Apparently Blizzard found a hard drive labeled “shit we abandoned 20 years ago” and decided to release all of it. WoW: Forever is basically vanilla WoW from an alternate timeline where they never ruined it. Level 60. Original world. Original era. But with new zones, 1,000+ new quests, new raids, new dungeons, and all the stuff old WoW might’ve eventually become if they’d just kept building on it. Warcraft III is getting its first new campaign in 23 years. Diablo V is coming. StarCraft is becoming an open-world shooter for some reason. Netflix is making an animated Diablo series. This is an irresponsible amount of 40-year-old man bait. People lost YEARS of their lives to these games. Entire friendships existed inside them. Vanilla WoW meant getting home, logging into Ventrilo, and listening to the same eight guys breathe into their microphones until 3 a.m. Gaming might actually be all the way back. I’m frightened.