Have you left WoW and if so why.

[Jesus Phish]

I left for a month when I got myself a job that I wanted to take time to get settled into. I'm now settled in so I'll start playing again.

I play the game with a group of people from both in game and in real life. It's not about the game at all for me, but the people in it.

 

[maugatar]

Was on an RP server but never RP'ed

But for me it was:

Elitism
Time synch
Account getting hacked
got 2 characters to level 80 (before cataclysm came out) kinda lost interest after that.

 

[koriantor]

WoW is expensive! I love playing it, but I can't dedicate that much money and that much time to the game. I'd love to do some late game stuff but I don't have the time for it.

 

[tautologico]

Yes, I left WoW last year, then came back for a bit for Cataclysm, then left for good.

I still think it's a great game, I just have played it a lot already, and it can no longer engage me as before. I did the whole raiding game in WotLK, and even if you have a pretty regular group of friends, it's still too much work and time to keep at it.

I have also done a lot of leveling/questing, and had enough of it. So I decided it was best to spend my gaming time playing different games instead of trying new classes or whatever. However, leveling up a worgen (up to 30s) in Cataclysm was really cool.

 

[Bigsmith]

Played it for three years, quit about 2 years ago due to my self getting a social life for the first time and I felt like I had to chose, so I just dropped WOW, had a fantastic 1 3/4 years and got a girl friend.

Then went back about two/ three months ago, having to stop playing on the 20th and then not playing again until I get some cash in the middle of September.

Note: I only went back because I thought I could manage a Relationship/ Social life/ wow unlike how I couldn't two years ago, and yes, I'm currently succeeding.

 

[Barry93]

I haven't left yet. I've got a great guild that's making progress in Heroic Firelands. I only log on to raid but I would imagine if you don't have a good group of people to play with, it would be an awful experience.

Trade chat is spammed with trolls. Most people you meet in a 5 man with the dungeon finder is generally an impatient asshole, often leaving at the start, after one wipe, "ninja'ing" items, and arguing with people. The quality of players is in the cellar as you can get to level 85 and learn absolutely nothing about the game or your class. The 15% buff in heroic 5 mans and the recent nerfs to T11 raids aren't going to teach people anything. You can completely ignore mechanics now. Then people head to Firelands are somehow surpised when they are corpse running for 3 hours.

If/When people from my guild quit, I probably will as well. WoW is undergoing a slow and painful death, Blizzard is just trying to milk as much money as possible before it does. The game is an absolute mess right now.

 

[loc978]

Meh. I never really liked it much. There are better time-wasters out there that are free. Plus, I really dislike most other players I encounter in-game. WoW is the most single-player centric MMO I've played... which makes it something I go back to occasionally just to check out lore changes in low-level zones and cities. Honestly, the best thing about that game is the work that is put into maintaining the game world and the lore.

 

[Romblen]

I just hated the grind, for the month and a half that I played it, it went along the lines of.
"Go here, kill X amount of an enemy, and bring Y amount back." It just got boring fast.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

My friend let me create a character on his account which I played on most days for about 6 months maybe and I got all the way to level...29...

I guess I never got to the part of the game where the player feels the need to play the game in order to get in-game rewards rather than doing it as something to do in spare time.

I just generally got bored of it I suppose, nothing in particular really.

 

[slipknot4]

Nope, just finished a wonderful attempt of firelands with my buddies. The game is more alive and kicking that it ever has imo.

everywhere I went in game was basically empty( even infront of the bank and AH in Ironforge which is normally packed

It's Stormwind now, no server is packed in Ironforge anymore.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

Well I was still deeply in love with the game when I left, but unlike most people here, Blizzard didn't screw me over and I didn't get bored. I just simply couldn't afford it. It was at a time when my mum was paying for it but then she split with my dad and there was little money in the house. So I volunteered to give up WoW to try and save some money for her and the rest of my family.

 

[Regeaj]

I just got bored with it, i do play every so often but not that often, maybe once a month, I'm currently waiting for another MMORPG, Guild Wars 2, to come out, less quests (being replaced by dynamic events (ex. bandits might attack the water supply of a farm at one time or sometimes toxic slugs infect it)), plus idiots can't loot steal because the loot is divided by the game and no kill stealing because you get loot in dynamic events based on participation, the game will be awesome. And its going to be one time payment

 

[mcattack92]

I left World of Warcraft because,
1) I got hacked twice which lead to it getting permenantly disable
2) The grind and repedativeness of it got boring very fast
3) My friends who played it quit also.

 

[Tron-tonian]

Pretty much what the OP said, honestly. My routine (before I quit) was:
1. Login, do dailies.
1.a. Weekly, too, if I hadn't yet.
2. Craft anything I needed to for the AH.
3. Check AH. Buy / sell as needed.
4. Logout.

TL;DR - Got bored.

I've been thinking about heading back and levelling a character or two to 20, just to see the new world, but it's not really a pressing matter.

 

[Sir Bob]

Too much grinding too little new content - You always end up going to same stuff day in day out over and over again. Got tired of it after clearing everything on heroic mode with no new content coming for another 5ish months (From the summer until Cata launch in December-ish(?))

 

[Rippie]

i kinda quit about 6 months ago, i was going on a 5 month trip to south america, and i decided to quit a month before, and i can't be arsed going back in. because it used to be very time consuming, and i saw most of the cata content and it din't realy appeal to me very much.

my irl friends still play and try to get me back, but i realy dont wan't to. i preffer watching movies or going outside. stuff i hardly ever did because i was playing games so much and mainly wow. i still game quite frequently tough.


to sum it all up, i got boored with wow and i preffer doing other things with my time.

 

[Torrasque]

Hmmmm... now where to start...
I had played WoW for the last month or so of Burning Crusade, all of Wrath of the Lich King, and for about 2 months of Cataclysm.
I raided for 95% of WotLK, and for about 3 hours of Cataclysm.

I left for these reasons (in no particular order):
- I ran out of the "new exciting content" after a month of questing and dungeon'ing
- My guild had split itself into two raid groups: The first being all the experienced players that got Cata early on, hit 85 quickly, and geared up together. The second being whoever they could get. I got stuck with the second group because Cata was released right when my finals started, so leveling was slow. The second group sucked really really badly. Two of the people besides me, in the 2nd group should have been in the first group, replacing other players that were not that good, but nope...
- New raids sucked balls. I remember the first time I raided the new stuff, I was supposed to read about the fights, but forgot and was lazy. So we get to the first boss after wiping to trash about 5 times (thanks Blizz, that wasn't 'fun' enough in Ulduar as it is...) and the RL explains the fight. I half-listen, as I'm whispering a friend of mine in the group, asking him for a TL;DR version of the fight "avoid this, hit this at this time, don't at this time, etc.". So the fight starts, everyone knowing the ins and outs of the fight, except me. Surprise surprise, I top dps by 6k, am the last person to die, and don't fuck up once. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE REALLY HARD?!?! Also throw in the fact that my gear is pretty randomly gemmed, re-forged, not enchanted, while everyone else has better gear, knows their rotation (I hadn't gotten 100% used to new feral rotation) and etc. I was just so disgusted by everyone's lack of skill, and the lack of difficulty
- I watched a friend of mine raid through one of the longer raids, and every single boss mechanic that he went through, I had seen at some time in WotLK. Yes I know this could be said of BC and pre-BC for WotLK, but come ON. This is supposed to be the "new and exciting Cataclysm!"
- Everything that I enjoyed in WotLK got nerfed, streamlined, and noob-ified. Everything.
- Blizzard took a shit on my Feral DPS. Fuck you Blizzard, how dare you mess with Berzerk and bleed damage, YOU ARE THE ONES THAT MADE IT THAT WAY.
- Half the people that I played WoW for, that were either on my friend's list or my guild, quit WoW for reasons similar to mine. There were just so few people to have fun with anymore.
- Starcraft 2 came out. 'nuff said

TL;DR: The new shiny Cata was actually crap, I lost more and more reasons to play as time went on, and SC2 > WoW.

 

[HentMas]

1) It got boring
2) Too many idiots

I was in a guild simply because of friends of mine. Now, about 7 of the members had any semblance of basic intelligence (Staying OUT of the fire being a big part of Cata, don't ask me how no one seems to know that). And 7 good people can't carry another 3 or 18 morons through raids. I know, we tried.

I've actually quit multiple times, but I don't think I will be going back any time soon.

1st was same as this one, we had a solid 10-15 people, but we always had to fill the remaining slots with ANYONE (We didn't clear Naxx until our people had the gear from Flame Leviathan.)

2nd Quit after Ulduar, came back cause my friend needed someone to RaF him, so he had me make a new account. Ended up returning to the same guild (they now had about 20 people who knew how to play), played until ICC came out, and 75% of our good raiders quit, or joined other guilds. I quit again, since we couldn't kill Marrowgar

3rd quit, my friend who had me RaF with him, got into a guild that was clearing "Heroic" Lich King (which was a lie, he's just an idiot), I stayed until I got Shadowmourne, and quit until Cata came out. I was in such a good guild that even the Heroic versions of the encounters were one shot. It basically so boring since we started carrying peoples fresh 80's through, just for the extra challenge. We had the #2 Frost DK in the world (at the time) in our guild he pulled about 27k DPS on EVERY fight. I think our guild average DPS in a 25 man was over 200000.
I don't remember too well, was shortly after the Lich King fight was released.

4th and final time: Switched servers to play with my friends (again), Read the first paragraph.

I find it funny that if i had read this post 2 years back i wouldn't have understood a single word written in there hahahaha

I played for about 3 months but since i had no friends anywhere it got really boring really fast, the first dungeons were fun because everyone in my party was exploring and experiencing the same things than me, but then i tried higher lvl dungeons and got sick of queuing, waiting halve an hour, start, one dude finished one quest, got out, and left us one man short, waiting again for the queue etc etc... no one was "exploring" the dungeon they were just there to make some fast quest and got out... really infuriating.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I quit in BC while the Lich King was just wishful thinking. The reasons I left are many, but here's a simplified list.

1) The RPers who weren't the kind that would fit right in with Goldshire were elitists and hyporcrites.

2) The few people who talked to me only did so because I was naive enough at the time to do hours of farming for something they want if they asked nicely.

3) Any time I wanted anything, the people listed in 2 were conveniently too busy already doing what I wanted to do or needed help in doing.

4) When I gave up on RP and turned to raiding, I had to put up with a lot of down-talking because I lacked leet gear and had a different spec.

5) Finally I just got tired of the repetitive grind, especially for rep, and for what? better gear to let you survive slightly better while grinding rep for the next group.

 

[thirion1850]

Drama, morons, boredom, drama, drama, did I mention srs bznes drama?