WoW is my Ant-imormonism

[_Mercury]

OK, was my anti-mormonism. In a huge show of growing the hell up I cancelled my WoW account. No offense to those who participae in the game but It had to go so the greed machine could be fed.

For the slow children in the back I am giving a nod to the PSA "BLAHBLAHBLAH" is my anti-drug.

So I got to thinking as I was cleaning in preparation for my inlaws to hit the area for a night or two.

I got to thinking about economies and the inner economy of WoW compared to a social exchange such as in Masons and Mormonism to a larger extent.

I did a compare. WoW has systems of social functions, usually an old friend I knew back in HS would discover that I played and would automatically get me into a nice raiding guild, Finance my operation and usually buy me rounds at the Cantina. in real life encounters, past or present were always the qualifier for backing my expedition into a new server. I paid it back once I got to the level where I was making more, but its always a pittance of time to get to that level. Without it, I would be looking at three times the ammount of time it would take to outfit myself with comparable gear via the usury system between friends.

And then I remembered how class is used to determine the scope of mobility within the hierarchy of wards and stakes. As a youth in North Las Vegas, a man who had moved recently into the ward was appointed to the Bishopric. From my perspective it was easy, at least for an upwardly mobile professional to step into leadership roles, as if it were run like a Corporation with management issues.

Guild politics, endless wasted hours, priority issues...it was time to kill my characters. I remebered back to the sunday after the last time I went to a sunday ward function. It was a sense of freedom but also a sense of "Now What?".

I thought that it does not matter to me if I do not attend. I had seen no utility in continuing to go.

I haven't logged in to Warcraft for 2 weeks now. I have been playing warcraft 3 and some xbox but the huge timesink that was WoW has also been replaced with Hard SciFi short fiction, NPR podcasts and a general sense of focus at work, the original reason I took a magnet to Jethrotully's memory space. Do I hate WoW? No. Do I despise those who play it? Certainly not. Did it cost me literally weeks of lost time over the past year and a half? Hell Yes.

[_Infymus]

Can I have your stuff?

(is in BRD waiting for guildy as I type this)

[_Bryan Inks]

Can I have your stuff?

(is in BRD waiting for guildy as I type this)

What server?

[_Infymus]

Uldum. My Pally is Tolstoy. On the Horde side, I have a hunter named Hinkster and his cat is named Marjorie :)