This is a new account. My old one started when D3 did and ended with season 22. Since I can’t remember my old account to save my life, I had to make a new one. Bummer too. I miss all my old pets. I miss all my old character names too. That’s okay. I don’t mind starting from scratch again.
I kept the old account going and played it when I was on a WoW break. I started WoW a few months after launch because I was still playing… D2. I kept that going off and on till BC. I stopped playing WoW in 02/2018. I played classic for a short period of time and ended that about a year ago.
I jumped around from game to game, spending a lot of time on Grim Dawn, and eventually came back to Diablo. I bought and played D2:R for a long while, getting most of my characters into the 70s and 80s. Then I decided to try Immortal since it’s now on PC. I DL’d the beta and got the Barbarian to level 10. I stopped playing Immortal because it reminded me of D3 too much and I would rather play D3 than Immortal. It’s fun, just doesn’t have a PC feet to it. It’s more console or arcade. I stopped playing those before I was a teenager.
So, I started up D3, again, and played nonseason for around a month or so, then I started S26 around the 2-month marker because I need stash space and I wanted to do those Echoing Nightmares. I like where S27 is going with the Barbarian, my favorite class since the start of D2, so I chose to stay a while… longer and play.
I like D3 a lot, that’s why I am back playing it. Since I don’t have another internet game, D3 will get all of my attention. When my cruddy internet gets a little too wonky, I’ll jump on D2:R, Grim Dawn, or Heroes of Might and Magic III for a while.
Like I said about games “temporary reprieve from reality, a luxury, and privilege that I enjoy 100%.”
Edit.
I work at home. So, sometimes I don’t get to play as much D3 as I would like. Plus, I do spend time here too, that also takes away from my D3 characters. Meh. I am not worried about it. Plenty of time to play D3.