The calm before the storm

Day 388

One more day left to work in this month. If I get four more activations, I will have met my quota--but I'm done worrying about it. If I don't meet my quota, I might still keep my job because I was close. I don't know that the precedent is for things like that, but I don't want to worry about it anymore. I want to do my best tomorrow and then relax because I have Sunday and Monday off. I want to just relax and use that time to play a lot of Final Fantasy Tactics. I imagine I'll be doing some of that tonight too, but for right now I'm catching up on the LCS matches I've missed.

I haven't played League of Legends in weeks, but I've still been trying to keep up with the competitive scene as much as I can because I still find it pretty interesting--and oddly enough, I'm sort of invested in the lives of these teenagers who play video games for a living. Maybe it's borne from a desire to live vicariously through them. I've never been a tremendously competitive gamer in the first place, but the idea of earning one's livelihood through gaming is of course very appealing to me.

I've always been the kind of gamer that responds more to the single player experience. The evidence of this is all over my blog and my Backloggery. RPGs comprise the overwhelming majority of the games I have played--but there are a few multiplayer games scattered here and there. League of Legends is one of the only competitive games I've ever played more than casually, though. I'm not sure what about it spoke to me so much. Maybe it was the friends I made while playing it. I cant say. I don't feel the need to play it every day or even every week like I used to, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't just sit here and play it all night if the circumstances were right. Playing the game alone is no longer something I'm interested in, but I still find it an enjoyable game to play with friends.

I think it's a good thing that I've significantly toned down the amount I play it. Like World of Warcraft, it causes me to feel seriously unfulfilled when I spend that much time on it. I'm really glad that I've really buckled down this year and played a lot of games I've been putting off for ages. It only makes me wonder why I didn't do it sooner. So few of them ended up being games I regretted completing. Sure, some of them certainly couldn't be ranked among the best games I've played, but they've all given me a lot to talk about at the very least.