How did you quit world of warcraft?

[cronos]

This is something which might appeal for anyone <7..but we are older than 7 years old. Me and wife agree that we hate the idea that the game becomes a kid's game.

I'm >37 and I'm really excited for the pandas. I guess I've come full circle :biggrin:

 

[qwertyaas]

Sold all my gold and got banned around a year after release. Quite a way to go! [Stopped played a little before that though as it was getting too tedious and boring.]

I got my account unbanned but had no urge to go back.

 

[Coltaine]

It's probably easier to quit if its not the first mmorpg the person in question has played... For me personally, it was more difficult than others for two reasons: family and friends that played it, and because for the type of game it was Blizzard really did execute it nearly perfectly...

I would go in spurts of playing wow for a few months, then letting the account go inactive until I became "over-bored" with wow about 2-3 years ago... to the point where I never once even thought it would be fun to fire up again. To the point where I feel bored with most any new level based, non-loot, non-pvp (or consentual pvp only) "theme-park" mmo just in the time it takes to go from beta to retail, without even playing it.

Theres probably a better term for it than my made up "over-bored"...

Still kinda regret getting my dad and brother to move from UO and even FFXI to WoW.

 

[SergeC]

Played about two weeks, it got progressively worse as I went, and cancelled immediately. Very very average game.

 

[Dranoche]

I would stop when I got burned out on raiding, and would eventually go back when I started to miss raiding while playing other games. Or something like school and then work would periodically get in the way, and when it cleared up I would eventually go back. There's nothing in a single player action game or rpg that can match the realtime complexity and entertainment of the better raid bosses. The grind is rough the 2nd or 3rd time around with an alt but I've never had a huge issue with it the first time through.

The thing that would burn me out was that I was (usually) either in Guild A raiding all night every night for a few weeks to a couple months before eventually bringing it down to 1-2 night a week farming, or in Guild B raiding a fraction as much a week but not clearing everything. Guild A is stressful because of the huge time input when a new raid launches, and Guild B is stressful because you hit a wall you can't overcome because not every player is on the same page. There wasn't much in-between until more recently (Wrath/Cata), which is also where a lot of people will say raids moved towards faceroll easy.

 

[Imp]

Guild disbanded, I failed 1 course in first-year university, almost failed 2 others, got put on probation...

But I really just got bored of the game, and let the last month of my subscription run out untouched.

 

[micrometers]

I've been playing dragon age 2 recently and the combat is a lot better than WOW IMO.

I do like WOW's gameplay mechanics more, with the cast time and silence and other mechanics, but just controlling one avatar instead of being able to tactically maneuver all 4 is lacking I think.