Have you left WoW and if so why.

[Dexiro]

They're completely fucking up the game just to get more players onto their newer expansions. Everything is piss easy and you level up so fast that barely anyone bothers with the dungeons which were my favourite part of the game.

I mean damn you get a mount at level 20 now? And level 20 takes about an hour to get to or something ridiculous, they're fucking up their own game. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of inflation, you can easily earn like 20 gold in less than an hour at level 10.

I want the old WoW back, the one that doesn't push old content out of the way just to make people spend money on the new stuff. Blizzard pretty much only give a shit about their new content these days, they don't care if the rest of the game sucks because everyone speeds through it anyway.

 

[Jfswift]

I got tired of the group I was hanging out with. They ruined it for me.

 

[Regeaj]

They just screwed up WoW big time, I can't wait for Guild Wars 2, at least that will be an awesome MMO, I mean at this point almost any game can be better than the current WoW, I really need a new MMO to get into at this point, one point while i was playing as a DK as tank in Hellfire Peninsula i was grouped with idiots, the people in my group decided not to help me fight and the healer decided not to heal me leading to me dying and me not reviving me, they then said that if i didn't catch up in a certain amount of time I'd be kicked, I got there in time, the douche-bags kicked me anyways. I think i have only played WoW one day this summer and that has given me time to play Minecraft and other games that are much better than WoW. The game got boring, the server i played on was filled with trolls and other idiots (except for 30 minutes this one day where i had an intelligent conversation on trade chat while playing on my Human DK), I also got bored of quests where I had to, for example, collect 11 bear asses where not all bears had asses, at least there wasn't a quest where you had to get 11 squirrel tusks, also the queue times for battleground started taking longer than the queues for dungeons, it came to the point where I couldn't queue for DPS because the queue was so long so i just had to continue being tank. I think that WoW may just be coming to an end

 

[Telemachus]

I play Rift now. It's pretty much just like WoW but different. Enough entertainment value from new stuff and some new ideas. Thats about it. WoW got old after a while

 

[Ktownknight]

I played for a while, during my junior/senior year of high school, and after a good, 5-6 months of paying and playing i realized it was eating up not only a chunk of cash i could use for other things (cash-strapped high schooler, ayup.) but also time and focus. Needless to say, my grades were down. My big reason for leaving is that WOW is a timesink-an interesting one to start out with, but for a game that is more focused on dungeons it can become repetivite, and the expansions never improved on the fact that, after you reach a certain level (say 20?) it becomes more and more about raids, dungeons, PvP, etc. And if you don't mesh with a guild, or real life takes you away for a few months, you fall out of loop and are unable to easily get back into the game. WOW, as popular as it is, is finally starting to slow down in terms of being an all-out industry juggernaut. Once The Old Republic hits, you may see WOW start to lose steam, and i could be totally wrong, thats just a prediction.
So, in bulleted form reply:
*Timesink caused household problems
*became repetivite, boring and uninteresting, especially for those who do not like raids/dungeons
*lack of massive improvement with expansions.

 

[Madkipz]

After seeing that WoW's subscriptions are down again I was wondering why have people left it.

I played for years but left because :-

1) It got boring
2) Too many idiots
3) It became more over Gearscore than it did about skill.

I did go back for a bit because Blizz offered me 7 free days, but even then I just couldn't get back into it (also everywhere I went in game was basically empty( even infront of the bank and AH in Ironforge which is normally packed)).

Please only answer if you have left WoW or have something constructive to say keep all the WoW hate away from here.

1) it got boring (dailies are shit, crafting is shit, playing the ah is shit. basically everything other than the community is shit. After spending a week without wow i realised that if a game does not offer you fun outside of talking with other people then the game can go die in a fire.

 

[Merkavar]

i left because i finished wotlk and couldnt get into cataclysm. it was too much of the same thing again

 

[HeroKing89]

Stopped playing almost 2 years ago. I was just bored with it.For some reason i always have this level 20 ADD thing that once i reach level 20, i just become bored and move on. City of Heroes was more fun, and less of a grind.

 

[Zenn3k]

After seeing that WoW's subscriptions are down again I was wondering why have people left it.

I played for years but left because :-

1) It got boring
2) Too many idiots
3) It became more over Gearscore than it did about skill.

I did go back for a bit because Blizz offered me 7 free days, but even then I just couldn't get back into it (also everywhere I went in game was basically empty( even infront of the bank and AH in Ironforge which is normally packed)).

Please only answer if you have left WoW or have something constructive to say keep all the WoW hate away from here.

Its empty in Ironforge because Stormwind is where everything is located.

However, I also left, for basically the same reasons...plus one more, PvP is terrible since Cata.

 

[Alade]

I left about a year ago, my guild just disbanded after finishing tier 10, the only fun I was having in the game anymore was the dictatorship I had there, when that was over I just quit.

 

[wench]

Left it years and years ago... it's one of those games that's excellent provided you've got a group of people to play with who are all like-minded and that - they take the game to a whole new level. Thing is, without those people, it's just a grind - a time sink. I'd rather spend my time on a game with a storyline and a real goal or ending. If i'm going to play a MMORPG, it'll be something like Rift - which always has things going on and makes hopping in and out of defend-the-realm things with a ton of people really easy.

When it comes down to it, there are just better and more enjoyable ways to waste time.

 

[Quesa]

MMOs are about friends. My friends were so sick of each other after five years of EQ that our little aborted WoW guild spun utterly out of control. Rather than pick a side, I quit.

 

[ColeMcdoi]

I left after my 30 days which was included when i bought Cataclysm, but that was a comeback for me since i stopped playing halfway through WoTLK.
The reasons were the same, the game had nothing more to give me. Everything was a grind fest with HC's so I got bored (plus the part with Gear score).

But I am addicted to the MMO franchise so I am currently playing Aion, which is a game I prefer to play in portions beacause of the ridiculous time it takes to level up.

 

[Curlythelock]

I played it for many years from vanilla up until WOTLK. Eventually I just got bored of the game, unlike many I don't actually regret playing it as I had a lot of fun with the game while it lasted.

 

[ctrl]

well before it was because of the gs and achievment bollocks that i quit. then i got back in for a bit with cataclysm. and now its the item level and achievment bollocks thats making me quit. that and i cant help but be creeped out when i know that most of the female characters (even one of my apparently hetero friends) are guys

 

[liquidsolid]

I played the 14 day subscription, I liked it for the first day and then the second day I realized it's just a big time sink to me and I don't enjoy it. I am not a fan of grinding unless there is a damn good reason for it (Final Fantasy story-lines qualify as does "being the very best etc etc" at Pokemon). WoW just didn't motivate me to play it, and therefore did not motivate me to pay for it and pony up $15 a week.

 

[Flutterguy]

I left for 2 or 3 months once because I had just run out of things to do, but I went in ventrillo to talk to my old guild-mates and one of them, payed for my subsription time, so I am back ino it again.

 

[Mr Nacroe]

I played WOW for a couple of months, played till LvL 10 on all the differant classes then it became too annoying to grind, also the people on the other side followed me till we came to a contended zone and then killed me. So after a few times of that I got tired and left WOW.

 

[Neverhoodian]

I bought WoW in order to play with a friend of mine. The problem was that he was a WoW addict who didn't have a job or any other major responsibilities. As a result, he powerleveled his character to level 70 while I was still struggling to get past level 20. He decided to create an alt character to still play with me, but before long he powerleveled the alt as well. Eventually he found a guild and left me behind entirely. It didn't help that he was into PvP combat, while I preferred PvE.

Tired of paying monthly for what had turned into essentially a single player experience for me, I decided to quit. My friend's interest in the game had waned by that time anyway, so it was no huge loss.

 

[cobra_ky]

my only interest in the game was playing with others. I picked it up in college because both my college friends and my best friend from high school were into it. i made some friends in-game too, but over time they eventually quit, and it reached a point where I had better things to do with my time and money. about a year ago, a couple other friends of mine were getting into it, so i jumped back in along with my brother, but that quickly petered out as well. At this point i have plenty of other games at my disposal which are just as rewarding, if not moreso, for free. i do miss those earlier days, however.