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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When I was a teen I played WoW from vanilla through Cata... Had over a full year of in game /played time on just my main.

...and I made a lot of alts.

100% full-blown addicted.

Blizzard is actually the one example of enshittification that I can actually be thankful for - I didn't really ever quit; they just stopped supplying my drug of choice. They definitely had the power to keep me enthralled, but instead shifted to a younger and younger target audience as I was ofc aging the opposite direction.

The Kung-Fu-Panda xpac trailer was finally my cue to accept that my dealer wasn't going to provide that fix anymore.

Then I ~~started making healthy life decisions~~ discovered Ark >_<

Edit - ...Ark owned my life for a bit, too: