I have no choice but to quit wow unless it comes to consoles since my PC broke and I don’t plan on buying another. Too expensive and obsolete too quick. Sticking with consoles for the foreseeable future.
So ttfn wowers have fun in tww.
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first in for pets and gold
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If their PC went, they can’t trade it lol
But yeah I feel that with the OP sometimes just having a console is just… idk
You have the game, it’s for games, you sit down and play the games… it’s pretty straight forward.
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Tah tah for now?
If so, I hope that you manage to resolve your PC issues and get back to playing soon, if that’s what you want. In the meantime take care. 
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Just buy a steamdeck, trade us your gold, then return the deck. Everyone happy!!!
Everything is replaceable. I’ve had PC’s for 5-6 years no problem on hardware, what are you doing to yours? 
What PC problems are you having?
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My last piece together PC is 8 years old and still rocking but I gave it away. This one is a pre built and is the biggest POS. I’ve narrowed it down to the mobo or psu but I pretty much have to get a whole new pc due to proprietary connectors and stuff that’s why I don’t feel like bothering with it
You can build a decent PC with the cash you would spend on the console, just saying. This PC I am on was like, $200 bucks of aftermarket and Ebay parts.
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my laptop is 8 years old and i play wow just fine & its cheaper than console
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Sorry about your machine dying on you. Hope fate brings you back one day. Take care.
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Buying prebuilt is always a mistake imo. Build your own or have a buddy do it for you
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I do wish WoW would come to XBox but I get it.
I built my computer because I wanted to prove something lol. I got the whole thing custom water cooled with rigid tubing. Was not cheap.
I don’t really care much for being a “gamer” these days though. It’s big and I get tired of upgrading it every few years or so. Too expensive to maintain, the liquid cooling is nice but overdone at this point. I had such a royal headache trying to bulk order fittings directly from EK and they just sat on that order for months while my computer was disassembled on the floor for that entire time.
I never want to do that again. Ever.
Hope you find a way back to this game. Take care!
While I agree that console gaming is overall cheaper (or can be, if you mostly play what’s on GamePass or PS+), PC gaming doesn’t have to be expensive or quickly obsolete. This really depends on the hardware you buy, i.e. NOT an off-the-shelf computer from a discounter, and especially not a gaming laptop.
A good gaming PC is initially more expensive, but if you research and build (or have built) a machine with expandability in mind, you only need to gradually upgrade it over the years. Most of the core components can be upgraded on a “as needed” basis even by the average person. You can also target upgrades and improve specific performance areas, depending on what you want.
Realistically, you’ll probably still pay more for the hardware than if you bought a new console model every six or seven years (so strictly for gaming, consoles likely are cheaper), but the games are cheaper and you have much better backward compatibility with PCs. You never have to re-buy your old games for the new system.
PlayStation only introduced good backward compatibility with the PS5, and it’s just for PS4 games. You can’t play your PS1, PS2, PS3 games on the PS5. Xbox is better, but still similar. And modern Nintendo is just awful when it comes to backward compatibility.
Consoles are also always a compromise. I tried gaming exclusively on PS5 for a whole year and it just didn’t work. A lot of brand-new games run at 30 fps, only a few do 60 fps. I simply can’t do 30 fps, it’s really not fun - that was okay 30 years ago, it’s not now. But then again, I was never really a full time console gamer after the Atari 2600 and always had PCs since. I play too many PC-only games also, like WoW, complex strategy games, indie stuff.
With consoles, you also pay extra for some things. You ideally need a good (gaming) TV, which costs 2-3 times as much as a good 27" gaming monitor, you are very limited with peripherals (can’t just use ANY controller, for example), you pay for playing online, you ideally still need a storage expansion, you can’t buy game keys from third party vendors (much less competition), you usually get much worse refund policies (if any), sales are generally worse on consoles due to there just being one platform, etc,
And above all: You can only game on consoles. I actually get the attraction of that and this is why I had tried to move my gaming to a console, but I need a PC for work and other hobbies anyway, so I may as well invest the money I’d pay for a console in getting better PC components. The $500+ you pay for a console buy you a decent video card.
But anyway, if your predominant feeling about not being able to play WoW is “finally free”, then really, this is a good thing for you. Any game you feel this way about is a game you should not be playing, because it’s not good for you or your life. I’ve been there.
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If I get the bare minimum I’ll at least need a mobo case and psu but I really don’t like to buy last gen hardware but I’ll have to if I want to save a couple hundred on the cpu and ram. I’m pretty poor so a a couple hundred matters
I feel sorry for those who quit PC gaming and going over to an inferior console over one roadblock. Major Roadblock, but a roadblock can be overcomed easily none the less.
How did your PC break exactly? Did your hard drive got wiped or something?
As somebody who did fried a mobo, i can tell you can easily replace it and nothing would functionally change… Well, outside of the Bios options if you care about that.
As for PSU, again, nothing major would change cept for the amount of watts the computer draw in.
Mmmm. Not always. I saved up for a cyberpower PC AMD FX 6300 back in 2016, and brotha… best 1K i’ve ever spent, it’s to a point where i was cemented into PC gaming and never looked back at the consoles. 
Okay maaaaaaaaaaaybe for Steam Deck.
And it what led me to building a PC. I went from Scrub to casual PC builder in just little over 4 years. Saved up, grab the parts individually, headhunt the GPU’s cause the market sucks, scored me a 3070, got me a 3090 down the road cause my family ordered themselves an alienware computer.
Ya know what’s dumb about all this?
Xbox Series X can play PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3 games via by emulation. Natively.
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My old PC is an i5-4570 with an rx 560 and cheap DDR3 memory. This rig is barely worth $200 on the resale market, and I’m sure it can handle WoW just fine.
You could buy a $50 Dell Optiplex off Ebay and fit it with your old GPU and be playing this game on medium settings with ease.
Bruh a 500 dollar system can run WoW. At a stable 60 frames. Medium settings. Wtf you talking about expensive.
Or he could just get a Steam Deck, dock it to a monitor, and install Windows on it. That way he has a badass handheld too.