I’ve been playing since 07. I just find that there are too many chores in SL. Rather than just your dailies/WQ’s like in previous expansions you also have weekly chores like renown, Torghast, 2 covenant assaults, and M+ for your vault. As a mythic raider I feel obligated to do all these things and it just becomes boring and repetitive very fast.
I played WoW for escapism since real life sucks.
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Sunk cost fallacy.
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My sub hasn’t expired yet and I quite like the forums. They are a great source of entertainment. 
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Early in my healthcare career, I traveled a lot. When you think about careers with travel opportunities, healthcare jobs are probably not the first to come to mind but hospitals and staffing groups are always searching for med pro’s with the flexibility to travel to new locations. Part of the deal was furnished housing - and an internet-connected laptop. To fill my time when not working or exploring a new town, I’d play computer games.
My first graphical MMORPG (before the term was actually coined) was Neverwinter Nights on America Online where I was a CL in the early 90’s. I went to Ultima Online from there in the late 90’s, then with some friends from there transitioned to EverQuest. Around the time EverQuest II came out, some of my in-game friends discovered Warcraft and encouraged me to move there. But I held out and ended up as the last of my guild to leave EQ.
I came to WoW late in vanilla, picking the hunter class as I was on a PvP server and wanted a mobile and survivable class - even when relatively undergeared. Over the years my group of friends stayed together for the most part - and I watched as they transitioned from recent graduates challenged by their dating years to start their careers, get married, have kids. Few of those “originals” still play. I lost some of my gaming friends to cancer, car accidents, a sad drug overdose, and of course to players “aging out of gaming” and moving on to other interests. Its a pretty natural progression of life, I suppose. Those of us who have stayed are the exception - not the rule.
Why didn’t I move onto other games? Good question.
Mostly it’s for the few friends I’ve shared good times with all these years. While our lives have gone in very different directions, we share memories of a much simpler time when we felt we could schedule and prioritize raiding or team PvP above all else.
It’s been several expansions since any of us had the luxury of being able to do that. First to drop was raiding - the administration of a 20 person team became overwhelming now many of us are career managers IRL and simply don’t have the time or energy for it .
So we formed an informal PvP premade group and would meet whenever we had time to work toward our Bloodthirsty titles (250k kills). But then Blizz made stitching together a premade difficult and we lost more people. After that all I did was world PvP with my Emerald Dream guild, till the GM decided to switch from horde to alliance. I couldn’t justify spending real money for a faction transfer so I ultimately did it with gold but by then the guild was ready to switch back to horde so I just quit the guild and haven’t touched my character there since. Too much sweat and drama.
So time marched on and the last two expacs all we managed to do was schedule a couple of weeks of cross-server grouping to level together and maybe do a couple dungeons.
In Shadowlands we didn’t even manage to do that (one reason my most advanced character is still only level 55.
I’ll get it to level 60 eventually but these days I log on just to see if anyone I know is there to chat and catch up with, or maybe hit an old raid to finish a transmog set or two. If I remember I’ll do a couple of dailies for rep so one day I can buy another mount I won’t use. I know others have more than the 400+ I’ve collected but after a certain number, it’s hard for me to get motivated to add another. Still, I persist in getting them.
The cost of playing this game is low - especially since I made enough gold through Garrisons and other things to easily pay my sub many months running.
So I guess at this point I play because of inertia, the few friends who are left, and to see where the story takes us.
But perhaps most importantly because even though I’ve dialed back my time here considerably, I have a lot of time and energy invested here in the past - so there’s the “sunk cost” issue: “people have a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in money, effort, or time has been made.”
So I end up not asking why should I continue to play, but rather “why not continue to play”.
And so far I haven’t found a good reason to stop completely.
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Part of it is habit I suppose. But I enjoy discovering all the nooks and crannies. I slowly play the game like a fine piece of Chocolate. I finish out an expansion long after I no longer get EXP. I figure the creators took time to make the game and add little touches and I want to see and experience much of what I am able.
I am often working on Achievements. Most often I am Solo but it is fun with a friend or family too. I really like to just enjoy the simple non serious ( no Raiding or Battlefields) things in the game.
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I’m still finding enough enjoyment in the game to justify the 15 bucks.
That depends on the class.
I’m playing FFXIV. I just chose this forum to come hang out for some reason. It’s got a few topics I find interesting.
I don’t like or recommend FFXIV either though. I’m just playing it because I have time and I have some weird feeling of obligation to play all things FF.
Is that true? That sucks. I love how wow has a difficulty to it. Makes solo-Ing fun.
You should try guild wars 2 if the Pokémon graphics annoy you in ff14.
No. Not interested in more trash games. If I wanted someone’s opinion on what to play, “Duderonomy” on the Warcraft board would be the last person I ask.
Because I’m having more fun now than I have in years. I like the story, I like that there’s so many options for what to do that I’m never “finished” everything.
Korthia reminds my of Timeless Isle with how we run around chasing rares that pop up.
The sheer variety in the expansion makes everything feel much less grindy.
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Yooooo same. Toilets buds
Basically, I want to get all of my characters on 60 and wearing “OKish” gear, that is, crafted 200s with maybe Mawsworn weapons, and maybe some of them with Korthia weapons.
I envision parking all of my alts in Korthia, checking them until weapons come up and then once I get i200 on everybody and a korthia weapon (or weapons if dual wielder), I’ll probably take a hiatus from the game or only play enough to get my main through the rest of the campaign and renown 80.
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Like the 80 year old Patrick Steward said in an episode of his new show Picard, “I don’t want the game to end.”
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Friends, mostly. They don’t play any other MMO, so if I want to spend time with them… WoW it is. xD
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As for the scandal, I’ve cancelled but I have five months left that I’ve already paid for. So, I’m playing and hoping they do something about their trash fire of a company during that time. If not, when it runs out I’m done.
As for what I’m doing for fun, not Shadowlands. I’ve just been doing old stuff I’ve missed and collecting mounts of mogs and stuff. I did Korthia for like a week? Meh. This whole expansion has done very little for me. But, there is stuff that’s still fun to do.
- I am having a great deal fun
- My friends and I enjoy playing together
- It’s hard to find anything that comes close to to $/hr value I get out of this game.
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You should definitely stay away from ff14. There are a few duderonomies on there.
Because I still mostly enjoy the game.