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Used to... Stopped a while back. That game used to be amazing...
I still remember the last day of the second stress test beta, before the original game went on sale... I had just hit level 20 on my Dark Elf Druid, and got cat form... For those not familiar, it looks like a big blueish/purpleish panther that can turn invisible.
So the town I was in was packed with newbies who had just joined, most of them barely level 10-15... The servers were due to shut down in a few hours, the lag was bad enough that you couldn't really do much questing...
So I started wandering around town invisibly... I'd find some newbie who was just messing around somewhere, I'd walk up in front of him, sit down, fade into view, do a "/grin", and turn invisible again.
I spent about 20 minutes doing my best Cheshire Cat impression... It was stupid, but somehow really entertaining.
... Then the game went live, and I was an addict for about five years, until the middle of WotLK when I realized that the completely optional (But required if you wanted to get decent gear) daily quests felt like work instead of play.
I kinda miss Karazhan... Did that raid nine times in one week, with nine of my max-level characters... Beautiful scenery, creative encounters... All downhill after that.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: All downhill after that.
It's an awesome game, the only one I really play now.
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And how many daily quests do you do, just to keep your character(s) raid-ready? They started adding those in Burning Crusade, but they weren't all that bad...
Then in WotLK, suddenly there are factions everywhere, and all of the gear you need to prepare yourself for raids is tied to a faction... So now you have to grind reputation in six different factions, each of which has a bunch of daily quests... And of course, these daily quests are just things like "Kill 20 of these wibbly-wobbly things to help us [uninteresting story explanation]".
The tabards helped a bit, but then even when I went to run a dungeon, it felt like I was doing it just to grind reputation, instead of to have fun... That whole "fun" thing just vanished somewhere along the line...
That said, some of the single-player quest lines in WotLK were great... The one that ended with an invasion of Undercity/Stormwind and the huge battle with the dragon attack... That was epic... If it was more of that and less grinding, I might have stayed.
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it is very easy to lose sight of the fun. I lost sight a few times. Now, I just take my time with the leveling (which is temporary), and have fun with the end of game content.
I do PvP, dungeons, raids, scenarios, etc...
I guess it comes down to what you want from the "game". 
I don't sleep much to begin with, so I usually play at night after the wife and kids are in bed. I make it a point though not to commit to raiding guild, where I would be tempted, if not required to not have fun.
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That's what I did, but I ended up joining a casual raiding guild (The Core, on Argent Dawn)... Was fun for a long time, but by the end, I realized I was only playing the game to hang out with them, as the daily quests had eroded all the fun from the game.
Best part for me, was playing all the different classes... I had at least one of every class at max level, and usually a couple others leveling... I tried out all the different specs, trying to understand every single play-style. Made me really good at figuring out strategies with weird party compositions in the 5-mans and small raids, as I knew each class/spec's strengths and weaknesses, and could think of ways to put them together to solve each encounter, even if we didn't have the ideal setup.
Large raids, though... Meh... Too much drama, and not the fun kind. Moving from 40-man raids to 10s/25s was one of Blizzard's best decisions, in my opinion.
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Message Closed
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Kamen Nik wrote: t's a nerdvana.
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..loved the game; played until 90, stopped a few months ago.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If you have the time, the expansion pack between 90-100 is amazing. I'm grinding out levels now but look forward to a few more months of play time.
I usually play for a few months, take a few month break. Rinse and repeat. Keeps the gameplay fun.
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I'm not missing Alterac Valley yet.
Well, a bit, just not very much.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Play Guild Wars 2, pretty much every day. 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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One can be a developer or a user; not both.
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So, you do not use a compiler? 
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I suspect we will be playing WoW this weekend with the boats.
The forecast is due to get up for the next 48 hours so unlikely to get any marine ops done. The daily reports will be covered in WoW.
WoW = Wait on Weather 
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I've mostly been playing World of Tanks. I bought the expansion, but decided to play through FarCry 4 first.
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I invited my daughter's boyfriend into the garage to listen to the car radio.
The car was running because it was cold out there.
I made some phony excuse about needing to run into the house for a minute.
I was careful to shut the garage door as I left.
He didn't fall for that though.
Kids these days are smarter than you might think.
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It'd be a whole different story had you decided to shut all the doors, locking them from the "outside", with the car still running... 
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In that case, the door would be opened.. in a big way... from the inside. There might be front end damage to the car, but the door would be 'open'.
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Well, if you're too cheap to buy a handful of nails...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dear Lord[^]. Never again, never will I buy a rubber snake, and will continue to work defensively.
Totally SFW BTW, unless you work in a practical joke suppliers.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Dunno - I got to Mr "I'm not bald really" and his annoying voice and stopped! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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