I want to play WoW, but it's just not fun anymore

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When I first started WoW, I didn’t like it. Got it for, iirc, my birthday, back when Vanilla was a thing. I didn’t really like it, and didn’t play it all that much, but still asked for expansions. Come WOTLK, it was super enjoyable all of a sudden, and my brother had gotten into the game too, but I never really talked to him about it and we played on diff servers / factions.

I couldn’t put the game down. It was basically all I played. I tried games like League (which I now have many thousands of hours in), and just didn’t feel like playing them 'cause I had WoW. I enjoyed it more and more, and then Monk came out with fistweaving, and it was the best thing I’ve played in an MMO. I would literally sit there and delete max level / heroic raid (at the time there was no mythic, heroic was highest) geared characters to relevel them and progress my gear again.

Then I saw the changes coming on the WoD prepatch, and I started losing interest in the game. I looked into other MMOs like Maplestory 2, Wildstar, FFXIV, and etc., and while I enjoyed them for a while, they just didn’t have the same gameplay as WoW. After the WoD prepatch hit, I did one single run of the new Blackrock Spire on my Monk, one run of RFK on my BM Hunter, and immediately unsubbed. Both classes were just ruined, and every other class was in the same boat.

I’d come back every expansion for like, a week or two, maybe do the story if I was lucky, but I’d always just ultimately get bored.

With TWW, I thought I’d enjoy the game again because some of the hero talents looked interesting (like Lightsmith), and I sorta kinda didn’t hate Dragonflight, but having gotten my hpal and prevoker to 80 and gearing them for mythics, I just don’t really care anymore. The new story isn’t really interesting (though it’s better than DF), and the gameplay just sucks now, even if I try to pretend it doesn’t.

I keep telling myself mythics will be fun since I don’t hate the dungeons as much as I did the DF ones, but it won’t be, it’s still the same gameplay, just higher numbers.

I’d just go play the new GW2 expansion, or the new FFXIV expansion, but both games are worse than even current WoW (for various reasons), so they’re not really options. I play League way too much, but I absolutely hate the game and everyone that runs it, so it’s probably not healthy for me. So I’ll get AOTC, pug M+ for a week, then get bored again and go back to League. Same as usual for the last several years.

Nothing will change for my pointless whining, and the game is only going to get worse, even with Bobby gone. I just wish things were different, that I still had WoW to turn to when other games didn’t work for me.

But I don’t. Not anymore.

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Send me your gold

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vanilla wow made me sign away a waiver to quit the hospital early after surgery , with the character selection screen alone.

i needed to get back to my freshly created paladin asap.

these days that magic is long gone :wink:

i’m still waiting for the next game to create that feeling again… been a while.

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I’m just wating for a game that isn’t designed to be played by hamsters who don’t have hands.

But every new MMO is so horribly easy I don’t understand how people can stomach playing them. And now WoW is that way too, thanks to Ion.

Non-MMOs are just copies of one another, so they get boring.

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I don’t really have much that I can offer you, but WoW is largely what you make of it. The core gameplay is still good. Yeah, the scaling is somewhat of a poop-show, but the core gameplay is still better than the rest (of the mmorpgs.)

Try this: Join a new server and new faction. Level up doing something radically different. (Like if you’ve never done warmode, do that.) Go out of your way to find other people to play with and try to make your own gameplay loop.

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It’s not the faction, or playing without warmode, bro.

In MoP, fistweaver had 3 resources to juggle, you had to actively think about what you were doing, a lot of your healing was a skillshot, and you could out perform people with 40-50 ilvl higher than you.

Nowadays you push like 3 buttons, have no chi anymore, basically infinite mana, and the class has so much passive / auto target healing that you really don’t need to think at all, class just plays itself. Being good or bad hardly matters, most of your performance comes from gear now.

And it’s not like the content is harder. Everything is just so homogenized and simplistic now.

It’s just not the same WoW I used to play, now it’s like, participation trophy the game and people have MASSIVE egos for no reason.

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You’re burnt out. Go play single-player games for a while, or take a break entirely. It’s OK to grow out of a hobby or change tastes, and frankly, yes, MMOs are boring and stale, and have been in a rut for a very long time, which is why not many are getting made anymore.

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Lotta singleplayer games suck too bro. Industry in general is just depressing.

And, since the WoD prepatch, I’ve played maybe two months total. I’ve been taking a break for like a decade. Game just isn’t fun anymore.

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I enjoyed many hours of Elden Ring, RDR2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a couple of builder sims (Planet Zoo and stuff), BG3, Disco Elysium, Tyranny (I loved that game’s story), Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, etc… etc. I’m not big into shooters and I like games that either have a very good story or make you think and plan in some way.

Your tastes may vary but there have been some very good games out in the past few years unless your expectations are just way unrealistic.

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I remember. I got CM Gold with mistweaver (back when everyone wanted a BM instead for CMs.) I did it just because it was a less desirable spec for CMs. I had a blast with it. Spinning to win.

The game is definitely different. The entire mentality of the game has shifted drastically in the direction of the grandma demographic, but that’s where we’re at. I’m just offering that in today’s WoW you have to make the most of what you have. Pushing yourself into challenging situations or even dangerous ones surrounded by hostiles is about the only way you’re going to get something memorable out of the game.

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i lost interest when:

they openly allowed people to sell services for real money in new “service” channel.

Farming bots running rampant everywhere with no consequences, ( wave bans caugh caugh…)

AH is being abused with TSM scam addon.

They only censore everyone who voice their opinions about such things. You cheat - no ban. You say something that someone did not like - ban.

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RP is also an option if you like to write or are creative.

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You’re struggling to find joy. Maybe look outside video games if they’re all disappointing you.

It’s a you issue.

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This is a true statement. ^^

When you find that nothing makes you happy, then the problem is inside of you.

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The last game I genuinely enjoyed was Hifi Rush. Before that… I don’t even know. Nothing that’s modern, at least.

That’s Activision’s influence. They fired GMs because they’re “unnecessary,” cheaters have to pay subs too, and pandering to people is safer for income.

Everything that did make me happy no longer exists, so.

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Guess it’s just not profitable to make games specifically for you.

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Have you considered maybe you’re really just not that into video games and it’s time to move on to something else?

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I LOVE video games bro. I just feel like that one food critic from Ratatouille; I love games, they’re most of what I care about, but everything these days just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth.

  • I’d like to get into like gaming journalism, but I hate every modern game and studio, and I doubt there’s room for that.

  • I’d like to get into streaming, but I can’t pretend to be goofy and happy like streamers tend to be.

  • I’d like to be a game dev (was a dream of mine when I was a kid), but I don’t want anything to do with the industry anymore. And a game I made for myself wouldn’t be fun since I know everything in it.

Like, even Nintendo, who I always looked up to and dreamed of working for, is just garbage now. As soon as Iwata died, so did Nintendo.

Everything I ever wanted to do as a kid is just gone.

I tried other things; I do art, I cook (and used to do it professionally before covid took my job away), I write, I read literally every book in my county library I care to read, I enjoy playing instruments and writing music, and so on. But I suck at art, cooking isn’t fun when I’m doing it as a job, and everything else just gets boring.

But I never got sick of gaming. The industry just became garbage run by garbage people.

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I mean. You’re not wrong. And I’m not trying to tell you what to do. Just offering some helpful ideas. The thing is, you need friends. This game has devolved to a point that if you’re trying to play it as a single player game, you’re gonna hate it. It’s very bland compared to the old days. It just doesn’t have the gravitas that it used to.

That being said, there’s still opportunities to have fun. It’s largely a matter of perspective and who you’re around. Like trying to find the pony because you’re surrounded by dung, you have to try to find the fun.

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Lol, I’ve been playing online games for like 20+ years, never had friends in any of the games I’ve played.

But I always had fun playing the games all the same. Probably more than most people.

Not anymore though.