Why dailys are popular
Mmmm, Crystalsong Carrots…
Wait what?
One thing I have seen people do often is dailys. Fishing dailys, cooking dailys, dailys to get mounts, there are so many reasons to do them these days other than just getting that sweet sweet gold.
In fact, I’m doing a daily right now 
But what is the deal with dailys? Why do we come back to them? Day after day after day. Well these are the reasons I do them.
1. I get bored
Yeah yeah, how can someone get bored with a game… right? I was told today by my reminiscing boyfriend that back in the day of vanilla wow, people didn’t stand around the major cities doing nothing. There was always something to do! But dailys can fill that gap, when you’ve just finished something big, but have a little bit of time left to play. Nice, quick and simple.
2. I’m trying to achieve something
I think this is more common since WotLK hit, seeing as now there are, y’know, achievements. Whether it’s trying to save up some argent tokens for a hot looking mount, trying to save up some argent tokens for a “You have x/y mounts! Grats!” achievement, or trying to save up cooking tokens for your cooking hat (Or your third cooking hat seeing as it’s less bothersome to do the daily than just convert all my precious tokens), there is something to strive for and achieve. It just takes a small bit each day and a bit of perseverance.
3. It’s familiar
Being able to come to a certain time of the day, sit down and do a certain thing just sits right. And I know it’s not just me. Humans don’t like change. So they must like structure. I know I get a bit schedule crazy at times but it’s just the human in me! … I think. But being able to log on around 7-8ish, put out a shout in Guild to see if anyone else wants to do the heroic daily and bam! Structured and quite possibly having fun with friends.
I say quite possibly, because people like to advert blame away from them when something goes wrong… eh heh.
But dailys can be boring. Shock horror, something that’s supposed to stop boredom can sometimes create it!
I think that has more to do with how boring and repetitive it is to do the exact same thing every day. I know, now I’m being a hypocrite, yay for me. But there is taking structure too far.
Take for instance the Sunwell dailys. The same quests every single day. I got bored of them very quickly.
But two dailys that hardly ever bore me are the cooking and fishing dailys. Because they vary from day to day. Will I be braving Wintergrasp for Terrorfish? Or will I be flying all the way to Borean Tundra to get a guy’s arm back for him again?
It’s like a roller coaster ride! *
So, why do you do dailys? Why don’t you do dailys? I’m sure we all want to know!
*Not really a roller coaster ride. Sorry 
I do them for the $$$$
Time can also be a factor. Having three 80′s I would like to do the random dailies on, and the fact that I have very limited time to actually play, hinder me from actually being able to do more than just those three random heroics.
I really should find time to do the fishing daily at least, for the sweet, sweet chance of getting another Tiny Titanium Lock Box.