About four years ago my girlfriend into a new game. I was there when she started playing because I gave her the computer she played on, and installed the software for her. Of course, it was World of Warcraft.
I resisted playing the game for a year. I'd heard it compared to Everquest, affectionately known as Evercrack because of the way it sucks people in and never lets go. It will eat your soul if you let it, and it certainly did for her. This wasn't a problem because we still did things together and I'm not someone who demands attention during all waking hours. She leveled up a Night Elf (you wanna talk about ears?) priest and another Night Elf rogue, made friends with folks in a guild and generally enjoyed herself.
Finally, after a year, I broke down and started up a character. I became a human warrior and began the laborious process of making my way to level 60. Of course, being new at the game it took me most of a year to get there because in addition to time constraints (damn my need to work for a living!) I was utterly clueless and generally sucked. Eventually I learned to research quests and monsters online, looked up hints for successful strategies by other players and got better. Now I have multiple "toons" on multiple servers, but my primaries are a Night Elf druid and a Gnome mage. I got burned out tanking on the human warrior, so haven't touched him in a long time.
I know I'm not the only one. I know Melkor plays a Horde character or three, although I seem to recall we're on different servers. I figure it's just as well; we don't need to be antagonists there as well as here. So here's my question to NSG: do you play World of Warcraft or a similar MMORPG? How did it come to eat your soul and what amusing anecdotes about your game do you have to share with us?
