[ EU ] World of Warcraft finally ends and shuts down all servers . All the WoW addicts have to fill the hole left in their life .

Frank felt an unfamiliar sting at the back of his eyes, it had been so many years since he felt real human emotions. *Disconnected from Server* stared at him from his computer screen. Once more he tries to connect to the servers again, but knew that it was 3 in the morning, pacific time, and his time in World of Warcraft was over. 
 
 He imagined what was going on through his mind was similar to what one might feel at the end of their days. Memories of the past twenty years. He was not even in High School when he started his adventures. Those days long gone where everything was new, and he had no guild members following his orders on his day to day. So many joys he had, conquering one dungeon and then the next, gaining enough fame on his twitch.tv account that someone had once recognized him at his day job. 
 
 He sighed and laid down to sleep the three hours he had left before going to his IT job. It was okay money, but he just wished people would listen to him there as they followed him in Warcraft. He was good at his job, and tried to be patient, but when customers refuse to accept his simple diagnostics even he could grow frustrated. And now, during those grueling days he no longer had his mental escape to look forward too. 
 
 `` We'll play another game!'' They had said. 
 `` The guild will just move on!'' 
 `` We can do a meetup finally, WoW is n't the end of the world!'' 
 
 But as the weeks passed the guild splintered to different games. They tried to make it a gaming community, but some people wanted to go off and do different things, friends Frank had known longer than most of the friends he had in the real world. 
 
 Frank tried to stay positive. He started to jog, and he lost some weight. He did his best to be noticed in his company, he got a promotion. He tried to kindle some love interests, went on some dates. He always did his best not to bring World of Warcraft up, that part of his life was over. He tried other games, new mmo's. None of them filled him with the passion he once felt. Nothing could compete, he went in knowing what to do, knowing how to form guilds, it just did not have that sense of adventure. No way to bring up a hero he could be proud of. 
 
 Six months pass and he had hardly realized how his real world had improved. He was down a few pant sizes, he was seeing a girl regularly now, he was climbing the corporate ladder. Sometimes he could go a few days without feeling that sinking sadness that he no longer had his guild and Azeroth to lose himself into. But even when his mind was not on Warcraft he still felt a bit empty. He felt more like a drone going about his day to day life to meet standard real world goals. 
 
 Someone messages him, and old guild mate. Tells him Blizzard just annoinced their new mmo. Worlds of Warcraft, a game taking place several thousand years after the lore of the last WoW expansion ended. Their old heros could be `` unfrozen'' from their slumber as a new great threat looms over Azeroth and the other worlds it has become connected to. 
 
 For a day he is buzzing with excitement. This was it! He could live again! Maybe his girlfriend would play, he could start from scratch! Meet new people and live a new life! 
 
 But he had done that already. And it would never be truly new, no matter what game mechanics they added or plot lines developed. He would quickly start min maxing his gear, building up a guild of other successful players, and start playing at the highest available levels of the game. No matter what he did it would never compare to his life in WoW. He realized it was the unknowns he loved most, the sense of scale and adventure. 
 
 He looked across the dinner table from his girlfriend that night, and they talked about becoming more serious. About moving in together. And he brought up he looking for adventure. He wanted to live, to see what this world could offer him. Find things he did n't know about, gain new skills he never dreamed of. He felt like his 14 year old self again, downing hogger for the first time, with the promise of greater things he could never see coming. 
 
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