World Of Warcraft: Death to IJG

It's beginning to look a lot like, no, not christmas, but TBC release time.

People are active on the boards, talking about it in chats, all waiting for the final date where the game is released.
Until that day arrives, people are scattered, looking for something to do. Some are still raiding in the respective guilds, some are taking a small break so they're ready to go full speed when TBC is out, while others are playing other games, and that kind of says it all about the gamerculture, specifically the culture that evolves around MMO players.
Personally I both salute and hate the day I started playing an MMO the first time all those years ago. In the early summer of 2000 I was looking into the MMO genre as I wanted to join it. I haven't had chance to do it earlier since it was too expensive to be online backthen without ADSL (paying pr minute of online activity sucks :D ) and when searching for a game to play in the worlds of Everquest, Asherons Call and similar games, I heard about this new game coming out called Dark Age of Camelot, and I started to pay attention to it, ended up preordering it.
Long was the day untill the game finally arrived by mail, and since that day I've logged so many hours in that game, that it's nearly not fun.

What happened is the same thing as so many others experience now with WoW - the "I just gotta" effect, or IJG. In DAoC there wasn't that much to do after you hit lvl 50, besides pvp, allthough that was also tons of fun. In WoW the amount of things to do while under the influence of IJG is vast, and can mean hours upon hours lost, where you could've either logged out entirely, or done something that would actually have made a difference ingame.

But what IS the "I just gotta" effect? Well, let me explain it using some examples. It's late at night, and you've just finished some instances and gotten some loot, and are actually planning to log for the night and getting some welldeserved sleep. Now rather than actually logging out, you get affected by IJG and your brain pops up with a reminder that you just gotta check the AH before logging. There you find some sweet deals and you also just gotta remember to sell you newly found items. Then you just gotta log an alt to see if there is any mails, and you just gotta remember to check guild forums; and things like this takes time.

So even with the change to the honor system so you don't have to endlessly farm honor to avoid loosing rank, IJG is our worst enemy to getting something done in the game. Join me in the fight against IJG and let us waste no more time - lets go out and kill people instead. Death to our enemies, be they Alliance or Horde, and death to IJG!