My younger brother has World of Warcraft on the computer here. He showed me how I could create my own character on his account. I did. I named her Nahgem because that’s my really imaginative fantasy character name. I played for 5 minutes when some other Night Elf came up to me and said “Wud’ up gurrl?” and then I got scared and quit.
This often happens to me when I start a new video game. One of the initial tasks or monsters intimidates me and my first reaction is to press Q and leave it for an afternoon or so. This time all it took was someone saying hello. It was weird to have this interaction - my response would be experienced by a real live human being! I was also frustrasted that I couldn’t have a “training period” where I could do my own thing away from other people. Is it maybe that I would like to play World of Warcraft but have a world all to myself? No not really. Besides the social nature of the game, their are survival benefits too (which are social in that really selfish way I guess).
After spending my day thinking, no I probably wouldn’t get into the game and that was a good thing, I crawled back to the computer last night. One more try. It was better, I was better, starting to get the hang of things. I played for an hour this morning. This time,I ended up dying in a cave surrounding by spiders. When you die in WoW, you wake up in a graveyard as a spirit and must retrieve your corpse to come back to life. I’ve tried this twice but everytime the spiders are there and they kill me again. I hate spiders.
So I’m taking this to be a sign that I shouldn’t get into WoW. It would be quite dangerous actually. (Even though I just thought of something that might get me out of the spider situation…)