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Ugh I’m getting so sick of WoW… chiefly because of travel times. The game itself isn’t really that good at all, but the travel times are the absolute killer for me. Unless you log out in the middle of a combat area, you can expect to hold your mouse button down for at least 10 minutes while you run and run and run and run and run and run to get to wherever the hell it is you’re trying to go. And all the while, you have to dodge monsters who will hit you in the back and slow you down even more (“Hey! FIGHT ME!!! Pleeeease!”) and horde players who happen to be in the area and would just loved to kill you while you’re already badly wounded or have resurrection sickness. And then, of course, when you come back to life, you have to run another 10 minutes to get to your damn body, rez, hope that you’re safe, and continue on your endless journey. And of course, once you arrive at your destination, your first quest will be to travel one thousand miles away to pick up a spool of thread for Granny Weaselbum.

This brings up an interesting question… Why do the denizens of Azeroth bury their dead in the middle of dangerous jungles, and high in the remote mountains? Wouldn’t it make sense for all the graveyards to be in safe towns? So they don’t risk more lives while digging these graves? So wild animals don’t dig up and defile all the bodies? So grieving widows can visit the graves of their poor dead husbands who got ganked while trying to retrieve 20 octopus boogers so Professor Lipton T. Baggins could give them the recipe for octopus booger pie?

And then there’s the gryphons… what could be the most convenient mode of travel turns out to just be another need to babysit the computer. When you fly the “faster” way, you still have to spend 10 or 20 minutes travelling, but now you can’t even stop to change your mind, use items, or do anything but sit and babysit the computer, so that when your gryphon finally lands, you can hop on the next one to continue to your extraordinarily-out-of-the-way location.

I hope someone gets the brillian idea in the next patch or so to sell transfering flights, so you can use all that time waiting to do something productive, like alt-tab out and look at porn, or watch TV.

Anyway, I’m about 2 days away from cancelling my WoW subscription, since I hardly ever get to play the game anyway, and when I do, all I get to do is spend 30 minutes in transit, then get ganked, and get so frustrated due to lag that I have to ctrl-alt-delete and kill the task just to turn off the nightmare…