As an avid fan of the Warcraft franchise, I’ve played every expansion of WoW (although only minimally in Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria). I’ve watched the game go from a life-consuming, fun filled, adventure of fantastical and social proportions, to becoming a slog, rife with social isolation that would make Carl Jung say “I told you so!”
Read MoreHave you ever bought a game, a brand new release (for an ever growing price), only to find the game feels… broken? Unfinished? Half-assed? Maybe it is. But wait, there’s more. DLC, patches, microtransactions. Anything to have the large mechanical fingers of corporate gaming wrapped tightly on the utters of consumers. What are we really paying for?
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