Down the Bog

Oh dear. On my last post I really meant it when I said that I was back from my unintentional blogging holiday and it now looks like I’ve gone and taken another one. But this time…this time I really am back and it’s time to knuckle down a bit.

I’m in two minds at the moment because I really can’t decide what to do. My daughter and her fiance bought me World of Warcraft at the end of last year. They were big fans and felt that if I got myself into the game that I would be too. I’d previously signed up for a free ten day trial but hadn’t actually played it but now I had a copy of the game and had no excuse.

World of Warcraft or WOW is what’s known as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It costs something like $15 (US) to play per month although the first month is included with the purchase of the game and I found it to be quite addictive. I played throughout January and tried to resist renewing the subscription for February but couldn’t help myself. I had to play some more. But by the beginning of March I felt ready to give it a rest and save some money.

We’re now coming to the end of April and I’m getting the urge again and I want to play. So far I’ve resisted but I’m getting weaker and maybe I’d be playing right now if my computer’s video card hadn’t recently died. I was pretty dismayed because I only got it last August and no doubt it has some kind of warranty but living here in Canada means that I have to send it back to the manufacturer rather than the retailer and it just seems expensive and complicated. (That’s probably what they rely on to save themselves a lot of money)

I’ve currently got an older video card in at the moment that is fine for normal usage but isn’t capable of running recent games and certainly not WOW.

Now the thing is after I stopped playing WOW a couple of months ago I haven’t picked up any other games to play. The interest doesn’t seem to have been there so what should I do? Splash out on a new video card just to play WOW when I know that I’m only going to return to it at random intervals and hope that I’ll end up playing other games or see this as a sign to resist the evil addictiveness of WOW and stick with the hardware that I’ve got that means that I can’t play it?

Admittedly I have bigger issues in my life yet this seems to be spinning in my head right now. I really ought to get a life!