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Today is patch day on WoW. Or, it would be patch day, if they were patching anything, and I don't think they are; the servers are down for maintenance. That takes longer to say though. The point is, the servers are down, on purpose, and Tuesdays are the day that WoW servers go down.
When you spend serious time playing MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Online games), your life is scheduled around patch day, to some extent. Depending on the game's mechanics and your dedication to playing, patch day can mean new features, broken features, new content to explore, reset timers on old content that you're farming for your alts, new recipes to discover, or a fundamental change to which three buttons you mash as you play your character. For some people, patch day is the day that they do laundry, run errands, or talk to their spouses while making eye contact.
I haven't counted myself as any sort of serious gamer for about two years, ( and I'm sure no one else wants to read all this, but apparently I felt like writing it )
WoW is really, really easy. And in the year that I was totally away from WoW, it got even easier. This explains why, when I discovered that I had a week of credit on my WoW account, I got hooked again. I don't think I'm permanently hooked, because none of my friends play anymore, and the random idiots are already starting to wear on me, but I could be.
A bunch of my friends are playing on an EQ emulation server though, that's starting over from the beginning. http://www.project1999.org/ That might be just my speed.
When you spend serious time playing MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Online games), your life is scheduled around patch day, to some extent. Depending on the game's mechanics and your dedication to playing, patch day can mean new features, broken features, new content to explore, reset timers on old content that you're farming for your alts, new recipes to discover, or a fundamental change to which three buttons you mash as you play your character. For some people, patch day is the day that they do laundry, run errands, or talk to their spouses while making eye contact.
I haven't counted myself as any sort of serious gamer for about two years, ( and I'm sure no one else wants to read all this, but apparently I felt like writing it )
WoW is really, really easy. And in the year that I was totally away from WoW, it got even easier. This explains why, when I discovered that I had a week of credit on my WoW account, I got hooked again. I don't think I'm permanently hooked, because none of my friends play anymore, and the random idiots are already starting to wear on me, but I could be.
A bunch of my friends are playing on an EQ emulation server though, that's starting over from the beginning. http://www.project1999.org/ That might be just my speed.
