Its time to leave

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I won’t lie. I love world of warcraft. I remember being young as hell, reading through the old school thick vanilla wow manual as my dad played it. I remember AV lasting days on end, calling into school sick so I could play for my dad when he went to work. I remember the portal opening, and rushing for Black Temple. I remember almost getting realm first for Lich King, and the hours upon hours spent in ICC and the argent tourney. I remember leaving before Firelands came out, but coming back for MoP with my love of monks and the chinese esc themes. I remember actually enjoying most of mists, and the powerhouse of monk. I even stuck out WoD as I actually enjoyed the raiding scene, and got into WoW RP realms, which to this day I still play with and love my guild Legion of the Dawn to death. The large scale rppvp events to bypass the content droughts made it fun. I remember enjoying the hell out of Legion, and doing the Mage Tower to be one of the first on Wyrmrest with a Shattered Ashbringer.
But BFA is different.
I, grinded day one to max level to find not much there.
Exploration and growth, as well as even compacted area dailies were just replaced with world quests.
Rep grinds became annoying boring, with different shades of horses.
I was so excited for everything in BFa, with warfronts giving us a RP battlefield to work with, and do storyplots. But you couldn’t form raids for warfronts.
I was excited to see faction v faction raid tiers and pvp revamps. But Uldir didn’t spark interest in me at all.
Dazaralor I had such high hopes for, but I won’t lie, I haven’t touched it save for the first boss. The actual will to play the game’s been just gone.
Where as I used to spend hours a day in this game, I barely log on once a week, for a single emissary quest.
The story has turned into a Garrosh 2.0. Player choice doesn’t matter.
I will probably come back in Vanilla’s re-release, but why? I do miss the actual aspect of being an “adventurer”. I liked the old talent system, if nothing more than choice and custom build. I know cookie cutter builds existed then, but don’t act like they don’t now. It’s just cheaper to switch your talents.
I can’t recapture the nostalgia, but I can say this much. I don’t hate world of warcraft.
I hate battle for azeroth.
Azerite armor is nothing more than a carrot on a stick grind, for something I absolutely just do not care about.
Mythic + is all well and good for esport events and such, but it’s replaced the ilvl tier of raiding. (and I won’t even touch the mess that is Raderio on this message)
I don’t want to raid. I barely find pvp enjoyable. I can’t even enjoy my paladin, a class I’ve played since divine storm wasn’t even a concept.
I don’t know what to say to blizzard to fix this.
I’d like more choice. More custom options. Old talent trees, none of this endless grind legendary item bull. No more titantitantitanforged weapons, making it an endless slough of getting 5 ilvls higher on the curve.
Preach was right on one aspect of one of his recent videos, where what happened to BIS items? I don’t know what my Ret’s BIS is anymore. Do I just farm mythic + until I get an azerite piece that I can’t even use the traits for because I didn’t grind my necklace through 10+ island expeditions this week?
Hell, my alts have 3-4 ilvls less on their neck because of the azerite % growth that comes.
What’s the point of gearing up for this raid? Mythic 5+s will give the same ilvl in 3-4 months.
These are some of the questions that have run through my mind the last few months of this expansion.
Blizzard, this is literally a desire from a fan who has been with you for literally over half my life. I want to enjoy this game again. But I need you to fix what’s so obviously wrong with it. Listen to your fans. If everyone is crying out the same thing, it’s not wrong. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with admitting faults. You’re allowed to say “Well, we messed up. We’re going to fix it.” like you have in the past before.
I’ll keep a close eye on how the game will go for the next few months, and obviously if it picks up I’ll resub. But I want 3 things before I do.

  1. End this artificial grinded carrot on a stick concept. It’s not fun, its soul draining.
  2. No more random lootboxes. Give me things to work for. Make reps actually give decent items. Look back to the successes of TBC and WOTLK.
  3. Make the game, a game again. Not a second job. I don’t want to log on because I “have” to do my isles this week, and then my 10+ this week, and then my emissaries this week, all before a raid. Let the loot come from raids and dungeons. Let the rest of the game be a game guys.

When I can log in again, and feel like “yeah, I want to log in tomorrow too”, I’ll stay. Hell, even cancel my unsub if 8.1.5 comes out and fixes these very things before the end of the month. But that’s a bit of a dream lol.
Till then Blizzard,
Peace.

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Obligatory “Can i have your stuff” comment

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It’s just a game.

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It’s like leaving something that helped shape who you are.

The game is just a game, but the friends you’ve made, experiences you’ve had, the arguments you’ve had, and the people you’ve played with all help shape your life experiences - even if you’ve never met.

Some people began playing as young as twelve to thirteen years old and now they’re in their twenties. That’s a lot of experience and a significant chunk of your life to just walk away from - friends you’ve known for years, etc.

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I think there’s been a realization of this on a large scale with BfA, more pronounced than other expansions.

I think a MAJOR factor in this is that the gameplay took a major hit with the loss of Artifacts and Legendaries from Legion, especially when combined for the very much sub-par replacement that was Azerite armour (made even worse with the need to RE-grind for traits you’ve already unlocked on higher item level gear), is no longer covering for the lack of interesting content. WoD, with all its issues, at least had good gameplay to support the game as a whole.

Even if you weren’t working towards anything in particular, the game itself was just fun to play.

To me, this is the cardinal sin of BfA. The gameplay just isn’t there anymore, even Vanilla WoW had something in the gameplay with down-ranking of certain spells for utility and talents to spice up the gameplay. But right now, the gameplay is no longer there.

Unfortunately, if the game isn’t providing you any more fun… then yes, it is time to leave. About the only thing keeping me around at this point is just the desire to keep in touch with my guild right now.

… and maybe the fact my other main MMORPG (FFXIV) is having a slight content drought at the moment, just waiting for the last couple of mini-patches before the next expansion (which includes the conclusion to to not just the story for the expansion, but also the conclusions to several other stories). Can’t quite muster the desire to focus on alt classes/jobs right now either.

But yeah… WoW isn’t filling the void from that game right now.

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A lot of good points. I have also unsubbed for similar reasons, though you did miss that I am really tired of not being able to fly. It’s of the utmost stupidity that flying is being held back for so long.

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Very important point you made, something I came across in EVE Online…if a game feels like work, then stop playing. That’s why I stopped playing EVE and came here. At my level, I’m strictly questing and being casual about it. I don’t want yet another household chore to do and I dread the day I run out of quests to do and places to explore.

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