Anyone who has been reading my blog(s) [tbh, I think there's only one or two of you LOL!] knows that my online addiction switched from SL to WoW a few months ago [it's actually more an addiction to a certain person...whom I missed so much when he would vanish to WoW that I eventually followed him there shortly after the arrival of my $3,000 gaming laptop, which I had gotten (embarassing to admit) primarily to run Second Life, but which has served its creators' intended purpose (gaming) extremely well:D
Having reached Level 80 (currently the level cap in WoW) in a fairly short amount of time (three months), I then spent my time leveling my various professions (herbalism and skinning being the main ones, with the secondary ones being first aid, cooking, and fishing) and obtaining a bunch of achievements (some serious ones like the argent tournament things and some rather silly like Food Fight - obtained by bonking someone over the head with food during the Pilgrim's Bounty holiday events;) Now my WoW experience consists mostly of completing 'dailies' - daily cooking and fishing quests - and playing the auction house. I have quested a bit on a few other characters - my human rogue, a tauren druid, and a troll warrior - but I still like my hunter the best.
Anyway, I'm trying not to say that WoW is getting boring. It really is not. I'd love to level another character, but my main leveling buddy (Leo), having been playing WoW for a lot longer than I, has passed the point of being excited by the game anymore and mostly finds it boring since he's done all those starter quests so many times before. He has made a Tauren shaman to level with my Tauren druid and that seems like maybe it might be a good thing (even though I can't stand my female Tauren - I think she looks stupid LOL) because at least the questing will be mostly new to him since he's mostly played Alliance characters up until now.
Last night he was off playing Call of Duty and I'd finished my dailies in WoW, so I decided to log into SL and set the land for sale. [If you're interested in buying the place, see one of my previous posts for details and send me an e-mail. In-world, I've set the buyout price to 100,000L - an outrageous price, but I set it at that because if someone is just going to outright buy it (which would essentially close F'd at the click of a button), then they can pay that. I figure nobody's gonna spend THAT much for it unless they really REALLY want it, so probably they'd contact me to negotiate anyway.] I logged in, found our house still intact (surprising since I think we're WAY behind on rent...but then I think our landlord is as much a slacker as I am;) so I dropped a couple more weeks' rent in the rental box and headed over to F'd. I did a little dancing (mostly to see the bouncy boobs again...didn't really seem very bouncy to me, but *shrug*) and the lag got me so frustrated that I logged out not long after I logged in.
As it turns out, I think the lag issues in SL were never due to my computer (though the new one was STILL $3k of "free money" well spent and I don't regret it one bit). On an open source viewer (Emerald), which should be more stable than the standard viewer, the lag was still excrutiatingly frustrating. I DO experience some lag from time to time in WoW, but (a) I know it's due to my internet connection at times and (b) while I DO disconnect, the lag is still never even CLOSE to as frustrating as the lag in SL. Never. Last night I found myself wondering how I stood it for so long, but then I think it's the people I met that kept me addicted moreso than Second Life itself. Ugh...but the lag is a huge deterrent:( And if it's bad on MY computer, I can just imagine what it's like for people running on inferior graphics cards and less RAM!
