When a Game Becomes a Chore, You Need to Say Screw It!
Perfect World did manage to keep me interested so far, but lately it was starting to feel like a chore. Even though a Venomancer is far better suited for my solitary playing style, there were more and more things that you just can’t do alone. But the main reason it was becoming a chore was that it was taking too long to level up by sticking to my plan. I didn’t want to use the “Crazy Stone” quest and I didn’t want to grind, which meant that I had to do a lot of Dragon Quests. But I also didn’t want to teleport, as that’d mean spending money and I stick to the idea of not doing anything in order to earn money but also not spending anything unless I absolutely have to even in games. That meant that each Dragon Quest turned into over two hours of flying from one place to the next, which was not fun at all.
Still, after playing Calad for 30 days I wanted to play Kalee for 30 days as well, and made a plan to get her to level 40 during this time. Since a plan’s a plan, that’s exactly what I did. Kept on looking for errors to send to the developers too, at least it seems that nitpicking is one of the very few things I’m good at.
But all that is done now, managed to get her to level 40 last night, sent the last e-mail today and now I’m taking a break. They have announced an expansion for December 1st, so I think I’ll be back a few days before that. I’m curious what new things will be added, even though I assume they won’t be for somebody as low level as me, and especially not for someone who insists on playing alone. This of course only applies if the expansion will also be free. I still think I’ll get back even if it won’t, I’ll probably try to get Kalee to level 50, but doubt I’ll stick around long after that.
But… I wonder how many World of Warcraft players fail at saying “screw it” when a game starts to seem more like work than play… Quite a lot of them, from what I know…
