Hello ,
I played every expansion since BC, big fan of lore ( read every warcraft book) yet latests expansions, i always played max 2 months and canceled subscription. When friends told me there are other mmos, i was like nah its not WoW. Suddenly i realized after a while whats the wow psychologi its about and why i dont enjoy it anymore.
New expansion - hype - 8 dungeons - new stuff - raid etc... i eat the content learn new story and whars next? Weekly lock on 3 specific content arena, mythic, raid. And this same thing is going around each season and once you get bag of full epics, which isnt hard. You will just lvl another char. Until you get frustrated about killing each boss for 100 time or jumb to arena where it takes 2 patches until its balanced.
Then they announce new patch, new raid, new conduits , new torghast floor, new season, again the same weekly limited experience and i found out this is what make me bored of game.
So i said to myself last time, each time i said to myself next expansion will be differenemt. No it wont, the wow core mindset is set which i dont like anymore.
So i tried different MMO, i started playing Elder scrolls online, playing already 3 months, never had better experience. I found out the mmo i want to play, is to explore the world and be rewarder for it. No weekly lockouts and time gating. I just cheching and explorong every zone, every aspect pve, pvp, world pvp and have the feeling after long tlme that i dont neeed anything to do in order not to get behind. Like ou shit do i have cap for arenas? Do i have weekly mythic? They are consistently releasing new contents and keeping all content relevant and fresh. No matter what dungeon you are going to pick, its relevant to yout lvl, suddenly you can pick from 50 dungeons and not 8. They dont invent each expansion new mechanics, which then take 2 patches to fix.
If there are people like me, just dont be afraid to stop playing wow, there are much richer MMO out there and if you love story of wow like i do, you can still check whats going on via youtube.
Not saying you should play ESO, just wanted to share, that WoW its very famous, but the quality and what game can offer for subscription today, its nothing compared to past. Each new modern mmo can outperform WoW in content easily, but you know how it is, its bliizard, your favorite and you still keeping hope.
Thanks