The pause that refreshes

Last night I gave up on Matrix's War in the East ever getting patched to a final, playable state, after struggling with it all year; so for the first time in a very long time I'm not playing any PC games at all at the moment. My brief mentions of board games here earlier were the thin edge of the wedge it seems. After a boardgame pause of 15 years or so while I played wargames almost exclusively on the PC, it looks like I'm heading back to the tabletop.

I bought a dozen or more PC wargames each year for the last decade. This year I bought one — one, and twenty something boardgames instead, a dozen new games and a dozen picked from the cream of the last decade. And it may well be I get a dozen more next year, there's no shortage of board games or of opponents.

My up-next board wargame queue is a stack a couple of feet high, and there still isn't a single solitary PC wargame on the horizon. I wonder now, if when the next PC wargame finally comes along I'll be too invested in my new board game routine to even bother buying it.

I think back on all those arguments where I loudly proclaimed that PC wargaming wasn't dying and I realise I was probably wrong. If only for me. But for the life of me I just can't figure out why it turned out this way.

I may change my mind. Something great might come along. But don't expect frequent updates for a while.

EDIT 18 December 2011: And maybe we've turned a corner. Maybe. Stay tuned.