World of Warcraft has an addictive quality. rather interesting that.
If you have not already you really should wander over to the PurePwnage website. Really, you should watch all the episodes, they are all gold. But in the context of WOW, I would recomend you watching episodes 6,7 and 11.
There really is no point to world of warcraft, you wander around pick things up, put things down, kill things ,be killed by things, find things, lose things, train things, learn things and ultimately lose a large chunk of your life. But what is even more amusing still is that a lot of the people who "play" world of warcraft dedicate their entire time to chatting in game, about things that are completely unproductive. I have heard so many chuck noris jokes I am looking forward to the participants to be killed and strung up on the walls of stormwind (not likely to happen). I have heard argumants about religion, politics, the military, and sex. I have seen people voice dislike of people, places and things. I have seen things that if the participants where not seperated by thousands of miles of cables would lead to confrontations that could result in injury or even death.
People take the game a bit too seriously. I don’t know why. if you die, you come back, if you lose a quest, you can start again. if you cannot kill something, you can try again. if you cannot go somewhere, you can tomorrow. It is so simplistic that anyone can play. But I see even the most experienced players complain when they die, or cant find the special quest item. RELAX, its just a game.
But the urge to play is strong. For some reason you always want to build the character, make him stronger then he was.
it is slightly confusing.