So I played on my father’s account in 2007 when I was 7 years old during the burning crusade expansion. I played through the first season of every expansion since then. My father stopped playing alongside me in the middle of Mists of Pandaria due to him saying they are changing so many things that he can’t keep up with while he works a full time job. I however kept pushing myself til May 3rd, 2023 I skipped shadowlands completely and skipped battle for azeroth too. The thing that made me feel like I should slowly come to a full time closure on my game is the lack of social interaction. I feel alone when I do play the game as during The Burning Crusade til Mists of Pandaria I felt there was more interaction with players than today. There is also too many addons to keep up with in game to manage everything. Dungeons have been constant not fun with level 10s doing more damage than a level 58. Level Scaling is something that makes me frustrated to the game. I tried to adapt to all the changes but there is some things that didn’t need changing kinda like the rare frame from a silver dragon to a star icon. That wasn’t even needed at all. I feel the game is slowly losing players over the course of 10 years. It just doesn’t have the same experience anymore for me. I hope this is a valid reason.
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I feel your pain and sympathize. Just know that you are not alone.
I’m about a decade older than you, and I’m here to tell you that the internet is a different place now than it was back in the day. It’s not just people’s imagination. Internet culture really was just different. It has nothing to do with this game. You have every incentive to have social relationships in this game just as you did before. You need good friends/reliable teammates in order to do higher end content like raiding, arenas, higher m+ keys, and etc. but the reality is people do not want to be more social these days. That’s just how culture has evolved in the post-internet era. People are incredibly lonely, but don’t want to make friends, and so communities and people have become incredibly insular.
Also, no one steps in the same river twice. Because it is not the same river, and they are not the same person.
Times change and generations have changed I remember when I first seen Music CD’s and thought dang man you don’t have to rewind them heck even when dvd players came out we had watched a movie at the end I was like don’t forget to rewind the cd only to find out you didn’t I thought that was the future look at us now. This coming from a 70’s kid who owns his dad’s 69 Pontiac GTO judge all original so yes I’m old.
You have my approval to quit the game. good luck in the future
Definitely not alone, don’t let the addicts on GD tell you otherwise.
Well the thing you said all of it makes a lot of sense really. If I am gonna be really honest here the game needs an ending expansion and start a new one from scratch. There is too many mounts, too many pet battles, too many mechanics is some dungeons and raids and all that. I also wish the mythic+ system got a more an improvement to it than it is currently. If the dungeons have so many mechanics why make it 10x harder for player to get better gear? Also if a healer leaves you have to forfeit the dungeon and it lowers your mythic level by 1 for a punish of another player to you. It’s not fun anymore to play through mythics. I used to love legion mythics a lot.
I think the game has changed a lot but it’s actually better than before. Try playing Classic WotLK and you’ll know what i mean. It’s too slow and boring, in a nutshell
Yeah i get what you mean it’s too slow on classic versions and right now it’s way to fast. People can easily take a level 10 friend and level you in dungeons to 60 in matter of 3 hours tops. It’s kinda hilarious how fast the game is. I want the game to meet in the middle with speed. People are higher item level than me because of social interactions of past friends etc. I however have to go through the solo hard route and do 98% of the grind on my own while other players can get it done before me by hours of saving time.
It’s not the same for me either but I don’t know if it’s because I’ve changed or the game just isn’t good anymore. I honestly can’t tell. I do know that I’m logging on less and less. The only thing I have planned is to do the Dalaran archaeology quest and get my 1000 tender. That’s one day worth of activity for a month.
If you want something that doesn’t change for 20 years, the Nissan Titan might work.
I used to own a Nissan Titan. Not a bad truck.
I’m not quite sure how people expect things to stay the same. I started in '05 and fell in love with WoW and played up to MoP too, but stopped for other reasons (Saw the smoke on the horizon with WoW).
I came back and tried Legion, liked it and was duped by the poor execution of BfA and SL.
That all being said, with your level scaling bit for example, that fixed a lot of issues related to queue times. I remember people complaining that it would be almost an hour queue to get in. Now, as a DPS, it’s a few minutes.
So, tl;dr, of course it isn’t the same. And, in many ways, thank goodness for that.
What you’re describing is sort of a normal progression for this type of a game. Take some of the classics, like EverQuest. I’ll still fire it up once a year or so, but it will never be like it was. People change, consumer expectations change, and our tastes change. I’ll goof around for a month, scratch the nostalgia itch, and be done.
Drifting away from WoW it isn’t a bad thing or a good thing. It just is. Your interests are shifting. You may find in a year you want to try again. Maybe you won’t. Its alright.
Its not the game, society has changed, decent humans are much harder to find now days, in the game and in RL.
so… you pushed through from 2007, but skipped 2 entire expansions?
eh?
use fewer?
oh the horror.
Growing up is scary but it happens.
Nothing gold stays. Stay golden pony boy
Good post but i think you made a typo when you said post-internet era. We wont be in that era until the nukes start flying. XD.
All you need are a few good tactical e m p’s