How did you quit world of warcraft?

[thespyder]

Pretty much the same for me as everyone else in here. I logged in, asked myself "How is this fun?", logged out. Haven't played since. That was at least 5 years ago.

This is how I stopped playing EQ back in the day, and NWN2: BGTSC more recently. Just became way too much of a grind and absolutely no fun to be had at all.

 

[Onita]

I got banned botting archaeology

 

[Maligx]

I got banned for selling gold lol.. made about $800 off wow so was worth it.

 

[Soccerman06]

I played from beta-end of wotlk, anything after arthas was bs. I couldnt care about what happened after we killed arthas.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Played for 4 years.

I only got into it because the gf wanted to. You know, do something together, because that's what you do in relationships & shit.

So over the course of us playing, our relationship fell apart in my face. I lost all my friends when I quit doing drugs.
My gf & friends was what kept me playing. When they weren't around to play with anymore, it was no longer fun.
Every time I would log on, it only reminded me of the good fun times we had, then had no desire to play & logged off.
I finally was done altogether when I ended up working 70hr weeks as an assistant project manager. Had no time to play at all. Lost all desire to play. I'd rather stay working. Rarely played even after that contract ended.

We started late into vanilla, we were just shy from reaching lvl60 when BC came out. We played hardcore through BC, but things began falling apart on me during WOTLK. My sub ran out 3 days before Cata came out & I decided to not renew, then uninstalled.

Sometimes I catch a case of nostalgia about the game. But it's not enough to make me come back.

I met a good friend from WOW. We stay talking on a regular basis. Cool guy.
He still plays every once in a while. But he's the type that he gets all psyched to play, then when he does, he immediately hates playing & looks forward to when his time is up. Although plays non-stop until then.

I'm done, no plan or desire of going back.

 

[Matthiasa]

When the game launched...
Wasn't good enough to pay for.

 

[Powermoloch]

Got bored of it

vanilla, tbc, and wotlk

 

[Kev]

I played for a few months in 2005, got to level 40 or so and couldn't stand the grinding anymore.

 

[festa_freak]

Quite easily actually. I was becoming very bored with the 'mmo formula' and was quite ready for a change of pace. I REALLY detested the feeling of letting people down if I couldn't be there for such and such raid that we started 2 days earlier. I like freedom. The only thing keeping me in WoW was the guild I was in, it was much fun! The gameplay was really quite repetitive and boring. I hate leveling up in mmos.

I actually quit the DAY i completed my tier 9.25 balance druid set. It might not be tier 9, i forget, but it was the medium power one during Ulduar times. So I got it and I just felt like I had completed the game. I had attained the goal I set for myself and I haven't really had any desire to return.

I recenlty got TOR and it's alright, but it still has more of the same mmo grindyness although it is MUCH better and more intriguing that anything WoW had. All in all though, I don't like games that chain me to the keyboard in any way. I know it's an artificial chain but the FEELING of letting people down is sure there and it's real.

I mostly stick to singleplayer strategy games and the odd multiplayer shooter but I'm growing out of those. I really like LoL though

Don't know if it means much but I have 80 days on my druid and 30 peppered through various alts, a 40 warlock and another, yes, another level 20-something druid. Yep, I did the lvl 1-20 druid leveling twice.

 

[Rhezuss]

Start -> Control Panel -> Uninstall a program

 

[shurato]

Ok FFXI holds a pretty special place in my heart being it my first MMO but come on... grouping in that game was to the extreme. You basically couldn't solo anything unless you were in some lowbie zone. Nothing like being chased by a stupid bunny for the entire area until you zone out to the next area because you can't solo anything for shit.

Or nothing like grinding for hours leveling by killing a bunny or a crab over and over again.
One thing I did like at least when I played was there was no instances, well except for Dynamis. And not to hijack this thread for FFXI but damn, why can't you jump in the stupid game. Ruins a bit of the immersion over your avatar.

I played on/off (primarily off) since beta. In short, I kept getting bored of the DGAF community and easy-mode play-style, and found plenty of other games that deserved more attention and access to parts of my budget.



I absolutely loved FFXI exactly for that aspect. Forced partying is something that the "modern" MMO model lacks, IMHO. It forces teamwork, dedication, and unites the community. With WoW, you have people that quickly get an instance and never say a word to each other and run redundant questing that's soloable for the casual gamer. While that's fine and all for the casual gamer, it's pointless to have any of these people actually playing in a persistent world together.

The problem is modern MMOers put too much emphasis to work at their own pace on their characters. To each their own, but at some point you need to actually interact with all of the people around you. It's almost as if the typical gamer becomes disillusioned and forgets that all of those avatars running around with some amazing AI are actually people and should be treated as such. So instead of having the community grow together and learn the in's and out's of the game, you get a bunch of solo driven game content.

I'm not saying games shouldn't have solo content. All I'm saying is the focus on solo content is far too much in the modern MMO model that WoW helped standardize.

 

[greenhawk]

but it wasn't that bad.

probably, but my only other MMOG was Guild wars (beta). I went and played Oblivion instead of WoW. Nothing like trying to do a quest of "kill <x>" and finding 20 people standing around waiting to spawn kill it. If it was not having to be in a group to instance, the feeling of having to fight other players for the chance to do a quest sucked.

Back at the time I could not even join some of the original/early areas as there would be too many people in it, let alone the server being full. Adding in lag in playing (In Australia, only after vanilla did some ISPs start to offer direct routing / proxies to increase speeds). the lag made doing any sort of P2P rubbish and tasks like mining was a joke (I could start, someone could walk up and, literally, "under mine" my attempt).

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Ok FFXI holds a pretty special place in my heart being it my first MMO but come on... grouping in that game was to the extreme. You basically couldn't solo anything unless you were in some lowbie zone. Nothing like being chased by a stupid bunny for the entire area until you zone out to the next area because you can't solo anything for shit.

Or nothing like grinding for hours leveling by killing a bunny or a crab over and over again.
One thing I did like at least when I played was there was no instances, well except for Dynamis. And not to hijack this thread for FFXI but damn, why can't you jump in the stupid game. Ruins a bit of the immersion over your avatar.

FFXI holds a special place in my heart. Every once in a while, I get tempted to hop back on. Loved the grouping and the parties.

 

[Doppel]

I never played WoW, but an earlier MMORPG game sucked me in for longer than it should have. I quit, then started again, then quit, then started again, then quit finally and decided never again will I play one of these. Terrible, ghastly theft of time. It's utterly asinine the amount of life people waste in this. Been over a decade now and although I still game I won't touch one of these with a ten foot pole. I literally do have a real life to live and no time for such things. Just quit, close the account, cancel it. The sense of loss which you'll feel will soon be overshadowed by the sense of relief that you no longer feel compelled to care for this character you've spent all this time on. Just some entries in a database that mean nothing.

 

[power_hour]

Met a supermodel, fell in love, had kids.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Loved vanilla wow. Played BC then quit shortly after I got to level cap. Couple years later, my brother got into it. Naturally, I went back to play with him. We were both Alliance. He was a druid and I was a rogue. We rarely did any dungeons, we spent most of our time trolling other players. On Friday nights, we would get shit face and go ganking. We used to get a 5 man going that consisted of rogues and druids and sneak into Orgrimmar and kill off the bankers and auctioneers and fuck around with everyone, lol. Good times. Anyways, I was drunk one night and went off on the wrong people. Needless to say, I was banned. Brother shortly quit right after. Realized that wow too much of my time and decided to quit.

 

[thespyder]

Nothing like trying to do a quest of "kill <x>" and finding 20 people standing around waiting to spawn kill it. If it was not having to be in a group to instance, the feeling of having to fight other players for the chance to do a quest sucked.

Kind of this.

Terrible, ghastly theft of time. It's utterly asinine the amount of life people waste in this. Been over a decade now and although I still game I won't touch one of these with a ten foot pole. I literally do have a real life to live and no time for such things. Just quit, close the account, cancel it. The sense of loss which you'll feel will soon be overshadowed by the sense of relief that you no longer feel compelled to care for this character you've spent all this time on. Just some entries in a database that mean nothing.

and this.

Bottom line, other than social interaction and PVP, none of the MMOs that I have seen have done anything at all that single player games don't do much better. I have Facebook for Social interaction, not to mention real life. And I don't feel the need to prove my gaming prowess against anyone else to the point where I need to engage in PVP. it's all pointless and ephemeral anyway. The opponent just comes back 2 minutes later.

 

[badb0y]

Did everything I wanted to do (Raid, Arena, BG) then quit.

 

[micrometers]

Met a supermodel, fell in love, had kids.

uh-huh. sure.

 

[micrometers]

Loved vanilla wow. Played BC then quit shortly after I got to level cap. Couple years later, my brother got into it. Naturally, I went back to play with him. We were both Alliance. He was a druid and I was a rogue. We rarely did any dungeons, we spent most of our time trolling other players. On Friday nights, we would get shit face and go ganking. We used to get a 5 man going that consisted of rogues and druids and sneak into Orgrimmar and kill off the bankers and auctioneers and fuck around with everyone, lol. Good times. Anyways, I was drunk one night and went off on the wrong people. Needless to say, I was banned. Brother shortly quit right after. Realized that wow too much of my time and decided to quit.

you're my kind of player. World pvp was the best. Utterly unpredictable and fun. I remember one world pvp match when I was like level 40 where I, a druid, ended up in castor mode and out of mana so I couldn't shift into cat mode. So I finished the guy off with my stave.

Good times. Instances bored me to tears though. The whole pull thing was a dumb dance and uninteresting.

I still hold WOW up as the epitome of RPG combat. Like, games like dragon age and KOTOR just don't feel as good when it comes to combat.

 

[cronos]

I got burned out bad after raiding hard at the Tier 4-6 level. When WotLK came out I rushed my main character to 80 and then I couldn't take it anymore. Resigned from active raiding and started playing around with alts that I never had the time to play (or even level more than ~20) before. Got two more characters to 80 in the next two months and then I just realized that I don't login that much anymore and finally canceled (after about 4 years of continuous subscription).

After that I came back whenever I got the itch, usually only for a month or two and then I quit again. The break I took varied but they were at least 6 months. This last one was the longest, about a year from January '11 to January '12. I now have an active account again that I have extended to month #2, but I'll likely cancel at the end of this month until the next expansion.

I never ever had any disdain or hate towards the game at all though throughout all the changes that they had in the game (that first time I quit I was so sick of the game but it's because of my personal burn-out and not the game itself). In fact, I actually like it more each time I come back, learn to play my characters again, sometimes trying out new classes I haven't tried before, new dungeons, questing in the new places, etc. It's always an enjoyable time when I come back and subscribe again for that one or two months.

 

[coloumb]

Lack of guild upon my return after quitting between release of WOTLK and Cata. There were 3 guild members left when I logged into Cata. During my absence [break] - most of them switched to another server/horde side as they were tired of the "alliance kiddies" [for some reason - immature brats like to play alliance].

Since I purchased the CE version of Cata - I leveled up 4 alts and released I was just tired of the end game daily grind treadmill.

Wow...just logged in and saw the last time I played was 3/16/2011 6:38 PM. Awesome.

 

[Soccerman06]

I do miss being the op warlock going into ws and standing under the horde graveyard with a healer friend and 1 shotting people with shadowbolt (boom 6k). People got so mad at me for doing that and would actually make toons to on my server to tell me how much of a douche I was. Being the most OP class in the game made the lack of content so much better. Only better time I had was when I was doing testing in ulduar and warlocks were even more op and conflag made our damage almost double everyone else with no effort and then they nerfed us in the next 15 patches and I got mad.

 

[KidNiki1]

[for some reason - immature brats like to play any game you have ever played no matter what race,side,faction or game type you have played ever in the history of all time].

ftfy

 

[abaez]

I basically stopped after whatever patch had Sunwell and we started banging our heads on the bosses in there and the guild began falling apart.

That said, I had been playing since beta and I will never, ever forget some of the gaming moments I had in that game. When Ragnaros first came out of the lava and was like 10x bigger than all of us I SHIT my pants. Vent was COMPLETELY silent as we listened through his speech.

When he bitchslapped Majordomo (which we had just spent like a month killing), people were like holy fucking shit. It was one of the most visceral and awesome gaming moments of my life. This was with a group of 40 people that I had spent weeks raiding MC with (when we first entered we wiped like twice on the first two fire giants haha). We were just a huge group of friends by that point. When we finally killed him it was so satisfying.

Also killing Vael (when he had the one hour timer lockout each day) was pretty damn awesome. Killing Nef was pretty good too. And also getting Thunderfury for our MT when it was COMPLETELY op just made us all even closer cause the entire guild worked toward it. We had a text chain for all of our phones to camp the three green dragons and we had literally a raid ready to go within 10 minutes of them spawning at 5am. (someone would be designated to camp them all night and text everyone when it spawned). The blue dragon pvp battles in Azshara were epic.. god.. so many memories.

By the time I quit the guild was not nearly the same and it just wasn't fun anymore with the different people changing every month.