Giving it a try...

I’m giving this blog a try and see where it goes.

I’m one of millions and millions that play WOW. Although this isn’t my first MMO but I’ve started WOW several months after TBC came out. My boss and another co-worked kept bugging me to give it a try since I was playing EQ2 at the time and slowly losing interest in it.

Let’s start short and briefly with EQ2.

I’ve got into EQ2 initially because of my cousin and I wanted to try it out and we were hooked. Soon afterwards into it, I was invited into a recently created guild from the guild leader I was grouped with one weekend. This small guild is where I’ve gotten to know some people other than my cousin. One month or so afterwards, our guild leader just disappeared, not saying anything, like the series Without a Trace. Since we assumed he wasn’t coming back and couldn’t assign a new guild leader, we’ve decided to create one of our own.

These people grew to be my friends, my online friends. We were a small group, about twelve strong in the beginning. I think the only person, our main tank, was from Canada and the rest of us were throughout the US. I was the only one from southern cal, several from Arizona, one from Utah, and oddly, the rest from the east coast.

There was a point where these people were the only people I grouped with, even losing touch with my first reason playing EQ2, my cousin. But he was cool with it though and at the time, he wasn’t into guilds and was more into crafting.

Months later I was losing interest in the game and playing less and less. At one time, the only contact from me was guild chat while I was at work. It was funny though; some of the guildies on chat were like, Where the hell are you? You’re not logged in”. I told one of them “I’m right next to you. Turn around. ” I’ve convince him I was a ghost and you can only hear me. It turns out, pun intended, some didn’t know we can log in into our accounts on the main website and access the guild chat function.

As the time passed on, I’ve stopped playing and said to my guild that I’m taking a long-term leave of absence. Some knew I would come back eventually and didn’t think of it anymore.

I didn’t log in after that.

I never came back.

What I realized later on that year is that I lost contact with them, all of them. I wish that I did. I miss one of my co-guild leaders especially. Usually after long guild outings, quests that involved hours of preparation and duration, we were the last to log off and still grouped even though we could’ve talked on guild chat. It was nice to chat with her and not have to worry what to say to each other. But since she was a guild leader and I was a senior officer, we had to set some kind of mannerism while we were grouped with other guildies and especially on guild chat.

Last time I’ve check on the EQ2 website, my old guild looked like it disbanded and looked like my old guild leader stopped playing too as well a few others. I guess you can never tell how long a person will play.

So I’m with WOW now.

I play solo. I’m also into…multi-boxing.

It’s addicting. It’s boring at times. I believe you know how it is.

What I’m getting at since the beginning of this blog is that I’ve come full circle. I’m playing less and less again. And I’ve lost touch with my boss and co-worker slowly throughout this year, with the game is concerned of course, since I see them at work.

I casually play…then I casually ‘not play’.

C’est la vie.
-Bhodee