So your server is a little less populated right? The auction house brokers aren’t as slam packed at the moment? Are the prices on the AH just a little deflated? Welcome to the Summer season in gaming, specifically in the World of Warcraft.
There won’t be another in-game holiday for a long while and there probably won’t be new raiding content until the Fall starts up anyways, so what’s a player to do? Log off. That’s right, log off. Now’s the time when everything sort of calms down a bit for the World of Warcraft. Recruitment gets a little harder because all raiding guilds are trying to keep doing runs but are forced to cope with the seasonal drop in most available recruits.
Its time to go check out the summer block-busters at the theaters. Family vacations, summer jobs, sports, beaches, babes, and all night parties take first priority in the lives of a lot of gamers; especially since the gaming industry typically poops out during the summer only to annihilate in the Fall.
We’ve got the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 coming out. Left 4 Dead 2 as well. Blizzcon is going to announce more titles to whet the appetite towards the end of August. Aion is a new(ish) MMO coming to the western world in September; and I won’t even begin to lament on how awesome Starcraft 2 (and the ensuing beta) is going to be any day now.
For me, dailies have already stagnated to the point where I won’t bother doing them, maybe the crusader ones for another 10 days and the jewelcrafting for a few more tokens. Family issues dealt with, I’m making a return to raiding but I expect that to be my only real motivation for logging on and even then its mainly because of the people I raid with and not so much the content. I’m pretty much waiting with bated breath for 3.2 to drop so I can bitch slap that raid content and then dive 100% into Starcraft 2’s beta. It would be nice though to take the 30 minute flight over to the Bahamas and soak up a little bit of paradise.
So if you’re still plugging through as hard and deep as possible through Azeroth, how are you passing the time?
30min to the Bahamas…!!!!>>111 you lucky SOB.. what are you doin home typing about WOW…
being poor and recovering from a weekend of sun and swimming
Yeah, and now is a good time to prevent wow-burnout. It’s too late for me, but a few more months and I’ll be back in the swing of things.
I’m in limbo because outside forces beyond my control have FORCED me to be taking large chunks of gametime off.
Now is the time when you could/should be leveling your alts if you have any. Sometimes a bit of solo questing can be good for the soul and makes you appreciate guildes/friends when you raid with them again.
that’s true as well. Funny enough though I’ve seen the general vibe is waiting until 3.2 to level alts with the new heirloom chest giving 10% more XP as well as cheaper and lower level mounts.
Its the middle of winter for me, which actually works out pretty well, work/Uni piles everything on, decent movies come out, all the sorts of things you do INSIDE anyway, and you dont miss out on a zomg new something while drowning in paper. Then as summer comes around, holidays are in full swing, and wow gets interesting as we have time off to beach + wow at the same time