The "wait" is bearable. Over these 5 years, 3 months and 2 weeks of waiting to spend $ on a product I'll enjoy these F2P games played a big factor in making the wait more bearable.
These F2P games I spend my time on are not the future for gaming, not in my eyes at least, not due to their monetizing model, but more about the direction and design within, which is why I only play them as "free", but they are good enough to help me pass the time until a product arrives that I'll vote with my wallet so I can see it become something greater through time as well as others to copy it just like they did with WOW.
There are all kinds of markets out there because today there are more people involved in gaming not just on PC, but console, mobile, browser/facebook etc, etc. This is why we've seen game companies try to pursue some of these newer markets. There are many who've succumbed on opening their wallets on products they don't really cater to them, but they do it anyways due to boredom or disposable $ as they have nothing else to spend or in need to save.
I believe through these 5 years, 3 months and 2 weeks if I was too careless and kept spending $ on many new, hyped products, backed by popular IP's or tagged as MMORPG I might've enjoyed gaming a bit more, but I would still find myself in the current state and even worse as I've encouraged more of that to be delivered in the near future over something better I would prefer.
Based on what I know from gaming as of now the biggest chance any upcoming product to take my $ will be WOW: Legion, which would also help me extend my epic feat of not spending $ on a new product for 6+ years. I look forward though things to at least be different if not now at least early in 2017. Somebody has to come into the market with the same level of quality and ambition as Blizzard did with WOW. Now back to Path of Exile
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