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Last month, I mentioned that I wasn't sure how to feel about having no compulsion to return to World of Warcraft despite the next expansion ¹ being imminent.

It still feels strange. Not just not playing, but that I have no desire to play. Not even the curiousity to see what's changed.

And there've been a lot of changes.

I bring this up as the Race to World First ² for this tier has just started. Normally, I would be excited, glued to livestreams of the top guilds playing; soaking in the action and learning the tactics for each boss fight.

While a stream was playing this afternoon (from the EU guild Echo) I just wasn't interested. I didn't care what was going on.

WoW has been a part of my life for nearly 20 years. I started playing back in 2006, a few months before the first expansion was released, at my wife's behest. She had been playing since it became available in the UK back in February 2005.

Yes, I've grown bored of it at times, and taken breaks, but there's always been a pull — something drawing me back in.

Maybe I will return at some point in the future, but I can't see it happening at least until after the current saga has ended.