I... quit WoW today

[DirgeNovak]

I used to play WoW casually (one month on, one month off) for a couple years and just lost interest. I went back to it last month in anticipation for FFXIV:ARR and had a moderate amount of fun, but playing the FFXIV beta sealed the deal for me. Come Saturday, WoW is history.

But you should never sacrifice your real life for games. That's why I'll probably keep my month-on-month-off policy from when I played WoW.

 

[beez]

Left the area, as in just moved away?

Quit.

Oh, and please, don't be offended, some people are more sensitive. He took your post for an offense and told you about it. I personally did not take it as an offense, you made some valid points and misunderstood me a little, it happens. Chillax.

Yeah, the situation here isn't all that good, but things are a lot cheaper (except international services ofc.), 100mbit+ internet is approximately 9$ with free 3G, et cetera.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Quit.

Oh, and please, don't be offended, some people are more sensitive. He took your post for an offense and told you about it. I personally did not take it as an offense, you made some valid points and misunderstood me a little, it happens. Chillax.

Yeah, the situation here isn't all that good, but things are a lot cheaper (except international services ofc.), 100mbit+ internet is approximately 9$ with free 3G, et cetera.

Gotcha.

More bemused/confused than offended. If I was offended my reply would've been significantly more sharp and significantly less playful.

If you ever decide to go wading out into the MMO end of the pool again, let me know. I haven't stuck with one for quite some time, but I TRY them all, and I like to think I've gotten pretty good at sussing them out. Might be there's a few that fit your current mindset better than the aging WoW. And even in this era of Steam Sales, there's still no better dollar per hour form of gaming entertainment than the MMO. =)

 

[beez]

If you ever decide to go wading out into the MMO end of the pool again, let me know. I haven't stuck with one for quite some time, but I TRY them all, and I like to think I've gotten pretty good at sussing them out.

I started out with Silkroad Online (the concept behind it is really interesting, I think), then WoW, not too long ago we played a bit of SW:ToR (completed a jedi and sith story up to lvl 50) for the coop experience of it (the quest dialog system is interesting, too bad the game is ruined by a few bad decisions - btw, there are surprisingly few good coop games), Rift (sort of liked it but it wasn't interesting enough for me) and TERA online (didn't like it too much). I was looking forward to ESO, but I won't buy into it due to the startup fees and my general concerns in porting the Skyrim experience to MMOs.

To be honest, I don't really know about the Final Fantasy MMO that was mentioned, besides the fact that, if I remember correctly, they shut it down to reboot it completely.

 

[thejackyl]

I quit WoW and came back a total of 3 times.

1st time a friend was trying to get me into the game by playing on a private server. It was dull and I could get from level 1-70 in about 3 hours. 100x XP + 50x Gold drops + MUCH higher loot drops(a single mob leveled you from level 1 to 8 (the XP cutoffs still happened, and would fill your inventory with trash. Bosses dropped 1 of EVERY item they could). It was boring since none of the enemy scripts worked (Bosses literally just smacked you, no mechanics.) I quit after about a week, and my friend didn't understand why.

2nd time the same friend convinced me to go to a midnight release of Wrath. We started playing together and got into a decent guild. Not super-good, not casual, not hardcore. It was a good guild of 200+ people, but only about 15 people good enough to actually raid effectively. They were good people and 90% of the fun I had was goofing off during my playtime. I remember wiping a raid with path of frost and feigning ignorance, and some light trolling/hazing of new raiders (from giving them a hard time in a playful way to "Prepars a Fish Feats!" and watching the newbs wonder where the feast was. I ended up quitting because raiding became frustrating, but I server swapped and joined a MUCH better guild with a similar attitude, however I disliked being carried through the end-game, and I ended up quitting again.

3rd time, I came back about half-way through Cataclysm, and re-joined the first guild. They had gotten better and were now the #1 raiding guild on the server. I played for a while and ended up getting bored since my friends from the guild my first time through were slowly quitting, and eventually the original guild was down to me, a single IRL friend and the guy who taught me how to tank. Combined with that and the fact that a lot of people who joined the guild would join, and quit within a week, or get kicked for shenanigans (Our best healer was kicked because he /licked someone.) One of our top DPS was kicked because him and my friend water-walked a low DPS in a random dungeon.

Once I was stuck playing the game for the gameplay rather than the interaction, I quit for good.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I started out with Silkroad Online (the concept behind it is really interesting, I think), then WoW, not too long ago we played a bit of SW:ToR (completed a jedi and sith story up to lvl 50) for the coop experience of it (the quest dialog system is interesting, too bad the game is ruined by a few bad decisions - btw, there are surprisingly few good coop games), Rift (sort of liked it but it wasn't interesting enough for me) and TERA online (didn't like it too much). I was looking forward to ESO, but I won't buy into it due to the startup fees and my general concerns in porting the Skyrim experience to MMOs.

To be honest, I don't really know about the Final Fantasy MMO that was mentioned, besides the fact that, if I remember correctly, they shut it down to reboot it completely.

Rift is a bit blandy-mcblanderson...it has a surprisingly gentle/non-evil FTP model, but the game play isn't going to invigorate anyone looking for something new. Agreed completely on TOR...it's a fine game for what it is, but as a long term MMO it's something of a dud.

I'd recommend Wildstar, as it seems very much intent on recapturing the vanilla WoW experience, repackaged and slicked up for a 2014 audience, but there's going to be a stiff up front fee for that just like ESO.

EQN might be your best bet, as it will launch FTP. But it's got to be a couple years out still.

I'd suggest looking for GW2 on a sale due to the "no sub fee" element, but given you're a long time fan of WoW, I fear you might find GW2's game play a little...lightweight.

 

[beez]

I'd suggest looking for GW2 on a sale due to the "no sub fee" element, but given you're a long time fan of WoW, I fear you might find GW2's game play a little...lightweight.

I had a wild thought about EVE, but then I reevaluated my life choices and figured that I don't wanna die young once I saw the 600 page introduction. I'm sticking to co-op games for a while and I'm playing the PS3 catalog, since I bought one recently for the Last of Us and GTAV.

 

[beez]

*Hugs* Glad to hear. Congrats. I'm happy to hear you left. After Activison got their hands on blizard around Lich, it's just been painful betrayal after painful betrayal.
Glad to see another punch in their wallet.
See ya in ESO.

I would prefer to wait. ESO is a new MMO, so will be Wildstar and I would like to see if they make a name for themselves with their end-game content or not.

Thank you for the kind words tho!

 

[masticina]

Mmm buying cheaper worse food to pay for a game, yup that sounds like addiction. Wearing that stuff off will take a while and there always are possible fall backs. So.. best is to make sure you have some social control [aka people that keep a check on you] to make sure you don't fall back.

Go out do something.. something. You know you kinda need to replace the whole well hours you put in it. You need another activity, go write something, go study something, a language. Go places where you meet people, search a whole new hobby. Hell combine both and join something where you have a great new hobby to enjoy with others.

Even if it is just once a week its fun to lets say play board games with other people. I know sound nerdy but.. its social it is gaming. And some board games are awesome!

For the rest Good to see you here... again find a hobby something to keep you busy. Something to replace that need to WoW.

Self I have played a bit of WoW but I am not an MMO player.. and I already saw the hooks. I already saw that until level 20 it was fine but the moment above.. I would need to go with a social group. Worse.. I would kinda be forced to go with a "specific build" . oh yes we need a healer that does this this and this. So much for choice!

In a MMO where people have to work together. Sadly it happens that some combinations and methods work better.. and actually you end up like the 10.000th person who does just the damn same :!

In short it isn't an individual experience... it isn't game anymore. It becomes a job :!

 

[RJ Dalton]

This is pretty much the reason why I never started MMOs. I'm prone to addiction and habit-forming behaviors, so I just kinda stayed away from it because it looked too easy to get hooked on.

 

[Aeshi]

I'm sure that's a brag-worthy achievement if I ever saw one!

"So, what have you achieved in life?"
"I stopped playing a game!"

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I would prefer to wait. ESO is a new MMO, so will be Wildstar and I would like to see if they make a name for themselves with their end-game content or not.

Thank you for the kind words tho!

Of the two, Wildstar is the one aiming at "end game" content and appealing to old school players/MMO fans. ESO, at a glance, would appear to be targeting the casual/action MMO market (although both sell themselves as action MMOs). Whether Wildstar succeeds in appealing to old WoW fans and the like remains to be seen, the game is still in beta and undergoing a lot of changes. It has some promise though. Kind of a mix of more traditional MMO combat mechanics with DOTA style skillshots and constant movement.

 

[briankoontz]

Quitting WoW is treating the symptom, not the disease. The reason people enter virtual worlds is to experience a "pristine world" free of the horrific terrors of the real world. Quitting WoW doesn't directly benefit the real world or make it a better place, unless one does so.

It's easy to quit smoking. It's difficult to cleanse the "normal" air so it becomes breathable.

The final step is to help the world so that "worlds" like World of Warcraft aren't attractive alternatives to the real one.

 

[beez]

Quitting WoW is treating the symptom, not the disease. The reason people enter virtual worlds is to experience a "pristine world" free of the horrific terrors of the real world. Quitting WoW doesn't directly benefit the real world or make it a better place, unless one does so.

It's easy to quit smoking. It's difficult to cleanse the "normal" air so it becomes breathable.

The final step is to help the world so that "worlds" like World of Warcraft aren't attractive alternatives to the real one.

Bomb Blizzard?

Only a select few could change the world and they clearly aren't intent on doing it. Sorry. People get trampled every day, people die of starvation, of curable diseases. We can only treat the symptoms, but if we try to do it to as many people as possible, it might just make the world a better place.

 

[Nikolaz72]

I wont lie, quit at the end of Burning Crusade, was otherwise with it since Beta (Real Beta, not Expansion Beta) Came back some times in both WOTLK and Cata, if only to be on RP servers with some friends.

Although before the RP, I played it normally. And man, the people I met. The things I participated in, it's helped shape me as a person. Many good memories, a few bad ones... Always have a place in my heart that game.

I'm surprised so many people got into WoW so badly; was it your first MMO?
I've played dozens before WoW and I thought it was super boring. Stopped after 4 days and never turned it on again.

World of Warcraft reworked the questing system of MMO's, and the entire foundation of MMORPG's. Made the experience more flowing and had solid gameplay/patching/balancing/customer support. Whereas a few million played MMO's beforehand, World of Warcraft brought the number into the tens of millions... Extra Credit did an episode on it, but to answer your question.

Yes. Yes it was most likely his first MMO, it was most likely millions of people' first MMO. Just like it was my first MMO, my sisters first MMO, my fathers first MMO. My entire circle of friends first MMO, and our Ex-Prime Ministers (Not his replacement) first MMO.

There was a WoW craze, some people played weeks, some months, some a year. And some for over half a decade. And only now after almost 8 years is it starting to dwindle slowly.

It wasn't really a game. It was an alternate world, some sort of Ultimate Escape. Blizzard hit pretty much every right key with it, and killed every WoW-killer except for the inevitable time-factor.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Yeah... I played WoW from launch up until my guild had the Firelands raid on farm status. I was the assistant raid leader as well as the main healer and overall healing coordinator for a fairly cutting-edge raiding guild. On any given week, I typically ran all of the current raids at least three times with different teams since I had each of the healing classes leveled up and raid-geared.

It started out really fun, and I loved everything about it both gameplay and social. I started to burn out around the time the Ulduar raid was released, though. A bunch of pointless guild drama came up around that time over raid spots and gear distribution, two of my best friends in the guild started dating and then had a really nasty breakup that resulted in them both leaving, my real-life closest friend more or less had to stop raiding because of his work schedule, and just the general attitude of players in the raiding scene seemed to get far more snarky, cynical, and elitist than ever before.

I stuck with it, like previously mentioned, until Firelands... but I had to bail because I just wasn't having fun with the expansion, and I was seeing myself become pretty much a complete stereotype of the elitist assholes that I couldn't stand being around. It's been about two years since then.

Now, I did briefly return to play Mists of Pandaria. There was a sale on Amazon and I ended up getting a copy for $2.50. I figured that for the price of a coffee I could get a free month to try out the expansion, and then be done with it. During that month I hit level cap, completed all the zones, and got my main (a Restoration Druid) all of the best-in-slot gear available from the Looking For Raid content. So even though I didn't get best-in-slot from the actual full raid content, I figured it was close enough, and haven't played since my time ran out.

 

[Windcaler]

I know the feeling of quiting wow. Ive done it twice, both times because the state of the game wasnt what I wanted out of an MMO. The first time I quit was when burning crusade came out and they made my class (hunter) useless in raid content so I could never progress with the rest of my guild. The second time was during cataclysm when they nerfed the raid content (which Im very much against). Each time it was hard to say goodbye to the friends I had made in the game but ultimately I was better to do it then keep paying money for something I didnt enjoy.

That said, if you still want to play with your friends but not in that game there are a variety of free to play MMOs that you can try out with them. Many of them are pretty good and offer interesting, challenging, and different experiences. Not all of them go the way wow did either

 

[Saidan]

Congratulations on escaping the grasp of one of the greatest gaming monsters ever created. But, if at some point you need a MMO fix, don't fall for it again. Or at least play something less addictive, like GW2 (which, btw, has no fee at all)

 

[PromethianSpark]

The OP sounds like a share in wow addicts Anonymous