Wednesday? Really? Didn’t I just write the last Complaining Wednesday? Where in the Nether has the time of the last week gone? Where was the weekend and the time I wanted to work on personal projects?
So many games, so little time
It is, without wanting to discuss it for long, surely a luxury problem. The last days have completely turned into playful stress. What once was a mere hobby for relaxation and allowed me to switch off more or less, has now often turned into pure stress. This is particularly evident during events, like the countless Halloween events that are currently waiting in almost every game.
It was different before. The decisive reason – at least for me – is probably that I managed with one game back then. There was World of Warcraft for me and then maybe occasionally a single-player RPG, but that was it. There was hardly any pressure; the games did not insist that you had to be effective to succeed. Perhaps it is not the games that have changed, but my attitude towards them. Or a mix of both. Efficiency is an important keyword today, even in leisure activities. I always think of the almost philosophical trailer for Ekko.
“People waste so much time. And then they wish they had more of it. They want their days to have more hours; their years more days; their lives more years. (…) If you can’t make the best of every single moment, you don’t deserve a single extra second.”
And that’s exactly how I often feel in the past few days. I log into WildStar, trying to gather as many marks as possible to get the limited Halloween decorations. I rush over to WoW to collect a few Sweet and Sour for the fancy Deathwing costume that I won’t be able to get otherwise.
I could participate in the beta of Blade&Soul or try out the Early Access of Knights of the Fallen Empire. Heroes of the Storm got Artanis, whom I want to try out. And then the latest episode of Tales from the Borderlands came out, which I definitely want to see. Oh yes, and RP.
I need RP because that is my elixir of life.
At the end of the day, I accomplished everything. But nothing really. It doesn’t feel satisfying. Did I use the time effectively? Certainly. Did I have fun doing it? I don’t know. And that probably equates to a “No.”
What am I actually complaining about here? That I have too much to game and can’t concentrate on any of it properly? A bit silly, one might say. Depressed Cortyn is depressed.
