Have you left WoW and if so why.

[Furbyz]

I played the game for years, and I'm now swiftly approaching the 1 year without WoW mark. I couldn't be much happier. I had some good times. Made a lot of friends, one of which I still keep in contact with to this day. I enjoyed raiding and the guild atmosphere as working together as a team. I was on one of the worst servers in the game so we clawed and bled for every inch. The lack of population and serious players on the server meant we had to make do with bad raid make up. The first time we downed Mimiron was with 5 undergeared holy paladins and 1 holy priest. It wasn't pretty. Eventually, we clawed and bled our way to the top of that small hill despite having guild drama like you couldn't imagine. There was a short lived WoW tabloid website called realmdrama.com that pretty much was just about us. We were Instability and damn it if we didn't live up to that name.

I became the biggest fish in that small pond, far and away the best cat druid in terms of gear and skill. I'd have been about 10th in gear on a proper and who's to say as far as skill goes. This was right at the end of WotLK. The game had been work for a long time and the fun was gone. My friends were leaving our shitty server. I had college to keep up with. I didn't want to do this anymore. And then randomly(luckily?) my hard drive crashed into a million pieces and I couldn't get my comp fixed for a long time. When I did, I never went back. And I never intend too, except maybe when my irl friend gets off of touring duty in the Navy.

 

[AdmiralCheez]

I played until around level 26 or so, and then realized I was only really playing to look at the scenery.

But the thing that killed it for me was when I was invited to a group to do a quest I couldn't solo. The group leader then asked me what my spec and gear was, but in worse spelling. I didn't know how to respond, since I hadn't really been playing that much, so everyone in the group called me a noob, laughed at me, and then kicked me out.

I cancelled my account within five minutes of that encounter, and have had no regrets since.

 

[Jdb]

I've played World of Warcraft since before Molten Core was new. I think vanilla World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade are the best MMORPGs. I quit when Wrath of the Lich King became a super easy snooze fest. I came back for Cataclysm but quit for good after two weeks. I can't stand all the whacky quest lines, Internet and pop culture references, and Internet and pop culture references that are also whacky quest lines. It really takes the War out of Warcraft.

 

[Jacklin]

i quit because i needed to goto university, that was before cataclysm though

one of the best decisions of my life, because now i have one

 

[Aabglov]

Two years ago I realized it was taking too much of my life. I logged on one last time, deleted all of my characters, sent the gold away to friends, deactivated my account and never looked back.

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

I quit months ago, along with all my friends. PvE has always been boring for us and we only raided when we needed PvE gear for PvP (!!!). PvP is unbalanced as fuck, because blizzard don't want to separate PvP and PvE spells (for some stupid reason I'd wager). Besides, there's nothing to DO when you have a high rated arena team, there are only 7 dungeons which constantly get on your nerves and the PUGs being horrible just exacerbates the frustration from the cycle.

All in all, WoW is stagnating. Mainly because blizz don't give a fuck anymore about the game and them releasing mediocre (I'd even say shitty) patches half a year one from another doesn't help it.

Also, I don't like people here saying "I didn't have a life when I played it" (or any variant thereof) it just seems egocentric to me, besides, as I said, there's nothing to DO, so I don't know how taking up lots of time is even possible.

 

[dark_mist34]

A combination of it got boring {well not boring I just got tried of playing and with the gear level min for Heroics} and the people I played with quit and I find it difficult to play with people I do not personally I don't know why I just do. I did play for 2 months after my friends quit i even joined a clan but it just was not the same.

 

[Sir CheezyPie]

Didn't have anybody to play with. Got bored. It was interesting for a while though.

 

[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.