Started at the near end of Vanilla, patch 1.10 or so. Been playing on and off since Wrath, I think I’m finally getting burnt of playing this game. I find my self loading it up, play for 1 hour then getting off. Anyone else have this problem?
then getting off
That’s a bit too much information.
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Burnout probably. If I hit that stage I quit for a few months then come back.
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Yes, I used to have the exact same issue.
It went away the day I started Classic.
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The only time this has happened to me is when I’m anticipating a new game or xpac. It makes what I’m currently doing feel pointless. But I usually find a way to continue to have fun. Or just stop for a bit. I mean if you don’t wanna play, don’t. Time will tell.
This happens with anything in life it just takes a very long time for me in classic WoW of course I rolled two characters on two servers on different factions so I made a bunch of busywork for myself and the next couple months. I have waaay too much free time and worked my butt off all summer so settling in to play WoW for a few months is a nice break from reality.
However, reality will come back and say hello eventually and I will find myself in the same position you are in now, logging in for a little while and logging back out, eventually forgetting about the game and finding others to play.
Well once you play every class over and over through many expansions it’s natural to get bored I’ve played this game awhile too and have experienced the majority of the cast so leveling up in classic isn’t exactly awe inspiring and new stuff. Trying to force myself to auto attack to 60 on rogue and warrior is going to be the death of me. I find myself more often now not even bothering. Got majority of my bis and just chilling nowadays in ironforge or just not on at all.
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What’s wrong with playing for just an hour? I do that all the time.
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Dude, me too! I used to do a couple M10+ runs, get burnt out and log off.
Now, with Classic, I’m scrounging around for every little second I can be logged on! I absolutely love it.
I kinda lost interest when most of my friends that came back joined up with private server refugees and “rushed” end game or whatever. I did that last time but we obviously weren’t on the same page when they asked me to come back. I should have got my point across better. Oh well, it has still been some what relaxing slow leveling but phase 2 is going to make that a bit tougher.
Can I have your stuff?
Just logging for raids and then the pvp carnage next week
it is ok to play a game for just an hour…
the game does not need to be your life…
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Its normal your older and you just turned casual that’s all. I play for only an hour or so Mon-fri and on weekends maybe 3 hours a day if that… Its now just another piece of entertainment to me. Nothing more than TV really, if a good movie/show is on, Wow says off, if WoW is the best thing on/todo then its Wow playing time.
OH and there is nothing wrong with that… Life is a mixed bag of things to do… the game is nothing but another piece of entertainment and not a life.
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See you in phase 3!
Life is warcraft, warcraft is life.
I don’t understand this weird attitude so many players have here :
“What’s wrong with me? I don’t want to sit here for hours anymore!”
It means you’re bored. It means you need to find a new distraction. I don’t know why people act like playing this game is a lifestyle choice, I really don’t.
And the concerned players "Hey, buddy, just take a few days off, you’ll get your fire to do the same things over and over back! " It’s kinda creepy, like a cult.
Absolutely, and I’ve seen this in various games. It feels like a lot of people think one of two things; 1) something wrong with them 2) the game needs to change to make them enjoy it again.
It is very, very weird.
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I think you are 100% normal. Nobody publishes numbers, but in my opinion people have ALWAYS been leaving this game, all 15 years. It happens to MMOs, marriages, jobs, romances, everything: people get tired of things after months or years.
Year 1: “yes, it has many flaws, but I ignore them”
Year 12: “I…can’t…stand…these…flaws…any…more!”
The number of years depends on the person. It could be 1 year or 10 years. Eventually EVERYONE leaves the game. The 2019 playerbase has no more than 3% players who started in 2006 or earlier.
Smart players (like you) realize they are sick of the game. Dumb players blame the game, claiming the game was wonderful 10 years ago but has become terrible now. Same game: player changed.
This problem is what led to me finally cancelling my long-running subscription in early MoP. I would log in, look at my (mostly empty) friend list, look at the quest log, look at the farm dailies I could do, and log right back out. What was I paying for? It was a habit to log in; not a deep desire to play.
But that’s Retail. WOW Classic (you’re in the WOW Classic forum FYI) has been a return to wanting to log in, having so many choices when I do so, having people I want to say hello to. I’m not burned out on WOW. I burned out on all the changes piled together that made Cata/MoP and onward a different game that had no hold on me.