Although my unfortunate computer troubles last week caused me a lot of grief from a business standpoint, it did provide me with a nice respite from WoW. I had been feeling pretty “bleh” about a lot of things in-game prior to last week, so this 8 day reset came at a nice time.
Even though it didn’t seem like much was going on with the blog, I was actually pretty busy behind the scenes. In fact, I deleted well over 4k words of unpublished posts I had been working on. Ultimately, I decided they weren’t necessary and I didn’t want to come across as bitter or disenchanted with WoW.
My malaise began when my 2v2 partner split our team unannounced, then joined up with a Gladiator Rogue so he could get his 2H weapon. The Rogue carried him to 2k, then left the team. My former partner has not only been absent from arena since then, he’s barely logged on at all. That was over a month ago. >.<
We worked our asses off trying to get our 1850 rating, which we ultimately would have attained, considering we spent a lot of time between 1800-1850 and made it as high as 1846. Once we’d have cracked 1850 it would have felt like a nice in-game accomplishment. When he left to queue with this infamous trade-spammer Rogue on our server, I realized he didn’t care about much else other than the illusionary status of having his S6 2H.
I guess sometimes I expect too much of people. Whether it be the integrity of people I know in-game or the misconduct of randoms, I let myself get disappointed too often. I suppose some of it has to do with maturity, considering I am after all a geezer compared to most of the people on here, but I also see my behavior and demeanor in WoW as a reflection of myself IRL.
Unfortunately, I think many people see it as an avenue in which they can behave poorly with little consequence. Rather than be courteous to others, a lot of players enjoy being complete asses because they get off on it for some reason. Sadly, I feel it’s also a way for a lot of people to demand recognition or to inflate an ego that is suffering terribly IRL.
Anyway, after my partner left our 2v2, I realized he’s just like the majority of people in WoW who primarily play for the perceived status that goes along with higher ilvl purple shinies. That mindset irritates the piss out of me. To me, the glory behind getting the nice loots is realized when you accomplish these feats with quality people. I look at an upgrade as something that will allow me to help our guild’s raiding progress, or to further my arena team’s rating, not something that I’m going to strut around IF with.
Oh well… to each his own. I think people make the game more enjoyable, but some feel that loot and validation is all that matters.
Alright… enough mister pouty pants…
I’m back, recharged and ready to rock. My wife and son are out of town for the next eight days, so that means daddy can get some nice raiding in this week. Well, provided I get all of my work done first. 😉