Why I Left WoW

[Professor S]

The first reason was money and time, but another reason helped out as well.

Fun. At about level 30 the game stopped being fun for me.

I kept on stalling out at about level 30. I just couldn't activate my abilities quickly enough and I was getting eaten alive. Doing some research I found that a lot of members who were at high levels were using macros (little programs that link abilities together to make their use more efficient).

...

That was too much like work for a game. If the game had a interface for building macros, like in Sacred, then I would have been more obliged to cook up some tasty macros for full-flavored ass kickings. But they didn't and I honestly just didn't have the time or inclination to delve that far into the game. I just kept on making new characters when I hit thirty in hopes that my new Shaman would break the curse.

Also, the amount of travel time kept increasing and I never had more than a couple hours for instance dungeons... some of which take a LONG TIME. The game became a burden instead of the joy it once was. If I had the free time, I would probably have had continued playing and leveled more, but with work and school I just didn't have that option.

Anyone else experience the same thing?

[Dylflon]

Your display pic still creeps me out.

[Canyarion]

The fun factor dropped in the late 30s for me. It wasn't really that the controls or spells were getting too much, but the missions were just too widely spread or something. Until lvl 35 or so, you just have 1 or 2 areas where you play. After that, you are sent around the world. That is fun, but also more confusing. I kept having quests all over the world, but I never had time to do them all, which bothered me.

And once I got the horse.... well, let's just say I had no goal in my game. :)

[Happydude]

Your display pic still creeps me out.
yup, that's a big problem relating to the topic at hand. :rolleyes:




anyway, i wan't WoW, i got a 10 day pass from a friend and i started playing....my impression so far is WOW :p...i still want to play really bad, and i hope that i will not run into the same problem you have. i also hope that with the expansion they will improve the macro system...i mean put a builder in or a tutorial at least or something.

but also to aid your cause, i'm pretty sure there are tons of macros for WoW scattered online and on different forums and all that, all you really need to do is google WoW macros or something and i'm pretty sure something will come up.

[Canyarion]

Macro's were never a problem for me. I didn't miss them. I enjoyed battling manually. I even had one of the hardest classes to play (warlock).

[Teuthida]

Your display pic still creeps me out.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1563679108538408123

[thatmariolover]

The game is fun for me from 1-59, but after 60 everything's always the same, there's nothing new, and if you don't enjoy or have the time for (bi)weekly 40-man raid dungeons there's really no way to twink your character out. Not to mention playing a Disc/Holy Priest (which is expected of you at 60) is no fun at end game because the second you walk out of an instance you have to go into 'fear-for-your-life' mode.

I really need to reroll horde now, though. I think I've completed all of the Alliance quests, it'll be fun to have some new stuff to do.

My suggestion to you though, if you lost interest after 30, switch classes. They've all got different paces and each have different fast/slow points. Priests are slow until about 20, then they're amazingly fast and easy to level from 20-50 (if you're Shadow), and then 51-60 is just a bitch no matter what way you swing it.

[DarkMaster]

I thought the game was great fun and still do.

[GameMaster]

I thought the game was boring, slow, and too big. I got bored before I could ever get in-depth simply because it takes a f-cking hour to get anywhere. Highest I ever had was a level 8 troll shaman.

Thank God for WarCraft 3. I play that game everyday.

[Dylflon]

yup, that's a big problem relating to the topic at hand. :rolleyes:


Leave me and my non sequitirs alone.

/me tries to set Happydude on fire with his mind.

[DarkMaster]

I thought the game was boring, slow, and too big. I got bored before I could ever get in-depth simply because it takes a f-cking hour to get anywhere. Highest I ever had was a level 8 troll shaman.

Thank God for WarCraft 3. I play that game everyday.
It's obvious that the MMORPG genre is not for you. WoW is actually the fastest leveling and most technically impressive MMORPG that I've played. Its quest driven gameplay beats the living sh*t out of level grinding.

[MrCoffee]

Not to mention playing a Disc/Holy Priest (which is expected of you at 60) is no fun at end game because the second you walk out of an instance you have to go into 'fear-for-your-life' mode.

What is fear for you life mode? and I use cosmos UI its really good, I spent about 15 minutes playing with it and ti was all setup, just get the beginner version.

[DeathsHand]

I thought the game was beyond amazing...

I'm considering reactivating my account now that I've taken a break (I wore myself out after months and months of playing every waking hour I wasn't at work) and got a new job...

I do agree with Canyarion... Around lvl 30-40 or so, the quests do get extremely spread out... There were times when I had like 9 quests in my log, and each one was in a different zone, which really killed my motivation to do any of them...

And of course 60 is a snorefest (The most fun I had was sitting around the opposing force's towns... A crowd would always gather, there'd be dancing and laughing and communicating through the emotes... Until someone at a high level had to go and ruin the fun)...

But after my first character hit 60, it felt like a huge breath of fresh air to start over again as a different class... 'Specially since I could use my 60 to farm for him :>

Most fun I had was with my 60 shadow priest... I didn't do raids, so I was able to stick with the ass-kicking power of the shadow...

Favorite memory would be the time my priest (was somewhere around 58-60) and my 40-something hunter friend somehow took out 2 lvl 60 rogues who got the drop on us... In Un'goro Crater... I remember it like it was yesterday... Damn rogues got what they deserved...

[Dyne]

I love WoW and all, but my only downfall is that it's too addicting. That, and it's my brother's.

He wants me to play right now but I've got a week of school ahead so I'm resisting.

[Jonbo298]

It's obvious that the MMORPG genre is not for you. WoW is actually the fastest leveling and most technically impressive MMORPG that I've played. Its quest driven gameplay beats the living sh*t out of level grinding.

You didnt play City of Heroes when Powerlevel'ing was at its worst point, heh. I think the fastest I heard someone went from 1-50 was in 27 hours (lots and lots of herding)

[Professor S]

It's obvious that the MMORPG genre is not for you. WoW is actually the fastest leveling and most technically impressive MMORPG that I've played. Its quest driven gameplay beats the living sh*t out of level grinding.

Maybe its not, but I actually think that there are still more than a few faults in the MMORPG genre as a whole. Whether WoW is the best there is (it is the best I've played) or not, there are some problems with the game.

Looking back on my comments, I think the its the time it takes to play and get anywhere in the upper levels that bothers me the most. Travel time is a killer. Also, people say how much easier it is to solo in WoW than other MMO's, but what constitutes "easy"? I'd spend an hour just trying to get a decent group for an instance dungeon.

Having to commit so much time to any game to make a miniscule amount of progress is rediculous to say the least, IMO. Hard-core gamer or not, after hour 4 of not killing anything I start to get antsy in the pantsy. Also, if I never see one more idiot dwarf dancing naked in the auction house I'll be happy as hell.

One other thing that bugged me was how difficult communication was for the most part. I know that there are voice programs available, but few use them. All the stopping to type and trying to communicate during a battle was frustrating. If voice com becomes more commonplace in the future, I might give MMO's another shot.

[KillerGremlin]

I remember the D2 days...those were sad times. I had friends that would have turned down sex to acquire rare items. I was fortunate to get the game a year or two after everyone stopped playing it, and I was still on 56k I believe…so I didn’t play online.

If time wasn’t such a factor, I might have bought WoW. But the thing is, I got stuff to do. In retrospect, I think the reason why Half-Life multiplayer has been in my repertoire for 5+ years is because you can play it for 15 minutes, or for 7 hours.

WoW seems like a fun, huge game. But I gotta be honest, I can't commit.

[Canyarion]

(The most fun I had was sitting around the opposing force's towns... A crowd would always gather, there'd be dancing and laughing and communicating through the emotes... Until someone at a high level had to go and ruin the fun)
What I did was enter one of the enemy cities and just hang out and watch the reactions you got.
You wouldn't believe how easy it is to walk into Undercity and sit on the old throne. And once you're on the roofs in Ogrimmar, nobody will notice you untill you attack them (I never killed anyone, just teased them).

I also loved emoting a lot. This was my 'trademark': /fart /smell /point /lol :stud:

[MuGen]

whenever this happens I always tend to regress to older RTS and older games. When I get tired of Raven Shield, I play Ghost Recon and my love for the game is rekindled. I got tired of Generals and went back to the classic C&C Gold, and was really fun for me to go back to.

EDIT: I forgot my suggestion........ go back to an older WoW and pwn in that game. I always go from UT2004 to 2003 and have so much fun playing classic games.

[Canyarion]

An older WoW. Interesting.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Or a worse MMORPG, my suggestion? Lineage II....a good game, but so hopelessly flawed.....but there's free servers :D:D:D


ask either myself or happydude for the sites.


and then msg me or him if you want to go questing :D

[DeathsHand]

What I did was enter one of the enemy cities and just hang out and watch the reactions you got.
You wouldn't believe how easy it is to walk into Undercity and sit on the old throne. And once you're on the roofs in Ogrimmar, nobody will notice you untill you attack them (I never killed anyone, just teased them).

I also loved emoting a lot. This was my 'trademark': /fart /smell /point /lol :stud:

I used to sit up in a window right next to the Ironforge bank, which of course is right next to the Auction House...
Dressed up in my sexy tux and stylish hat...

On a PvP server, mind you (of course they could attack me either way, but people on PvP servers are generally out for blood)...

It was great... I left my 60 rogue in there as I leveled up my priest... Each time I'd pop on, I'd see some of the same bored lvl 60s, they'd gather round... Yell at lowbies trying to kill me... Etc...
One was a wee gnome called pigglywiggly, another was some guy who was always a morphed into a furbolg, holding this neat staff that looked kinda like a torch...

Then when I finally left Ironforge (on foot, BTW), 2 or 3 of the lvl 60s that sat around with me rode all the way from Ironforge, through Loch Modan, and down to the Badlands before they turned around...

It made me extremely happy...

I also used to go to Auberdine and Teldrassil (Night Elf starting area and capital) and help out the (very confused) lowbies...

That's the kind of stuff I loved about the game... The gameplay was very addicting, but the truly memorable moments to me came from just dickin' around, or to a lesser extent, PvP...

[Canyarion]

I once was in the Barrens and /duel-ed a newbie of lvl 12. He duelled me, but he attacked me before the actual duel began, so he triggered PvP. It was great to see his fear after the duel when I could have killed him. But I didn't, which was very funny. :D

And helping out enemy players is fuuuuuunnn..... :love: