1.0The Escapisthttps://www.escapistmagazine.comAdam Gauntlett Legacy Authorhttps://www.escapistmagazine.com/author/karloff/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="hs7otACIGL"><a href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/irl-2-0-the-voice-of-a-former-warcraft-addict/"><i>IRL 2.0</i>: The Voice Of A Former <i>Warcraft</i> Addict</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/irl-2-0-the-voice-of-a-former-warcraft-addict/embed/#?secret=hs7otACIGL" width="600" height="338" title="“<i>IRL 2.0</i>: The Voice Of A Former <i>Warcraft</i> Addict” — The Escapist" data-secret="hs7otACIGL" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> “I had to quit the game to save myself”, Rosner admits. There are things you do because you want to do them, and there are things you are compelled to do, as Anthony Rosner, former leader of the guild QT Yacht Club, discovered. Being a gamer is still part of his identity, but he’s not the hard core raider he used to be, and he turned his experiences into the video IRL. That earned him plaudits and fame, but then a new Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria, came out. Up to that point things had followed a pattern: each new […]