Why I'm Addicted to World of Warcraft

No I still haven't renewed my account but here's why I'm so tempted to go back...

Blizzard Entertainment has done what this quote from Tycho of Penny Arcade has summed up quite nicely.

"What I do know is that they have set up a system that allows me to rent my friends on a monthly basis."

That's really what sold me on it for so many months, and even know my life is so fucking boring without WoW. It's sad, it really is, honestly the main thing keeping me from going back is that fact that once you got to 80 it was the same shit all over again, that and the fact that I'm STILL waiting for dual-specs to happen (for those of you unfamiliar all classes have 3 specializations, for some you must choose between damage/tanking/healing, and changing from one to another costs a chunk of gold each time, the dual spec theory is to have 2 specs assigned that you could switch back and forth without a cost of gold and with relative ease).

What scares me even more, and what I've never heard before is that apparently Blizzard has a new MMO that they're keeping super secret and is still in the pipes. I have to agree with Tycho though, I don't know what else they could possibly do and hope it would be even half as successful unless "it's a graphical update to the existing world."

What it really comes down to is I miss everyone. I miss Dave and Jared, Carrie and Gary... all the Canadians whose real names I don't even know and tons of other people I shared awesome times with. The sadest thing is that, like high school, there's no way to go back to what once was. It sucks that another one of my favorite experiences in life is over, but I suppose there will always be something else. I'm just ecstatic that I have Ken to keep my company or I'd probably have killed myself by now just for something to do.