No King Rules Forever
Jan. 8th, 2022 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
got_quietToday youtube suggested I watch a two hour long video on the history of World of Warcraft. It seems to hit all of the major points, and watching it brought out some serious nostalgia. And even though WoW still exists and people still play it, the vid basically feels like a postmortem and a moment of closure for me as an ex-player.
Old WoW occupied a unique moment in time and basically defined my life for years. There's still stuff that happened in that game that I think of as some of the most memorable of my young life. It's a world I can never go back to, and it's weird to think about it sometimes as something that loomed so large for so long and then just disappeared for me when I finally quit cold turkey for the last time, something like 5 years ago. People I had spent more time with than anyone else in my life at that point were just gone. I still think about them sometimes and wonder how they're doing. There are moments when I wish I hadn't wasted so much of my life, literally years of /played, on WoW, and in the next second I wish more than anything that I was back then running through Azeroth with old friends on our various hijinks. It makes me tear up a little.
Ahh, I shouldn't have watched that video. I've been clean since Legion and I really can't go back, but I do wish there was somewhere else where I could get that same raw escapism. I know people are getting really into Final Fantasy now, but... It's just not the same.
Old WoW occupied a unique moment in time and basically defined my life for years. There's still stuff that happened in that game that I think of as some of the most memorable of my young life. It's a world I can never go back to, and it's weird to think about it sometimes as something that loomed so large for so long and then just disappeared for me when I finally quit cold turkey for the last time, something like 5 years ago. People I had spent more time with than anyone else in my life at that point were just gone. I still think about them sometimes and wonder how they're doing. There are moments when I wish I hadn't wasted so much of my life, literally years of /played, on WoW, and in the next second I wish more than anything that I was back then running through Azeroth with old friends on our various hijinks. It makes me tear up a little.
Ahh, I shouldn't have watched that video. I've been clean since Legion and I really can't go back, but I do wish there was somewhere else where I could get that same raw escapism. I know people are getting really into Final Fantasy now, but... It's just not the same.
