I can't explain it unless you have gone through the same experience but I will try. I spent 2 years of my life playing the World of Warcraft (2007-2009). During that time I bought no other game and the word "console" never crossed my mind. I fell asleep dreaming of my character and what I would turn him into.
Ultimately, I became what I envied when I first started out. I became part of a raiding guild where all of us knew each other on a first name basis, had our own private Vent channel, and spent so much of our life raiding that we bonded during the good times where raids would last 3 to 5 hours and the bad times where we would plug in an hour or 6 to find out some flaky non-guildie who went to the bathroom during the middle of a raid all of a sudden dropped causing us to lose our main tank and all desire to continue that night.
I became a part of a group who was valued and valued other people. This is what I envied (well, I also envied the cool armor and sick weapons) when I first started and it is what I was when I left WoW cold turkey in early July 2009.
Cataclysm is out...I never deleted my characters. I only deleted the game. I just bought Black Ops on Monday, but I have never felt the same with an FPS where it is constant conflict and no teamwork from the first game to the last game.
How do I overcome these pangs?
