eventually did pick up Wrath after a few months of release and as of right now I have little to no interest in getting Cataclysm or even playing WoW.

I have played so much WoW over the years that I am just burnt out on the game. It's a great game and does many things that I like and look for in a MMO, I've just played it a lot. But then maybe that's what the purpose of the 1.4 patch and the Cataclysm expansion are for. When you think about it, the recent changes to WoW are as close to a sequel without actually being a sequel.

Uh-oh, I think I have just talked myself into almost playing WoW again. So for the sake of my sanity, I will end this post with this statement: I hope Cataclysm is everything WoW players have wanted and I look forward to the myriad of blog posts about it!