That’s the issue, people make these posts like saying they are going to have freedom from this game only after one week or two weeks or next patch to return to the game again.
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There is a reason one of the long time developers resigned right before SL was released. I believe he saw the proverbial dumpster fire that would commence once the shine wore off…and it has worn off rather quickly.
My biggest gripe on this expansion is the extreme imbalance. Some classes are way up and some are way down. It is my opinion that top dps classs hould never be more than just a few percent above the bottom class in sim logs.
The passionate programmers of blizzard’s past have moved on. The new blood is simply collecting a paycheck.
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Sayonara.
Sorry but your post was too long for my short attention span brain.
Oh look! a cute little critter…
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You must hate those things called “books” then. Or “newspapers” for that matter… 
Really well written post, OP. I have a few years less in the game than you, but I too feel the lack of care and passion in Shadowlands.
When even WoD seems better by comparison, you know something is seriously wrong.
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Best “goodbye note” ever. 
Safe travels.
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They aren’t looking at these posts and they are completely ignoring you except to perpetrate some other outrage against you in a malicious vein. I am only “playing” until I run out of free in-game gold or I throw my computer out the window.
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/10char
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To much word salad to finish.
Bye-bye
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The great thing about WoW is that if they put out something you want to try you can always come back after canceling your sub.
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I kinda wish I could convince myself to unsub. I don’t -hate- the game, but at this stage I enjoy it in the same way I enjoy FFXIV:
A month or two per content patch. In a game based on expansions that last roughly 2 years with roughly 3 total content patches.
I guess I’m not quite to the point you are because I can still get those couple months of enjoyment out of the game, but it’s sad because I know how I USED to approach the game, and I know I’ll never be THAT excited for it again. And I’m not even talking about my first year in the game when I reminisce like that. It’s not really a “chase the dragon” thing.
My first step would probably be to start ending my subscription when I hit my wall those couple months in. During BfA and now Shadowlands I’ve spent many months just sitting on a sub while having no intent of actually playing the game, which is obviously stupid. Like, almost a year by the end of BfA.
My stuff aside, I hope you have or can find something to fill the time you used to spend on WoW, whether that’s another game or a different hobby entirely. I don’t know you, but I appreciate this post for stating your piece but ultimately choosing not to dwell on how you feel the game has failed and instead focusing on closing out your journey.
Goodbye.
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Hope it doesn’t get too warm there 
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M+ is a massive change and hits different than how people used to approach dungeons, even before outgearing them. The timer is a big deal.
It also effects the progression path of endgame as a whole. It’s not in a vacuum. It competes against Raiding and PvP, and Blizzard has yet to find a good balance.
Is it a necessary system for the health of the game? Yeah. I wholeheartedly believe it is. But it’s not as simple as “the same as dungeons have always been”. It’s big.
Dailies and WQs are very different things. Daily Hubs had room to expand a story over time, when done well. WQs are repeatable content, but are largely disjointed one-offs that have nothing to do with anything else and therefore feel a lot more meaningless when they’re required to unlock something. Daily Hubs are a much better medium for unfolding a story over time without waiting for a patch.
WQs are a totally fine idea. I think Bonus Objectives from WoD were too. Both of those things should have been additions to what we already had, rather than Bonus Objectives going away (for the most part) and WQs almost entirely replacing the concept of Daily Hubs.
They… are.
This is literally their “I quit” post.
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the TL;DR was at the start
so read it or don’t.
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why do people try so hard to insulate Blizzard lmao
this person literally is making a post saying they’re quitting BECAUSE BLIZZARD ASKS YOU TO WHEN YOU UNSUB, and your genius reply is
So quit. It’s pretty simple.
my lord
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My best wish to you, Royalecheese!
Thank you very much for a good read. This is one of best farewell posts I’ve read on this forum. Hopefully something will be different in the next expac to welcome you back.
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No. Before mythic + you have M0.
And then that was it. END OF THE ROAD. M+ allows non raiders who enjoy PvE to have progression beyond M0.
Without it the bulk of the playerbase would be in LFR, covenant, and WQ loot. Period. You would be permanently below 200ilvl unless you started to raid.
The people who don’t raid and instead do m+ only do so for a variety of reasons. I do it for flexibility i.e. can’t wont make most raid times because I work 12 hour shifts and travel and hour to work and from work. I don’t want to spend 2-3 hours raiding on the back of that a couple of nights a week. Timers and affixes are a small price to pay, and a challenge each week that effects the way you approach pulls/packs/dungeons in general. It’s not the same each week. The people who hate timers generally are just bad players. Players who want to wait for CD’s on each pull. That’s why timers are there. So people don’t theoretically wait for CD’s and lust on all major pulls to be able to clear content.
The dailies / weeklies that expand the story are still there. They are attached to your covenant. You don’t have to do caches each day. It really isn’t any different. Additionally dailies tied to factions etc were only really about getting something at exalted, not so much the story, there were perks at exalted that previously added player power.
Also mate -people that quit just quit.
They don’t make a long post that waffles on clearly in the vain hope that developer reads it (which they’ve mentioned in their post) to say they quit without overall justifiable reasons.
Fact of the matter is they’ve outgrown the game. It happens.
REALISTICALLY the only thing that Blizzard have botched with this expansion is loot (specifically PvE vs PvP), class balance (a constant problem since day 1 so we really shouldn’t ever expect them to nail it), and the balance around old content.
Fact of the matter is - they don’t care. They aren’t constantly reviewing the GD forums for I quit posts. This is a strategic thing on their part - it’s there to make the player feel like the contribute something, some feedback without it being tied to the cancellation/unsub process where they would likely have to devote staff to reviewing the reasons.
Perception mate. They just said basically we can save hundreds of thousands of dollars and man hours directing you to post on a forum full of waffle that we may or may not read.
And you think it’s because that is where they will read it.
I cannot believe how gullible people truly are.
It’s a perception thing. They’ve just fobbed you off to save cash.
They may as well say “please fill in this customer survey - and when you’re done please walk over to the garbage bin and place it in there.”
The “passionate” developers literally believed that some specs should, at minimum do 5-7% less than others.
One look at classic logs should be evidence to know how large a joke this post is.
This.
Spam them for the first 2 weeks of an xpac until the raid launches and never do them again? Then complain about no non-raid content.
Yeah, I can see how that was better…
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