im a long time wow fan and have been playing since 2007 have always been excited about the game and ready to go day one. but right now this expansion inpreticluer i cant even get myself excited enough to hit the install button . to spite just having resubed
the way things have been and what i have head i just dont feel the love for this like i use too this game that one truly consumed my life and i say that in a good way.
maby something next expansion will get me. i do hope so
My friend also has a similar issue. He likes the ideal of the game and the good memories of playing it but when he returns he gets tired of it pretty quickly. You want to relive the old days of having fun but the reality of it is that you have changed over time. You are never going to have that feeling that you have had on day one. Too many things have changed over time including yourself.
I’ve gone through the same thing with many MMOs. Ultima Online, EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot. Sometimes I think about loading them back up to check it out again but I know it’s never going to feel the same as day one when I first played. Those days are gone so I usually decide against going back.
Sometimes it’s just time to move on and there is nothing wrong with that.
If todays game existed in 2005, it would be huge!!! We are just getting tired, and have competing interests and responsibilities. I just can’t get into any game lately. Baldurs Gate was fun for a while, but i never finished. I still think wow is a great game, but only play a few hours a month lately. I do not blame the devs. This is a me issue.
So you paid for it, haven’t even installed or played the current expansion (or maybe just current patch?) yet, but have decided you don’t like it based on some things you heard?
I tend to not listen to anyone about things, because what I hear and what I end up enjoying is vastly different. And this forum will make you believe the game is the most horrible thing in the entire world, as it’s a very negative environment.
Delves have been awesome. I actually very much love how the new dailies are set up for Flames Radiance. I like my classes. I enjoy the environments. I always have something I want to do.
I came into this wary, as I very much enjoyed DF and wasn’t sure we’d get another expansion that was similar. But they’ve done pretty well, imo.
The bugs are problem. I had to wait a week before Flames Radiance was playable. So there’s definitely QA problems. But I am my own best critic to decide what I enjoy— even when I go into it wary.
Totally feel you, friend. Sometimes the magic fades a bit—even for those of us who’ve been riding the gryphon since ’07. It’s like WoW was that wild, all-consuming first love, and now it’s showing up to dinner in sweatpants, talking about talent trees again. But hey, you resubbed—that ember’s still there, even if it’s flickering. Maybe this expansion isn’t the one, but who knows? Maybe next time the spark will fly again and you’ll be raiding at 2am wondering where the last 6 hours went. Azeroth’s always here when you’re ready, and so are we.
i played to level cap some months back as you can see by my level 80 and i have returned for the new patch to give it a try the things i’ve heard is referring too
new patch being buggy and incomplete. iv even herd streamers call it the buggist the game has ever been so i do take these things into account
The Arathi portion of the current patch is indeed pretty rough. Bugs aside, its also a terrible lagfest at popular times.
11.1 in general though, depending on what you enjoy doing in game, has been a vast improvement over 11.0 for me anyway.
Undermine is fun, the new delve gearing system is very satisfying for players who don’t do higher keys or raid, and mythic+ is much more approachable this season. Its enjoyable progress whatever level you play at.
If you already played what you wanted of 11.1 and bailed and are now thinking of returning just for 11.1.5… yeah unless you want some of the arathi cosmetics or mounts there isn’t much there to keep you interested.
Sounds like classic burnout. It is particularly common for people who play solo. Most common solution is to take a break. Go do something else for a while. It may be a few days or weeks or you may skip an expansion or two, what ever it takes.
Thing to keep in mind, WoW is a game. Use your game time for things that are fun.
There’s honestly just nothing to do other than slam keys and raid
The casual open world “MMO” content is just painful
Delves feel like a repeated story quest
World bosses are a laggy joke
Reps are just time gated grinds with no variance or interesting elements
Whatever that nightfall event was
WoW really feels at lot like a Diablo game at the moment, just short season excitement
I’ll add, that they never learned the right lesson from the borrowed power outcry in Shadowlands. It was never about the powers. It was always about the grind and the heap of systems that attended them. Now we still have the grind and the mountain of currencies, the factions and events with all different setups and mechanics and 6 to 8 tiers of upgrades- it’s all so tiring. You have less time as an old-timer and you’ve gone through this circus so many times before. We could use slimming the game down, making the reward structure more approachable and comprehensible.
I can’t remember the last time I grinded something. 99.9 % of my gameplay is sitting in dornogal looking for m plus groups. I have every mount I want in the game, I have all classes at 70/80 on horde and alliance. I’ve pvped for years, done cutting edge content… so yeah I just do M+ that’s it. And sometimes do WQs and grind the current reps that’s really it.