Everybody’s talking about Classic Servers, when what we really need is...

Like rewatching a good movie.

I've wondered how much of my gaming is 'addiction.' I know in Legion, those legendary drops were pinging the exact same part of my brain that the casino does, which was why I stopped going to the casino. I didn't like that feeling. It was the same feeling in Legion, this pinging of this center of the brain when that golden-dragon-laced, gold-rimmed drop boxed popped up at the top of the screen. The majority of my grinding was related to getting the next lego to drop. I was at max lego's on my Warrior before much of my guild was even class capped.

But I get into these times where I just start playing a dozen different games for 30 minutes at a time, and I usually end up buying a couple new games. And I'm searching for... some particular experience and feeling. It's like, I'm looking for that feeling when I first started playing Eve Online in 2006, or WoW in 2007. Or Sim City in the 90s, or some industry based sim a few years later.

I could describe it in a similar way to a heroin addict 'chasing the high.' Trying to get back to that feeling from the first time. I know it's not a comparable experience, but the description seems so familiar.

We can never go back in time. And that kind of makes me feel sad.

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