GWJ Conference Call 893

After I hastily read the summary for this episode I thought it was perhaps a bit too early to dedicate an episode to Bungie’s Marathon.

Great to hear everyone’s impressions of Spider-Man 2 over the last few episodes.

I don’t think I’m big on gaming marathons. Two or three hours is generally enough for me. I may have done more at times. The closest I got was probably World of Warcraft when it first came out.

I joined a guild called ‘Elf Preservation Society’ and after a while we started raiding. We told ourselves we were just a casual raiders guild. After a few months though we found ourselves working through some high end raid instances. Occasionally someone would remind us all that we were only a casual raiding guild and we’d laugh.

There were warning signs that I was addicted. I remember the room going dark as evening drew in and thinking that I should turn on a light but I only stopped playing long enough to actually do it when I could no longer see the keyboard.

In the end I found myself planning my Christmas holidays based on how many hours per day of WoW I could play. It was in that moment I made the decision to stop playing and never returned.