Honestly, you’re right having come back I don’t feel forced as before simply because I didn’t want to progress in shadowlands. I’m just catching up my renown for the cosmetics and gear. After that I’m probably gonna farm gold, mounts, and mogs. After that I’m gonna focus more on Classic.
How does name calling me make you any smarter
No proof and you ignore me? That doesn’t make you look bad at all! XD
Some of these replies are thoughtful.
Some are examples of some reasons why WOW is struggling.
Name calling, personal attacks, failing to actually read the post.
To sum up, systems grind, Maw grind, and Korthia grind are fun killers.
I did do the Sylvanas fight yesterday on LFR on two of my healers.
It is a good, well-designed fight with stupid writing for which I received only “grind” type loot after wiping twice. That sort of sums up Shadowlands. It does not respect or value my time.
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I’m honestly kind of feeling the same way. I’m not happy about it. I find it hard to say so as well because there are just too many smug, “FF14 is better lol WoW sucks” type threads going on these days that I don’t want to just add to the pile on. But ultimately I just am not digging this expansion. I feel so disconnected from both the story and the world. Hell, the way the zones are completely separate means it doesn’t even feel like a world at the moment! Each one individually feels so small and claustrophobic. And the points of civilisation in them are so small and token, the zones so overwhelmingly hostile, I find it hard to care about them. Each place is just a total bummer. I never feel as though I get to “go home”.
Maybe part of it is burn out. I grinded the absolute crap out of anima for months. I did so god damn many world quests. Maybe I am just sick of them.
I still like playing the game. I like pressing the buttons and hearing the wooshing. I still like leveling alts up to 50, and running old content. But shadowlands is just not the place I want to be at all! I hope to god that when the next expansion comes out they roll it in as one of the optional leveling experiences, and not mandatory. Because given the choice, I will never do it.
I’m certainly not abandoning the game. I still love it. I will be playing future content and hoping it gets better. But I am not feeling any obligation to play regularly right now.
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Here’s the issue: they are obsessed with having total control over the player experience at all times. They design gameplay to force players to solo content except when they are forced to group. There are no options. They will put in as many shards as necessary to keep you from grouping with people around you. They will put as many systems that require sharding as necessary to make sure that all levelers solo all content.
Options are out of the question.
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They need to get rid of Ion.
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Ah. Warhammer Online was a game that I wanted to succeed so badly. It was just horribly implemented.
Sounds like you need a break. It helps to step away sometimes.
For me it’s like the old saying goes, “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone”.
Well, I did cancel my subscription. I have a few weeks left.
I sent this character to the old Teldrassil and took a screen shot in front of the tree. I checked and I have 116 days played on this character. I think this was my first character but I am not sure. The oldest achieve I could find was June 2010. That is much longer than most marriages last nowadays, so it was a good run. It is sad to leave.
I did fill out the questionnaire, though I doubt anyone high up enough to matter will read it.
No one asked, but here are my three suggestions.
- Build a new engine.
- One currency or system per expansion.
- WOW 10.0. The jailer destroys most of the universe. The titans kill him. We wake up in a ruined basement in Azeroth with no food or gear. Alliance and Horde fight for every scrap of bread.
This happens to the best of us. Hell, I been playing since 2008 and I’m impressed I made it this far
I loved leveling in rift, just wish it had a decent endgame
My heart goes out to you.
If Blizzard fixes their integrity, I will be a dedicated guild leader and do my best to have a fun guild. My guild is already made and will be moving forward depending on Blizzard’s situation.
The only thing we can do is wait. They said in their apology letter “Trust is earned.”
It’s never been exactly ‘fun’ once the newness wears off 3-4 weeks after launch, and that’s mostly fun now because of the food and drinks used to get one’s first character to max level.
No worries. Mail me your gold and go.
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*Offline Single-player game. Offline. Trust me.
Oh and with Mod support. 
you know, i like your point #3. i definitely feel like getting rid of guild levels was a terrible idea. i can pay a few people to sign a guild charter and make a guild for myself that’s basically on the level of a guild that’s been active for 10+ years. the only real differences will be BoA things like mounts, pets, that i can get from someone else’s guild then leave (or just have 1 toon there)…either way i’ll still have it…and mostly obsolete stuff like Broiled Dragon Feast recipe.
so basically you get your own guild, your own guild bank, your own guild name, and the only real trade off (to the individual player) is it becomes kinda more single player. as a MMO, if you get a lot of individual players treating it as more of a single player, that’s gonna be rather damaging to the community.
I think I am in the exact same boat. I also level up and play all the heal specs. I keep thinking: Did I burn myself out trying to balance all of them? I ended up eventually just sticking with 3 of the 5 and finally within the past month or two, just been going with my main healer.
The fun/excitement seems to be gone. Its now more of: Yes I need to log on and do dailies, yes I need to do that this week, cool another Sylv kill, wait for next week now, etc. I used to get excited at the prospect of hitting the raid on Mythic and downing stuff but now that excitement is more of a dread. Like a weekly chore/job.
I log in, do my stuff and then go hit other games. I hate it because ive played WoW since it was in beta mode! But the feeling just isnt there anymore. 
You nailed it on all counts. Not sure the usual “hang in there” is worth the while. I started this journey in 2004.