https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzy7xw/world-of-warcraft-blizzard-new-expansion

I haven’t played World of Warcraft in ten years, but I’m trying to get back in. There’s a new expansion coming out and Blizzard has me it very easy and convenient for returning players to get back in. It’s exhilarating, foreign, fun, and fraught with drama already. I’ve only been playing two days. I don’t know if I’m going to keep playing. I want to, but I also know what happens when I get a unhealthy WoW habit going.

When World of Warcraft came out in in 2004, it hit me hard. I was 21 years old, finishing up college, and working at a LAN center in Dallas where gamers came to play together on networked computers. I’d grown up playing other massively multiplayer online role playing games like EverQuest and Dark Age of Camelot. Everyone I knew was excited. Blizzard didn’t release bad games and the market was flooded with so many bad and mediocre MMOs that we knew Blizzard would save us.