Lapse Of Judgment
I may have made a woeful mistake recently in reactivating my World Of Warcraft account.
It’s easy to tell myself that I did it to hang out online with one of my friends, and it’s even easier when I have colleagues who also play, and easier still when I can rationalize a quarter of the year subscription costs the same as three movie tickets…yep, I’m definitely making excuses.
The unexpected reason, which is currently ringing most true, is that it’s giving me a perfect case study that I can use to consider in my day-to-day work. Charged as I am with the fixing and maintaining plans for a pretty super website, I find myself struggling with the potential enormity in front of me every release. Some of those problems are BIG problems. But having spent three years away from Azeroth, I was familiar enough with the game that I remembered vividly the at-times fickle control elements, and the vague mapping of quests and events. Boy, have times been kind to WoW…
Think of this as the first in a series of writings on my experiences here. I know, there’s probably very little I can say about a game that a few million people haven’t previously voiced, but this is stuff I’m just learning, so I’m going to try and put it together, and then into context myself.
Thoughts In The Key Of N 