What drove you away from WoW?

[Kennpai]

Can't commit to raiding with a guild ATM and I've gotten incredibly bored with running ToT LFR's every week. Probably come back for 5.4.

[Deleted]

Amazes me the amount of people that quit something yet continue to frequent related message boards.

It kind of suggests you quit WoW but never managed to fill the void it left behind, it's kind of sad really, stuck in some kind of limbo where you can't truely move on and do something more productive with your time other than come to WoW fan forums and spout crap about the "good old days", etc etc.

[Every Pwny]

A lot of things. Logging on just to raid didn't seem worth it anymore. I was basically using it as a chat program (with the friends that haven't already quit) with a couple hours of raiding every week and some pokemon, I can talk to a lot of them out of the game anyway so there didn't even seem to be a point. I use to like the story in Warcraft too, but it's all kind of meh now, didn't really care about any of the current lore or any of the bosses we fought, don't really care about Garrosh and his band of nobodies either. Will see what's up for next expansion though.

[Axxy]

I quit during Cata because I started to just log in on raid nights only as there was nothing else left to do.

Other reasons :-

10/25 lockout change, practically killed the guild at that time
RL friends had all quit during this xpac
Dead realm and still is
Same old tired formula of progression and the game became tedious and rather less fun to play
Pandas, Pokemon and dailies

[the9tail]

What drove me away at one point was LFR at the end of Cataclysm.
After working hard through Firelands, my guild imploded over the worth of doing Deathwing because the excitement of uncovering new bosses had been lost. I fell to the wayside with the people thinking there was no point in raiding and I had no skill in PVP so I quit the game.

I came back for MoP to give it a fresh start and hoping for an experience like rolling a death knight at the start of Wrath - which limited success, liked the new class but still couldnt get back into raiding, the spark is lost and still lost. I have spent my time now working on PVP and finding pleasure in that instead.

Whats ahead? Legendary Cloak reward which is the biggest kick in the nuts I have ever seen the devs do in WoW and really making me reconsider trusting PVE and a legendary quest line ever again.

[Drfireburns]

I'm just slowly losing interest in WoW. I had hoped that maybe making a couple of alts would help, but even then I find myself becoming more and more disgusted with the game. LFR can only do so much, and I don't have time to actually join a full-on raiding guild. Raiding is why I continued to play WoW for so many years, but now I just feel "meh" when logging in or doing anything.

[Deleted]

Looking at your sig I'm really glad you unsubed. The less 12-years-old's hate in game the better.

This is a thread for the unsubbed, is there any point making a post just to throw abuse at 1 poster?

[dewd]

i hate that not only the people in pugs get shittier and shitter, but the raids are constantly getting bigger.
i just dont want to raid 5 hours in one session. id rather have more raid instances with fewer bosses or even only 1 like malygos, sartharion, gruul, onyxia. with these 10+ boss raids you are just so commited to the whole 4-5 hours.

[Morros]

Like many people have said, WoW will always hold a special place in my heart. I didn't start playing until Wrath came out, I resisted the urge to come to WoW for as long as I could because everyone told me how addicting it was. I started out with an Undead Warlock, and to me the world was so big, the immersion was deeper than any game I had ever played.

I remember playing through the 1-60 content, at the time not even realizing that the game was even broken down into expansions, sure I bought them, but once in the game I was just lost in the world itself. Around the time I hit level 60 I had heard about this quest to get my Dreadsteed, and I was mesmerized by it, then I found out I could just pay for it, but I was already immersed into this game so much where the only option to me was the quest, plus it was cheaper! Haha. I searched Orgrimmar and finally found another Warlock who had the items to summon the boss, got a small group together and went into Dire Maul, after what was the most amazing thing I had seen in the game to date, I had my Dreadsteed mount and I was the happiest Warlock this side of Tirisfal!

I eventually made it to level 80, and the same Warlock who helped me with my Dreadsteed quest invited me to her raiding guild. I had no idea what raiding was yet, but they showed me, helped me to gear up with crafted gear, running heroic dungeons, helping me play my class. I leveled Demonology, and at the time had no interest in playing anything else, the Felguard was my bro and there was no separating us. But alas, I was talked into switching to Destruction, and I hated it at first.

The more I played, the more I did these heroic dungeons, and then got into the expansive raids, the Lich King taunting me all the way, I was excited, I had never been so excited in my life to put that guy down when the time came. I took everything my friends taught me and I applied it, and I became a pretty good Warlock, earning myself some top spots in raiding, always competing with the 4-5 other Warlocks in our guild, it was healthy competition, we all stuck together, there was no elitism. I FELT like a Warlock, like we were this dark cult inside our guild who relied on each other for more and more power.

And that brings me to my number one reason why I don't play anymore.

Immersion.

It's just not there anymore. The story-telling isn't bad, but it's not like it used to be. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I just didn't feel like Cataclysm, or even MoP delivered their story half as well as Wrath delivered the Lich King story. I felt like a Warlock, I felt like this guy was coming after me, testing me, and that I was growing in power as the expansion went on. I felt like I was part of the story. The world felt so alive, especially when you could see the Lich King's reach in multiple dungeons that you ran almost dailiy.

In the beginning of Wrath you didn't see nearly every dungeon on a daily basis, you still had to put groups together and then fly to the entrance. I didn't care though, I loved my magic carpet from tailoring! People would tell me about attunements from Classic and BC, and it made me want to do them, and I was lucky enough to get to do a lot of them before they were removed. Granted I was 80, but it was fun seeing the story from expansion past, getting to be as much apart of it as a I could at that point. Learning how to solo lower level raids and whatnot as a Warlock was a very welcome challenge.

LFG came and provided a huge convenience, even I loved at it first, but then I realized, LFG is what as killing the immersion for me. Of course at the time, it wasn't too bad, my server wasn't large, and I had gotten to know a lot of people on it, and a lot of times finding a group or half a group in trade chat, and then queuing helped alleviate that.

I ended up shelving my Warlock for a Death Knight during ICC because my guild's OT went AWOL. Learning to tank was fun, and I enjoyed Death Knight tanking specifically, but through Cata and MoP the game just lost it's appeal to me. It suddenly became more about loot and min/maxing for me, and less about feeling like I was a part of this huge world and enacting meaningful changes through raiding to this world.

[Deleted]

The game, as it is in it's current state, is a weekly chore / job. Cap PvE(P) points, do daily's, run LFR or any other 10/25 content, sell some stuff on AH, kill world bosses for mounts that pretty much are there just to keep people killing them, etc.

Besides that, giving legendary s to everyone like candy is a wrong direction (imo) and switching to a lousy cape as a reward it's even worse. The 2nd or 3rd revamp of the talent system was unnecessary and absurd since now you only feel you character is growing once in 15 levels as opposed to 1-3 levels. PvP/PvE is a mess since every month (give or take) classes get nerfed/buffed/nerfed/buffed in a endless cycle, and like a poster above said, these need to be separated to be effective.

The loss of realm individualism and personality was lost with CRZ even after the community expressed their opinions, as it's doing right now regarding the cash shop. As you can see, no response has been given by Blizzzard after the 225 pages on the main thread and countless other threads on this subject; and yet they decided to implement these helms at obnoxious prices - obviously because they listen to our 'feedback'. More will come in a future, with more 'convenience' oriented items.

And last but not least there is the player's fatigue syndrome. After four two-year cycles where my character's progress is effectively nullified and I am forced to grind another five or ten levels to make the game 'begin' again, it feels disillusioning to want to play it again, especially when you realize that after getting BiS in a raid/pvp tier, that gear becomes obsolete after some time and the cycle begins again, offering the player this illusion of power by, in a way, obligate them to continue farming and grinding to be competitive be it in PvP or PvE.

[Djuntas]

1. Play time over 400 days, playing since early vanilla. Weather I want to deney that as the biggest reason, and the only, its defiantly a big one.

2. Game lost its uniqueness. Been there done that, feal to anything I do. Im not amased anymore, everything feels like....meh.

3. Hoping to get the fealing back from what I had inn vanilla/TBC. Chasing the moment that never comes.

4. Fealing like Ive accomplished all inn the game. Yes you can't complete wow, but having lvl'd all classes, had a huge ammount off achivements, tried world ranked raiding very shortly, and inn general raiding inn lower ranks for very long, somewhat big AH player, big collector off everything (Such as one of the best LW recipe collection inn the world, prio to MOP - Had nearly all recipes and let me tell you that aint easy)...

Basicly been there done that.


5. Friends don't play anymore. Fealing abit lonely, social aspect is down. Could join a new guild and give that a chance, but the only reason atm for me to play wow again is to raid the useal 4-5 hours 3-5 times a week, but I'm not a raid logger. If I don't enjoy wow outside off raiding, I just can't get the fun feal.


6. Being sad about the game inn its current state. Just wishing I could exsperience the magic again off vanilla/TBC....sigh

[Lilija]

When you define it as loosely as you do of course it fits into your definition. Don't be fucking coy. It had strong MMO elements upon release that it kept for 3-4 years before it started changing how the game functioned as a whole.

MMORPG is a very lose definition. I understand people don't like that WoW isn't Vanilla/TBC anymore but the changes that happened have nothing to do with it being MMORPG or not.

MMOPRG is not some imaginary model people hold on to from their first experience with the gerne. It's Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game and WoW in all it's expantion fits that definition. The only strong elements of the term is:
- a lot of people playing together online
- controlling a character that grows in strenght while completing certain tasks within the game
- everything is located in an imaginary world
If those factors exist in a game it is an MMORPG regardless if you like it's details or not.

[ShasVa]

Two things drive me away from WoW, or at least burn me out.

1) The incompetence in LFR. When something is new it is somewhat forgivable, but when content has been out for weeks and then months, but players still don't know what to do right, then it is f-ing frustrating.

2) Boredom. Mostly out of reaching a certain point (ie. doing all you can pre-5.4, like me) and then feeling like there is nothing to do.

[Polygonx]

Why would you be on these forums if you quit wow ?

Please tell me you're not serious, a lot of people (me included) still browse MMO-Champion for patch notes etc. to see what's changing, it might change your interest in WoW and might make you consider re-subbing.

That's the only reason I bother browsing MMO-Champion.

[Niight9]

The splitting up of my guild. Couldn't be bothered to find another raiding guild.

Same for me, and dailys, god i hate dailys

[Lilija]

vanilla mmo. player every where doing Group quest. Group quest req 3-5 player killing Elite. Group Quest where u can't just solo the guy with a golden dragon or else you get pwned. where you see player in /1 general asking for help or LFM doing certain quest in that zone and not the /insert anal,chuck norris joke with murlocks movie title...

removing elites monster and removing Group quest was a downfall to grouping up with stranger of your own realm.

You mean those quests everyone ignored because they were more hassle than the reward they gave? After the first wave of people leveled their toons to max on particular server, leveling was pretty lonely experience before LFD was introduced and brought back a reason to group with anyone during leveling process.

now a day wow has little mmo action going on. they trying to bring it back with there new (well gw2) dynamic events.close u get now a day are the world boss. were i am glad they brought them back, while it suck to get a group on low/dead realms.

And this actually makes sense because group activity should exist in places where most players always are (max level) and give really good rewards. Isle or Barrens bosses killing feels much better as a group activity that looking for people for hours to kill some elites while leveling instead of actually leveling.

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@ Lilija

Please leave this thread... there is no point for u to try to question the reasons people quit. They quit and theyre posting here to tell us why. Every post is valuable so please lets not see any abuse aimed at anyone who wants to post on this thread...

This is not a thread of opinion, this is a thread of real events.

[Arganis]

Corporate greed aka Milking the customer with the same old 'carrot on a stick' bullshit over and over and over while throwing everything else out the window.

WoW was great when it was more than just another tool to kill boredom.

[Kezotar]

Why would you be on these forums if you quit wow ?

To haunt people to quit playing the game. We've actually got a scoreboard for that stuff, the best score every month wins a prize.

[Faerilea]

- Boredom from just playing for so many years. Even though I have a lot of 90s I can't stand doing the same monotonous BS anymore on more than 1 character.
- Lack of care from blizz. It's obvious they've become a money machine with 0 care about its player's wants or desires. I hate GC
- 0 community in game. With the instant button gratifications, there's no point for anyone to be social. I seriously haven't made a friend since TBC. Guilds aren't even social anymore. That's going to seem like a 'personal' issue but as far as I can tell that's how it is for most people now.
- PVP fucking ridiculous. As a casual my greatest fun in the game used to be doing pvp. The amount of CC, godly healers, and who can lock you down the most is all pvp is about now
- Stupid changes. I didn't like the direction the game went but was still a subscriber trying to deal with the bad not outweighing the good. Now wow is a former shell of itself

My sub recently ran out and I'm not coming back until next patch, maybe even longer since it doesn't seem like a great patch.