Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Life in the Queue

Just as our guild has reached 250 members, just as we're both almost 80s (or close to it), and just as we're starting to figure our raid dynamics ... our server has become a clogged metropolis called Queue Land.

Where once upon a time we could log on quickly and at any time, now we have to plan ahead, queue up, and wait in line. 500, 800, over 1,000 people ahead of us we wait to play a game that approximates work and "real life" in so many ways. Checking auctions. Dealing with guild business. Leveling up.

And yet we wait, unwilling to transfer off our home planet for fear of some difference Off World. Of course, our friends wouldn't be out there on some new colony ... but the world would be the same, right? We don't know, so we queue. Queue time is a reminder of simpler games, cards, puzzles, the Unplugables.

Oh wait, I'm third in line. Time to plug back into the business that is this game.

1 comment:

Synxerr said...

Yup, kinda sucks to have to wait in line. I used to play on a PVP Server and every evening it was the same thing. Wait in the line. There are ~ 600 maniacs like you waiting too so don't be upset. Well I wasn't. I'm now playing on my old PVE Server. Ahh, the tranquility...