I’ve been playing games all my life, and started WoW in 2005. I recently realized that since 2005, the only other games I have ever finished are Diablo 3, Mass Effect 1 and 2, and Dragon Age Origins. I have probably spent thousands of dollars on games that I never finish or play more than a few hours since 2005 and recently Asmongold has been making states along the lines of WoW is the only game he really wants to play.
It made me realize I am in the same boat. I just play WoW. I’ve wasted so much money on other games to realize I don’t care about them. I might ocasionally dable in a racing game or try Skyrim for the 400th time and never get past my first shout before getting bored. I even have an awesome VR setup that I haven’t used in about a year. If WoW was available on console, I wouldn’teven own a PC! I don’t even have Netflix or a pay TV service.
Am I alone here? Despite all it’s shortcomings and things I disagree with, I still believe WoW is the best game ever made and after 15 years I don’t think it’s ever going to be topped. I’ve decided to stop buying all other games.
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I hate to burst your bubble but, you’re a gamer.
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Plays games all his life, but not a gamer. I see… 
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I suppose thats the question. If you only play one game are you still a gamer?
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Yes.
The only way you wouldn’t be a gamer is if you didn’t play any games.
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Whatever you are, I feel bad for you. So many other good games.
Though I do find that I don’t play as many games when I have an active subscription to an MMO. When I was unsubbed completely for WoW for about 6 months, I played a lot of other games.
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I’ve been down that route myself I did take about a six month break in WoD and a about a three month break in early BFA. I played other games during those times and can’t say I hated them, I didn’t. But nothing scrated that itch like WoW has, and still does.
Don’t feel bad for me, feel bad for those that feel like they can no longer find joy or beauty in this game.
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Skyrim is terribly overrated. Stop trying. It’s not worth it.
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I completely agree. I’ve watched others play it, owned several different versions of it. On paper it reads like something I would definitely love. But my experience with Skyrim sums up most of my experiences with modern games, in that I find any solo, single player experience, no matter how “amazing” to be empty and shallow if I can’t share it with other people. Preferable friends and guildies but if I can’t share a game with anyone at all, then what is the point?
I’m the same as you OP.
I’ve played many games maybe for a couple of weeks but the following three have occupied most of my life. I am weird in that I devote myself to a game and it’s the only thing I play.
My parents never bought me any games, but also never objected me trying to get things on my own, which honestly turned out for the best.
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Pokemon Diamond. High school kid and I resold soda cans until I got a first generation DS and used the crap out of it. I have collected every Pokémon in that game and still love it (max IV/EV trained too).
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Grand Fantasia; 8 years playing this game from the end of high school until last year. Go figure it is a free mmorpg. Got me through a lot of hard times.
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World of Wacraft; started the game last year and started exploring the endgame in 8.2/8.2.5 last year. I am so grateful for this game. Feels like there’s infinite content to do.
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WoW is one of the most complicated games you could play, especially if you decided to go back and do stuff in previous xpacs you didn’t play like so many people do. And yea, a bunch of veterans will laugh at that, but for a new-ish player it’s absolutely daunting as hell.
There are more buttons and abilities, more one time use items, more flavor items, more combinations of classes and specs and roles, more varied activities to do - from PVP, raiding, Mythics, pet battle, transmog runs, mount runs, achievements, rep grinds, titles, huge metas like pathfinder, the insane, salty, etc etc etc.
I even ask people if they want to give it a try, and often I get the response of…“I’m not going down that rabbit hole”.
I bet you that long-time WoW players moving on to other games are better players on average than people who only played that other game.
You’re a gamer.
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Same here OP. I used to play multiple games. Now I play Wow. Not even seriously. A few hours a week.
Overwatch and League of Legends are both worth trying.
theyre both easy to transition into as a WoW player. The similar cartoony artstyle makes you feel at home as well.
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This thread is making me have a moment of realization that I may not even like the game in so much that I like the social experience of the game…I need to get out more. shakes fist at covid
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And watches a video game streamer…
I used to be a gamer, too.
I had a similar epiphany after I looked at my Xbox One and realized I haven’t turned it on in years.
Wow is my favorite game and I can’t seem to become interested in anything else.
I refuse to play it at work for fears that the game may become stale if I do.
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Then you took an arrow to the knee?
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after playing wow 15 years i thought your paladin would be higher than lvl 70 
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Skyrim is a game I should love on paper too. I enjoy many games like it, play them to complete and then replay them. That one is just boring. If I was going to recommend a solo game, it would be so incredibly far down the list.
Can’t say I gel with the rest of it. This is the first online game I’ve played and I’ve not managed to find a guild that accepts people of my level and has people online when I am. And I’m kind of anti-social so I mostly play this by myself too. So not much different to my normal gaming experience.
Each to their own. One good thing about WoW is that it accommodates both of us.
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