Have you left WoW and if so why.

[GraveeKing]

Played it for on and off for awhile, got to level 20 something then got bored of the grind-fest of all the quests.
Later on a played a... err 'private server' we'll call it. Anyways, the leveling was MUCH faster, of course it wasn't all technically legitimate but hey what the hell it boosted game-play for me a lot more. Then found myself at the highest level, and you know what? Turns out it's same ol' grind-fest of going through the same dungeons etc to get enough money (even with the boosted amount of money you received from quests) and at the top level it was all about rare items. I pretty much just shrugged it off and gave up at the point.

Never returned to it since and never will.

 

[tycho0042]

been clean of wow for 2 years almost. just too boring for me.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Blizzard fucked me so I said fuck them,Cata started off great and then turned out to be another lie..Go take your overnerfed bullshit somewhere else,I started playing WoW because it was fun and challenging now it's a walk in the park all about how much time you have to throw at something till you have the best loot.

Just to clarify: the top-end heroic raid content is the hardest that end-game has ever been in WoW. That section of the game has gotten progressively more difficult for years now. Heroic Ragnaros is likely the hardest boss in the history of WoW, or very close to it. The only thing that has become less challenging is solo content, but that was never challenging to begin with so I'm not sure where the rage is coming from.

I think most people have just become tired of the grind. WoW was interesting for years, but since late Wrath it has become predictable and repetitive. With each additional content patch, the new content feels less and less "new" and more and more "Wait a minute... I've seen this before!". That is inevitable with any game that stays alive for this many years without drastic changes.

 

[Mute52]

Got to level 83, didn't feel like spending anymore money each month

 

[Belaam]

Played pre-BC. Got an Alliance to 60, a Horde to 60, and then went back to college to finish my degree and had a daughter, so quit as I had no free time.

Now I'm a teacher, got back on shortly before Cata. Play Friday nights in a group with my wife and a couple RL friends. Also play a lot during summer.

The school year is gearing up again, and I'm kinda contemplating closing my account until next summer, but waiting to see how much play we still get out of it.

 

[Rorigon]

I left when Cataclysm came out for a combination of reasons:

1.THE COMMUNITY. Easily one of the worst communities I've ever seen online; it ranks up there with /b/ imo.

2. Didn't like the direction they were taking the game. They completely changed the play style of my favorite class(my main was a Blood DPS Death Knight). Sure, I had an 80 Druid I enjoyed, but the whole thing kind of made me question whether I even wanted to continue playing if next expansion my class will become something even MORE unrecognizable from what I originally enjoyed playing.

3. This was the first time I'd actually been actively playing when an expansion came out, and it just felt Blizz was just arbitrarily raising the cap and saying "now you're going to be fighting elementals instead of undead." Expansions in EQ always felt like.... expansions. They felt like the world was being added to, with new items and quests and recipes and lands to discover. This just felt like them pulling the carrot away from me again.

So... yeah, those are the three main reasons I left.

 

[StraightToHeck]

boredom and guild drama

 

[Olorune]

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.
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...

These three points are mine also.
1, Shamans are like the red headed step child of the class lineup. They are my favorite class.. and to make it worse they took away my precious two handers (their talents for enhance need dual wielding). Despite the lore shamans like Cairne using a big two hander totem pole mace.
2, I am sick of the lack of appearance slots. They want everyone to look the same (completely unlike NPC's who look part of the lore, our characters look like clowns levelling up and then a copy paste ridiculous cartoon with giant flaming shoulderpads at max level)
3, With the motorbikes and login screens showing tauren and orcs flying on rockets I get the feeling the devs don't care about the lore or world feeling any more.

Wanna know what really burns my ass, though? The fact that they will never take any of these things into consideration and make the needed changes. I'm pretty sure they rather continue to fuck the game and release something else to cover their shame.

 

[frehls]

hue

 

[ASan83]

Yeah, I have. There are a number of reasons, but they all boil down to the fact that I wasn't having fun anymore. I'd been playing since vanilla, stuck around when all my friends bailed, and tried to keep on going, but it just got to the point where it wasn't worth the time and (more importantly) money to keep playing.

 

[Nightvalien]

all of the above, including the fact that herding 25 morons every night is just annoying i can't deal with people and their bitching i enjoyed 5 man and such but 10 or 25 is just too much bitching.

 

[ferryman]

I left wow after tbc. after leveling my rogue to 60 (vanilla account), a feat that took me about 4 months, I realized that I was no good at the game in general, barely ever having more than 100 gold, and high ping meant pvp was really hit or miss. I stopped playing but I was too attached to the game to quit completely, so I turned to private servers. One pvp 3.x server(WowScape) stood out. It was a lot of fun, but after that ended, I quit wow and never looked back.
Hate to admit it, but the aging graphics and my new rig don't mix. Sure they were stunning for low poly, d3d 8.1 shaders and textures small enough to fit in 128 mb ram, but I can't look at them again now, especially after playing games like mass effect/2 and fallout NV. I heard they changed the engine a bit, but I doubt anything major, and I'm not looking to give it another shot.
In retrospect, I realize that it was really boring and that I had nothing better to do than pay blizzard to let me waste fours hours nearly every day and get nothing in return.

 

[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.