Blizzard's Alt-Blocking Madness

My first max level alt was a hunter named Croquet. He hit level 60 when I'd been playing the game for six or eight months.

Those were the simple days of WoW. You raided in the evenings, and leveled alts during the day because there was nothing else to do.

My second max level alt was a warrior named Facekick. He hit level 60 around when the game turned a year old. The third was a paladin named Boatastrophe.

Every single max-level alt was a level 60. I've never leveled an alt to 70 or 80. I blame Blizzard.

See, back when Blizzard spent all the time "fixing server stability" they weren't putting out huge content patches every four months, so you could kind of do everything that was in the game. But even once the content patches started flowing smoothly, you could still kind of ignore them, and think to yourself, "Well, I've done a lot on those other characters, it's worth starting a new character".

Then came the achievements. And it's suddenly obvious that your main character hasn't done much at all. If you have 2600 out of 10k achievement points, there's still a lot left to do, and it probably isn't alt time yet.

Bloody Blizzard.