I was going to say I don’t think there was any particular moment and that the decline of my enthusiasm for WoW was pretty smooth. I was going through typing generalized versions of how I felt about WoW each expansion, then I remembered WoD.
WoD was the first time I actually unsubbed. I still don’t feel like it was a specific moment or patch there that “broke my enchantment”, but for whatever reason I just had very little interest in playing the game at that time. I didn’t even unsub during a content lull, I unsubbed like 1 or 2 weeks into HFC.
Obviously I didn’t stay gone. Hell, I didn’t even really leave WoW. I let it sit like 3 weeks, then subbed on an alt account to screw around with stupid pet projects like trying to get the Explorer achievements on a level 1. Not quite the same as regular play and regular raiding, but point being I wasn’t so “done” with WoW that I completely threw it to the side. I resubbed on my main account after ~4 months and haven’t unsubbed again yet (the closest I’ve come has been considering quitting raiding to focus on other aspects of WoW, but I haven’t done that either).
For me it was the war on flight and making professions more or less useless those are the big reasons anyway. Then to add to the fact that they gave the Alliance the same re-skinned mount ," horses" over and over this expansion.
I started playing towards the beginning of Wrath(December 2008). Played mostly WoW until StarCraft 2 was released. StarCraft 2 then turned into my main game. Once I lost interest in StarCraft 2 multiplayer WoW became my main game again. Then Warlords was released and I rarely played, and when I did play I just sent my followers on mission. I didn’t immediately buy Legion. However after listening to the log in music, and after watching the Warcraft movie, I decided to buy Legion. I don’t regret that decision, since after 7.2 I played WoW more than I ever have since Wrath.
I’ve yet to find a reason to buy BFA. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been playing Warcraft since Warcraft 1, but the faction war just doesn’t interest me anymore.
When I was amped up and got a beta key and one for my friend. We played I was like this is pretty cool. Then it went live and I was like “this is ridiculously easy” (compared to other mmo’s out there.) So I stopped playing shortly after it went live. I would come back every so often try it out and leave again. I only play now because it’s the only viable MMO out their, and it scratches that itch.
They make creams for that, y’know? Some require a prescription, though, but there are a few over-the-counter ones you can try. I believe one brand even has one for him and one for her.
The baby hand holding and coddling that came with WoTLK. Also the idea that blizzard can eliminate all negative experiences that people might encounter in their games.
The AP grind in Legion is what killed WoW for me. I wound up quitting about a year into the expansion as I felt as though I couldn’t keep up and didn’t want to be a dredge on my team.
It’s more of the same in BfA but at this point I don’t care and if I get bumped from either of my raid teams, then so be it.
i also started in 2008. Warlords is where i took my longest break from playing (though i remained subscribed) 2015-2017. professions to me felt gutted, hanging out in my garrison back then is the last time i remember seeing a “____ looking for work, your mats” ad in /2 chat and it usually was for someone wanting an invite to your garrison for the random profession NPC.
Started late in vanilla, was never much of a raider, even took a long break before the beginning of MoP, but the real change for me was WoD. There had been prior times when there were long gaps in new content, but the removal of flight, combined with the absolute contempt expressed for players who liked it really shattered the magic. Then the concept that Pathfinder was a “compromise” was simply insulting.
The Argus patch. I didn’t complain abou the timegating during the broken shote because it made some sense, but when they started to timegate Argus’ storyline for no reason, I understood it was their new release model.
Damn, even seat of the triumvirate was a prelude of how bad BfA dungeons were going to be.
That sounded like a good time! While I’d been playing since Vanilla, it wasn’t until Cata that I went to my first midnight release. It was a lot of fun. A bunch of gaming fans hanging out and talking. From there I stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a large iced caramel latte and donuts to keep me wired for the many hours ahead. I’d take the day off, on release days, to stay up the entire night playing. It was really exciting.
So my disenchantment with WoW came upon watching the trailer for BfA. I didn’t even finish it. Got a little bit in and closed the browser. I still haven’t watched it all the way through. After everything in Legion I was really put off by the concept of an expansion centered on faction conflict. It wasn’t for me and to some degree felt it was an insult.
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