Why do you Wow?

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When I started playing. I wasn’t in the best living situation. Abusive parent also being the parent mostly in charge all the time. A few other personal things were at this time and I talked about those enough. I don’t wanna be a bummer even if I’m currently way happier.

The exact thing that lead me to WoW was also something I talked about before. So that detail ain’t super important. But just being able to pretend to be elsewhere was something that very much saved my life. Not even being dramatic.

This goes for the forums as well. Quite a few years ago someone saw me posting on the forums and basically pulled me to the side in a post to say I was showing signs of borderline personality disorder and that I should consider talking to someone about it. I do wish I could remember this persons name. But thanks bro. Therapy and meds whupped a big chunk of the more toxic parts of that disorder. I still got my bad days but mentally I’m doing way better.

Its all just mushy gushy sentimental stuff for me but its the truth

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Yeah since we have a starship now called the Vindicaar. How come we have not used its warp drive to go to another planet? I’m sure it is fueled up and ready to go but for some reason were still on planet Azeroth.

I’m sure Dalaran has space flight capability too since it is a teleporting flying city and all. So why are we not exploring space?

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Because depression, and also…
-LotRO was FUN, but it just couldn’t “draw me in”!
-D&D Online… I just don’t like Eberron. I’ve never PLAYED in it in a P&P game, but my god were the novels so dry. When I found out I was playing in that setting, I just said, “I can’t.”, and left.
-Neverwinter is fun, but I keep brain farting my way back to WoW.
…also, like, all my friends are here. It’s the Sunset Grill for me!

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I still play because of wow classic(_era), but I don’t know how much longer that will obtain.

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I started “almost” at the beginning of retail – game launched Nov 2004 I started the following Feb 2005.

I started with a passion for the game but then at the start I was in very friendly, helpful, social and active guilds and there was a constant group of about 10 people in particular I’d play with almost any given day / night I jumped into the game. It was , and still remains, the most fun time Ive ever had with a computer game.

But it also made me addicted to the game as I’d pour tons of hours into – at the height I think I was doing about 35 hours mon-fri and another 20 on the weekends…55 hours a week in a game…that’s red flag , ultra basement dweller level problem signs.

This happened for the first couple years, around 2007 I started playing less (a large driver was my gf at the time made it easier to play less) … but I still rack up 30 hours a week routinely. Around the end of 2009 to 2010-ish people start quitting in my guilds and the main guild broke apart.

(that guild built back up years later and its now back up to several hundred players but I don’t know anyone there and the culture is completely different now – not the same)…

That’s when my solo play really started kicking in…then I stopped when I got laid off from work in early 2012 – didn’t play wow for I think it was year or darn close to a year…Mists launched then I think (some expansion had just launched and it was the first time I didn’t play an expansion from the start)…

Anyway…through the years I’m still here (obviously) … my play has been just about exclusively solo for 10 years now.

Forgot to mention around when I started solo play the game lost is addictive grip on me…my play time dropped like a stone. Now its a unique experience if I play 30 hours in a 7 day week…it mostly only happens for the first month of a brand new expansion launch now.

I take breaks all the time – couple days, couple weeks, couple months – I just play when I feel like and don’t when I don’t.

BUT…my dilemia now is weird – I have enjoyment leveling but like yesterday a new character made it to DF. As soon as I got her past the first couple quests…a feeling of like “ugh…I’ve no desire to play this”.

Aren’t you supposed to be energized at the newer content and not at the older? Because I think its in reverse for me.

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I played Asheron’s Call for about 10 years and it began to slowly die a heartbreaking death… I had met so many friends there in real life from all over the country and we’re still friends to this day.

Just a couple of months before they ‘pulled the plug’ (2009) , I migrated to WoW at the urging of a couple of RL friends from AC. It was so much more “polished” than AC, yet AC had features that I still wish WoW had. I’ve also met a lot of true friends here… maybe not in RL but we do have non-game related contact.

Wow is my getaway, my escape, my way to just forget about things and have some “me” time.

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You’re welcome to join me any time.
= )

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thanks I appreciate the offer, however people being nice to me doesn’t really stop the feeling of letting people down when I under perform. I simply feel better about myself when the only person I am capable of slowing down is myself.

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Raid logging is the best this game has to offer 100%. Even pvp doesn’t feel as truly competitive to me as logging.

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Main thing that keeps me playing is I like to work on Machinimas and other projects. So I use the game to help with those one way or another. Another reasons is World of Warcraft is a game I can still log in and chill when I cannot will myself to do anything else. Be that gathering, leveling an alt, doing older content, etc.

Edit: I should add that recently I decided to try PvP again as to see if I can enjoy it like I once did. So I tried Epic Random Battlegrounds, and oh boy can it be fun at times on my Paladin Tank while listening to “I wanna be in the Cavalry” by Colm R. McGuinness.

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Honestly I wasn’t going to play much longer. I lost a lot of motivation for various reasons but then during the Halloween event I came back and got Arfus and the blades of azinoth… so I have been time walking prepping my DH for the next dark temple time walking to attempt to get the coveted transmog.

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Zapping people with chain lightning in pvp.

Vanilla wow provides that.

It’s not the same in retail.

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Started back in 2005 I think? I was looking for a break from EQ where I was in a cutting edge guild that was taking more time than a FT job. At the time, already was losing more and more friends and guildmates to EQ2 and WoW.

So in 2005, 2 RL friends gifted me WoW as a way to entice me to play with them here in Azeroth. Started extremely casual at first, would relax here for an evening and then raid in EQ the other nights of the week since raiding started 30 minutes after my child’s bedtime. By the time we were midway through TBC, I had fully quit EQ and stayed here.

I’ve taken breaks over the years for various reasons, but this will always be the relaxing place I first found in 2005. And I am far too old to ever have a raiding schedule like I did in EQ.

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I feel like they’ve increased the barriers of entry for players. The main things I don’t like are:

  • New Talent System
  • New Profession System
  • Rotation M+ Dungeons
  • Weak storyline

New talent system is super complicated, and while it’s cool it supports more playstyles. I feel like in practice you still just have a few builds that are viable, only now they’re even more complicated than they were before. To raid and be somewhat competitive, I feel like I need to watch a 30m video to explain my spec to me that I’ve been playing since WOTLK.

Professions just don’t make sense to me, but it’s not that big of a deal because I never got into them. I think it’s the same vein though – it’s over complicated and confusing.

Rotation M+ dungeons is cool in theory, but again it just adds to the list of things you have to figure out before playing. In SL I could take a break and come back and grind out some M+ pretty easily. Now if I come back I need to read up on how to play my spec, and then also read up on what the dungeons in rotation are.

The storyline is pretty bland to me, and feels hard to keep up with.

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There is something about WoW that still excites me. I don’t play it as much as I used to with starting a family, but I definitely try as much as I can. Nostalgia definitely has a factor too, been playing since the beginning.

Just to think I’ve been playing this game for 19 years when I was 16 is crazy but awesome. And with three new expansions announced, just super cool. I’ll honestly keep going until the very end!!

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I enjoy it and i enjoy my friends.

Also devastation evoker fills me with the warm fuzzy feelings.

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I love getting immersed in a fantasy world where you can lose yourself in your own story.

And fearing cows is funny. :skull_and_crossbones: :cow: :skull_and_crossbones:

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I was with a person I knew decades ago who played warcraft 3 or 2 or something , I watched him play… then WoW came out and my late brother’s friends were playing and I was still too young to even get a job etc… but I got to years later play on a person’s PC , start a new character and fool around for however long I was there.

Loved every minute of it.

It kind of fell out of mind for a bit but I’d hear news of a new expansion and so on and so forth 'till Cata or something and I’d get a present from my brother [the battle chest], used some free time things, then comes Legion and I ended up subbing.

I saw his friends always excited, talking about the raids etc years earlier.

I tried to capture that excitement and was left alone in the world unfortunately.

Asked how to make gold etc and someone msged me, gave me some advice, day later contacted me again and gave me his guild bank, which was stock full of legion fish, raid pots, hundreds of thousands of gold… mats etc…

Told me he is sick and playing wow was his escape, but it became an addiction. Someone years earlier helped him out so he said he was paying it forward.

Something I’ll never forget.

'till then I’ve been paying with gold and while the game doesn’t grab me per se. I don’t have that place in the world as some who raid or do dungeons and have a guild they bond with or w.e

So gold making, exploring the world has been what was keeping me playing.

Make gold, flesh out professions to feed into my game time which in turn lets me play longer which has me make gold, to play the auction house and have it feel like a store, and sometimes a stock market as someone described it.

Exploring old content to get more items to sell or learn which makes me experience the game as a ‘world’ and not just a zone to farm rares.

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Honestly speaking, I don’t know why I keep playing WoW. I joined at the start of 2015 when I was 23 so I’ve been here almost 8 years and while WoW has harshly fell down the list of games I enjoy playing, I’m still around because something keeps me here.

just wish I knew what that something was that keeps me tethered to Warcraft.

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I’m a Legion baby. A friend of mine want me to join with her, I enjoyed playing Druids, Elves, and RP [Nowadays, RP is not even the same].

Even though I took breaks, I came back to play Druids and Elves.