I am sorry, friend, I didn’t read all of it, but to answer your title question, what keeps me playing WoW? Raid nights and M+ with the guildies, everything else is disgusting to me as of right now, a lot of times I feel like quitting in the state that is this mess we call BFA.
Answering the title q:
I actually stopped playing from mid-Cata to beginning of Legion, so I never experienced Mists or WoD at all.
I came back for Legion and it rekindled my love of the game. I play simply because I know I will be entertained. I like playing – simple but true. Before, I used to drink every weekend with friends and always go out for movies and honestly, that stuff is hella expensive and unhealthy. Eating out and drinking alone racked up hundreds of dollars per month and bad calories too.
Now, I play as a form of relaxation and reprieve from daily life.
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No other game lets me play as a feral druid with pretty cat forms.
Disability, too much free time. Poverty, and the fact that it runs fine on a laptop so I can play it lying in bed.
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Go look at Pandaria. Its great questing, and its very pretty.
My foolishly bought 6 month sub /cry
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Playing dress up and hugging pandas/moos motivates like 99% of what I do in WoW.
Kind of odd I’m looking forward to Classic!
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Friends.
Love for my own characters.
RP, though that’s been less often as of late.
Another factor… not much else to do. I’m rather house-bound due to various issues.
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The sunk cost fallacy.
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Boredom. Possibly addiction. My wife isn’t at home. The kids aren’t home. I’m an old man with too much time on my hands…
The last one is possibly the sole reason.
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There’s a key above your right shift key.
You should press it more.
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Most of my interest in the game is community-related with a few rl friends who play as well as some online friends I’ve made in a number of guilds and communities. I could get into tournament-level tic-tac-toe if it had an enjoyable community.
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Why should I take advice from a known cuckhold who please himself in front of other female comedians?
Its cheaper for the most part than buying all the games I kinda want. Like I have over 12k hours in this game over 11 years. The money spent to time played ratio is insane compared to other games.
My reasons for playing WoW is this:
I deal with chronic pain and chronic health issues. WoW distracts me from my “world” to focus on a a goal. My goals in this game may not be like many others. My goals are for the moment forget about my pain. Distractions work for a short time.
So WoW is my go to source to keep my mind off of things even for a short time.
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I play because wow is still fun for me.
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Usually story and Taliesin keeps pulling me back in. I might break that real soon though.
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Well this is what has gotten me back to gaming hard core (well as hard core as i can with kids, a job and a wife). Not physical pain, mental pain. Gaming is my escape from cognitive dissonance and life really not making much sense right now in general.
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Dang man
sends positive vibes
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I quit 10 years ago, and I’ve only been resubbed for about a month, but I’m still taking in the horrible decisions that have been made for the direction of the game. It’s bad. I know sometimes you guys will talk about how this thing is bad or that thing is bad; but you really need to understand, from a far outside perspective remembering the earliest versions of the game, bfa is really, really bad.
The MMO portion of WoW is effectively dead. The MMO doesn’t matter for questing, ever. The MMO doesn’t matter for LFG, because they’re just that impersonal. The MMO almost doesn’t matter at all for LFR, because wiping enough will let any dysfunctional group clear any LFR content on a long enough timeline. The icing on the cake is that all this solo content, these WQs and dailies, aren’t fun. They’re tedious busy work.
I don’t know how much longer I’ll stay, but WoW is far cry from what made it the best MMO available to players. Progress needs to rely on the MMO portion of the game. The game needs to constantly remind players, through its content, that it is ultimately a massively multiplayer online game; and that’s how players are meant to play it.
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