WOW World of Warcraft

Today, July 4, 2007, a date which will live in infamy, for the first time since I have installed the computer game WOW, World of Warcraft, on any computer I own, for the first time in the history of my life……. I have uninstalled the World of Warcraft from my computer. We all face dark and uncertain times in the near and distant future, but I believe with hard work and determination and by the grace of an almighty and loving God, we shall overcome, we shall overcome!
I have spent more time playing World of Warcraft than any other game, and when you consider that the primary thing I have done for entertainment my whole life is play computer games, that is a lot of time. It is a pretty fun game where I and thousands of other people play in the fantasy world of Azeroth as Orcs, Elves, Trolls, and a variety of other mystical races. I had two level 60s!!!, that was before the expansion came out that extended the highest level to 70. I sold that WOW account to a friend for 165 bucks, many people made a lot more money off WOW accounts than that, but I was satisfied with my compensation. I have quit the game and come back a few times, but I have never actually uninstalled the game before. The first times I quit I knew very well that I may want to come back, so I did not uninstall the game, but now it is final, and by the power of my soul I shall never return. Although, when I sold my account I was sure I would never come back. I did comeback. I thought I was going to level a new character with friends, but it turns out I overestimated my friends’ desire to make new low level guys, so I ended up playing by myself, which is boring now, so I have quit again, and this time for good.
That is the problem with WOW, it is a lot of repetition, and almost every time I start playing I plan on playing with friends I know in real life, but I end up playing all alone, which is not nearly as fun. The game uses up a lot of time, which is good when the game is fun, but lots of the time I just want to get a piece of armor or reach the top level. When I just care about achieving one of those feats the game is just tedious and boring, and that is how much of my WOW time is spent. Don’t get me wrong, WOW is a great game, and I have had good amounts of fun playing it. I do not regret playing the game at all, although I do regret coming back of the game this most recent time because I was burned out of the game before I even started playing. Playing against other players is the most fun part of the game and is the reason I play.
It is a lot of fun competing in battlegrounds where teammates and I clash against other players in a battle with certain objectives. I spent most of my player VS player time doing that, but the most delightful part of player VS player, and therefore the game is killing other people much lower level than me in one hit. I just go out to places where the lower level players are and hunt them. It is totally not fair because at much higher levels my character is so much stronger than the low level players. I kill the little suckers over and over gain and there is not a damn thing they can do about it!!! Seriously, all these people are trying to do it play the game, they may have been working all day, and are just going to play a game that they pay a hefty $15 monthly fee for, plus 50 bucks to originally buy the game. But no! They can’t really play, because some asshole keeps killing them over and over again! That asshole is me. My character has a speedy mount that it can ride which makes me faster than the little lowbies, therefore there is no escape. I love just killing people until they log off and quit for the night. The only thing that can stop me is if another high level player comes and helps them out. This is why I chose a rogue as my first character. See, a rogue can cloak, so other players can not see it. I cloak and stay hidden when a high level rescuer comes to save the day. Sometimes I see players doing little patrols around the lowbie to protect him. I love that they do all that work because of little ol’ me. It is greaaaaaat. I can make my character laugh, smile, spit, and do other little emotes that can be seen by the other players and hopefully it pisses them off, and there is not a damn thing my enemies can do to stop it. Eventually the self righteous protector will let down his guard, and I will sneak in for the KILL!!! Then I run off and cloak and emote that sucker protector like crazy.
Now, killing another player by itself is not wrong, but killing someone over and over again that doesn’t want to fight me is morally wrong. It is not too horribly wrong, but I do believe I am breaking my own morale code to do these mean actions. Players do choose to play on a game server that allows player VS player anywhere, so it is partly their fault for playing here, but a player VS player server can bring fun in the game in ways other than repeatedly killing a lowbie, so there are reasons to play on a player VS player server other than to kill a low level player over and over again, so the fact that they knew the risks of playing here, does not excuse me of moral wrong doing. This is one of those things where even though it is morally wrong, and it pisses me off so badly when someone does it to me, I still do it. It is only a little morally wrong, and the fun I get out of it is sooooo incredibly great, that I am willing to break my morals. So I’m not perfect, shoot me. Not really, please don’t shoot me, I hardly deserve to be shot or harmed in anyway for playing maliciously in a game.