world of warcraft addiction

I logged into World of Warcraft for all of a couple hours this weekend. I was busy but I also made other choices with some of my time. Now here’s the thing: What did I do with my in game time? I spent my abbreviated playing time running between auction house and mail box in Ironforge taking care of my auction routine. What I want to talk about is whether that was a smart decision.

I sit here Monday afternoon thinking heck no that wasn’t a smart decision. When I spend the better part of a weekend playing, its no big deal to spend a couple hours on auctions. Its important that I do because I like doing the auction house thing better than I do farming to to make my gold. But if I’m only going to log on for a couple hours total, why do I need to worry about gold whatsoever. Yeah, you do have to empty the mailbox every 30 days or you lose what you had in there, but I was 3 weeks away from that happening at the very least.

I think what I should have been doing is playing. I should have been out there questing which is what I enjoy the most. Maybe with my mage Undorf who hasn’t seen the light of day in forever. I could work on getting him up to the high 60s so then I could join in battlegrounds effectively again. I love being a frost mage in battlegrounds!

Here’s the thing: When you stop being addicted and start just logging on now and then for fun, for a break from whatever else you have going on or an escape, then do whatever makes you happy in game. All the parameters have changed. Face it, at a couple hours a week I’m not going to get anywhere on the reputation ladders with various factions. Its unlikely I’ll be invited into any sort of intense group situation let alone a raid. I for sure don’t need to continue bringing a thousand in gold every week because there really isn’t anything to fund. I don’t have to spend time leveling crafts (unless that is what you enjoy) because you’ll likely not be crafting much anyway. Change up your thinking from whatever the routine was when you were in game constantly and just have fun. Isn’t that why you started playing World of Warcraft in the first place?