So, last thursday, early night, World of Warcraft’s second expansion pack got released: Wrath of the Lichking. As a hard-core player, Croga has to go get it, in the middle of the night in a store that had special midnight opening for this release. I thought it would be nice to start playing again too and do something fun with my hubby. So I went with him and along came some friends too, all hard-core WoW players.

I started playing again a couple of weeks ago, after not playing for over 2 years. I had fun! So I decided to play some more again.

After we came back from the store at 2 AM, we both immediately installed the update and after fifteen minutes or so, we started playing. And I had not such a good time…. I mean; how crazy can one get going to the store in the middle of the night to get themself a game?! And I was beaten, I had worked all day. Next to that, Croga was going too fast, I couldn’t keep up with him, so I wasn’t even sure what I was doing. I got frustrated and cranky and decided at 4 AM to go to bed and discard the whole WoW crazyness.

And now it’s saturday. After that midnight debacle I did not go online anymore. I did other things, like drawing to design my own wordpress theme. I did groceries and enjoyed myself with other things than WoW.

But however, I did decide to play again, but in my own time, in my own way. I don’t need to be level 80 by the end of sunday. I don’t want to join a guild, because of all the expectations there are. I will level my druid in my own time. It’s a game, it has to be and stay fun

In all fairness, the game still looks great. The new quests in the expansion are awesome. So I still like the game, so you don’t get me wrong

btw: as of now, Croga is level 75 and on schedule to reach 80 by tomorrow night. He will always stay a hard-core player, I think. Whatever rocks his boat