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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 24, 2025

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What is the most addicting game you’ve played recently, what mechanic made it most addicting, and how do you feel in the midst of that mechanic?

WoW Classic is still the most addicting game I have ever played. Sometimes I will randomly think of Stranglehold Vale and get an insane itch to create a new character.

World of Warcraft is bound up in so many memories of my young childhood, friends I used to have, playing with my dad, my brother, returning to it feels like going back to a city long after everyone you knew there moved out or passed away. And Classic feels (or at least did at the start) like you’re surrounded by so many other people for whom the same is true, trying to get back something that time has taken from them, irreversibly.

Still a great game though.

Same, except the game came out when I was in college and your post made me feel old. But like you, I tried playing WoW classic and it just wasn't the same. The game was (mostly) the same of course, but my frame of reference was different and it had a much different feel as a result. I ultimately didn't stick with it, though I did have fun for a while (and my wife said I was "bellowing with joy" when I got my first green drop in Elwynn Forest, lol).

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