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Judging from player interest in the WoW: Forever beta, it seems like Blizzard's got a good start at channeling nostalgia into its retirement home for aging MMO millennials. But there's only one thing that'll determine if it's a successful rebottling of the old lightning, and that'll be whether or not I can find myself shuffled back into the same game of Alterac Valley that I'd logged out of 18 hours earlier, where nothing has changed except the number of times an orc has been cursed out in text chat for wasting effort by fighting over the wrong graveyard.

Nothing else matters.



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Lincoln has been writing about games for 12 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.

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