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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

In 2004 (the launch year) the original WoW was an amazing time I lost and entire year of professional growth and productivity to. When the first expansion (Burning Crusade) came out, I was equally excited as as the original launch, but after seeing Green gear fall of simple mobs that was better than the epic Purple gear I spent weeks getting in 40 person raids, I could instantly forecast how the entire rest of the game would be forever: and endless grind with your hard won efforts simply trivialized in the first month of the next expansion. I stopped playing WoW about a month after, went back to school instead, and finished the college degree I had started 8 years earlier. Quitting WoW lead to my actions which launched my career to new heights.

I credit WoW with teaching me an incredible life lesson in my 20s to never get drawn into something like that again.

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OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Learned this exact same lesson and quit. Image

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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My reaction exactly to BC!

And flying? Walking around was a core part of the game, seeing stuff, getting whacked by +10 monsters so you had to sneak around, now you just spend 50% of the game in the skybox.

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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I dropped out of college because of this game. And honestly, it was worth it.

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- partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Because you had so much fun in the game or because college was (or would in the future) serving you so poorly?
  
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Dojan@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think a lot of people had this experience. Yahtzee Croshaw had a similar experience, albeit compressed to a month, and it resulted in a book. It’s a really fun book, too.

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- partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I went looking for the book and couldn’t find it. I only found his novels. I’m on the fence about trying to find/read the book. I carry some personal shame from the time when I wasted so much time in WoW.
  
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  - Dojan@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s called Mogworld.
    
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Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Games are just story+art+button timing+math. Mmo’s almost entirely remove button timing, and what is left is extremely formulaic. Given that, number go up isn’t worth anyone’s thousands of hours, and neither is the overall content. I know, as I had the hours and the same epiphany.

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