Here we go again.

So my partner was watching TV with his young daughter one day, and they see a Disney commercial about an online pirate game. They log in, create a character, and begin playing on a free trial account. His daughter didn't enjoy all of the nuances of leveling a character and completing missions, so she went on her merry way shortly after game play began.

My partner, however, played all of the payable play the free trial allowed before it got redundant killing the same things over and over.

He and I were shooting the breeze in front of our office about a week ago when he told me the above story. I listened to his tale with a sinking feeling he was going to ask me about WoW. I feared he wanted my opinion about the most popular, most polished, largest MMO in the history of MMO's. My frear was realized.

After cautioning him many times over that WoW is more addictive than crack laced with nicotine I told him how much I enjoy the game and how much I think he would enjoy the game. I told him it is easy to lose entire days playing WoW, and apologised in advance to his wife; whom I adore - very nice young woman. I emailed him a link to a trial offer on Friday and figured he'd play around on the weekend.

I received an email at work on Saturday around 11:00AM that he loaded his trial account around dinner time the night before, and didn't go to bed until around 3:00AM (Welcome to the World of Warcraft)! He wrote that he was adicted and called me many bad names; and I'm not talking about Eugene, Poindexter, and Francis here. He requested I call him later.

I called my partner at around 12:00PM that day from my car on my way home. He told me how much fun he is having, and we talked WoW the entire 20 minute trip until I walked through the front door. My son heard about the new gamer, and promptly started a new Orc to play along with my partner. I requested a hunter, and my son obliged. Yes - another hunter!

I spent 11 hours leveling the new hunter grouped with my partner's Orc warrior. Man, we make an ugly pair. I logged off and went to have drinks with my wife. My partner kept playing. I hope his wife doesn't hate me.

Keep track of our progress. The Armory links follow:

Me - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Duskwood&n=Nostik

Him - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Duskwood&n=Mokasa