I am still on the fence about Wrath of the Lich King, but I am starting to lean toward retiring permanently from World of Warcraft. I have a lot of fond memories but it may be time for me to move on, the time sink is just not as appealing as it once was and I have trouble keeping up with my friends, and I hate being the guy in green and blue gear next to them in their spiffy epics.....Either way though, I wouldn't miss opening night of a Bond flick for it.
Christ, dude, get them to run you through Kara once and bye-bye to those greens....
I've got a 70 lock with nothing but purple and T4 gear. By no means close to top of the game, but I picked up most of it within my first few runs of Kara and then ZA. I've only got about 20 days total playing time on my character, which is less than 500 hours. I've only been playing a few hours a day for a few months on this character (used to play pre-BC but quit for a couple of years).
And people who do nothing but play WoW are in the minority, even amongst the "hard-core". Most people I know raid only 3-4 nights a week and don't even play on weekends except for a few hours here and there farming loot or drops. They go to parties, have jobs, wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, go to school, go to movies, even play other videogames. There are plenty of retards with no life but WoW, but I'd wager it's a pretty insignificant portion of the population. They will pick up the expansion thursday, play it for two days straight and take a break Saturday or Sunday to go see a movie just like anyone else would.
Halo 3, GTA4, WOTLK..... these are games people put many hours into, it will still be there after taking three hours out of their lives to see a movie. And people aren't that broke either, these aren't all 14 year old kids parsing out their allowances, they are adults who spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a year on various forms of entertainment, just like most people do.
