i remember seeing the trailer for this game for the first time while watching a football game being like HHHHHHOOOOOOLLLLYYYY SHHHHHHIIITTEEE!!!! i preordered it and got a dumbass poster and a Cayed figure that immediately broke after it fell off my shelf. but i didn't care i played this game even longer than the first game and got addicted to it. i preordered all of the expansions and everything,

Until forsaken came out

that's when it hit me. that's when i opened my eyes and realized what i was doing, what i had become. i was just another soulless consumer pumping in hundreds of hours in a game that well wasnt worth my time, i was just another sucker that got bated and hooked by the MMO RPG gameplay loop that did nothing but waste my time and affect my health. i backed away and vowed to myself to never play another MMO RPG again. after that i found my love for retro games. i was actually experiencing art and expanding my horizon in ways i never thought i could. this game taught me what awful story telling and gameplay was and what an addicting gameplay loop looks like. and you bet your ass i'm never coming back