November 2025
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
10h 32m
English
Dr. Tiffany Love1
1 Department of De-Gamification, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Editor’s Note: This paper was originally published 4 January 2022.
Every winter, my boyfriend, Chad Broman, replays Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Each year, though he has memorized all the side quests and dialogue options, he spends progressively more time playing through this fantasy-based open-world game. As forecasted and modeled in [1], once the weather turns too cold to leave the house, Chad gets tired of whatever home improvement project he said he was going to do over the holiday break and starts a playthrough of The Witcher 3. He is now on his 10th playthrough. ...
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