World of Wacraft (mid-vanilla). (Shocking I know... )
I was kinda skeptical at first, I had been told a lot of horror stories about how MMO's suck your life away. I was surprised that I was able to enjoy it immensely while still having enough time to finish all my school work. I was casually playing, no guild, joined only a handful of UBRS raids.
Then along came Burning Crusade and awesomeness happened, I found a great guild that loved to raid while still being relaxed and having fun. Throughout Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King we faced down extremely hard bosses, we failed, laughed, failed again and eventually succeeded.
But in the long months between ICC and Cataclysm, I realized that I'd stopped having fun. The guild and the people in it were awesome, but the game itself had lost it's shine. While reading the patch notes for Cata I saw that Blizzard had pretty much taken a wrecking ball to everything that I found "fun". So I quit.
I was kinda skeptical at first, I had been told a lot of horror stories about how MMO's suck your life away. I was surprised that I was able to enjoy it immensely while still having enough time to finish all my school work. I was casually playing, no guild, joined only a handful of UBRS raids.
Then along came Burning Crusade and awesomeness happened, I found a great guild that loved to raid while still being relaxed and having fun. Throughout Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King we faced down extremely hard bosses, we failed, laughed, failed again and eventually succeeded.
But in the long months between ICC and Cataclysm, I realized that I'd stopped having fun. The guild and the people in it were awesome, but the game itself had lost it's shine. While reading the patch notes for Cata I saw that Blizzard had pretty much taken a wrecking ball to everything that I found "fun". So I quit.