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I keep thinking about what the next expansion for World of Warcraft will be, where it will take us, and what we'll be doing once we get there.

There are so many MMORPGs on the market compared to even just a few years ago, and yet sometimes you have to wonder how often the "massively multiplayer" element actually comes into play.

I ask myself often which World of Warcraft expansion is my favorite, because I don't know the answer.

Patch 10.1.7 for Dragonflight will be releasing the week of September 5 and that gives us an opportunity to deduce when patch 10.2 may be arriving later this year.

One of the reasons I can't quit tabletop role-playing games, even with all the video games I play, is because I can't get past the human factor that occurs in said tabletop games.

I have played a mountain of video games, especially role playing games like the Baldur's Gate series -- the old-school, isometric style of gameplay where the map is static and combat is turn based.

Have you ever encountered the term Tsundoku?

Right now, the two games battling for supremacy atop my personal heap of video games I'm trying to play are Diablo 4 and Baldur's Gate 3, while I've sort of taken a break from World of Warcraft for a while (although that gets harder every passing day).

I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 and Diablo 4 and, man, if you'd told me around 25 years ago that the two biggest games of 2023 would be a Baldur's Gate game and a Diablo game, I probably would have actually believe you -- which isn't something that could be said of most series.

I've fallen back into World of Warcraft Classic thanks to the announcement of Hardcore realms coming on August 24, but instead of rolling a character on the PTR to give Hardcore a try, I decided to roll another Night Elf Druid and start from scratch.