>>4450
I had a dream today. It was with world of warcraft. I have only played it on private servers in my teens because I had no way to get a credit card to play retail. I always wanted to play the real version and not just the old buggy expansions the server could get hold of. Thankfully I played The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich king expansions because of it and could see the downfall of Blizzard while enjoying the best parts of the game. Then I stopped playing it because I had no time for it anymore. But I always had the desire to be able to properly waste time on MMOs like a NEET that has no worry in his life and can waste all his times on it. Some years ago when Legion came out and had my own money to waste I played it for 30 days. It was all nostalgia pandering and in the end I was glad I never gave money to Blizzard. Game turned into even more shit since.

Even tho there is no way I would play that sinking ship nowadays I still have fond memories of it.
Now why I am mentioning this.
In the dream there was some sort of yugioh in wow and a girl was explaining me strategies that were more about ways you can save souls and not about the card game itself but the concepts and the feelings synced too well with my wow memories so it came through that. When I woke up I realized that the whole dream was fabrication that just used my memories as the inspiration so it can give me a lesson... then I was thinking further. Wow had the pet battle system which was like pokemon... most people hated that... But it had no yugioh.... oooor it had but they realized they should make it into a standalone game and so it can be marketed to not in-game wow player audience but everyone with a wow itch. That was Hearthstone (I never played it because I knew it would just reignite my wow addiction). So it was not just my memories but it even grabbed stuff from the idea plane from proto-hearthstone for "stabilizing flavor".

And now I am reading your post. Funny coincidences as usual.