Genuinely interested in all the “I quit in 2011 due to lfr” posts. NO SPOILERS.
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the removal of talent trees, over tuning of dungeons, cata was a painful experience in all areas. one-shot kill mechanics in raids were not helpful at all.
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Talent trees were still a thing up until mists of pandaria. NEXT
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They still existed but were dumbed down. In classic you had 51 points to use with 60 levels. In cataclysm it’s 41 points with 85 levels. You also had to max a page before you could access the others, leaving only 10 points to spare.
Another issue is that you are incredibly overpowered right out of the gate. Things like bloodthirst or felguard are now at level 10, given to you simply for picking the page they are on. In the old days, you had a logical power growth. With cataclysm, you just ding 10 then suddenly become a god. From there it’s just an effortless plow to the top. Mobs and dungeons used to present a challenge until you overleveled or overgeared them. Now they are just lambs to the slaughter. They may as well bend over and give you their XP/loot. Until you get to heroics/raids, cataclysm has no difficulty what so ever.
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My favorite part of the game was 25 man raiding. In Cataclysm, Blizzard made 10 mans much more attractive, mainly due to their difficulty, to the point where it was quite challenging to maintain a 25 man roster. After my 25 man guild broke up, I continued PVPing for a couple months and then quit outright.
What they did to the talent trees is exactly what put me on course to quit eventually.
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I didn’t quit in Cata, but I did quit doing PvE content for a long time.
The story in Cata was terribly told and delivered.
LFD was repetitive, easy, boring and people got really toxic.
LFR was an absolutely horrendous and boring experience, and people were afk or nasty.
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I didn’t quit in Cata.
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I played most of cata, I quit because of real life stuff. I came back to the game for a little bit during legion but had to quit due to more real life stuff, which is a shame because legion apparently was great. Came back for classic, and if they ship a classic cata I would play it again for sure.
I didn’t, but I won’t play a Cata: Classic.
I did not like Cata at the time, but looking back on it, the story was great once I experienced it years later. What I mean is that the story was 1-60 and then you went to Outland & Northerend and then resumed the Cata story at 80-85.
Cata fell flat because WotLK was so fun and alt-friendly that mostly everyone started the story 80-85 and missed 60 lvls of new and relevant content and so had no idea what was going on.
But overall, I hated the talent stupidification and rework of glyphs but I did not quit.
I made it as far as Firelands in raiding and then my guild fell apart.
Then LFR came out for Dragon Soul and it was a godsend because I had no other way to see content and due to my life at the time, raiding at specific times was just not possible; little did I know the consequences LFR would have overall.
To be clear, RDF (5-mans) was always awesome and an absolute must; guilds and people in general seldom meet at specific times to dun 5-mans.
LFR (raids) caused problems for the game and made guilds, friends, and all social aspects obsolete. LFR (raids) made WoW a solo player’s game.
For me it was how they took a sledgehammer to specs that were completely fine at the end of WotLK and revamped them.
Cause kung fu pandas don’t belong in warcraft
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I never quit, just focused on PVP. The horribly over tuned dungeons that felt like mini raids sometimes was what killed it for me.
The story was hard to follow and felt disjointed.
nearly 6million player did quit in first few months of cata before blizzard introduce LFD 11months off cata release.
I quit for awhile at the end of Cata because DS was a disappointing raid with a tremendously disappointing end of expansion boss where we fought deathwing’s back pimples and fingernails. There was just so little content in Cata that I had done everything ad nauseam and was bored stiff.
I came back I think in 5.1 in MoP and that expansion completely reinvigorated my love of the game.
100% Talent changes.
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I didn’t quit in Cata, I rather enjoyed it as I was running a 25-man raiding guild that stayed a 25-man raiding guild. The dungeons were fun with guildies, and the raids were fun (DS not so much). The guild achievements were fun. I didn’t really like the “disjointed world” or the changes to the old world really and some other things, but I was having so much fun with the guild that those things didn’t matter. I will say I didn’t like LFR being added, but it did not matter for my semi-hardcore guild. Then in March 2012 we had a new baby in the family and it was time to take a break from the game. However, I did not quit, I stayed subbed, and played sometimes very casually. I kept playing through the years but over time found that the game just wasn’t the same for me, and I stopped playing around Legion when I unsubbed. Then I went back to BFA and unsubbed after 3 weeks, then I came back for Classic where I found the game I was missing again.
So I guess the answer is that I didn’t really quit in Cata and I liked the game, up until I didn’t, but I’d put the time where the game REALLY started to “feel off” to me around WoD.
I might replay Cata and MoP, but I don’t know. I was going back and forth about even playing Wrath but my guild continuing there made me decide to continue for now.
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i quit 2 months into original TBC. Why? TBC wrecked everything within that existing WoW timeline. It destroyed servers, communities and guilds with their realm transfers wherever, reduced 25 man raid sizes, and a seemingly smaller world.
Maybe if players who didn’t do a whole lot but level 1000 level 20 alts, thinking Leeroy Jenkins was cool and talking in Barrens chat, in Vanilla didn’t feel it, but the close knit raiding community sure did.
Go back to vanilla please worst version of the game btw
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I didn’t quit during cata but I didn’t play as much bc I was focusing on school at the time but I am still salty that they completely redid old azeroth and removed all those items and quests and redid dungeons and what have you. classic is the only place to experience all that removed content. post-cata changes existed for OVER TWICE as long as classic azeroth existed. I will never in a million years get people who want “classic” cata. it’s all in retail. old azeroth is not.
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