I have not played World of Warcraft in a while but some of the points mentioned in this videos are ones I experienced, which dropped the fun factor tremendously: people hating on you if you play differently.

I did not realize Abandonation went from Horde to Alliance but I can imagine the hate response that caused, especially since his tag like was Drrooooooo….For the Horde! It seems he is playing a Druid on Alliance now.

Truth (for me anyway): playing the game as long as I did I longed for something different.

Remember, it was my friends that caused me to get in the game in the first place (Rog) because I was happily playing another game he was in and left Star Wars Galaxies. WoW for me was VERY friend dependent. I sometimes long to get back in the game now that I’ve learned my lesson about being friend dependent.

I’ve said many times that my local “friends” are not connected to me on social networks. I realize now how deep being friend dependent goes for me. I will not do that on social networks either because if they go (and run off to something else) then what? Instead my friends have their space and I have mine.

I see it sort of like a couple having separate bank accounts or separate friends. When a couple spends all of their free time together that’s not healthy. Even in my distance relationships I made sure that instead of seeing each other every week we spent time away from each other so that we appreciated the time we did spend together.

So yeah, I might hop back into WoW eventually and do things my way. Whatever that is.