I have been playing on and off for the past 15 years (mainly on) and i have have always had great enjoyment out of this game, but everything just seems like a chore now. even with the new gear leveling system, at first i enjoyed it but now i would prefer the old loot style. Sure they intorduce a new class and change talents, have multiple classic realms now and also things like remix and plunderstorm. It just all seems to go bland so quick. (with the exception of remix.) Maybe its the elistist style wow has been pushing or maybe i am finally bored with the gameâŚany thoughts?
ps: i dont think the game itself is bad, it just seems too repetitive at this point to have any real excitment.
Youâve been playing a game for 15 years. Itâs going to feel repetitive. Its like a show thats on its 20th season⌠its not going to feel the same as the first season even if its still a decent show.
Bingo, been playing since 04 and took a huge break to the point I lost my first account. Back again and having fun but I came back after stopping in MoP and came at the end of BFA. Went into shadowlanda for a long time, stopped playing again until the tail end of shadowlands. Went into Df, played a lot then quit yet again to come back in the tail end. Iâm expecting the game this time but Iâm going to stay for the undermine patch
I cannot speak to the feelings of blandness, but I can speak to the waning of drive to log in every day (or on whatever your gaming pattern was).
I donât know what stage you are in life, but perhaps video gaming has become a back-burner hobby. If you know WoW is for you, then just keep the sub open and log in when the moment strikes you.
At this point, with so much going on in my life, I am working on figuring out what âcasual playâ means to me and how to structure it. I may log in every day for weeks, then stop for a week before logging in again. I find small goals and work on those. Whatever strikes my fancy, basically.
Itâs my way of remaining connected to Azeroth, and because I am reshaping how I play to fit my life the way it is currently, I enjoy it when I visit.
I have been playing off and on since the start. Starting in BFA I stay subbed 6 months and take a 6 month break. Itâs been working until now. I like loved the MSQ, but Iâm not vibing with anything else. I log on once a week and it even feels like a chore to do that. 2 months left on this sub and Iâm done for 6 months.
Watched to see what was coming and zero hype after seeing it. Maybe housing will be neat if itâs done right, but I get the feeling blizz is going to monetize the crap out of it.
3 years in (+1 month now) for me and likely Iâm still in the âmagic of itâ.
When current stuff bores me I continue my progression on the older stuff. Considering Iâve made it only 1 expansion back from when I started (started SL and just getting to BfA stuff), I suspect I have a long way to go.
If I were to summarize my thoughts on WoW at the moment:
Great game.
HORRIBLE systems.
The core gameplay mechanics of the game, even as theyâre getting long in the tooth, hold up very well⌠though Iâll probably be permanently grumpy about the removal of off-GCD abilities in general, even if a few were clawed back.
But the systems theyâve built around that core gameplay ranges from mediocre to downright painful. I ACTIVELY avoid the endgame at this point, just for my own sanity; everythingâs too drawn out and grindy to be enjoyable.
The storytelling (another facet of the âsystemsâ side of things for this argument) still feels rather weak and under-developed, but I feel the audience WoW has cultivated generally isnât interested in more nuanced storytelling. What moves they can make just feel like theyâre barely coming up to par, not challenging the games known for telling good stories.
⌠but underneath it all, the game is still kind of fun to play on the granular level.
The trouble seems to be everything else.
Iâve played since the original vanilla beta, so Iâve seen it all. Itâs always been a boring chore. The best fun for me is world quests and bosses because I get to work with actual players to earn some reward. Iâm not a fan of dungeons since theyâre so toxicâat least when I try one, I get the silent kickers who tick me off for 30 minutes. But it is what it is; itâs an old game. If you take a break for 2 months after a new expansion and donât come back until the second-to-last patch of the expansion, those are good times, at least for me.
This means you likely came to the game at the end of Wrath and start of Cata. If you think it is a chore, then it is a chore, and may be time for something new. I can remember
Cata - Having to portal all over the game just to do dailies, and grinding Firelands for 2 months just to get my rep and my staff
MoP - 5.1 Revenge of the Golden Pagoda dailies and 5.2 the âYo dawg I heard you liked more dailies with your dailiesâ plus our farm at Half hill and the rep grind over 4 zones per character.
WoD - Dailies closer together, but the constant minigame âGarrisonvilleâ that if you did not keep up, you were behind in Progression
Legion - another Mission table to go with Class hall setups, chasing artifacts, and pursuing more allied races while dailies and Legion invasions took you everywhere before you spent the last 8 months doing dailies on the Broken Shore / Made Tower
I wonât even bother with BfA, SL, or DF (which was not terrible). But you get the drift. This whole game is a treadmill. This is the fastest expansion (minus the TWW Pre-patch moment) that we have ever leveled characters, gotten Loremaster, or unlocked Pathfinder. However, professions have been garbage since WoD, and we are constantly being recycled into old content and dungeons to allow for faster expansion releases. I wish you luck.
I think itâs because youâve been playing the game for 15 years. Iâve been playing the same amount of time (15 years and also mostly on) but every now and then, a break is needed. Itâs to be expected and thereâs certainly nothing wrong with your or WoW. I would advise taking a break and coming back at a later time when you are feeling refreshed. Iâve done it many times.