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My wife said earlier that the reason for yesterday's malaise was my old habit of excluding myself.

Despite initially being excited about the current World of Warcraft expansion (Shadowlands) I've not played in over a month. That's my self-exclusion. The rest of the family plays and I'm currently the odd one out.

Still, I grew bored with it.

Getting to max level was easy but changes to the class of my character meant it was less fun to play. Shadowlands has multiple things to do, multiple resources to grind and that was immensely frustrating for someone who wanted to progress but was largely a casual player. My time 'in game' was already reducing and to keep on top of everything was getting too much.

I've been considering starting a new character, an easier class to play, but don't know if it'll work out. Whenever I've tried to play 'alts' in the past I've never stuck it out for more than a couple of weeks, returning to my main even if I wasn't enjoying it. I could delete my main character but that would be literally years of my life gone. Does that sound crazy?

Games are supposed to be fun and relaxing so why does this feel so hard?