Respect Sakura

So I’m somewhat of a latecomer to this whole Muhmorpeger thing - at least, in regards to WOW. I have, of course, played other MMO’s in the past, such as Neocron and Ragnarok Online, but really just found these sort of games to be more addictive, and not really all that fun. I could never say why I played them, when I never enjoyed them, I guess it’s kind of like why I go to work every day, despite not really enjoying that, either.

However, seeing as I’m actually gainfully employed now, as opposed to being a student slash jobless dole bludging bum when I played the two forementioned muhmorpegers, you’d think my grind quota would be taken up by doing the same boring crap, day in day out at the company who’s name shall not be named to protect the innocent (i.e., me - from being fired). However, WOW isn’t so much grind.. it’s kind of like playing an older style of RPG, like.. y’know.. Neverwinter Nights or something, only with a fuckton more people playing with you, and without the boring statistical bullshit that would give dice wielding nerds raging erections. You don’t have to worry about which stats do what, and for what class or whatever - WOW does a good job of allowing you to not worry about that sort of shit.

That’s not to say it’s not dumbed down for ‘tards like me, if you have a hard on for Excel spreadsheets then WOW can suit those needs as well. But the important thing for me, is I don’t feel the game penalises me for not caring about what stats go where, or any crap like that. I just continue to get experience for killing the local populace of monsters for stationary lazy-ass dickwad NPC’s. Being a rogue, all I need to worry about is things that affect my stamina and agility, putting points in the talents that interest me, and if I poke things in the butt, it really fucking hurts them.

The point I’m trying to make is that WOW is fun for me. I guess it’s also because I’m currently playing and levelling with a friend that keeps it interesting. Not sure how long it’ll last, but the whole running-around-the-countryside and killing-x-amount-of-crap-for-some-lazy-dickhead is still fun for me, and this is no doubt simply due to my inexperience with the game, and once I’m more familiar with everything in it, I’m sure I’ll be as jaded as the rest of you.