I played WoW from Vanilla, and past BC I pretty much only stayed because of friends. WoW became unbearably dull, even with constant raiding.
LFG/LFR meant in the last expansions it's nearly impossible to make new friends out of your guild, phasing means you can't even help your mates on their quests... The whole thing was just dreadful, and when my guild transferred servers I didn't care enough to spend the money to follow. There was absolutely nothing to do after that. PVP? Nah, I didn't have the gear for it. Prefered world PVP, but lord knows no one does that anymore. Couldn't raid without a guild (this was prior to LFR), farming heroics was easy and pointless with high end gear... all factions maxed out... Literally nothing to do but wait for content, so I quit.
Tried SWTOR.... Now, I never, ever cared for Star Wars. The universe never appealed to me, never soaked me in. I never wanted a lightsaber growing up, and I haven't even seen all the movies. So when I say I absolutely loved SWTOR, I mean it.
Bioware and LucasArts did so much right with that game, but a major problem seemed to be that it attracted a lot of people looking for the next KOTOR. It's an MMO you can play very easily like a single player game, so many people did that - reached the end of their class story, thoroughly enjoyed it, but in their minds they had 'beaten' the game. So they moved on.
Hate EA though with a passion, so I'm not even remotely surprised you had that much trouble. (Although you have my sympathies none-the-less). But if I was tired of paying subscription fees for games in general, I'd still probably be playing SWTOR.
LFG/LFR meant in the last expansions it's nearly impossible to make new friends out of your guild, phasing means you can't even help your mates on their quests... The whole thing was just dreadful, and when my guild transferred servers I didn't care enough to spend the money to follow. There was absolutely nothing to do after that. PVP? Nah, I didn't have the gear for it. Prefered world PVP, but lord knows no one does that anymore. Couldn't raid without a guild (this was prior to LFR), farming heroics was easy and pointless with high end gear... all factions maxed out... Literally nothing to do but wait for content, so I quit.
Tried SWTOR.... Now, I never, ever cared for Star Wars. The universe never appealed to me, never soaked me in. I never wanted a lightsaber growing up, and I haven't even seen all the movies. So when I say I absolutely loved SWTOR, I mean it.
Bioware and LucasArts did so much right with that game, but a major problem seemed to be that it attracted a lot of people looking for the next KOTOR. It's an MMO you can play very easily like a single player game, so many people did that - reached the end of their class story, thoroughly enjoyed it, but in their minds they had 'beaten' the game. So they moved on.
Hate EA though with a passion, so I'm not even remotely surprised you had that much trouble. (Although you have my sympathies none-the-less). But if I was tired of paying subscription fees for games in general, I'd still probably be playing SWTOR.
