What happened to me? Army Dreamers 10-box guild.

[TheBigBB]

This is copied from my blog, but I figured it's worth posting as a thread here because some of the things I bring up might turn into a decent discussion.
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So I've been gone for a long time now, and I figured I'd update everyone finally. I just decided to take a short break, and it turned into a very long one. I've been gone from the game for about 4 months. I got into playing a lot of other console games.

It begs the question of how I could be okay with all the time and money spent on the 10-box team when I'm going to be prone to just leaving them hanging for so long. Well, a few things:

1. The best way to avoid the addiction is to always be okay with the possibility of never playing again. I am okay with this idea. If I ever got to the point where the loss of my account meant I would suffer mental anguish, I would consider myself to have a problem.

2. I never planned on abandoning the game completely. I do, however, need to find a better way to buy game time, because 6 months x 10 accounts sucks when you decide to stop playing, and you waste SO MANY months of time! I am going to have to start playing in 2 month chunks using game cards when they go on sale. Right now I can get them for $29 each, free shipping and tax free. If I use a credit card 10 times in a row on WoW, my card company thinks it's some kid of fraud anyway.

3. It seems like it makes sense to take long breaks, because now I'm finding out that I'll soon be able to improve my gear dramatically with the same level of effort. This ALWAYS happens. There's never a need to stress about gear, and I know that. Every time I ever took a long break from WoW, I was able to come back later and get amazing gear and bypass a huge grind.

NOW I need to figure out what's changed in the community since February or what improvements are on my boxing programs. Yes, I may return soon. At least with the coming of the next patch. You don't make your own guild full of level 80s and then totally forget about it. :-)

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya I log in when I feel like it, not because I "have" to because Ill fall behind if I dont.

[Feider]

Yeah, haven't seen an update in a while. Welcome back. Can't wait to hear more about the 10-box, mixed group goodness.

[Perrigrin]

2. I never planned on abandoning the game completely. I do, however, need to find a better way to buy game time, because 6 months x 10 accounts sucks when you decide to stop playing, and you waste SO MANY months of time! I am going to have to start playing in 2 month chunks using game cards when they go on sale. Right now I can get them for $29 each, free shipping and tax free. If I use a credit card 10 times in a row on WoW, my card company thinks it's some kid of fraud anyway.

I'm having this problem already on 5 accounts - Right now I got 2 of my RAF accounts with billing holds on them form Blizzards side, so I need their payment dpt to clear it up before I can transfer 2 60s off :P

[TheBigBB]

2. I never planned on abandoning the game completely. I do, however, need to find a better way to buy game time, because 6 months x 10 accounts sucks when you decide to stop playing, and you waste SO MANY months of time! I am going to have to start playing in 2 month chunks using game cards when they go on sale. Right now I can get them for $29 each, free shipping and tax free. If I use a credit card 10 times in a row on WoW, my card company thinks it's some kid of fraud anyway.

I'm having this problem already on 5 accounts - Right now I got 2 of my RAF accounts with billing holds on them form Blizzards side, so I need their payment dpt to clear it up before I can transfer 2 60s off :P

I really don't think I can do it by credit card anymore. The last time I was playing my accounts were all made at different times, like I had a main account, then I added another, then another, etc. But now they're all inactive and I would be activating them all at the same time! My CC company told me that they would always enable protective measures to be on the safe side. 10x the same bill coming in all at once from the same place within minutes would send off a red freaking alert over there. I found some places you can get game cards for even $27 each, which is close to the best rate possible for a 60 day period.

[Maxion]

Or just call your credit card company to warn them in advance about what will be coming in. Or just call them after the fact to clarify that those are in fact legit bills.
Sounds like you aren't in a big rush to get your accounts back online anyway.

[TheBigBB]

Or just call your credit card company to warn them in advance about what will be coming in. Or just call them after the fact to clarify that those are in fact legit bills.
Sounds like you aren't in a big rush to get your accounts back online anyway.

Yeah, at this point I'd rather just come back to the game when they release the next patch because of all the changes. I'm also worried about auto-billing and buying 6 months of time then only using 4/6 of those months, since 10 accounts is a huge expense.

[Shaden]

I do the same thing. I really get into playing for a few months and then I lose interest, take long breaks for weeks, or even months, at a time in order to enjoy other pastimes while the urge starts building again.

I've found it very helpful to deactivate my accounts immediately after activating them. That way I don't run the risk of giving Blizzard extra money for months I decide not to play. I don't even want to think about how much unplayed money I've given Blizz in the past before I started doing that.

[TheBigBB]

Great idea to always deactivate accounts as soon as you pay!

Thinking about what's been holding me back, I realize I also got really frustrated with the idea of doing Naxxramas again, because I successfully did that instance from the day it came out at level 60 until BC was released, and I feel like I don't have anything new to see there. If it were a totally new dungeon I would have been less likely to quit for so many months. I hope they never recycle content again like that. For everyone who's running Uludar, imagine if you had to repeatedly run it again in a few years as the main dungeon and first raid progression point of a "new" expansion.

[Queshank]

I wonder if this is common with multiboxers? Play for a few months, take a couple months off? Maybe it's WHY we were attracted to multiboxing? Cuz it's hard to maintain progress with others if you stop playing regularly?

I've been playing since the open beta in 2004. I play for 3 to 6 months. Then I take 2 to 3 or sometimes even more months off. Then I'm back again etc. We decided to go full bore with multiboxing after my wife's computer melted down and our 2 RL friends quit playing cuz they got tired of waiting for us after we moved to another state and didn't get her computer fixed "in time".

Queshank