Back in 2013 I blogged a lot about Card Hunter. I liked that game very much, and its icon remained on my desktop, but I haven't played it in years. The game is complex enough that you forget how to play it well if you stop playing for several years. And then it is hard to get back into the game when it is somewhere in the middle of the campaign. All those nice rewards you collected aren't doing you much good if you don't play.

So I made a decision and mailed the Card Hunter support and asked them to reset my game. They mailed me back, reminding me that I would lose all the items I had collected. I replied that I had more fun earning rewards than owning them. So they reset my game, I started the campaign again from the start, and I am enjoying the story of Gary and his brother Melvin a lot. I don't even remember all the epics I had previously, I'm having fun collecting common, uncommon, and rare items.

If I look back at the MMORPGs I played, I remember some of the rewards I got, but only because of the effort it took to get them. Camping the Mammoth Cloak in Everquest for 16 hours, or getting the Will of Arlokk in vanilla World of Warcraft. I'm sure I was happy when epics dropped for me, but most of them are long forgotten now. Getting the rewards was fun. Owning them not so much, especially when the next expansion made your previous set of rewards obsolete.