There was a time in a life of everyone playing wow, time of excitement, expectations, happiness, joy sometimes even frustrations. For everyone this may occur in a different period of their time playing wow but one thing wow never was (in a long past) … boring.
Look what is happening right now, lets say you like to do any major content in the game and you may even be somehow good in it.
You come home from work, your wife is on business trip and you have few hours left before she returns home, so you decide to push rating in the arena a little bit, or complete that last 2 dungeons for key-master achievement, or maybe finally get that boss on mythic difficulty who drops your bis.
So you log in, no one from your guild is online, and most of your ppl on friend list don’t play anymore.
So you join a solo shuffle, its cool only 60cr to duelist, that’s doable … and then you are waiting after 34 minutes shuffle pops, yes, I even forgot i logged in for that as i watched latest news, you play caster, got into full melee lobby, but it’s OK it’s always like that, you are doing your best you somehow manage to win 3 games … then in the last round someone just leaves the lobby you get -9 rating
OK that was a waste of time, lets try to find some party, you are waiting in group finder everyone is looking for glad xp, so you are just waiting you can’t sign both 2s and 3s so you just hope someone will answer your call. After another 15minutes and 20declined requests you give up and try to login some BG.
and here we go again, you are waiting after 20minutes you get into the game, after an hour of mostly waiting you finally can play the game a little bit … wait, why are all the names of opposite teams just squares? after 5 minutes you know … your entire team gets destroyed because everyone is playing mostly “solo” in BG and you are facing some insane premade from belarus/russia.
well that wasnt “fun” … lets try some m+
So you go again, you are missing 3 dungeons to get the key master, unfortunately you don’t have that key, even if that mount reward is ugly as hell, you just want to finish this.
So you are waiting again, getting declined over and over, when after another 10-15 minutes you are in a group, first invite you are missing heal and tank.
So you are waiting to leader to somehow build this group, it goes surprisingly “fast” only 8 more minutes.
You fly to the dungeon, you summon everyone, while waiting for party members to click on the summon for a minute or two.
You are inside, you are waiting a bit for everyone to buff up, here it is, ready check … finally some action. Waiting just 10 more seconds.
You go … top the damage meters, kick the casts, using your defensives, everything goes great when you accidentally didn’t noticed purple whirl under the purple carpet at the third boss, that killed you and basically wiped the entire group. You play lock, so you soul stoned the healer, who wrote in the chat: “don’t respawn pls” … unfortunately he wasn’t fast enough 2 guys are already running … from the beginning of the dungeon. So you are waiting for them for few more minutes.
You are killing that boss and rushing to the last, just when someone stoops, and goes offline…
So you are waiting again … for him to come back online, nothing is happening, group is disbanded and you just realized you have wasted an hour for nothing.
Ok … One more hour until my wife gets home, let me try that raid boss for the chance to get my special trinket. So you get back into the group finder, waiting to get invited, you cant find the group you are looking for so you decided to create your own, but you need 4th boss, but newer mind, at leas I play a little bit.
After 20minutes you get your group, tanks heals everything is ready. You are killing those 3 bosses like nothing, EASY … when after that third boss your tank and healer decided to thank you for the run but they just wanted to kill this boss and they leave the group. So you are waiting again after 10 more minutes you get your party, you summon new guys, buff them readycheck … countdown …
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… the doors open with your wife standing there with her big beautiful smile asking for a welcome kiss and help with her 2 bags.
Life is short, why are we spending it on mostly waiting and … why the hell are we paying for that
Thank you for your attention if you read until the end, I guess, i just wanted to express myself and my experience with the waiting simulator we all call “world of warcraft”