Comments on: Heimweh, Lost Worlds, and First Game Experience https://randomwaypoint.fajs.de/2012/03/heimweh-lost-worlds-and-first-game-experience/ Journeys and Musings of an Ex-Hardcore Raider Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.17 By: flosch https://randomwaypoint.fajs.de/2012/03/heimweh-lost-worlds-and-first-game-experience/#comment-494 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:21:32 +0000 http://randomwaypoint.fajs.de/?p=1239#comment-494 I miss the old WoW days too sometimes. I think if you ever experience something similar again, it will probably be in a game that is unlike WoW enough not to draw the comparisons all the time that make it hard to stick with a game. To find another “first game” experience, first and foremost you’ll need to spend time somewhere, and this probably won’t happen if your previous game experiences always loom around the corner.

]]> By: Syl https://randomwaypoint.fajs.de/2012/03/heimweh-lost-worlds-and-first-game-experience/#comment-486 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:28:50 +0000 http://randomwaypoint.fajs.de/?p=1239#comment-486 Heimweh is such a beautiful word – and you’ve woven this into such an insightful post. it rings very true and I think it is precisely this deep, sad longing that drives so many ex-WoW players to go back to Azeroth again (and in some cases again and again). it hardly ever works out, the realization that “those times were those times” creeps up sooner than later, the missing names on the friendlist or guild chart become painfully obvious, and yet….the nostalgia never leaves you.

but then, in this too MMOs can become a simple analogy for life; I believe it’s called letting go. the thing about progress and growth is sadly, that nothing can be preserved forever, which in the case of good things is a tragedy (I personally think I will never quite manage…).

I really miss the old WoW days sometimes. I wonder if there will ever be some level of bringing that experience back with a new MMO.

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