Despite the impression you may have gotten from my site (especially recently), I don’t really think of myself as an avid gamer at all. So it surprises me as much as it does everyone else how completely I have been consumed by WoW. It’s true that I’ll occasionally get a new game and do nothing but play it for a while, but I almost always get bored of it within a week or so. Chris and I figured out that I bought WoW almost exactly a month ago, and our fervor for it remains undiminished. We probably play it more now than we did the first week, actually.

A friend and I tried to puzzle out its appeal for someone like me who hasn’t been interested in online gaming before and who doesn’t really have much of a gaming attention span, but I guess there’s not that much there to wonder about: it’s just a really, really good game. There is the MMO virgin factor, which shouldn’t be discounted, but it can’t be the only reason I would rather kill horrible monsters in game than eat my god damned dinner on any given night. Other people who are not new to the whole MMO thing have been equally drawn to WoW, often at the expense of their old games. And now that I hear more than 600,000 copies of this game have been sold in about six weeks, I understand that I am not alone.

So I guess my only question is: if you aren’t playing WoW already, why the hell not?