Not sure how long I have left on mine exactly but once itâs up iâll probably be done for a while.
I like a lot of the changes they made to the game overall and think SL brought some cool features. However, thereâs a lot of things that have turned me off to the xpac or either wow as a whole. Many, if not all, are subjective issues that are purely just my personal take on things, but those are the things that usually end up mattering most when deciding if Iâm having fun or not.
Number one issue is time. I just donât have enough to really accomplish enough for me to enjoy the game. While this is mostly just a âmeâ problem, I do feel like the maw & torghast take a big chunk of time for what they are. I enjoy Torghast (not the maw though⌠it just frustrates me), but sometimes it ends up very much feeling like a massive chore.
Next biggest reason is that, personally, iâm enjoying the direction of the story, lore, and character development less and less as the xpacs go on. Thereâs lots that go into this feeling of dissatisfaction, but overall I just donât enjoy the âtoneâ of the story anymore (in lack of a better way of putting it). Many parts come across as overdramatic where everything is overly dependent on cliffhangers and âgrand revealsâ.
The 3rd thing that I noticed had me feeling less interested in SL was that (in lack of a better way of putting it) the setting doesnât feel like WoW to me. For pretty much this whole xpac Iâve felt this weird dissociation with the rest of the wow world. The settings and characters of Shadowlands come across as very unrelated to the rest of the game. I know that lorewise theyâre are relevant but despite any of that when i play i feel like my character is very out of place. Personally I wish they had gone with more race or culture related afterlives instead of the all encompassing ones that just absorb/transform the deceased into something generic.
Another big one (and probably the most âobjectiveâ complaint) is that running old content now is quite a mess which, as a mount collector, is a fairly big hit.
There are other reasons but these are a few of the big ones and iâve rambled enough already. Obviously these are just my own personal view of things and are mostly all subjective, but they are none the less important for me (at least in terms of WoW). I definitely donât hate WoW and will keep tabs on things to see if thereâs ever a reason or excuse for me to stay/return.
But sadly for now, wow just isnât quite worth it for me.