Played WoW for 25 Years… But It Doesn’t Feel Fun Anymore

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I’ve taken breaks. I’ve skipped expansions. I’ve quit and come back at least three times. But every time I return to World of Warcraft, it feels worse…not better.

Each patch, each expansion, Blizzard piles on more systems, more currencies, more daily chores. It’s like they’re desperate to keep players hooked through FOMO instead of fun. There’s always a new world boss, a limited-time event, a rotating reputation grind. Just when you’re about to finish one, they introduce another. And when that’s done, there’s a new event…surprise… more farming.

The classes? They’ve lost their identity. It used to matter what class you played. Now almost every class can heal, stealth, survive, or tank in some form. Mages and hunters can stealth. Priests, monks, paladins, warlocks, shamans, they all have stacks of defensive cooldowns. DKs, druids, warriors, DHs? They can dish out damage and tank or heal at the same time, I’ve even seen a priest tank.

The social side is gone too. Nobody says “grats” when you hit max level anymore. It’s like the soul of the game has faded. Mythic+ feels like a second job. PvP is unbalanced. Every patch introduces yet another currency to manage. They keep “fixing” the game, but it feels like they’re just layering more problems on top of old ones.

I miss when it was simple, rewarding, and fun.

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If you’re not having fun, don’t play

I play because the game is fun /shrug

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If you don’t enjoy something, stop doing it.

Simple as that.

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This is exactly what I’m talking about, can’t even express how i feel about something without people being smart asses and saying “don’t play no more”. Pure toxicity.

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Did you expect us to coddle you? We see these threads once a week… if you aren’t enjoying something, stop doing that thing, you’re an adult and have choice. What did you expect to be said?

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What are we expected to say?

‘Keep playing and spending money on something you don’t like! Make your free time a chore!’

They gave you the only valid advice in this situation: if you don’t like a video game, don’t play it. No one is making you play.

I’d love for you to show me the toxicity though. No one was insulting you, or even being mean. They told you to stop wasting your time and money on something you clearly no longer enjoy.

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I do hear what your are saying and can relate a bit. Ive been playing only the parts that ive enjoyed the most out of the expansion. I will usually log out frequently if i dont have a plan of what i want to do in the expansions.

Ive been doing mainly delves on multiple toons and then just story and items /mounts that i really want.

What i really want for it to be more interesting is this:

  • Ruthless and methodically storyline
  • more new content and not rehashed content in patches. Horrific visions is still fun, but i had fun for the first few weeks and then i got bored.
  • more new delves
  • mythic + to have more dungeons to keep it fresh

Theres a bunch of things that they can male improvements to the game, but making me do delves with the same companion thats already maxed out and the only new content is a waist and a titan tree feels very unintuative.

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I’ve heard of getting to play games in advance, but you played WoW four years before it launched?

On a more serious note, being able to stick with something for two whole decades is pretty significant, it’s completely fine to burn out and decide to stop.

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I’ve been playing since late Wrath, early Cat and I have never once felt that I was a victim of FOMO. The game has always had grinds and multiple currencies. They are nothing new. The changes you are talking about happened a decade or more ago.

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I think you just got older. I got older too. Some things I used to love I no longer do. It’s fine to move on.

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4/10, i added 1 for each year off between your stated 25 years of playing and wows 21 years of existing

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What exactly is “toxic” about others telling you not to do something you no longer enjoy doing?

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20+ years is a good run for a game. Should be no complaints really.

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Yeah it would definitely be more fun to…have zero new content to do. Great point.

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I miss that time too. But I still just genuinely enjoy killing mobs and stuff. Gone are the days I care about getting too far. I get a couple characters into like mythic 8-11 and just sort of stop. My subscription is usually one month at a time… occasionally I’ll stick around for a few. Then leave till a big patch or expansion and do it all again. Admittedly though even that is getting harder. Everytime I come back it does sort of seem like more work even though it really is easier now than ever. Eventually I’ll be coming back once a year for a month. Then none at all. Things change. Games change. This one looks like it’s making it’s way out soon anyway. Probably time to start finding other things to do with all these hours.

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You’re aware the next two expansions have already been announced, yeah?

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I actually see more of the social side that WoW used to have in the general sense in FFXIV. Hell, even the novice network emulates the old Barrens Chat in some ways.

But yeah, that’s just the instinctive comparison. WoW has definitely become more… “business-like”, stuff being done because of either the obligation or purely in service of the long-term goal.

I’ve been back on a nostalgia trip over the past month or so (finally got TWW)… and yeah, struggling to keep the momentum going any further. I’m generally approaching the point of being “done”, with maybe a few leveling-related or transmog-based objectives left. And it’s pretty loose to be honest, my interest in the game is already fading.

Perhaps a bit of my own pursuing the objective a bit much, but I got the mechsuit mount for filling out the overcharged delve thingy yesterday; probably too quickly, over the past few days, rather than fully pacing myself. I did and still do like the look of it, but the moment I got my hands on it, a strange thought crossed my mind:

“This is a crappy version of the Skell I was flying in XCX only a few months ago.”

… then I proceeded to turn off WoW’s in-game music, and put “Wir Fliegen” on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zJKNtxeeRg
Yeah, I know it’s the overdrive tune and not the flying one, but I wanted a bit more tempo.

I don’t quite know why, but WoW is feeling very… lacking, as of late. I play other games, not just MMORPGs, as well and WoW is always being compared to as the “runner up” in everything except raw volume of content. And even that is debatable due to how frequently the older content is being made obsolete and getting outright discarded with each major patch and/or season.

The obvious carrot-on-a-stick design isn’t helping either.
To say it’s creating resentment is… an understatement.
I don’t want the carrot anymore. You do NOT know what I want to use the stick for.

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Yea but the game isn’t what it once was. The incoming changes are… questionable at best. Just my opinion. I just have a feeling it’s going to be a little more than turbulent around the wow world over the next couple years.

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There is no such thing.

You are missing out on a whole buch of stuff right now. Im sure Sendryn can tell us all what kind of neat stuff is happening in SWTOR right now.

I am ‘missing out’ on Destiny 2s new dungeon mechanics. I could go and easily get The Navigator, a weapon I never got cuz the dungeon it came from suuuuucks.

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You do realize people have been saying this since like 2006 right

There were people saying Burning Crusade was going to kill the game because nobody would want an expansion

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