I've been messing around with a 10 day trial of pandaria, and I cannot find the spark that led me to play previous expansions.  I play the game and get bored of it in about a half hour.  My characters seem cookie cutters, rather than the unique beings I played before, and the general feeling I get of the whole thing is "Meh"

Guess I want to know what others are finding so great about this expansion.  The game is still solid, but not interesting for me.

Felt the same way when I played the free trial yesterday. Got bored within 30 minutes and logged off for good.

The reason isn't even the same old questing system, I think it is the lack of challenge that bored me. Collect 10 and kill 10 quests aren't even the cause for this.

The game is stupidly easy, everything is marked for you, you cannot die unless you are a complete retard, you can press any button without thinking because you will always win, the mobs aren't dangerous, there are no group quests, for pvp servers there is no conflict with your enemy faction so no pvp in the world, world still feels empty etc...

I cant get back into it either.

I played for two days when cata came out, and two more days last December, and thats it.

I really cant explain it.

Edit: typos. (lousy touch keyboard).

Im happy enough levelling via bgs

Hate CRZ though.

Its only by default though no other mmorpg seems to make me happy right now.

Will try DF unholy wars when they decide to release it.

I have lost track at how many times i tried to play Wow.

The term SOLID game is ok by me,but i don't pick my games based on solid,i need uniue and atr least some ideas that are ab ove and beyond the normal.

When i or anyone plays Wow it offers nothing above and beyond either in looks,game play or depth or technically,so Solid yes,top notch no.

Once a game bores people for a long time 2/3/4+ years,one xpansion is not likely to change anything.

BTW the term "boredom" does not say the game is crap,it just means it has nothing to remove the boredom feel while wandering around.

Originally posted by Fendel84M
Pet battles are soooo much fun I was shocked. Like a whole separate game.

QED

Originally posted by bigcheeseuk
 It has become a game for the 12 year old market.

Average age of male US Wow player is 29 years old

Average age of female US Wow player is 32 years old

Source

(Unless you have a more recent survey?)

Tried the trial, enjoyed myself far more than I thought I would.  Resubbed.  Have been enjoying myself for over a month now.

They added a lot more content for a lot broader audience, EVERYONE I ever knew is playing WoW right now.  Its like the golden age of World of Warcraft.

Originally posted by Laughing-man

Tried the trial, enjoyed myself far more than I thought I would.  Resubbed.  Have been enjoying myself for over a month now.

They added a lot more content for a lot broader audience, EVERYONE I ever knew is playing WoW right now.  Its like the golden age of World of Warcraft.

 

I thought I was burned out on MMOs.  I couldn't stand playing GW2 after the first month, I returned to try to level an alt in SWTOR and found that boring.  I'm a LOTRO lifer and got really bored after the first level in the new expansion and haven't returned.

I enjoy WOW around xmas and decided to take them up on their ten day trial.  I leveled my main and alt as far as the trial would allow, one XP below level 86.  I then leveled my DK from 73 to the same point.  After that I leveled a monk to about 35.

So much for MMO burnout.  I still haven't bought MoP and haven't subbed.  But it's the only them park MMO I find enjoyable these days.  I could easily see myself running dailies, LFR, dungeons and heroics, trying the pet battles and leveling alts through dungeons.  I can't even contemplate playing GW2 or SWTOR any time soon.

Originally posted by VGTheory

My characters seem cookie cutters, rather than the unique beings I played before,

 

There was nothing unique on the builds previous to pandaria because everyone needed to have a specific build por raids, a specific build for pvp, a specific build for anything. Now it obviously look cookie cutter because of the massive change of talents but now every talent you try helps you in some way. It has less talents but it actually has more options.

Regarding the last part of your post, "game is still solid but not interesting for me". That is why you cant fully go back. You are burned out of this game to a point it just dont call your name anymore. Try something different for a while.

It sadly is still the best themepark mmo on the market. I started playing again, however I also started multiboxing after the first 2 months back and it has changed the way I enjoy the game.

IMO its right under TBC, not quite there as TBC just introduced so much at that time.

Originally posted by quasar941
I'm pretty burned out on MMOs in general. Vanguard, AoC, AO, TSW, I just log on, stare at the screen blankly for a few minutes as I try to decide what I want to do, which is usually to disconnect without doing anything at all. I recently renewed  my WoW sub for the first time in about 18 months and I was totally surprised that I've been having a blast leveling new characters. I don't know how long it'll last but for now at least, I'm back and having fun.

 That sounds a lot like me though I have not played WoW in several years, but was thinking about coming back, if MoP goes on sale again for $14.99 soon I probably will.

Originally posted by Edelbert

Felt the same way when I played the free trial yesterday. Got bored within 30 minutes and logged off for good.

The reason isn't even the same old questing system, I think it is the lack of challenge that bored me. Collect 10 and kill 10 quests aren't even the cause for this.

The game is stupidly easy, everything is marked for you, you cannot die unless you are a complete retard, you can press any button without thinking because you will always win, the mobs aren't dangerous, there are no group quests, for pvp servers there is no conflict with your enemy faction so no pvp in the world, world still feels empty etc...

      My biggest beef with WoW was that it was always too easy and even if you did die (which would happen if you had bad p/u groups in dungeons) the death penalty was so weak that it didnt really even matter.