Originally Posted by
Serpentsatellite
At the beginning of Cata, when 25 man raiding declined and my guild broke up, having to write job applications for guilds and do phone interviews was what drove me away.
Especially when that would ultimately lead to paying to transfer servers, and spend time as a "trial" who was treated like crap.
Basically, the fact that people treat the game like a full time job, complete with performance reviews and interviews, instead of a GAME.
And that, invariably, when looking for a non-hardcore guild, I would find one that would just barely beat normals, and then IMMEDIATELY go into Heroic and beat their heads against the first boss for weeks on end while no one geared up.
I DO also agree that on the leveling side, the general hopeless feeling of the Alliance side, at least, is strangely a huge turn off.