Am I a World of Warcraft addict?

SO! World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King has been out for about three weeks now. I haven’t bought it yet – still don’t plan on it despite me saying to some friends that I may be back in January. And so far, I’ve been good. Although, during the Thanksgiving weekend I find myself with a lot of time on my hands. Normally, I’m busy all day but now I can lounge. And when that happens, my mind drifts to World of Warcraft. Last night I found myself reminiscing about it like a normal person reminisces about their first love or some crap like that. Makes me start to wonder if I’m a World of Warcraft addict. So, I’ll pinpoint some known facts about my history with World of Warcraft.

Are PCs superior to consoles?

This post is a response to an article that was on Digg, 12 reasons why PC gaming is better than consoles. If you decide not to read it, then just realize that outside of a few very small points, all the reasons they give are very pro-PC. So much that it delves into extreme fanboyism. So, instead of me reviewing what they said, I’ll just explain why they are either right or – and they are for the most part – wrong. 

Blizzard lies to us, then losses money.

My friend and I recently had an argument when Blizzard stated, “We have over 11 million subscribers” of how many subscribers there actually were. He said around 5 to 6 million and I said 6 to 9 million. We argued back and forth a bit until I did some research and found a WoW addon that actually worked as a census which estimated about 5,600,000 active subscribers. The way the addon worked is that it crawled the /who channel which a player would use to find who is in the area and it sends that information to their database.

To keep it updated and to prevent from those trial users, it doesn’t log anyone lower than level 10 and it also deletes players who haven’t been on past 30 days. The result is a pretty accurate and detailed report of who plays what race, faction and class. The downside to it is that not everyone had to have it installed so that number could be higher.

I fear the new WoW Expansion Pack

I’m worried about the new expansion pack. I really am. I’m fine now, but I’m worried that a week or so after it comes out I’m gonna’ get that itch. I’m gonna’ get that twitch again. Just one month. Buy it, play it for just one month. Experience it and then be done with it.

Boy, I wish it were that easy.