I ran across a link to Soul Kerfuffle’s post on DM Osbon from a friend of Soul’s who was at the top of the world, in the World of Warcraft, but at the bottom of life. His friend was quitting WoW and was asked to write about his Warcraft experience. His post titled [tag]The View From the Top[/tag] is the most illustrative, in-depth personal account of what can and will happen to someone who truly gets sucked into the game and alternative reality that is World of Warcraft.
Read it and make darn sure this ISN’T you.
The top of what you ask? The height of World of Warcraft greatness.
A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine quit playing Warcraft. He was a council member on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world, the type of position coveted by many of the 7 million people who play the game today, but which only a few ever get.
————————————————————————————–Every week I read though email or I would run into one of my “real” friends and I’d hear “Andy, what’s up, I haven’t seen you in a while.” I looked in the mirror and in a cinemaesque turn of events and a biblical moment of clarity, told myself “I haven’t seen me in a while either.”
Again, read it and make darn sure this ISN’T you.
[tags]WoW addiction, MMORPG addiction, hitting bottom[/tags]