Help me love WoW again

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I’ve been playing this game on and off since mid/late BC. First on private servers, because I genuinely didn’t know that the game wasn’t f2p, then with Cata I bought the original game, played on EU, late WoD moved to the US.

I loved this game. I stuck with it through the content droughts in MoP (between Siege and WoD), I stuck around as a paying subscriber for the majority of WoD, and I never felt like just not playing.

In Legion I started playing less, because I wasn’t a fan of the Artifact Weapons and my main at the time, Warriors, losing the ability to dual-wield one-handed weapons. I know it’s a minor thing, but it’s just the flavor that I enjoyed, it just kinda made me not have fun with the class. But still, I played for the majority of Legion, I had great fun.

But with BfA, I don’t know what this is, but I just can’t be bothered to log in. I haven’t logged in for days now. I pre-ordered the xpac, I played since launch day, but I still have yet to even complete all questing zones. I have yet to do any dungeons besides like two or three. I haven’t set foot in Uldir, I haven’t done a single war front, and I have not even started part 2 of war campaign (I have completed the first part back in September).

So as you can see it’s not that I’m burnt out, there’s a ton, and really a ton of new content for me to check out. I just don’t feel like logging into the game, and when I do, I play for like 15-30 minutes and log off again.

I tried picking up a new class, this is the guy, a Paladin, and while it’s fun, it did not really fix my problem. I go for like a month without playing the game, resub, play for a week, sometimes even less, and then stop playing for the rest of the month. And the thing is that I just can’t quite place my finger on what’s causing this.

Look, I’m a huge fan of the game. I love the world, I love the lore, I love the game itself. But I just don’t enjoy it anymore, and taking a break clearly doesn’t fix it.

My sub has already expired, I don’t know why am I allowed to post in the forums, but I’m going to take this opportunity to ask you, please, help me regain interest in playing WoW. I don’t want to just take a break until a new xpac releases.

Thank you for reading this long story, I hope you guys can help me out.

Edit: It’s past 2 AM over where I live, so I’ll be going to sleep, but please, keep the comments going, I’ll make a response to all of you when I wake up.

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Honestly if you can’t enjoy it, take a break from it until you feel like playing again.

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Been playing since BC hon. I too just unsubbed, as the game feels like they’re trying to suck every last dollar from me and yet I’m bored as anything in the game. I only realized this when I was logging in maybe twice a week or so, so I had to unsub.

I might come back, I might not, only time will tell. I already know I can’t trust the patch notes to be reliable, since despite promising better communication, 8.1 still had “surprises” that many didn’t like or care for, that “for some reason” weren’t communicated in the patch notes.

Good luck to you OP. I’m in the same boat as you are it seems.

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Just wait for Team A to finish making the next xpac, everybody will love it again. Team A always makes the good expansions

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Wow is one of those games you burn out on. It’s not the game itself, it’s the grind. WoW has been and always will be a repetitive game as most video games are. Telling you to take a break is the best way I can think of to make you love WoW again. I took a 7 year break and I’m loving it again.

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Play FFXIV, the abilities, rotation, and class depth is near MOP level, it actually feels like RPG instead of loot grinder spiced with RNG forging.

WOW wont be back to its old self, these change has started ever since end of MOP to WOD forward, that’s like 3-4 years of development, it would require 3-4 years to revert that back.

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You’re doing it right. If you feel your enthusiasm waning, unsub and take as long a break as it takes. I’ve done it a lot over the years, sometimes for an entire expansion.

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Help me love WoW again

Blizz: Here we just made several new mounts and pets we know that you’ll want to buy and get you right back into gaming, and to give you that authentic Blizz experience each time you purchase an item it may not be the item you actually want! Welcome to Store RNG :smiley:

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I’m just here for Classic. Maybe you would like Classic?

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Sometimes you gotta just walk away :woman_shrugging:

I’ve been playing since 2004 and I’ve had breaks range from a few weeks to nearly a year. If you’re not having fun just take a break. There’s other games you can occupy yourself with for a couple months or however long it takes. I’d always forget about WoW then one day just felt like logging in. Made a new alt, relearned how to play, had new content waiting on me, was fun again.

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Go play RuneScape for a month and see how you feel about WoW when you return.

Works 100% of the time 50% of the time.

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Like everybody else I played a lot at the start, I was super casual, it took me months to get to max level and even at max level I remained purely casual for a long time, at points I would get bored and feel like there’s nothing to do, so I would quit for a while… I loved MOP but didn’t play during WOD.

When I came back for Legion I slowly got into more serious content, got into a guild and started Raiding and that was a total game changer for me and gave a whole new meaning to the game, I eventually landed in a Mythic Raiding guild and I absolutely love it, both progressing in Raids and being part of a guild where you know the other players and actually do stuff together.

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Yeesh. I wish I got 8 year paid vacations. :slight_smile:

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Hahahaha So sad and so true :money_mouth_face:

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I’ve taken a break pretty much every x-pack and I highly recommend it. While away, play other games and do other stuff. If at the some point you feel like playing again, great…if not, great!

WoW is not life, you are not obligated to play. You don’t owe Blizz anything. Best of luck to you OP.

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“Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.”
-Steve Jobs

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This is the best answer. And it works like a charm.

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Well…you probably played nearly every race and class…do you have a bunch of players to do things with? Are you in a guild? Do you want to start a guild? Maybe you can be a trainer for new players.

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My personal advice don’t force yourself to love one game, I personally play and love many many many games and WoW is just one of those games I’ve loved for a long time, but if I get burnt out I just step back… no tears, no forum post love poem to blizzard. Games are meant to enjoy if you don’t enjoy a game you’re playing move onto a new one or explore a brand new genre you didn’t think you’d like. You don’t have to have done all the content in the game to get burnt out by the way, you sound burnt out to me in general

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cant say anything to you I quit today already not coming back at all I tried really to stay but not enjoying it at all