Logitech mice suck and WoW isn't the best game ever.

Oh what I wouldn't give to have a Microsoft mouse. Just about a year ago I finally beat my old Microsoft wireless mouse to death and had to go and get a new one. I opted to give Logitech a try, because finding the mouse I wanted proved to be very difficult. After going to Best Buy, Staples, Office Max and Office Depot I wasn't any closer to getting something that I wanted. I went with a Logitech mouse that felt fairly comfortable in my hand. I have required a wireless mouse of years now and I have been fairly pleased, this mouse wasn't much different. Over time the mouse wore down very quickly, but it didn't suck down the batteries like my past Microsoft mice had. Now here I sit with a busted button just a short time later. I know they aren't made to last forever, but I've never seen quality this bad in a mouse. Not even in the 6 dollar ball mice of past years. I'm sorry Logitech, but your mice just don't seem to be for gaming.

I need something that can take a beating. I do a lot of clicking and a lot of moving. I need the mouse to be weighted well and easy to move. I require things that a normal user doesn't and I end up paying upwards of 60 dollars to get what I want, so I'd like to think that my thoughts matter. Since I am absolutely penniless I can't simply go out on a search for the perfect mouse, instead I've got to deal with this shitty and broken button until I can get something to replace it. My gaming has already begun to suffer with random double clicks. My normal desktop usage is infuriating, since the buttons don't want to click properly. Clicking and dragging is impossible now. Feh.

My next complaint is about World of warcraft. I hear it touted and heralded so highly, but for no reason. Most of the people that I hear talking about it haven't played as long as I did and didn't experience the game at the beginning. They never lived through the terrible unbalanced game that shipped. The horrible loot lag that followed. The months that we sat with our characters naked to take stress off the servers. All of these things I am quite fond of. They easily forget that at least one Tuesday a month they can't even play the game and it isn't even always WoW related. Blizzard broke something with another login service that isn't even fully active yet and now WoW users can't play. OHNOEZ!

I have been away from WoW since January and I did my fair share of playing, don't get me wrong, but it just isn't the best game ever. They offer up new rep grinds instead of giving actual content. They give daily quests for a new faction or new group of factions instead of offering something fun and interesting. They recycle old content like Onyxia and pretend like it's something new and shiny and worthy of our praise. Not since Karazhan has WoW made my jaw drop. What an amazing instance. Naxx was great, but not enough people had a chance to experience it, not to mention it was probably more challenging at 60 than it is at 80.

WoW hasn't moved forward. Small minor updates to graphics in an engine that is quite dated (we are talking 7 or 8 years now) just doesn't cut it. They haven't moved mechanics forward. Players aren't any better now, but Blizzard has streamlined the game and told people that by pressing the appropriate keys in the right configuration that they will be "good". What does that have to do with being good at a game? They did this back in the arcade days and while people were good at those games, when you only have 3 buttons it is a little different. I have a whole keyboard and plenty of skills and abilities, I'd like to be able to use them. WoW has further gone on to make gear the most valuable thing in the game. Someone who is terrible can sit in the back and make a very minor impact and rake in the loot. People assume that since this person has superior gear that they must be a superior player. That just doesn't work out at the end of the day.

The PvP aspect of the game used to be a selling point, but since everyone has a way of being an unkillable crushing machine now, the point is moot. Who has the most cooldowns and can not be snared the longest wins. It's not about being a good player anymore, it's about getting good gear and pressing the right buttons in sequence. That isn't how a game is supposed to be played. I wish other games would quit building their models around WoW, because we aren't going anywhere. When WoW came out it did a lot of things right and made a lot of people very happy. Almost 6 years later most of those things have been dumbed down and stripped away. Nothing will change the amount of joy that I had when I killed my first mob on my first character in the closed beta of WoW. Nothing. It was an amazing experience and it lasted a long time, but now it is time to move forward. Stop holding the industry back, please!