I started shadowlands on January 4th and uninstalled on feburary 22nd and have been thinking about the game non stop everyday, using all will power not to reinstall. I quit cigarettes and bad videos easily and usually dont even think about it after 3 days. But I find it actually insane that i was still thinking about wow even almost 1 month after uninstalling.
anyway i caved in last night and reinstalled and was so excited to gear up to later play RBG’s as a spriest.
first thing i did was finish a chapter of the campaign, for the last part it took me somewhere with no flight path around obviously to waste your time. Thats fine I just hearthed and flew back to hand in quest. did not bother with the next chapter because it was too draining, save it for another day.
after that I qued up for bgs and got rolled every game, checked how much honor I gained and immediately gave up. 0 fun and all frustration. Gathered all my gold on all alts then went to stormwind and gave it to the gamblers and then uninstalled. Addiction beaten.
Time to look for another coping tool.
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I’m surprised you didn’t say “friendship ended with WoW, now FFXIV is my best friend.”
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I wish you luck in all your future endeavors.
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Way to go! My sub doesn’t expire until apr 30 now and I am in the same boat, I feel an irrational affection for my characters as if they were pets.
So I acquired a puppy thats now 12 weeks old so I will be busy come end of april walking her and playing frisbee instead of playing a game I now find no fun in. I was so bored I got the ‘trainer’ title from 1000 pet pvp battles and ‘minion of mayhem’
It’s a good note for me to leave on. The rest of the game is just so drab now.
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SL broke my addiction too OP.
16 years with WoW as my favourite thing to do after work and bam!
I never thought WoW could be bad, but Ion and Co. showed me that even with Warcraft, Black Hole levels of suck was perfectly possible.
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I’d ask for your gold but you already gave it away
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Try Valheim and join a community server. I wish I lived in the US, some of those big valheim servers look mighty fun. Build a viking village, join a tribe, co op boss fights.
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See, I feel mostly the same way. I used to get home from school (and later - work) and be excited or at least happy to play WoW. At this point, that’s entirely gone. I’m still subbed, but I have zero desire to actually log in and play, and I’m not even sure if 9.1 will change that when it comes.
But, while I do see obvious issues with Shadowlands, I don’t actually think it’s significantly worse than the last couple expansions, if at all. I think I’m just tired of it. Sure I’d love to see certain things fixed or changed, but I don’t think that’d actually give me more motivation to play right now.
Maybe if 10.0 takes WoW in a new direction, I’ll feel a bit more excited to play again. IMO, WoW design philosophy has come in sets of 3 so far, so I’m optimistic. If 10.0 ends up being another round of straight up Legion design philosophy, I’m probably legitimately done.
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This is a valuable comment.
I find I play wow because my life is missing joyful things like kids, animals, proximate friends, sports, nature etcetera. I play less when things are going well and there’s more life joy to attend to.
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That seems normal. WoW is a game where your toon gets more powerful the more you spent time to it. Most players are now above ilevel 200. Of course your ilevel 171 would be wrecked. Sorry if you dont know this.
I was a hardcore no life back in the days. I quit WoW many times but I kept coming back. So I decided to stay since Legion becoz the game is too casual friendly to me. I dont need to render 24/7 on it. I just play when I get a chance. And it’s working well. I only need an hour to find and complete an M+. 4 days a week minimum seems good to me. Been like that for a while now and I am progressing. I’m at M+10… still going up. I am having fun. And nope, I am no longer addicted to the game. I am just okay as Casual… limited play time but I am no way a noob.
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You stopped playing for less than a month, caved, and then quit again?
Yeah…You’ll be back.
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I’ve played since the first days of WoLK. I always found something to enjoy in each expansion. BfA weaken my spirit but my hope for Shadowlands got me through.
Blizzard wanted our choices to feel meaningful in Shadowlands. So I choose to quit. They were right. It felt like a very meaningful choice.
My new coping tool is Classic. I can see myself playing all the way back around through WoLK. Then I’ll be at the end of where I started. My glorious journey will have come full circle. The end will meet the beginning. Nightmove will meet Nightmove. The circle of life will be complete. Then I’ll forever rest in the Eternal Dream.
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Nothing wrong with moving on. Did it myself in BfA and doing it again in SL. Moved on to Valheim and enjoying myself again on a dedicated server with friends who have also moved on.
Happens to everyone eventually.
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someone explain.
what was op meant to be addicted to?
i mean… i know they’re just using a secondary account to troll with, but shouldn’t they have at least posted from an account which has more than a month of activity if they want to claim they were “addicted”?
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Things should also get better now that covid restrictions are lifting, bowling is always fun, movie theaters are opening again, sports or just shooting some hoops in a gym is fun.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but posting here is evidence of you not beating your addiction.
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I think it takes a few tries to stop smocking, same with WoW.
