You know what I love? World of Warcraft. And, I know I’ve gone on and on about the game and spent much time with it lately, but you know what? I am going to keep on doing that until people stop trying to shut me up or change my opinion.

To many people it’s something really ugly to do, play World of Warcraft. It’s not socially acceptable anymore (especially if you are a game dev, then you should really know better than to play such a monotonous game, right?), it almost feels like people want me to apologize for playing it, or excuse it. I am not going to do that, just forget about it. And, it really amazes me how people just have to make their opinion about the game clear. I don’t get that, I never ask for it and frankly it went so far I even started replying “playing WoW, be negative and I block you” when they ask what I’m doing, and people still couldn’t resist. You don’t play it, it’s okay. You don’t like it, I don’t really care. I can usually get out of the awkward situations by simply saying “I think it’s a little ignorant to underestimate a game that has reached such a big audience that WoW has”, then people look at me with big eyes and then say; “Oh. Yes.. That’s true”, and then we can finally move on.

I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with the game ever since first beta. It has never been an unhealthy addiction with me, every time I’ve just had this one goal I wanted to work out. I always wanted to be able to play it together with a group of people for a longer amount of time - but no matter how hard I tried it just never worked out. People could never agree on anything; realm, faction, guild.. It all had to be such a big problem, always. I always chased after everyone else, tried to choose the realm/faction/guild I was most likely to succeed making my wish come true in, but it would never work out. 

This time when I started playing again I did something different. I didn’t choose either one of the two realms the others had up for discussion, I didn’t try anything. Someone, at that time a stranger that treated me like a dear friend suggested a different realm for me and I didn’t blink many times before I jumped on that train. It took a week, then those I were supposed to play with stopped playing again. Now, many months later I’ve enjoyed so much time doing what I wanted to do for so many years, together with my fiance and two really funny and loving people I’ve grown very fond of. I guess what they say is true, stop looking for it and it will find you.

I must add that what makes me less impressed than peoples need to disrespect me because I like to entertain myself with WoW (while they themselves don’t seem to spend their time doing anything more useful anyway), is when people also have opinions when I call my WoW-friends friends. I don’t take that too seriously though, I guess it’s because they’re sad other people are satisfying me in ways they never could. Aa-burn.

And btw, if you think that WoW is only about grinding and has nothing to do with skill and tactics, it’s really obvious you’ve never tried any of the Rise of the Zandalari-heroics. Hmpf!

Okay, to those that feel targeted - I’m not mad in any way, and I know I’m overreacting. I just want some respect, I’m tired of having to hear how wrong it is that I play it. This is what I’m the most excited about doing right now, so this is what I’m doing right now, simple as that.