Having been playing MMOs for a good number of years now, I find myself still playing the game I started playing five years ago – World of Warcraft. While there are times I get bored and want to move on, I find it difficult to do so.

I can’t really explain what it is, but ever since I discovered MMOs back in 1997 with Ultima Online they have drawn my interest and generally have all but forgotten my consoles despite always making sure I pick the new consoles up. For the last five years, one game has refused to let go.

Most of my friends know of my addiction to World of Warcraft and the hold it’s had on me for the last roughly five years. While I took about a month break recently I was lured back in as a way to hang out with Erin as she is away for school. Now, however, I have stumbled across a casual game that I am hooked on.

I uninstalled it, got interested in another game, enjoyed my newly acquired free time but in the end I was lured back into World of Warcrack.

Todays dev blog over at EVE Online answered a question I had regarding holidays events. I had become so spoiled with them while playing World of Warcraft that I was wondering how EVE handled them if at all.

A week ago I had four friends and myself playing EVE Online but now a week later it looks like the game has claimed three of them leaving just myself and one playing. Well, maybe just two but we’ll see.

There’s something to be said about addiction to certain games or MMOs. While some people laugh the notion off or think there is no way it’s possible, I think there is some merit to the notion and am hoping this time is the last time.

Yesterday EVE Online released their patch entitled Dominion with some things I was pretty interested in seeing did not disappoint at all including some very impressive graphical updates!

Ok, so I can’t pretend to know what half the items in the patch notes are but I’m still excited that there is a patch coming out for the game. While some of the things that are really being added I have no concept of yet (sovereignty for example) but there are som nice tidbits in there for us noobs – I’m talking to you Molly, Erin, Jonathan and Michael (Thantos)!

I had just come off a super productive week last week at work and found a new game I was really enjoying that wasn’t sucking up every last hour so knew this week should go pretty well. Pound out some quality code time at work since that has been progressing nicely, enjoy some more time in EVE Online with the always amazing EVE University and the week was looking good.