Life after Warcraft?Follow

Get drunk and go to sleep.

It's a ritual by now.

Diablo 3 will be out in a reasonable amount of time.

On the golf course today

Player A: Well well! Look who's here! Where have you been?

Me: Don't ask...

I don't know why but this little phrase "where have you been" got me thinking today.

Years are catching up with me, golf is more forgiving.

I volunteer a couple of times a month (nothing regular, I just check Hands On for stuff that involves physical work -- I can use the exercise and it shuts the brain up), spend time with my RL friends (limited by schedules, my best friend works the night shift, has a second job GMing a MUD, and a long-distance girlfriend so our hanging out is usually IM chatting when one of us is about to fall asleep), play with the cat and on sunny days take a book to one of the many parks around here. And I don't need to give up WoW to do it. Everything in moderation.

I mainly play WoW to hang out with long distance friends. My brother's on the other side of the country and I know a bunch of his friends in the area too, so it's a place I can go when I'm feeling social and leave when I'm not. This is awesome for an introvert, I always feel awkward when I try to do the same at parties; people always seem to think it's a judgement if I step away for an hour to find a quiet spot.

Nothing but dead grass and brush fires from what I've seen.

Civ5. Up to 1226 hours played now. Think of Maz every time Harald Bluetooth speaks.
Mechwarrior 4. Yeah, it's 10 years old. Still fun.
Magicka. Not my usual style of game. I.. kinda suck at it. Addicting.

I also spend some time away from the computer, which was rare before. I actually watch TV again.

Haven't played WoW since sometime around christmas/new year, and was barely logging on for a week or two before that.

"Life after Warcraft" implies that it's an either/or situation, which is not the case. I think sometimes there's a false assumption that time spent playing WoW is time that might otherwise be productive, and that if we all quit we'd all the sudden become a bunch of Ben Franklins running about to and fro inventing things and governing countries and fathering illegitimate children. But really there's generally a point of diminishing returns on anybody's ability to concentrate, which is why we invented downtime to give our brains the necessary time to recharge. Certainly some people let play time dictate their schedule instead of their schedule dictating play time, but I'd guess that's a much smaller minority than stereotypes suggest.

When I get some downtime, I read. If I don't have the mental energy for even that much, well, what's on TV is mainly crap, and golf doesn't interest me, so I play an MMO. Currently I'm playing Rift, which despite Fish's stubborn refusal to see its awesomeness, is awesome. :) RPG's brought me to video games rather than the other way around, so for as long as I enjoy gaming it will most likely be in a fantasy MMO type situation.

During the summer WoW takes a backseat out door activities. It's still nice to log in for a bit and mess around after a long day out, or a rainy day.

Quit WoW and Rift about 2 months ago so I been playing some League of Legends, pretty fun and I get my daily dose of pvp and getting called a newb. So I kinda feel right at home with out paying for a sub. Also read the first 3 books in the Song of Ice and Fire series. But usually just waiting till my old lady pops the baby out in 2 more months.

Much like before Warcraft and during Warcraft.

I plan on playing warcraft until the bitter end and even then who knows. iv got books to read other games to play but i do that when not playing WoW

Followers can be used to entertain the idea of religious war more thoroughly.
That is still the theme of D3, right? The dark gods and light gods are clashing and using the mortals as pawns? I haven't kept up on it so I can be more pleasantly surprised when it comes out.