My (not so) amazing life

I've been playing video games since i can remember, i started modestly with the PS1 and gradually worked my way up to a Wii and a 500GB + 160GB computer and external hard drive. My first experience with MMORPGs was not glamerous, but i loved it, Diablo II was the first online game i ever played, and i loved it.

I've worked my way up since then, playing every free MMORPG on the net and also playing FFXI, and eventually i got bored with that, so i started playing World of Warcraft, and i suppose that will get boring eventually too but for now it occupies my time. And hopefully blogging with occupy my time too now.

But i've come to realise how pointless online gaming is, you play the game for 400+hours (i wasted a whole 200 days of total playtime on FFXI, but i left the game running alot) only to level your character all the way up get the best items in the game, become rich, and what does that get you in real life? You end up playing the game not because it's fun anymore, but because you look forward to the things in the game that are supposed to be fun. You spend so much time getting to the highest point that you lose sight of what the game is supposed to be for, and that's fun.

Now there are ways to get something out of game in real life, like selling your account or currency for real money but that often leads to account banning. And again it become something done for money, not for the fun of the game. I suppose eventually i'll quit and get a real job yadda yadda...but for now i'll continue playing the games that i have fun with, and who knows, maybe a game will come out that provides endless fun, and i won't ever stop