Sneaky Troll

I wrote the below essay in the summer of 2009 for my degree.  It was perhaps the easiest piece of the year for me having studied the sources intimately before even beginning.  The Essay does have my real life name and my college name on it but to be honest I trust you all (haha).

Is MMO gaming an addiction and how does it effect users socially

Sort of deleted the database to the site and with some personal stuff going on and the strange phenomena that is Christmas I haven’t had much time/care to sort it.

In the rest of my time I’ve been enjoying the 3 new heroics and all the triumph goodness that is 3.3.  Sure enough I switched to the new Poison-Ruptureless-Eviscerate spec and there is an improvement and to be honest I’m still pumping out 4.xk self buffed on a target dummy over a 5 minute period.

There is -nothing- special about my gear because I don’t raid, the only piece you couldn’t get in a pug are my heroic feet and if you knew you had decent players you could quite easily do the first boss in TOC as a pug in my opinion.

So, is the game becoming too easy?

No.  The new instance has 4 bosses and these have been cleared by your guild… on hardmode?  If so you’re one of the few to accomplish this as you must remember 99% of the people who play are incredibly casual.  Yes, raiding has become casual but there are alternatives.

As for me, well Ashankt the Insane has begun, it’s much less tedious grinding through something when you can queue for a BG/Heroic in between slaughtering goblins!

P.S. There’s still a few bits and bobs that need sorting on the site like SEO etc but spread the word, sneakytroll.co.uk is back on track

P.P.S. I found my academic essay on the social effects of MMO’s and will post it up tomorrow for your consumption, possibly convert to an easy to read web format.