World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 13 | Page 15

World of Warcraft Community Magazine // 15

was young, and ignorant of the

to my nostalgia. I’m excited, then,

escapist at heart; Warcraft II was my

very concept of wrong answers.

to fight once more against the

first video game, so I play to revisit

Burning Legion, but my excitement

that level of childlike exploration.

I still retain much of this

is directed less towards the bosses,

WoW is a modern-day way for me to

energy. There’s nothing I look

the raids, the PvP changes, and

return to that state of not knowing

forward to more than learning a

more towards the zones and

all about plot development or the

new skill in-game and toying with

quests. I might be an antisocial

ways in which games are designed.

it, wondering how it can be best

MMORPG player, but I play for the

I didn’t think about the meaning

implemented. The joy comes from

world. I plan on paying attention

of what I did back when I was 7;

the experimentation. I practice

to the new features announced

I just enjoyed what I was doing.

the faith of believing I’m one of

for Legion, but I don’t expect to

When I meander around a zone,

the first to try things out, which is

be arguing over the benefits of

suck the marrow out of quests,

aided by the fact that I’m usually

each particular class change.

and make it a personal mission to

one of the only people in a zone,
either in my class, or just at all.

go to each inch of a continent, it’s
The question is not, what are the

because I want to believe in the

pros and cons of the new things they

wonder of a world whose designers

I play from behind a lot: when

are adding, but rather, is there new

and top players can answer my

earlier I acknowledged not being

content, and how fun is it? I play to

every question. I choose to keep

on any sort of frontier, I meant it.

have fun. I play to feel magic. As

myself in the relative shadow

I’m the person alts breeze by or

grave as the threats facing Azeroth

of ignorance as to the optimal

miners ignore on routes. I take my

are, they’re pennies compared to

strategies. I choose immersion.

time, in my quest to play honestly

what I see in the real world. I’m an

By Ian Kernohan
The GameOn Magazine