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. :-)