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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Slayrr_FbrC on 2026-02-20 09:18:18+00:00.
So my story starts around 2012, where 11 year old me got absolutely hooked on an unassuming online MMORPG named Drakensang Online. I played that game for years, several hours a day, up until around 2019 or so.
As I got older I started spending real money on the game, fuelling my addictions one might say, but I still enjoyed playing it despite several mild annoyances, like it being, at the time, a browser game, and a few strange in-game mechanics and aswell as being
hugely p2w.
Over these years every now and then a few people mentioned that I might enjoy the Diablo franchise, but I never even really looked it up, because how could a game be more fun that DSO?
Well.
Last week I DID look Diablo IV up, and it's everything I ever dreamed of. An actual game with great mechanics, an actual thriving community, great graphics and so on.
It's just so frustrating to know I played a knockoff (or at the very least the inferior version) for 8 years not knowing how great life could actually be.
TLDR: Played a Diablo knockoff for 8 years not knowing it was a knockoff