World of Warcraft (now with less war, more craft!)

I spent most of yesterday playing World of Warcraft, for the first time in a few months. This was awesome. I even played enough that my fiance decided he wanted to revive his account. This was equally awesome.

But then I realized I had been playing on his laptop. Bummer.

So here I am, back on my own computer waiting for the latest patches to install, and I thought I would say hello again. Really get in the habit of updating this thing, you know? ...Also, I had a thought that I figured was worth sharing...

WHY IS WOW SO ADDICTIVE????
The most of yesterday that I spent playing- I didn't even do anything worthwhile! I spent half my time queuing for dungeons, and the other half roaming around trying to find rough leather because I didn't want to buy it in the auction house and I was super behind on my leather-working... are you kidding me? We're talking hours. HOURS. I only took breaks to work on laundry, so I could pretend to be equally productive in real life. And yet, it was a totally satisfying afternoon. Let's be honest, dungeon loot is way better than laundry loot- it never drops money for me since I never carry cash; and instead, all I found were the remnants of a pair of earrings that I had borrowed from my mother and apparently tucked away in a pocket for the dryer to destroy. Not nearly as fun...

So why? I really think it's just because it isn't real. I think that's the simplest explanation for why it's so enjoyable. You die? Meh, go find your body and hope you don't get ganked again. You tight on coin? No worries, sell a bunch of random stuff you don't need but always seem to have. Plus, you never have to clean, and the 'chores' are brilliantly called quests, so that it's an adventure to even go find some stupid carp thing that even the local fisherman is too lazy to go retrieve (and it's like, his job!).

Maybe this can give us clues as to making real life for "addictive"- perhaps I should start calling all my real chores 'quests' and going to work as an 'instance'. It just might be the trick...

Anywho, patch is loaded. I'm out of here!

-BeetHats