Adventures of Taas

I’ve decided I’ve cleared my head enough and reprioritized to slowly introduce a little MMO action back in to the mix.  I’ve decided that because from here on out I plan on playing extremely casually (no event scheduling if I can avoid it – I run the MMO schedule not the MMO runs my schedule) that I would give World of Warcraft a go for my return.

If you are looking for casual it doesn’t get much more casual that World of Warcraft.  I’ve set a few ground rules for myself on this return to ensure I stay casual:

1. One MMO at a time – period. the end.
2. No scheduling / signing up for events.  If/when I hit end game this might change to one scheduled event a week kind of deal – but for now I come and go as I please.
3. No playing until the baby is in bed for the night including weekends.  Usually I’d play on the weekends while the baby napped – I found this was prime productive time for other tasks I was pissing away.

I have a few challenges going forward the primary of which is that WoW is not exactly my favorite MMO.  My friends play Horde (which I seriously dislike) on a PvP server (double gah) so from the get go there are a few things playing against WoW but we’ll see if I can get by them.

If World of Warcraft doesn’t work out for me I’m not sure what I’ll do.  But we shall see…  For now I’m a Blood Elf Paladin on Daggerspine.

Do not adjust your internets – the title of my blog actually contains the words “MMO” and “break” and yes it does actually imply exactly what you think.

I have to decided to take a break from MMOs.

MMOs require an emotional, attention and time commitment that has increasingly been difficult for me to cope with. I started playing these games while I was still in school and it was easy then to balance game time with my life demands. Since that time I have gotten married, had a baby and have been steadily climbing the corporate ladder. All of this on top of the many hobbies and other things I like to dedicate my time to.

The reality is that competition for my time has become super competitive and the one activity outside of being a husband/dad that I hadn’t cut back on was playing MMOs and things like writing, working on programming projects and the like were suffering because of it.

So I’ve made a bit of a lifestyle decision to step back from the MMO world for a few months to get caught up on things I’ve been missing out on. My hope is that I’ll get a feel for my new job, the time and energy I have available for activities outside of work and family and sort of reset with some balance in my activities.

Adventures of Taas will continue to focus on my gaming related writings – this break is going to let me catch up on a lot of gaming writing I’ve been wanting to get out including a series on Guild Leadership.

So there it is… gone for now from the MMO genre but I’ll be back when I can figure out how to balance these demanding games with the rest of my life.