Have you left WoW and if so why.

[Dogstile]

An MMO is defined by the people who play it.

The people fucking suck. If you're silly and try to have fun now everyone just calls you a prick and then proceed to flame you. (case in point, I was kiting in that main outlands city ((yeah its been that long)) and there was no way i'd have enough ammo to kill this thing, everyone simply whispered that they were calling a mod and told me to grow up).

Now, I admit i'm not the most mature person, but back in vanilla wow, when I kited that black dragon to stormwind (the one that regenerated its health if it hit you with a fire attack) and it stayed there for about a day before an admin despawned the damn thing, I wasn't flamed, in fact, everyone was generally laughing at it. People were making lv 1 characters and rushing it over and over to keep it alive. It was a laugh.

Nowadays? I'd get blacklisted from every high end raiding guild.

 

[tanithwolf]

Got sick of the people and the constant grinding. Although I did go back for a little while for cataclysm, I just had to try out the worgen.

 

[Nieroshai]

I stopped because I'm on an internship and my housing has restricted web access. Otherwise, I'd be raiding with my guild right now.

 

[Scorpianhead]

I played for a month got out of the second zone with my level 24 blood elf palidin and i did'nt know were to go next so i gave up.

 

[S29 Afterlife]

I bought it waaay back when I got off my Runescape stage.
It was fun for a bit, but then every wannabe gamer in my school started playing it.
I would've kept playing, but having 100+ Freshmen asking you at school AND ingame for money just got really annoying.

 

[Halvhir]

Just recently canceled my subscription. My paid time will run out in October.

There's just nothing new or interesting to do anymore. The one PvE instance I haven't completed doesn't look interesting enough to shop for another guild, audition for a current raiding slot and commit to 3-6 hours a week of raiding. I could do it, but just don't really want to.

PvP holds no appeal to me. Any desire I might have felt to get into rated battlegrounds or arenas has been solved by playing League of Legends. :/

 

[Lewieroo0]

I played WoW for a few months but after a while it just started to feel like a chore rather than a game. I dropped the game after this and i also found the constant paying to play to be a real shit kicker. Not worth the money.

 

[Quazimofo]

really, i just got bored. it ceased to interest me, so i stopped playing. simple as that. this is a little into cata incase you are wondering. did a couple of the new zones, then just stopped

 

[Adventurer2626]

I actually just started an account but it's the f2p version so I don't count.

 

[infinity^infinity]

I got bored with it, also got tired of having twelve year olds commenting on the size of my penis.

 

[TheMonsterSV]

The whole reason why I lost interest in WoW was due majority to those who took the game way to seriously. I played Warcraft and loved the story and just how fun it was to play and when I heard an mmo was coming out I jumped in head first. When it first came out it was amazing and I enjoyed everything. Interacting with people was actually enjoyable and people were also friendly and willing to help. Now adays its the HARDCORE wow people that run the show and if your not on their bandwagon your out casted. I enjoyed exploring and finding my next adventure not getting the best armor or the best weapon. You could label me as a casual wow player but after the third expansion I fell out of love and began to expand my horizons. I found many MMO's that were free a lot more enjoyable like Champions Online or Guild Wars. All I can say is that I will not be returning to WoW for my new love The Old Republic is almost here.

 

[Gothproxy]

I played for years since launch (and the days of the 'terrible twelve' servers. But after Burning Crusade came out and all my Epic Raid Gear that I spent so long in collecting became obsolete with the first bunch of trash mob drops, I threw in the towel. Not only for WoW but for raiding in MMOs in general. It lost it's point, to me, if in the next level hike expansion the gear I thought was great becomes mediocre at best.

I did try it again when I was given a 7-day comeback. But the magic was gone. Simple as that.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Played for almost a year, then quit.

At its best it was a fun thing to occasionally play with my friends who lived hours away from me.

At its worst I was completely addicted. I played no other video games at all and it even got between me and sex a couple times. I was forced to quit because of a move and a lapse in steady income, and when I started playing other games again and spending more time with friends, I realized that I was a better, happier person.

 

[KILGAZOR]

I left cuz 1. It wasn't challenging me 2. It was very grindy 3. I didn't have the large blocks of time I needed for end-game raids 4. I found getting properly equipped for raids was too hard because no-one did any of the low-difficulty raids I needed

 

[tehroc]

Too many dead servers with raiding populations spread too thin. It's almost impossible to find replacements and training newbies every week gets tiring.

It takes Blizzard too long to put out new content. They hype and hype those new Firelands dailies and what do we get, the same old same old. Just another grind to keep you playing longer.

 

[s0meNo0b]

I stopped playing mostly because most of my RL friends don't and my in-game friends in my guild got into some arguement and that split the group a bit and stopped playing, and eventually everyone else followed and then it got to me. It was hard to find other people to group up with and I just couldn't get back into it. I stopped at about lvl 53 I believe.

 

[Chris Barber]

I left WoW partly because my friends left and the social element being taken away for me killed my morale. Also when the Rated BGs got permanently set to 10 man mode I couldn't get a spot anymore and there wasn't much gameplay to be had for me since I don't have time for proper raiding anymore.

The game simply grew in a different direction than me. I guess Cataclysm's design philosophy wasn't one that supported me. So I left and eventually found NEStalgia; which I'm quite happy with currently as an MMO.

 

[TheRobotandtheBeast]

lag. i had a bad modem.

 

[Chased]

Doing the 7 day welcome back thing and its still pretty mediocre. Got two toons up to 85, even after Cata the game is still the same old shit, rinse and repeat. It's cool to see so many people that left the game all in one place. I'm not re subbing after this 7 day period.

 

[Frost27]

Played since a couple months after release. Then when cataclysm came out I had 2 level 80s and 5 60 -70 toons and just decided it was time to do other things. Plus raiding was never really my thing. Also, my friends quit so I had even less reason to stay and no reason to go back.