Did you unsubscribe during Cataclysm?

[Cattleya]

I did, but then I unsubbed during every expansion so that's not really due to cataclysm specifically.

[Incarnia]

I did.
Reason for that was that I didn't know how to play the game as a casual, and not as a hardcore raider anymore. Life happened, and I just couldn't juggle that and a busy raid schedule ontop of it anymore. It just felt too awkward and too sad, seeing my previous fellow raiders do what I loved doing and not be able to participate in it. So I stopped playing altogether. Returned to the game and to the same guild one or two months into MoP, had no real issues with playing the game as a casual by then.

My motivation to unsub had nothing to do with weather or not the expansion was good or not. It purely came down to personal reasons.

[Deleted]

yes. that shit was the beginning of the end of WoW as we knew it before

[AlamarAtMMOC]

So, did you unsubscribe during Cataclysm? And if YES, why?

Yes, of course... Because I unsub during every expansion... Can only do the same shit over and over so many times... Though I stayed subbed more often in Legion just for the easy gold.

[Snowfunk]

Yes, only expansion I didn't play at all.

[Deleted]

Played from vanilla to end of wrath, played about a month of WoD then came back properly from Legion onwards.

There were a couple of good MMOs releases around the time of cata (Rift and Gw2 for me) that distracted me from WoW.

[Lei]

Yeah when cata launched I completed most new PvE achieves except for the raid ones, then went on a 2-3 months break. I wasn't a raider that time so there was nothing else to do for me. Came back for Firelands, then stayed. I actually like the last year of expansions, being OP and smash things and get stuff done more easily is fun for me. Plus leveling alts in OP heirlooms superfast. I mean obv. when that was a thing... :/

(Mop was the same. Took a 2-3 month break somewhere between the first and second raid, then stayed. WoD... Pffhh. Many small breaks. Legion, mostly a break. I guess I became "The Cyclical Player" blizz wants me, and made me to be. I log in for new achieves, then I unsub and wait, because the main systems of the game don't attract me, and I refuse to participate in them such as AP and legendary chasing. So then I obv. don't raid. Or can't. But that's fine for me.)

[Not A Cat]

Dragon Soul made me quit until Throne of Thunder which made me love the game again.

[Orby]

Yes, it was also the expansion that killed my hardcore raiding days. While I am still in that guild as a social member these days, I haven't raided with my guild since Firelands.

I did return during MoP only to level to max level and quit again. I did return in WoD fuill time again but only as a casual player which I am to this day. I do regret not being around for MoP keep being told how great it was and I want to believe them just a shame I didnt experience the most of it the way everyone else did.

[Mstone7781]

I usually take about 4-6 months off every expansion at some point. Cata was the expansion that I stopped being hardcore in though. Never got back into world first races and shit.

[Deferionus]

I unsubscribed during Cata but I personally loved the expansion. I thought it was great, and still hold it in high regard. For myself, I was largely a PvP player at the time, but a lot of the guys I played with went over to League to play. Admittedly, league is the superior game for player vs player, so these guys never came back to WoW and as a result I did not play WoW much again until WoD.

Even to this day I tend to play WoW casually for a few months and then don't touch it for awhile where as in the past I was on it daily and was a very hardcore player. I think this is due to a mixture of other viable, quality, online games to play and just doing the same thing since 2005.

[shade076]

unsubbed after leveling through cata, then refunded WoD during prepatch I didnt come back to it until the hellfire citadel patch