I think it was the point where Mrs Melmoth discovered me covered in a sheen of sweat in the lounge, wrapped in aluminium foil armour and trying to tempt the cat out from its hiding place under the sofa so I could dress it up as an epic mount and ride it to a raid on the fridge, that we concluded that it might be for the best if I just re-subscribed to WoW.

If nothing else, a six month WoW subscription is cheaper than the vet bill for repairing a cat that’s been sat on by a thirty-something man twirling a Wiimote around his head as though it were a medieval flail.

Or maybe they’re not leaving, me and Van Hemlock are the only people who’ve managed to let a WoW sub lapse (*glances at Melmoth*).

I have no idea what the solution is though. Sony will land another massive blow soon when they launch Home on the PS3 and decide to mention how many million “players” they have in and that will make the games we have now look even smaller to outside eyes.

Whether the problem is a real one or imaginary one though is another matter. It would be interesting to go through the far east and wow-less number on the charts and see what happens to the general numbers. I suspect that what’s really happening is that games are just stealing numbers from each other and it’s not growing fast enough to support all the new games as they come along.