I started playing World of Warcraft 3 years ago. It was march 07 and I was living with my boyfriend at the time. He would play the game all night while I slept, and still be at it sometimes when I got out of bed in the morning. I remember not beeing very interested when he first put up an account for me to play. I'd never been much of a gamer at all, and it wasn't until I moved out two months later that I started trying out the game. Mostly because I was bored in the beginning, but after some time I found myself very facinated by the way an MMO works. I'm not really sure when my gaming turned into an addiction, but somehow it was taking over my whole social life. In stead of going out with my friends I would stay in during the weekends, power leveling and chatting with other people that like me had either nothing better to do, or had been taken over by the game. When I first started out playing, I played on what is called a Player vs. Player server (PVP), which basically means that other people can come and kill you while you're doing quests and minding your own business. I remember when I was around lvl 20, my ex told me that mages, which was the class I had chosen, was the hardest ones to solo level, and that I wouldn't make it passed level 30 on my own. You could only imagine how pissed of I was, as he was the one that suggested the class for me. His disbelief in me, was really what made me want to go on with leveling my mage, and I did in the end manage to get her to level 70, which was the level cap at the time. About the same time as I reached level 70, the guild I was in had started to desolve, and one of my guildies urged me to come play with him on another server. The new server was a role playing server (RP), which means I could quest without being afraid of someone coming and stabbing me in the back. I joined a guild on my first day on the server. "Farstriders" they we're called, and I stayed with them until I found the passion of raiding. It's kind of funny to think that my longest functioning relationship, is with a game. hehe... I now have 3 fully lvled characters, plus a whole lot more in progress. And I mean, yes I know my gaming is an addiction. But you can hardly compare it to other addictions like drugs or alcohol. Ok, so I may be anti-social in the real world. But at the end of the day, it's my choice isn't it?
