I don’t really like it… at least not like I used to, just so invested in it and I don’t want to start at zero with another game.
It’s kind of like a crack dealer. At first they give you the primo stuff. Then when you’re hooked they give you the stuff they stepped on and cut with baking soda. That’s what wow is to me now. A diluted drug to me a druggie who just wants a crappy fix.
I feel pretty much the same way. Any creative urges I have can either be solved through RP or another game, everything else is checked by WoW.
I know the feeling.
Because, despite how much I rip into the game, there are things about it that I enjoy. I still PvP (as much as I despise the current gearing system) and do TW. And I have a list of other things I want to work on such as collecting and leveling battle pets, farming tmog, leveling alts, and working on old achievements. There are still things that I can do in this game, and I can do them at my own pace.
I also love my characters. As dumb as it may sound, I feel connected to them. Leaving them permanently would be really sad. And no, I don’t RP. This is just how I relate to the ones I manage to level.
I think the sunk cost fallacy also applies. I may not have started back in Vanilla or BC, but I’ve put a good amount of years into this game. Starting over from scratch in another game where I have no money or bag space, or any clue on how to play the game, is very frustrating for me. It’s why I could never get into GW2 despite me wanting to play it.
shrug I’ve not yet found a reason to permanently walk away from this game, and gaming is a huge hobby of mine, so here I am.
i play because of the style of the game. common fantasy tropes like dwarves and elves and junk i think are done better here than most other fantasy settings, and i also just like the basic gameplay of multiplayer games where each player has a role to play in a party that the others can’t do, so players have to rely on others and it makes the team aspect pop out more.
How does the level squish devalue your character in anyway? It’s just an arbitrary number.
It’s just like how they reduced our stats so we didn’t have millions of HP. It gets bothersome hitting things for millions and managing all that.
Your characters will still be the exact same. Just a number will be changed on their name plate.
For me, it’s all about story and the mode of delivery. I skipped BFA because I knew the faction war was a side story at best and the main selling points were reskins.
However, while not perfect, Shadowlands seems to be heading in a more robust direction storywise and may be the beginning of undoing things like “class fantasy” and pruning.
With my current job I rarely have time in game. I actually enjoy WoW more now than before.
When I do have time i find myself enjoying the sights. I spend more time exploring then before. I have started a few new characters just to experience the game anew, I was over the whole end game grind, and it’s hard keeping up when I only play 1 or 2 days a week.
To each their own, enjoy how you want. Being a casual has made the game enjoyable for me.
I like the lore, I’ve more or less always had a main game I primarily play(it was pokemon before wow), My friends come back sometimes, I have like 2 actual friends IRL(1 is a day walker /shutters and the other is always busy), I really like this death knight, and of coarse wow gives me something to work towards I can collect all kinds of stuff from pets to mounts to armor and weapons.
But most of all its cheap entertainment. Happiness per dollar spent is the highest of any game I’ve ever played. I’ve replayed all the various parts of wow I’ve done more than any other game. Theres been a lot of times were wow was the only happy part of my day and its really helped me with depression.
I come for the story, the lore, and to pvp, and cause I like the characters I made.
The world is interesting and charming despite it’s writing being the most random nonsensical crap sometimes.
And i also been enjoying Classic, alts take a long time to get up with my main. But it all feels like there is no rush and it’s peaceful. And i love getting with a quest buddie and just finishing a zone with them.
That’s what i miss really… the talking, just getting to know my quest buddie and then encountering them later on in the open world. I still get to have a conversation with people on zone chat but it’s not as peaceful.
I can’t really explain it but mundane crap can be real nice sometimes.
There are lots of reasons why its my favorite video game. I like how its a real open world with the best by far wpvp out of any mmorpg that i have played. If you like to play an easy class you can, or you can really challenge yourself with the more complicared ones. I could go on and on about why I really like this game.
Habit. I’m ok at the game, not terrible but not good. Plus I use a lot of muscle memory and don’t have to think too much when I play and can do something else at the same time. There have been times where I’ve been playing wow and playing with my cat at the same time.
I’ve been playing for 8 years and BfA is the 1st time I’ve ever cancelled my sub, taken long breaks.
I can’t remember why I liked it, either. I’m hoping the next expac will change that for me but Idk. I may move on.
Well, if I’m honest, I hate WoW in it’s current form. I play because I passively make enough to pay for my sub with gold without breaking much of a sweat. Been that way since WoD.
However, I’d also be lying if I said I don’t have fun here and there with my friends. My woman and I play together too. They make the game fun. I’ve been their GM for over a decade and some of them have been here since the beginning. I can’t imagine not hearing them daily when we all go off and do things together. But the state of BFA has made us, as a collective, seek other forms of entertainment together. Now we also play OW together, and tried ESO together for about a month. Things like that.
The people is what makes WoW great for me, and has for the entirety of BFA. In truth, I’m a BFA duelist and heroic raider. I get AOTC as a raid leader, and then I look to get pvp time sensitive goodies. In Legion, that was a huge motivator too. But in BFA? Despite achieving all that I’ve wanted in this expansion so far, I was so angry by the time I was done with all of it that it’s not a fond memory.
Find a group of friends, OP. Seek people that’ll make you look forward to logging in because you know you’ll laugh.
Worth a repost. Ty for this. I agree.
I know this feeling, somewhat. My dog has officially earned the title of co-pilot because he’ll come wagging over and lay down next to me on the bed, which is right near my computer chair, both paws on the arm of my chair. So I’m swapping my right hand constantly from mouse to dog. Button push, button push, dog pat, dog pat, button push. And he just keeps wagging and hanging out watching the screen.
Because it’s cheap entertainment and kills time…
I loved World of Warcraft when I started this Hunter in 2008. I had been in EverCrack from 2000-2007 and when that game started changing and my guild dissolved WoW was the thing I jumped over to. Because I have 11-years invested in this Hunter I hold on a little longer hoping it will get better but also waiting until something on the scale of EQ and WoW comes out. I don’t know if there’s anything in the works except maybe Pantheon. I cancel my subscription every now and again and come back to see if the game has gotten back on track but it hasn’t. There is no real open and persistent world. WoW feels like a single-player game with no real adventure anymore. You queue with people you will never meet again and it feels more like a single-player FPS than it does an MMORPG. It’s sad. The changes that have isolated players into their own little worlds has killed the game. I hope it gets better but I don’t know if the developers really care about that anymore. Seems like everything is just about monetizing the game and milking every penny possible out of it. Sure, that’s important but at what cost? The integrity of the game seems to be the easy thing for them to toss aside.
There have been times I felt like that, so I take a break and come back later.
I would like to say I like all WoW has to offer, but that would be a lie. There is, however, enough that I like, to keep playing at least 50% of the time.
It does help that my guild on Alliance Khaz’Goroth is active because the Horde guild on Grizzly Hills faded out.