It’s a strange thing when your perspective of the world changes. For me, the RealID Saga of the last few days has shown me just how much the simple game of Warcraft means to people. It’s also shown me just how much people are prepared to give up to take a stand or prove a point. Finally it’s shown me firsthand that the power of fans is still there, and that when the community speaks clearly that companies tend to respond.
I’d desperately been searching myself for a way to turn this from a negative into a positive. I’d criticised it in a post of my own and torn it to shreds with Stu on an expletive-laden podcast. I’d exhausted my feelings of anger and rage and betrayal and remorse. I wanted to have something to smile about again, so I started casting my net wide. I started having a look around at what other games would catch my eye or draw me in.
I wanted to find out where else I could be the plucky spellweaver or arcanasmith.