When all my real-life friends switched from Alliance to Horde. I just could not face levelling another toon....so bored. i played for 4 years, which is an eternity for me. I like variety too much. Case in point...right now I am playing LotrO, Champions, D&DO, and waiting for Aion. How I stuck with WoW so long was purely lack of choices. Not gonna be a problem soon, with so many new games and genres on the horizon. Despite all the gloom on this site, I think it is an exciting time for MMOs.

As the wow part of my general online guild split into two parts (a loot greedy part and the rest), I decided, I didnt want to be part of a game any longer, where items mean everything..

 Blizzard turning WAR-craft into LOLcraft.....

That and the fact that idiocy was in no short supply in that game. You found one good player to play with out of every 5000 people you meet.

I could go on but... no need to rant. (too early in the morning actually...)

LOL the truth is everyone who says there giving up Wow most will come back to check whats new they may not say they are but alot do. Wow is the 800 lb gorilla in the room and there is nothing that can compete with what they do. Sure they may do some things that upset some but for the most part they come up with great ideas too.

Jihad works both ways

Originally posted by googajoob7

If you are an ex warcraft player what was the thing ( or things ) that made you finally give up Warcraft ? 

I never liked strategy games including Warcraft series. I start to play WoW from beta, stop and start to play it few times but every time was disappointed much more. Just WoW was turned from nice MMO into item grind multiplayer game that make me quit. I can say that even dislike it because of the crappy direction its developed.

Originally posted by Elsabolts

LOL the truth is everyone who says there giving up Wow most will come back to check whats new they may not say they are but alot do. Wow is the 800 lb gorilla in the room and there is nothing that can compete with what they do. Sure they may do some things that upset some but for the most part they come up with great ideas too.

Jihad works both ways

Not me. I haven't played in a year and  I haven't  been happier. You never realized how much free time you have until you give up WoW. The amount of shit I got done the first week I quit was just mind-blowing. Maybe other weaker people might but I sure as hell won't. 

I also refuse to support a company that destroyed  a game just so they can get some more money. lawl-craft or lol-craft w/e you like better is just a crappy game now, and the only people who support it are the same people that haven't realized the life outside of WoW. I'll take getting laid IRL over playing that game. Just my 2 cents.

Originally posted by Elsabolts

LOL the truth is everyone who says there giving up Wow most will come back to check whats new they may not say they are but alot do. Wow is the 800 lb gorilla in the room and there is nothing that can compete with what they do. Sure they may do some things that upset some but for the most part they come up with great ideas too.

Jihad works both ways

While it is true, after I quit WOW the 1st time (9mo's played)  I went back for a 2nd 9 mo run, but since Nov of 2006 (just before TBC) I left and never looked back.

Lots of reasons to call it a day I guess.  TBC changes to 40 man raiding broke up my guild, but that's OK, I couldn't stick with the 5 day a week raiding schedule anymore.

What really ground my gerars was the game's design to make players run the same instances repetitively hoping for a drop of their favorite item.  New expansion comes and the cycle starts all over again and I just didn't see that as entertaining (for me)

Also, after two years of WOW, nothing I had done mattered.  I had left no mark on the game world and that didn't set well with me either.

Since then I've found other games that cater more to what I'm looking for in them, and having a good time.

Became too repetitive. I did like playing a DK but once that got old, I didn't want to play anymore.I've played since release, have many fond memories. Can't wait to see what the next big MMO is, what everyone calls the WoW killer. What ever that is, I'm sure I'll be there enjoying a game for another few years. Right now I'm just game hopping.

Originally posted by Elsabolts

LOL the truth is everyone who says there giving up Wow most will come back to check whats new they may not say they are but alot do. Wow is the 800 lb gorilla in the room and there is nothing that can compete with what they do. Sure they may do some things that upset some but for the most part they come up with great ideas too.

Jihad works both ways

There are no idea at all from classic WoW up to now, even worst: the only idea that left is item grind. Now all ideas are stolen from other MMOs, just as addition to the item grind.

The number one reason I left was it was over played.  Been there done that was nothing left to do.   Another is that fact they made it so easy and didn't incorporate the old world with the new ones to much.   So I felt the more we got away from the old world the more we got away from the true part and fun of the game.  

Also the newer races, I hate Goblins and Draenei.  Blood Elf's and Worgen are ok but nothing to make me come back.  Also the new Classes are done wrong.  Gnome priest doesn't make sense at all, maybe a Shaman but not priest and a fucking Tauren Paladin cha right! 

Naa to me it seems like BLizz is tossing a lot of things out there to give ppl what they want and to kind of make people unhappy.  Pretty common knowlage that they been working on WoW 2 and it would be annouced or released in 2012, so i think they are just going to toss out half baked xpacs till WoW 2 is ready.