There will come a day when this game closes and the actual pixels you have will mean nothing.
If you want to take a break, take a break.
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I recommend that if you want to take a break, Just take the break.
(I took a 3-month break earlier in the expansion for out-of-game reasons unrelated to my enjoyment of the game and I think it was probably very healthy for me to detach a little)
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I feel called out …
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But you’d let me know if you did right 
no luxuria dont quit.
“exclusive”. They do tend to come around again.
This hit me in undermine, all of those goblin factions turned me off of collecting for some reason, most of the stuff was meh. The Arathi event helped with it as well.
I told myself, unless I have to have it, I’m done with the abundance of collectibles I just don’t ever seem to use.
I had lots of fun collecting everything in DF, getting the dog mount I rarely use, pet battles, etc. However, this expansion killed that desire off for me and I feel it was for the best.
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Oh well, if you want them you have to play and hopefully they never bring these things back once the events are over.
bring back the potato smasher toy.
The problem with this is that in doing so you probably sacrificed hundreds of hours you could’ve spent enjoying other games that sit in your backlog. The reward for doing things while they’re current should be having things while it’s current while everyone who doesn’t has to wait.
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ummm dune Frank Herbert quote from dune?
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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This is deliberate on their part, this is how they get people to keep playing these days, and it will only get worse. More and more quantity, less and less quality.
Break the cycle. Take a forever break. There’s never been a better time.
WoW has been my main game since 20 years ago. I did have some breaks on it. I played all StarCraft 2 versions, Diablo 3 and Diablo 3:Necromancers, GTA 3, GTA 4, GTA 5 (just completing the Main Story). I remember I quit WoW to tame my addiction to it. I played SWTOR when it was released just to realize that WoW is a way better game so I went back to WoW but I became Casual.
I also left Retail during BFA becoz I was chosen to participate on WoW Classic Beta since I was a Vanilla veteran. BFA weekly cache was stupid anyway… I only need 1 M+ run to get my Vault loot which has no options regardless if you do 25x M+ runs or 1x, you would have the same Vault loot (no choices). I played Classic and played 1x BFA M+ run per week and once I reached max level and gear in Classic, there’s nothing to do in there other than to raid log (show up on Tuesday and spend 3 hours to kill all Raid Bosses , logout then return on next Tuesdays, repeat). I went back to BFA instead to get my Bee Mount and I didnt regret of my decision to come back.
In Shadowlands, I had a break too. There was Diablo2:Resurrected. Diablo 2 fanatics claimed they spent 20 years to beat it. I was furious so I tried it. I beat its hardest difficulty final boss in a month. Then I saw Age of Empires IV was released. I was curious… beat its campaign on hardest difficulty then I went back to Shadowlands.
I had a long break too after getting AoTC and KSM during Season 1 of Dragonflight. Diablo 4 was released. I stayed there for several Seasons until I have beaten Uber Lilith without Special Unique item. It happened when TWW was about to be released. So I returned to WoW and I have been here again ever since.
Maybe on Midnight, I might finally rest and leave WoW for good as I am not a fan of Electronic Doll House. I am fond of killing stuffs on WoW to gear up to kill more powerful foes. But if you would reward me with Cosmetic House stuffs instead of gear when I kill powerful monsters, I would be greatly turned off. We will see. All I know is Ion is not a Carebear.
I kinda hate TP FOMO.
With one offs and yearly holidays and stuff you can kinda just accept “oops, missed that I guess, oh well”. But the sheer volume of useful mog pieces that flow through the TP every single month is such a big deal.
Like, sure, none of it is completely unobtainable after the first time it shows up, but you never know if something will return in 3 months or 19 or 27 (especially if it was a completion reward).
It feels bad talking to friends who are returning players or who just generally take frequent breaks from WoW because so often they see something cool they like and the answer to “where do you get that” just isn’t ever “you go do x thing in the game” its always “well you had to be here during February of 2024 but if you stay subbed for the next 2 years straight it’ll probably show up again at some point maybe”.
I don’t mind exclusive rewards for people who “were there” in general, especially in regards to rewards for in-game challenges. But TP isn’t content, it’s a Transmog Shop, and the sheer volume of stuff you can’t do anything but “wait and see” for is a major vibe killer for someone who took time away.
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Well it hasn’t worked. For me anyway. The overabundance of collectibles, especially mounts and pets just made me lose interest in collecting and having them all. Unless it is easy to get low hanging fruit or something I love and will use I mostly just don’t bother.
I have mount collecting exhaustion. There are so many added constantly now.
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My issue is that exclusivity limits a players options.
With >99% of the game I have the option of participating now and getting the reward now or missing out on the thing and getting it later.
This means that during something like the Halloween event I can say “oh I’d really like that mount but I really don’t feel like playing wow right now” because I know I can always try again next year.
With the <1% of items that are exclusive I don’t have the option of taking a break if I want the item.
There have been a few times where I’ve loathed every second of playing a game I normally love just because I don’t want to miss out on something and when you force yourself to do something you don’t really want to do it can permanently damage how you feel about that thing. Missing out on the mage tower skins for my Druid has completely destroyed any desire I have to main my Druid again even though it’s the character that is most sentimental to me (my first ever subscription to wow was because I wanted to play a Worgen Druid and free trials didn’t have Worgen)
But since the form I like most is locked behind an impossible wall I’ll always feel like it’s missing something, because it is. The last few expansions have seen numerous class changes that have made me dislike my current main (BM hunter) because it feels like I’m just hitting whatever procs like a game of whack-a-mole and it just doesn’t feel as nice to play.
For a moment I was excited about the future and the thought of going back to Druid when it finally hit me that my main was part of the reason I was getting over WoW, but the missing forms ruined that for me.
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I know that feeling. I used to relish the periods of downtime after a patch had been out for a couple of months. I don’t really get that now that mythic tier appearances are obtainable by solo players. I do technically have a point where I would feel “done” with a patch, but unfortunately that will be after I’ve got all the mythic tier appearances. So far I’m at 5/13 done, so it may be a while. Because how could I leave any on the table? Sure, I think some of them are ugly and bad, but maybe one day I will feel differently!
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Same.
I’ve been playing for 20 years, the last couple of expansions I pretty much just collect stuff - mounts, achieves, pets, transmog, everything really.
I knew I’d never get to the end, but I felt like I could kind of keep up with what was added, and then still work on old stuff as well. I enjoyed pottering away at it, having different alts for different things, not having to concentrate too hard, just getting that little dopamine hit from getting something new.
But then the amount of collectibles and FOMO events that started getting added with every patch just became too much. It’s just an endless flood, none of them of mean anything and it’s at the point where I feel like I’m always going backwards rather than forwards. Decor will only make it worse. As you say, it’s exhausting.
Honestly made it much easier to unsub and not play than I would have expected (UI customisation goes, so do I). I’ve been tempted to get back on as I have game time until March, and did do a few days of Lemix, but all that did was hammer the point home even more, so I haven’t been back.
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I enjoyed WoW not really mainly becoz of the specific items/loots. I am more into the achievements not really on loots. Like i go for more on how much progress I did from the game than getting a specific loot.
I tried it one time. There was a time in WoW where I put a lot of playtime like in Wrath. My Main was a DK. I spent many weeks on Ice Crown Citadel to get her BiS trinket. I never won it. It dropped few times but I didn’t win it. And I had a Hunter alt and it dropped too on her… she won it easily and there were times this BiS trinket were like disenchanted as everybody had it but my main DK never had it. This surely showed me how RNG really works.
You could have bad luck… but not all the time, I had bad luck. I was lucky when the Guild awarded me the first and only Zinrokh, Destroyer of Worlds drop from ZG in Vanilla. In BFA, I was lucky to get my BiS legendary very early in the Season where some players got their BiS legendaries almost at the end of the Season.
So I base my contentment on the game not on getting the specific loot I want. I could farm for something for 20 years and it won’t drop. I am just now happy if there are 10 items I like on the Season, and I get 3 out of 10 especially now that I am Casual with less play time.
Most of my contentment are on the Achievements like KSM, KSH, AoTC and killing Nemesis Bosses… getting 3 out of 10 BiS items in there is very possible. I am not going to cry if i didnt get a specific item. On gear/loots, there are bad luck protection now. On Tier set, there is catalyst to complete the set. But on mount drops, there is no bad luck protection on there… but you could get lucky to get it’s recolor version from Trading Post.
You see, the problem is that whatever this Dune thing is, I don’t know it.