The Waiting Game

It was 8PM, local time for me, when I got home.  An hour's drive in traffic.  I hop on the computer, intent on working out the stress of the day in some PvP matches, but there seems to be a 400 player queue to log on to my realm – that's another half hour.  Well, okay – I can go find something for dinner and it will be done by the time I'm back.  All I want is to run a few Warsong Gulch games, and hopefully get my new priest up to friendly with the Warsong Outriders – humble enough goals, right?   But, wait – now that I'm logged on, there seems to be an hour's queue to get in to Warsong at all.  Hmm, I suppose I do have a good book I've been meaning to read.  But, honestly, I have to wonder – when did I start to spend more time waiting than I did playing? 
Because this new waiting game is not nearly as fun as the game I used to play.

Of course there's hope – new servers and hardware improvements, as well as the possibility of cross-realm battlegrounds will both cut into this waiting game – but, until then, all there is to look forward to is more of the same.  I know I'm not the only one out in Azeroth who's hit this wall – what do the rest of you do when all you want to do is play,
but the game is, for one reason or another, out of your reach?