Unaddiction

Reasons why Warhammer wasn't that enjoyable for me:

-Sudikoff was too far away. I don't actually mind walking to Sudikoff, but I didn't actually have access to the computers for a while. After I got that, I couldn't get into the lab. After I got access to the lab, I still couldn't get in the building. And the weather started getting really cold. Standing outside Sudikoff isn't really fun. In addition, the computers didn't have sound cards for most of my playing, so that (as earlier posted) contributed to my nonaddiction.

-The plot was nonexistant. I had no emotional reaction to the game and no motivation to play. It was just "do this" and then I went and did it, more because I had to than for any other reason. Perhaps being in a guild would have given me more interaction, but having to interact with people brings all sorts of pressures onto a person. I don't know; maybe I'm just not an MMORPG person. But there didn't seem to be much RPG to this MMO. Characters had no personality, and there were only a few 'careers' outside of our classes that we could pick- changing classes and getting a new character takes far too much time to get back to the level you were at.

-The approach we took to the game was entirely critical. We began playing because we had to, and even now I'm thinking about why I didn't enjoy the game because I have to think about why I didn't enjoy this game. It's a very mindless way to play- I can lose a few hours to it, but at the same time, I don't do much during those couple of hours. I'm not particularly good at leveling and I didn't get much from it. Often, I would move to a new level without realizing, because I'd look away for the second the "YOU HAVE REACHED LEVEL ___!" flashed across the screen in the middle of some epic battle.

I didn't hate Warhammer. I just wouldn't pay for it. Or, to be fair, play it even if it was free. I have more enjoyable ways to waste my time. It's not that I'm so in-touch with the real world that gaming seems artificial- it's just that this game does nothing to convince me it isn't artificial, and in my mostly escapist way of playing, this has no appeal for me.