I was perusing Facebook this morning while at work. I don’t normally get involved with Facebook, but I decided to throw myself into a group for those that enjoy WoW just to pay homage to an activity that takes quite a bit of my time up from week to week. I punched “World of Warcraft” into the group search, and surprisingly there are MANY groups with the focus of hating on WoW.

Some such groups include: “If this group gets to 100,000 my boyfriend will quit WoW” and “RIT students who aren’t World of Warcraft Nerds”. This makes me beg the question: what about WoW makes you hate it so much?

Are you any better?

Lets be honest with each other for a moment. I play WoW and that’s fine with me, you do what? Sit on Facebook all day and make groups about hating WoW? Whose time is really better spent? Something tells me that each of us is wasting our time in our own unique way. You make bullshit groups on a social networking site, I play a video game with (mostly) people I don’t know on a face-to-face level. In both cases, we are blowing our time on things that ultimately don’t matter.

One such comment in the RIT group is:

fuck Wow… i got better things to do like go racin.

Really? Is that why you are on a website posting this? Apparently you don’t have better things to do or you would be out doing them. And then there’s this gem:

I’m just sick of everyone in the rooms surrounding me leaving their doors open all day, blasting annoying WoW sounds and yelling back and forth to eachother about their level 72 elf. When does this stop?

When does your shitty rap music and bragging about your alcoholism stop? I’ll stop talking about my hobbies with my friends when you stop doing the same. Something tells me neither one of us is going to budge.

The old argument

There is also the fact that non-players love to throw in player’s faces: if you play WoW, you don’t get any girls. Let’s examine the girls that these guys are getting: they meet in bars, she sleeps with him on the first night, he cheats on her, she cheats on him, they go their seperate ways, and both rinse and repeat. Is it better to have 45 terrible relationships to my three good ones? Who knows. I can tell you who is likely more satisfied with theirs though.

Also, as a case in point, I play WoW a solid 12 hours a week from raiding, and still go out with my friends, party, drink, and meet people. I do just fine in school, get all my work done, hold a solid job, and go out on the weekends. WoW doesn’t control my life, I control it. Just because one or two guys make it their heart and soul, doesn’t mean we all do.

Don’t believe their lies

In conclusion, if you are a moderate player and enjoy it time to time but feel the pressure from friends or relatives to “quit that shit”, there is no need to listen to them. It’s a game just like any other. It’s no different from the jock assholes who sit in their dorm every Thursday night and rot in front of Madden ’07 on XBox live for five hours. And trust me, they are… they are just hiding it and we aren’t.

I am fine with the fact that I play WoW, and I don’t waste my time trying to hide it or pretend I don’t. On the other hand, people out there waste their time trying to make me feel like I should. In the end, who is wasting more time? I kinda feel like its not me…