Have you left WoW and if so why.
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I just recently left in the middle of a subscription. I left because Blizzard still refuses to fix Shamans. I love shamans and always have. My main is an 85 Elemental/Enhance shaman named Zamah. I've played him since Wrath of the Lich King and since then, Blizzard has further neglected the shaman class to the point where playing one just feels like everyone else has an advantage. That's not the kind of game I want to play.
I also left because I was tired of the game itself. The dated graphics and the fact that I have to damn near be a brilliant mathematician just to get my stats "right" is a HUGE negative for me. And about Stats in general; it just feels like there's only ONE right way to do things. "If you are X class then your hit rating must be Y," or "Y's should only be using X's". It's just so restricting.
Another thing is how there is no real individuality!!! Walk around any city and you'll see every class wearing the same pieces of armor and using the same damn weapons. They might as well go ahead and re-name the game "World of Copy/Paste". And when they do finally release a new weapon or piece of armor, it's some janky, nonsensical piece of cobbled together garbage that poorly reflects the class that is stuck with wearing it because they HAVE to if they want to see anything other than what you get from the Dungeon Finder.
I feel like their development and art team just doesn't give a shit anymore, and I'm feelin' that way too...
So, yeah...that's why I quit. The only problem is that I want to find another MMO to play, but there aren't many out there that aren't just clones of World of Warcraft so I'm just kind of stuck playing League of Legends and SC II: Starter Edition (because I'm broke).
I also left because I was tired of the game itself. The dated graphics and the fact that I have to damn near be a brilliant mathematician just to get my stats "right" is a HUGE negative for me. And about Stats in general; it just feels like there's only ONE right way to do things. "If you are X class then your hit rating must be Y," or "Y's should only be using X's". It's just so restricting.
Another thing is how there is no real individuality!!! Walk around any city and you'll see every class wearing the same pieces of armor and using the same damn weapons. They might as well go ahead and re-name the game "World of Copy/Paste". And when they do finally release a new weapon or piece of armor, it's some janky, nonsensical piece of cobbled together garbage that poorly reflects the class that is stuck with wearing it because they HAVE to if they want to see anything other than what you get from the Dungeon Finder.
I feel like their development and art team just doesn't give a shit anymore, and I'm feelin' that way too...
So, yeah...that's why I quit. The only problem is that I want to find another MMO to play, but there aren't many out there that aren't just clones of World of Warcraft so I'm just kind of stuck playing League of Legends and SC II: Starter Edition (because I'm broke).
1) Too much Grinding
2) Takes too long to travel anywhere
3) Got bored of playing then not playing with people
And yeah, been and left a few times. Last couple I only played through the trial and that was enough to remind me XD
2) Takes too long to travel anywhere
3) Got bored of playing then not playing with people
And yeah, been and left a few times. Last couple I only played through the trial and that was enough to remind me XD
With WoW, I was always just "passing through". I never found I stayed in Azeroth long enough in one stint to get established, paying for about 4 months of play over 2 years. Each time I went back, I'd try and get into groups with friends who would do nothing of the sort, and I never found a decent guild on my server that was ever proactive enough to organise an instance run (even if they had, most members would have lacked commitment to turn up).
In the end it was the system requirements the struck the final blow; my laptop is one capacitor away from being a fancy typewriter that needs to be constantly plugged in, and when Lich King dropped I couldn't log in for most of the day if I was anywhere in Stormwind because of the lag.
My account is probably dead by now
In the end it was the system requirements the struck the final blow; my laptop is one capacitor away from being a fancy typewriter that needs to be constantly plugged in, and when Lich King dropped I couldn't log in for most of the day if I was anywhere in Stormwind because of the lag.
My account is probably dead by now
Started in Vanilla. Was hardcore in TBC, with Black Temple cleared pre-Sunwell (meaning we had everything down), and everything was great. Got bored during WotLK. Everything except the latest raid became shiteasy, and I'm not paying 13 euro a month to only play in the evenings. Tried again during Cata. Was great at first, with HCs being hard, there was some grinding to do, cool achievements. Then they nerfed it all. Fuck that. Now I play singleplayer RPGs and wait for TOR.
I really quit raiding after clearing TBC content ( that means sunwell pre 3.0) as the 20th guild in the world (with the same guild I cleared Naxxramas before TBC. After that the game became a sorry excuse for a raiding focused MMO . I went casual , my guild disbanded because of lack of interest in the game , I started to have a more full life and in Cata I only reached 85 then I bailed .
The game ain't worth it anymore , vanilla and TBC WOW are still probably the best games I have ever played , but it's trash nowadays .
The game ain't worth it anymore , vanilla and TBC WOW are still probably the best games I have ever played , but it's trash nowadays .
I tried getting into with my friends but I just couldn't get into it plus little money to pay the subscription fee also contributed
I played it for years and by years maybe 2 time cards a year at best.
I just couldn't keep up with my friends who played, as they were addicts and loved everything about it. What they found as "fun" I found as down right boring.
The game to me has no feeling at all, there is no palpable action or anything at all. You don't feel the crits, or the sword bashes or the impact of a fireball hitting anything its just all so NUMB.
I could be grinding all day and all night for the best gear in the same dungeons over and over and over and get nothing. Then BAM hundreds of hours(not me I just didn't care to grind) expansions come out greens the new purple etc.
When you boil it down there are certain things you need to enjoy in order to keep playing.
You have to like the grind, maxing stuff out, starting new characters, getting the best pvp stuff, collecting pets and item sets, getting the best mounts and downing bosses.
For me the amount of time they wanted me to invest in order to get the stuff I would need to be at the best of my game was IN-SANE. There is ZERO fun being downed in pvp by a guy who got buffed when you got nerfed who has gear MUCH better than you and there is nothing you can do but eat shit and grind for weeks( not even joking there are weekly caps on stuff you need to get gear, of which requires more that you are allowed in a week).
TL;DR- There is nothing about WoW I like to do for FUN, it has become like work and I don't pay 15 bucks a month to do work.
I just couldn't keep up with my friends who played, as they were addicts and loved everything about it. What they found as "fun" I found as down right boring.
The game to me has no feeling at all, there is no palpable action or anything at all. You don't feel the crits, or the sword bashes or the impact of a fireball hitting anything its just all so NUMB.
I could be grinding all day and all night for the best gear in the same dungeons over and over and over and get nothing. Then BAM hundreds of hours(not me I just didn't care to grind) expansions come out greens the new purple etc.
When you boil it down there are certain things you need to enjoy in order to keep playing.
You have to like the grind, maxing stuff out, starting new characters, getting the best pvp stuff, collecting pets and item sets, getting the best mounts and downing bosses.
For me the amount of time they wanted me to invest in order to get the stuff I would need to be at the best of my game was IN-SANE. There is ZERO fun being downed in pvp by a guy who got buffed when you got nerfed who has gear MUCH better than you and there is nothing you can do but eat shit and grind for weeks( not even joking there are weekly caps on stuff you need to get gear, of which requires more that you are allowed in a week).
TL;DR- There is nothing about WoW I like to do for FUN, it has become like work and I don't pay 15 bucks a month to do work.
It was just boring to repeat the same stuff again and again. couldnt do it more than 3 month in a row. then i usually stopped for a year or two. and regularly come back for 3 month with a new expension
I consistently played to around Level 20 then got bored with the game and left.
I really don't understand what people like about it.
I really don't understand what people like about it.
I played for about 3 months before Wrath came out, mostly started because I had several friends playing and we played together. However due to my work and school schedule they tended to be online more than me and so outleveled me by quite a bit after a while. Playing with friends was fun, alone was significantly less. So I dropped it and have yet to regret the decision.
Yes for a little while.
1. Money concerns, gas is more important than MMO's. So is food and rent.
2. Guild and friends took a hiatus and so did I.
3. Needed a break anyway so I could concentrate on other games.
But I did come back recently and have found I still enjoy the game. I can understand why people don't play anymore. The "douchebag" argument to me is a little lame though, those type of elitist jerks can be found on any game. See TF2 free-to-play bias for a great example. Also some discussions here on CoD quickscoping and other play-style biases. Sure WoW has a lot of them, but I've always chosen not to associate myself with those people or guilds that contain a great number of them. My current guild is full of great people, who are open to both casual and hardcore PvE or PvP players that don't have a better-than-you attitude. Its all about how you make friends, not who you meet in random PuG's. Sure I've met my fair share of assjacks in WoW, I've met them here on Escapist too and this just a forum/magazine site.
The issue of nerf-ing/overpowering. In a game that changes constantly, Blizz has to keep up with many fronts; Bugs in the code that allow some classes to exceed their designed stats/damage/healing/mitigation. Exploiters who use everything they can to gain an advantage over other players or just to gain things for themselves without having to work as hard as the rest of the game. Challenge level for all players, not just a few who want everything to be insanely difficult.
Sure Vanilla WoW was difficult, but a lot of that old-school raid difficulty came from coordinating 40 players to work together on raid bosses. One of the reasons WoW seems easier is mainly because of that. People seem to think that if a raid has been full cleared within a week of release that means its too easy. They also seem to forget this game has been out for 6 years and people have been playing it so long that the mechanics of raiding have become second nature for a lot of players and the learning curve is no longer as steep. Its not new anymore, and its becoming tougher on Blizz to design challenging raids that aren't so over-the-top that only a handful of elitist spreadsheet freaks can complete the game. Remember this game in the end is for everyone who plays it, not just the hardcore players. Also they're attempting to make the encounters less time-consuming so players can play together reasonably without having to spend a bulk of their time raiding and nothing else.
Repetition. Every game has this, and every game can become tedious at some point or another. Its all relative to your tastes. Gathering quests I admit are pretty boring. But the Cataclysm re-design of the vanilla quests took a lot of that repetition away in favor of more story-driven questing. Of course there are a lot of cutscenes which some people seem to think ruin games... My only issue is that BC/WotLK (70-80) content now seem backwards after doing Cataclysm (1-60) content, but I'm confident Blizz is working on that to even out the leveling/gameplay.
But hey, if you no longer enjoy WoW, thats fine. There are still plenty of players who do enjoy it. Blizz still gets my money over other MMO dev's because they've made a solid game I still enjoy and I'm not self-blinded enough to overlook that like every other game company out there they are in this for the money. The difference is they do listen to their fans and also encourage feedback (not bullshit whiny rants but actual feedback that has clear and concise language) on how the game could be made better. Feedback doesn't mean rant about how Blizz nerf'd your overpowered class in favor of balance.
1. Money concerns, gas is more important than MMO's. So is food and rent.
2. Guild and friends took a hiatus and so did I.
3. Needed a break anyway so I could concentrate on other games.
But I did come back recently and have found I still enjoy the game. I can understand why people don't play anymore. The "douchebag" argument to me is a little lame though, those type of elitist jerks can be found on any game. See TF2 free-to-play bias for a great example. Also some discussions here on CoD quickscoping and other play-style biases. Sure WoW has a lot of them, but I've always chosen not to associate myself with those people or guilds that contain a great number of them. My current guild is full of great people, who are open to both casual and hardcore PvE or PvP players that don't have a better-than-you attitude. Its all about how you make friends, not who you meet in random PuG's. Sure I've met my fair share of assjacks in WoW, I've met them here on Escapist too and this just a forum/magazine site.
The issue of nerf-ing/overpowering. In a game that changes constantly, Blizz has to keep up with many fronts; Bugs in the code that allow some classes to exceed their designed stats/damage/healing/mitigation. Exploiters who use everything they can to gain an advantage over other players or just to gain things for themselves without having to work as hard as the rest of the game. Challenge level for all players, not just a few who want everything to be insanely difficult.
Sure Vanilla WoW was difficult, but a lot of that old-school raid difficulty came from coordinating 40 players to work together on raid bosses. One of the reasons WoW seems easier is mainly because of that. People seem to think that if a raid has been full cleared within a week of release that means its too easy. They also seem to forget this game has been out for 6 years and people have been playing it so long that the mechanics of raiding have become second nature for a lot of players and the learning curve is no longer as steep. Its not new anymore, and its becoming tougher on Blizz to design challenging raids that aren't so over-the-top that only a handful of elitist spreadsheet freaks can complete the game. Remember this game in the end is for everyone who plays it, not just the hardcore players. Also they're attempting to make the encounters less time-consuming so players can play together reasonably without having to spend a bulk of their time raiding and nothing else.
Repetition. Every game has this, and every game can become tedious at some point or another. Its all relative to your tastes. Gathering quests I admit are pretty boring. But the Cataclysm re-design of the vanilla quests took a lot of that repetition away in favor of more story-driven questing. Of course there are a lot of cutscenes which some people seem to think ruin games... My only issue is that BC/WotLK (70-80) content now seem backwards after doing Cataclysm (1-60) content, but I'm confident Blizz is working on that to even out the leveling/gameplay.
But hey, if you no longer enjoy WoW, thats fine. There are still plenty of players who do enjoy it. Blizz still gets my money over other MMO dev's because they've made a solid game I still enjoy and I'm not self-blinded enough to overlook that like every other game company out there they are in this for the money. The difference is they do listen to their fans and also encourage feedback (not bullshit whiny rants but actual feedback that has clear and concise language) on how the game could be made better. Feedback doesn't mean rant about how Blizz nerf'd your overpowered class in favor of balance.
I quit for multiple reasons. First of is that I didn't have enough time to properly raid, which I liked the most out of everything up to TBC. After that, well, the bosses just were a bit too lame and I found Northend and the storyline of it with the dragons and all a little bit over the top for my taste. Even TBC was a BIT like that, they were just trying too hard.
I ran out of money, so I cancelled my subscription a while back basically.
I loved the game, I think it's fun and I like the people I met through my guild and such, but it always turns into a giant timesuck (worse than any other game and books) and it takes too much money for me to really be able to rationalize playing again.
I loved the game, I think it's fun and I like the people I met through my guild and such, but it always turns into a giant timesuck (worse than any other game and books) and it takes too much money for me to really be able to rationalize playing again.
Small server with 3 characters that would need to be transfered if I left. Its like $15 per character to move even though it is a completely automated function that needs no human interaction on Blizzard's side. Ya no.
I played WoW for quite a long time. From 2005 to...say...the end of 2009?
I never bought Wrath of the Lich King.
So, why did I stop? 1) I got really busy in my real life finishing up my dissertation. 2) I felt guilty spending all that time on WoW when I had lots and lots of Xbox games to play. So...I decided to spend more time playing the Xbox. Getting through lots of exciting games like Mass Effect and Dreamfall and so on.
I never bought Wrath of the Lich King.
So, why did I stop? 1) I got really busy in my real life finishing up my dissertation. 2) I felt guilty spending all that time on WoW when I had lots and lots of Xbox games to play. So...I decided to spend more time playing the Xbox. Getting through lots of exciting games like Mass Effect and Dreamfall and so on.