08-13-2008, 05:51 PM
[RANT]
All my friends are currently playing this game what seems like 24/7 and they keep asking me when I'm going to play. I have a wife, kids, and not a lot of free time, so I find it frustrating that they keep asking me this. Ive long abandoned the idea of "catching-up" to them in levels or items, and where I once use to be the 'go-to' guy for help, am now the 'in-need-of-assistance' guy. . . all the time. They are always backtracking quests and baal runs to get me up to their levels of play. I appreciate it, but it feels... like I'm holding them back. I know they enjoy my company because they are very happy when I am on, but I can't shake this feeling that I should be on more, but I can't. My time with my family is far more valuable to me than some stupid video game - I learned that lesson years ago when Diablo 2 first came out. It seems to me one of my friends may soon learn that lesson himself in his quest to be the best in the game.
[/RANT]
BTW, I'm just venting. I don't expect anything to change, and I do tell my friends when I have time to play and when I don't and they are understanding, which is nice.
All my friends are currently playing this game what seems like 24/7 and they keep asking me when I'm going to play. I have a wife, kids, and not a lot of free time, so I find it frustrating that they keep asking me this. Ive long abandoned the idea of "catching-up" to them in levels or items, and where I once use to be the 'go-to' guy for help, am now the 'in-need-of-assistance' guy. . . all the time. They are always backtracking quests and baal runs to get me up to their levels of play. I appreciate it, but it feels... like I'm holding them back. I know they enjoy my company because they are very happy when I am on, but I can't shake this feeling that I should be on more, but I can't. My time with my family is far more valuable to me than some stupid video game - I learned that lesson years ago when Diablo 2 first came out. It seems to me one of my friends may soon learn that lesson himself in his quest to be the best in the game.
[/RANT]
BTW, I'm just venting. I don't expect anything to change, and I do tell my friends when I have time to play and when I don't and they are understanding, which is nice.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin