So I've dabbled in WoW since Mists of Pandaria, then again a bit in WoD, but it never really stuck with me. My first MMO was SWTOR and it felt on the surface too similar to that. GW2 had more appeal to me. Plus I was worried about getting too addicted to it as I've heard some horror stories to that end and I was already not very social of a person with addictive traits so I never pushed through.
Fast forward a 4-6 years and now Im 28, happily married with a stable job. This past weekend my wife and I were watching tv being lazy and I just turned to her and said, "You wanna try WoW? I think there's a free trial version or something we can dabble in..." She chuckled and gave a slightly hesitated "...sure" so we downloaded it on our pc's. It finished around 4pm and I'll summarize the rest of our Saturday with this. Around 9pm my wife looks across our desks and remarks, "wait...its dark out?" Enough said. This continued for part of Sunday as we had other plans with some friends we couldn't just play it all day again.
This is usually the part of the story where I got worried when reading other people say things like that about the game. I know I have an addictive personality and thus try to avoid things that can make me skimp on my more important responsibilities. Something was different this time though and it's my point to writing this.
Before, I was antisocial, unconfident, and dealing with some severe emotional issues. WoW felt like a game that would just exacerbate all of those traits. Now, being able to share it with my wife, us talking about it constantly the last couple days, trying to figure out our roles in group content and laughing at each failure, its become something thats building us and drawing us closer. Its interesting how something potentially really damaging to a person and his life can suddenly be something that actually improving that life.
Not really any question that needs answered here, just wanted to share that.
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