I look at what I’m doing in the game I cannot believe that I’m actually doing it. I was doing a warfront the other day for a random piece of 400ilvl loot and I thought to myself, why does this even exist? Does anyone actually have fun doing this? I wasn’t doing the warfront because it was fun, and I don’t think anyone does. I was doing it, working at it, spending time on it, because there was a reward. And it was at this moment that I realized WoW was like a job, I wasn’t playing anymore because it was fun, I was playing because there was a constant stream of rewards for working in the game that I felt was important.
If I play a game of league, there are no real rewards in the game, you play because you are having fun carrying a game and defeating your opponents. But in WoW, in my opinion, there doesn’t seem to be any more joy in the game and the only thing that makes it worth wild are constant rewards for doing things that aren’t fun and that you don’t want to do.
Raiding was what I loved most in the game, but I have a daughter now, a girlfriend, and a job. I don’t have the time to commit. I wish there was more content like the mage tower in Legion. I felt that was challenging, gave a meaningful reward, and you did it because you wanted to.
I reached 365 days /played time this week. And I feel that is a fitting end to my character in the game. I have enjoyed most of the time I spent in this game and the friends that I’ve made. But now I feel alone in the game even though I’m always surrounded by other players. I hope you all continue to have fun in World of Warcraft, but for me, it seems that chapter is now closed.
not a bad exit post! hope you have fun in the future OP.
I still have fun with WoW, but I get how especially Warfronts seem like content you should do, instead of wanting to do them. The rewards are kind of high for them, but they were only interesting for me when I did them the first time for the lore part of it.
Lately I’ve been spamming BGs, and M+ and I find those fun still. Raiding is okay but it does take a lot of time in comparison. But it’s annoying feeling like “Ugh I need to get my Warfront in /sigh”
i can’t tell you the last time i did a warfront. the thing is if you make the game a job it will be. just try to do stuff thats fun. don’t do something because it gives gear. there’s posts all the time where people say they’re going to stop raiding and doing mythic+ and just do things that are fun. why not try that instead of stopping playing?
I know what you mean. It started feeling like a job to me as well. So I stopped raiding and took a break. Now I play casually when I want and do what I want.
yeah I hope you have fun , but to say leagues better its not , I played league for years , always played wow also , in league sometimes every game is competitive. I like some nice fresh air and a place I can roam and do quest without having to be competitive , I play wow to have fun not get raged for missing a skill shot , and I can leave anything if theirs someone I don’t like
Warfronts are one of the more troubling and hard to explain aspects of BfA. They’re basically the scripted intro quests from the last few expansions. Does anyone like doing those over and over on alts? Was there no one at blizzard that stood up and said doing these more than once is really going to suck? They’re like watching the action scene from an interactive movie over and over.
Where they fun at some point but then got idiot proofed? I just don’t get how they made it into the game.
Today, I found myself doing the horde warfront, not because I needed the 370 piece of gear, but because the quest was there, and I felt I had to do it. As I was scrapping the 370 piece of gear, I asked myself why I felt I had to do stuff like this that is not fun. My answer was, because there was nothing else to do.
It’s something the Dev Team needs to rethink their BFA philosophy.
Back in vanilla WOW, what most casuals did was working on their professions. It was not easy and slow to make progress but was more rewarding and brought more sense of achievement than BFA.
If it feels too much of pure grinding, chore, not fun, then stopping is the answer. Although, I wouldn’t necessarily stopped playing but maybe would’ve leveled a fresh LvL1 character or played the other faction and not logged in the LvL 120 toons for awhile.
Don’t let dev team dictate what’s fun for you.
You decide.
I don’t think you’re alone here. Before I let my sub lapse a few weeks ago, nobody in the game seemed to be having fun anymore. Nobody talked at all. It was just all business all the time and noone seemed to be getting any real enjoyment out of the game. The only time people talk in groups is when there’s salt.
WoW has been that way for some time, but has definitely gotten worse in recent years. If the folks playing this game are having fun, they sure don’t show it.
WoW is designed to be a job. No fun and interesting things just for the sake of fun and interesting things. No personality, no spontaneity, just work.
So since you don’t find it fun you see it as not fun for anyone. I played league a few times and did not find it fun to play. But I don’t assume that since it wasn’t fun for me it’s not fun for anyone else. Leets think like that and it’s just plain stupid!
No game you play will last long for you if you take the leetist route. You will burn out fast because you turn in to a job. That you are not getting paid to do! No video game you or I play will offer a real challenge. Because they are not real! The rewards are not real! The raids, dungeons, BGs, you name it and it’s still not real. IT’S A FANTASY!
In the end if it’s not fun for you then stop doing it. You are not getting paid to do it so it’s not a job. You can quit any time for any reason you like. You can quit without leaving a post in the forums. And good luck with what ever else you try. But if you take the same road you will still end up in the same place.
I feel the same and out of curiosity I checked my /played time and it’s at 648 days played; Most of that time was spent in pre WoD; That’s when friends started leaving one by one and now here I sit looking at 3 empty guilds that were once full of life, A leveling guild and then raiding guilds, Vent server, website and now it’s all gone.
Great Exit post, I feel ya on this and wish you happy travels in life and that it may be filled with “JOY” and “FUN”.
I would already have been gone but have been paying for my sub by buying game tokens in hopes that things would change but it doesn’t look like they are imho.
When I first saw this post I was rolling my eyes & thinking ‘Oh boi, here we go again’ but you make valid points and were respectful about it. I hope life gives you the time to relax & commit to fun more often, and to perhaps WoW becoming the Light we all loved to gather around like it once was.
As I was scrapping the 370 piece of gear, I asked myself why I felt I had to do stuff like this that is not fun. My answer was, because there was nothing else to do.