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World of Warcraft turned ten on Sunday, and through the week we've been marking the anniversary with a series of features from across Eurogamer's editorial team. John's already taken us through the game's finest dungeon - not to mention its toughest achievement - now Bertie sets out to discover if you can ever really go back. It's been nearly nine years since I sat in that large, airy wooden room and confessed all to my counsellor about World of Warcraft. I'd avoided mentioning it as I'd sunk deeper and deeper, became guild leader, raid leader - poured in more than a thousand hours in around 10 months. WOW wasn't the root of my unhappiness but suddenly I saw it for what it had become: an addiction. And I knew what I had to do before even the first words came out.
A week before, I'd delivered a theatrical Christmas speech to my guild about our raiding future. Everyone was there, ordered in ranks and looking up at me, on that airfield near Ironforge no one was supposed to get to - least of all us, the enemy, the Horde. We were about to merge with another guild and I was top candidate to lead the venture. All eyes were on me.
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