Quote:Quitting was extraordinarily freeing. I didn't realize the amount of time I spent on the game until I was no longer playing it.
Yes, it's true. I quitted WoW as the mood in our raiding alliance IFFHDS went south and I was fed up by it all in general. After I quit, I suddenly realized how much time it has freed up for me, and also how much stress and sleep deprivation I've suffered when trying to juggle raid attendency and my job. WoW has really become something like second job to me. I work nightshift four days a week for 48 hours, and the other three days were basically raiding and raid preparations, so it was always like changing one job for another. I hadn't something like days off work to relax; when it wasn't RL work for money, then it was virtual work for DKP, and it really felt like work. Some weeks I was even glad that my four days of RL work came up, so I had an excuse to not being commited to WoW activities.
So yes, now I have time to relax, during my free days. :blush:
I started to play another MMO though, EVE (it's strange: since I started playing MMOs with "Saga of Ryzom", conventional games basically lost their appeal to me). I'm not committed to EVE now like I was to WoW then, perhaps because it's just a different game, perhaps because I haven't made it to endgame yet, which might or might not eat up time like WoW used to.
As of now, my old raiding alliance IFFHDS broke up in drama, as one half took the oppurtunity of a server move, to establish a new hardcore raiding guild on the new server. Yesterday I received an invitation to join this new guild. Although I should know better I feel tempted.... I must make up my mind up to the 26th of May if I reactivate my account and make the move or stay away from it.