I quit 2 weeks before release of the latest xpac. Couldnt see 10 more levels. Have to admit ive been tempted off and on but like others i too am taking a break from mmo's. lots of  single player stuff out there to explore. I cant say im sorry for the two years i played WOW as it was fun and met some nice people but if anyone asked me (and they most likely wont) i would say , buy the base game and roll a couple toons and quest to 60 and call it good enough. Lower levels is where i had the most fun, but maybe thats just me.

The level of challenge in this game has been dramatically tweaked downward.  Northrend seems easier than the starting zones.

No challenge = no thrills

Originally posted by pencilrick

The level of challenge in this game has been dramatically tweaked downward.  Northrend seems easier than the starting zones.

No challenge = no thrills

you are correct and of course i played the lower levels before all the nerfing started so perhaps that is why i liked them best.

Originally posted by almerel

I to am in a "burnt out" phase of WoW. I will play until my 60 day game card is up, get burnt then take a break. I have my next 60 day card ready to go whenever I'm ready to jump back in.

I play GW also and tend to enjoy that game more. It does help that I don't feel like I have to play it "now" to get my money's worth. However, I do know that I will plug in my next game card and enjoy WoW once again.

I think I will be doing the WoW rotation until GW2 comes out or if DF lives up to it's promises.

 

That why I dearly hope that DF will do decent. Even if its not a major success, as long as it holds up to the worth of a good sandboox mmorpg. I will play it, because good sandbox games tend to never lose their appeal, there is always something to find, explore, or do with friends or even other random adventurers. In WoW, after you cap out, you go, HEY wtf is the point in exploring I can kill almost every mob in the game with 1 or 2 hits.

I found the only thing that kept me playing WoW pre-WOTLK, was the fact I was finally getting some of my brutal glad gear, so I was doing alot of Arena matches, and on the side doing daily quests in BG's and over at sketties. Not to mention some pure BG ownage for kicks.

Originally posted by pencilrick

Originally posted by Pheace

Simple answer.

 

It's not for everyone.

 

Actually, the game "is for everyone" and that's part of its problem.  There is something to be liked and disliked at the same time in WOW for everyone.

Hardcore players awaiting the ever-elusive true sequel to Everquest, will play WOW because of its refinement, polish, simplicity and populated player base.  However, those players will dislike the lack of challenge, and perhaps some will dislike the sci-fi or the in-game humor that detracts from immersion.

WOW is not a niche game, but a true McDonalds in a world in which everyone would prefer a better meal but hasn't the time or the patience to wait or seek out another alternative.

But to the OP's point, yes I am burned out.  It takes a will-power check for me to log in, and another to remain logged in.  In fact, I think I make this will power check every 5 to 10 minutes of being logged in, so mathematically, it'll be highly improbable to see me still logged in for an hour or more.

I need a game that's based upon a world, not a story, no arrows pointing to the next quest, but a beautiful and harsh game world; a world which penalizes failure so folks have a reason to not play stupidly.

My god man, this is the best description I have ever seen for WoW in my life.

Of course your burnt out!

Blizzard put you on that gear hampster wheel man.

The gear grind gets everyone thats not hopelessly addicted.

think about it man. Running the same dungeons over and over (doesnt help that there so Easy now) for a set that your going to replace in a couple weeks. Running the same BGs and Arena maps grinding a armor set just to replace it the next season, running Heroics over and over for badges just to replace that gear again with a hundred more badges.

doing the same shit over and over and over and over for almost five freaking years same shit over and over in a different skin.

Your tired man! Time to break away. go play a different type of videogame, unless you cant? maybe your addicted?

I've been a little burnt out on WoW for the past month. However, I realise that there isn't a lot of fare right now in the MMO market that I would enjoy, so I stay in WoW. About the only games I might go back to are WAR and LotRO, but only the latter if the expansion changed a few irritations I had with the original. I've been through a lot of MMOs except for a couple of the newest ones like AoC and I don't indulge in Asian grindfests or most of the F2P games.

It might seem odd, but I find Classic WoW to be the most fun bit of WoW. It feels the most like a true 'world' of Warcraft and I prefer the old areas to the expansion areas. Just compare Booty Bay to Thrallmar, for example. Or compare Stranglethorn Vale to the Howling Fjord. The older areas are far more challenging and overall better designed. The expansion areas to me seem to have been designed with what I like to call 'sloppy world building'. Rather than having vitual regions like in classic, we got purpose-built mob spawns ad nauseum.

At the moment, I'm enjoying single player games more. I wish that an MMO would be released with as indepth of a game storyline as the Forgotten Realms (like NWN2 and its expansions) or like Mass Effect.

Originally posted by APRAurore

It might seem odd, but I find Classic WoW to be the most fun bit of WoW. It feels the most like a true 'world' of Warcraft and I prefer the old areas to the expansion areas. Just compare Booty Bay to Thrallmar, for example. Or compare Stranglethorn Vale to the Howling Fjord. The older areas are far more challenging and overall better designed. The expansion areas to me seem to have been designed with what I like to call 'sloppy world building'. Rather than having vitual regions like in classic, we got purpose-built mob spawns ad nauseum.

... I don't know, I think about exactly the reverse about almost everything you said there. (safe(save?) for the challenging part perhaps)

your playing the game til 3am?  i think i know the reason why you are burnt out....

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Originally posted by metalhead980

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Wow awards players, that's the secret. And it is a vast world with 69.000 pages of Lore on the internet on www.wowwiki.com. Start reading.

Arrow above the head? You are using a dull add-on to play it ?

The house wife that has to raise 4 teenage kids and never gets a decent "thank you" for all the work she does for her family never gets "rewarded" in real life.

In Wow that person gets rewarded with HER personal avatar and her playing style.

People want to play in worlds where they can choose what to do to have fun and get rewarded.

You mix up your "mood" with a view on a game. Wrong side of the bench.

And please stop the Mac Donalds analogy. Wow is EXPENSIVE, VERY EXPENSIVE compared to other games which do not have a subscription rate. So it is far from cheap to play it compared to COD4 or TF.

And still it outsells these PC games by a long shot and it gets played for years.

So stop pretending you know what Wow is, because clearly you didn't even understand the basics of the on line world Wow gives to normal people.

The bigger Wow gets, the more hate it generates. You'll have a problem in the future, because it will only get bigger.

 

This has to be the sickest shit I have ever read on these forums.

Are you trying to tell me that people are using WoW to make themselves feel better for their shitty lives?

This is a joke post right because you didnt just type that bullshit? You're a sick little fanboi.

Actually it comes from a real letter published about 2 years ago on the Blizz website.
 

People could send letters to Blizz and Blizz published some of them why they played Wow.

The letter was very well written and was extremely personal.

It stroke me because I know some other people who compensate their "sickest shit" of RL (your words) problems by ... watching television, take on hobbys and do mmorpg's.

It was about the same time as Blizzard helped the 10 year old who had cancer to invite him to Blizz HQ's. The boy could create a quest and designed the Vengeful bow in TBC. He passed away last September.

For some Wow (and other MMO's) are indeed tools to forget some misery of the daily life.

The succes of a hobby is to let people have a fun time and forget some misery.

Games that punish people for making mistakes don't have the same kind of succes story.

That's all I wanted to say to that other poster above (who wanted "hard" games with "real punishment").

Have a problem with that?

okay first off real quick, while it is great that blizzard did that for the kid. Using a child that died of cancer to try to win an arguement is well....alittle bit of a bastard move, in fact in the legal world it's an ethical falacy known as "false appeal to sympathy"

A good example is when someone is a total ass but everyone defends him cause he donates money to some incredibly needy charity.

Sure he did good work but it doesn't change the fact he's an ass.

All the heart felt thank you letters in the world don't change what wow is

So great good for Blizzard for making a MMO where house wives can play.....I mean EQ1 and 2 beat them to the punch by having some of the highest numbers of housewives playing but hey I guess the same could be said of EVERY MMO.

Just about any MMO can make you feel rewarded as long as the difficulty curve isn't ninja gaiden psychotic. So that depressed lady in your post could have gotten the same exact feeling from EQ2 EQ1 GW DAOC AC AO LOTRO and other acronyms

All wow did was make MMORPGs a thing for the masses kindof like how hot topic made being goth a popular thing.......incidentally you can buy wow shirts and buttons at hot topic.....which I think says alot surprisingly.

and as for the mcdonalds comment I would laugh my ass off if acouple days after this mcdonalds announces it's new happy meal toy line.....warcraft(laugh all you want they are probably talking about it with some company and it'd either be mcdees or BK)

 It's a vicious cycle and only way to break it is for something better than WoW to come along.

I got to 74 and had to take a breather. Playing STAR WARS: The Force Unleashed now.

You will always get burnt out in any MMO as long as you let someone else dictate how you play. Myself and 4 of my friends returned to WOW for WotLK and we are having more fun than we have ever had. The reason? No pressure. We do dungeons, help each other with quests, help out our lowbie characters, spend time crafting, etc.....

The problem with WOW is that, for most people, they think it must be played this way and you must do this or that and its the only way to play. It is sad really because if you just step back and appreciate the game for what it is and remember we play to have fun, then its a great game.

 yes i am feeling burnt out.... the game is so watered down these days it seems.

I dont want a game which openly achnowledges that raiding and end game PVP are really all there is to do.  As the game gets older it seems to get more and more like this.  There are classes but they all seem to be morphing into the same thing, everyone is expected to be able to see all the content, where is the motivation if i am just expected to be able to do everything?  I want to challenge, to find strange ways of progressing my character.

oh well... hopefully something comes out that is more what i want

Yes... burned out. 

Once i hit 80 and started the rep, honor, gold, and crafting materials grinds... that was the beginning of the ZZZZZZ's for me in WoW.

So, I started a new character.  Realizing I had to start in the old areas again and go through all of those old areas.. no thanks. 

So I rolled a DK.  Same song and dance though.  The end result of all of the work to get a toon to max level = the same grind that I saw on my level 80 to begin with.  

...

Then, there is the community in WoW.  Actually, I think it's just the MMO community in general.  The little know it all smacktards.  The same people that flame anyone for asking anything or saying anything half-way constructive.  They spam [item link] + anal in trade channel.  They stand on battle-ground NPC's and mailboxes so you can't access them. 

While joining a good guild and avoiding nearly all contact with anyone else in the game helps... I'd kill for 21+ servers.  Heck, I almost with they could find a way to split up age groups the same way they bracket battlegrounds in WoW.  I know, I know... never happen.  Age doesn't equal maturity in all cases, but it's a good 'line in the sand' to start the segmenting.

...

I've actually turned to crafting for a diversion in this game.  And the crafting mechanics in WoW are terrible.  Too simple.  The materials may not be easy to obtain, but once you have them... you can make the item.  Why not a chance to 'crit' when you are crafting or experiment with crafting?  Why not have foods that grant extra stats or something while crafting?  Bonus armor, bonus intel, bonus stats... period.  Maybe the ability to change colors, add effects, etc,..?  But, no... nothing. 

...

So, yeah, a bit burnt out/burned out. 

Originally posted by pencilrick

The level of challenge in this game has been dramatically tweaked downward.  Northrend seems easier than the starting zones.

No challenge = no thrills

This I agree on, it used to be challenging and fun but now its dull and easy. I played WoW since Beta. On and of though got about 5 level 70 chars and 2 level 80 and I am really bored about the game atm too. And I really dont see much they can do about it to make me satisfied about playing WoW and be happy about It again.

So the thing I am dong now is waiting on Aion and Star Wars, I like testing mmorpgs so I will certainly try any new ones.

Good Post OP , looks like alot feel the same.

EverQuest Classic for life fuck WoW!!!!!

Yeah like wise...grinding leather for that hunter gear did me in. Started to play LoTRO again.