First, this is a purely hypothetical question. And when I ask it, I’m not talking about quitting for the current expansion then coming back for the next one or just going on a few months hiatus.
When I ask this question, I’m asking what would cause you to quit WoW, meaning quit the current expansion and never come back, regardless of what future expansions offered. Basically, what would cause you to leave and never look back?
Probably a price increase.
They are just lucky it’s costs less than what I spill carrying a round of drinks back to the table.
Never used to feel like that though.
The game becomes F2P and with microtransactions everywhere.
Removing transmog. I’d instantly quit and not come back unless it was put back in.
WHAT WOULD CAUSE YOU TO QUIT WOW?
Ion remaining on his “nerf everything even when it makes no sense and never reverse any change I make, no matter how pointless it was” path.
The only way I could quit is if my body no longer allows me to play, or Blizzard eventually ends the game and shuts down the servers. I’m too addicted to quit for any personal preference or enjoyment based reason.
i don’t know the future.
cata ended it for me permanently - and i stuck to my guns till a friend gifted me legion - so i had to try it, played 2 weeks, quit.
classic then came out - and 7 irl friends were gonna play, so i had to “suit up”.
had left over sub, tinkered in bfa for 3-4 weeks, didn’t like it.
done with classic - wasn’t gonna play again.
same friend gifted me SL, and i told him he wasted his money.
i held out till a few days after Christmas.
so ya, my friend won’t let me go - i really just play cause he plays
also, with an active sub, i like the wow forums to pass time at work.
Boredom. Not enough content to justify a monthly subscription, or poor quality buggy content isn’t addressed promptly, that impedes the ability to complete goals in the game. Frankly, this expansion is the first to have me seriously considering quitting so early on and it’s exactly due to those reasons.
This game should be free to play.
There’s a reason this game can’t keep up with competition, anyone who tries to defend WoW having a double pay wall and in game shop is disgusting.
If they cancel the game and shut down the servers for good, it would be REALLY hard for me to keep playing.
WoW gives me a lot of entertainment for free (gold sub) so I don’t foresee myself quitting any time soon, but if they were to accidentally reset my account or something silly like that, I probably wouldn’t start over.
If I see Blizzard selling actual player power through the store; microtranscations/P2W
The day it goes free to play is the day it dies. It’s main competitor, FF14, has the same business model of sub and expansion price with an even bigger shop. And these are the only two notable and worthwhile MMOs on the market (which is why they’re still the top two).
F2P games are almost all a plague on gaming, with harmful business practices to justify the support.
As for the OP, the only thing that would push me away from the game is if the game no longer exists. 8.3 was the only time I came close to hating the game entirely, and if I survived that, I’m not sure much else will push me out.
Remove all collection systems and achievements 
Uhhh soo if I left because they removed all collection systems but then they add them back I can’t come back? If I can’t come back when they fix the problem then I wouldn’t quit 
Shadowland made me quit.
Quit the game when MoP launched, came back for Legion and stuck with it all the way to Shadowlands but left one month after launch.
This time it’s the end. This game has come too far from its roots and have almost turned into some kind of lobby game. The world is tiny and awful to traverse. I hate the time gating of everything and the speed running introduced in Legion. All the classes I play are a bleak memory of what they used to be. Even in late WoD when I returned just before Legion launched, they were wonderful to play compared to this.
I’m still here because I play Classic, however, I’m not sure how long it will hold my interest.
Private servers bb 
f2p
i’m not very picky and just want a fun online game to play with friends, but f2p is when games go downhill fast.
Already did for about 2 years mid-Legion because of this incessant focus on World Quests. At the time I believe it was the Suramar quest chain locked behind completing a certain number of world quests, but also the multiple campaign missions that were locked behind the timegated mission table.
I’ll quit again eventually and am getting pretty burnt out already. It’s just kind of gross to constantly see the 101 ways they’ve managed to arbitrarily gate something behind time gates and the number of chores they keep tossing into the game. Also the fact that covenants and anima were meant to be purely for cosmetics and the only cosmetics we get are a recolor of the covenant armor or various recolors of questing greens and dungeon blues. I suppose, wrongly, I was thinking they would create more unique cosmetic items that would actually feel rewarding. But maybe they decided to go with basic gear because they knew how obnoxiously grindy they would make the whole system and didn’t want to hear the uproar from the players. This way the rewards are so lackluster few people are complaining because the rewards just aren’t appealing enough to invest that kind of time into these covenant upgrades.
Absolutely. I’ll quit the day the game becomes f2p.
Removal of the factions would make me quit and never come back