Originally posted by qbangy32

Originally posted by Leucrotta

Originally posted by drbaltazar

lol ,almost all wow gamer never played eq (including me)

hell eq is still one of THE best game out there,but i wont bother trying to explain that to them 

 

huh?

 

You never played EQ1 but it's the best game out there, either you sat next to someone for a few years who was playing EQ1 or you got yourself a little confused.

 

ok maybe never is a big word 

i played all of 1 hour but since dont want to spoil my fun i left and will come back in the real game not in the trial

im playing eq2 now yes not on trial 

i trialled it and loved eq2 so i paid for it

i had the eq2 game but before couldnt play it because my system wasnt supported in april 2007 when i buy the game

for eq2i still miss the latest but i wait for this month expension release beforte buyying the latest version

as for eq1 i ll will buy it later when i have played a bit more eq2

you got to understand that eq1 is way harder then most game today 

im not yet good enough to go in to eq1 but eq2 is a good step toward eq1 

i played wow for 3 years and wow is easy mode compared to eq1 

but i still believe eq1 is the best choice for an experienced gamer who feel most game are easy mode today 

i got a crush for eq2 because of all the silly stuff in it 

most wont see that since they are powerleveling but if your an rp player or just like good story eq2 lore is perfect

aion ?mm hard to say yet !ncsoft got a trump card hidden in their sleeve i can feel it i just wish i knew what it is?

I played WoW from the beta and only stopped playing in the last 6 months or so. I enjoyed WoW a lot and if I was to log in now I am sure that I would find some things to enjoy. The quality of the game is excellent and it is rock solid to play. But, for me my discontent started when they got rid of the large 40 man raids. People would keep saying making up such large raid forces was hard but this is what was needed to have a really happy and busy guild. Trying to schedule and run multiple 25 man or 10 man raids and keep people was just very difficult and resulting in the guild shrinking as small groups would depart to either start their own guild or join a smaller guild.

With the release of WotLK and achievements things became even less fun for me. Oh I created a DK levelled him to 80 and another but while it was an interesting class I found so many of the other changes to be disheartening. For me and I am not saying that this is the case for others but for me I found all of these people and guilds rushing to be the first to get an achievement sad. It was almost as if getting their first was the only thing important to do and having fun no longer mattered. Then there was the fact the basic game mechanics of WoW means that most characters in a class are the same except for a bit of modification in the trees that they choose but healing druids are pretty much like all other healing druids and what makes the biggest difference is the equipment that you have and boom Blizz releases an expansion and all your gear is obsoleted.

I was never in a hurry to get content completed or to get it done first I much rather wanted to do it with a group of friends and have fun. By making it so easy for everyone to do Blizzards has removed for me the challenge of working with a team of friends to do something that is difficult.

My WoW guild wasn't the top guild on our server but it was rated in the top five on a number of occaisions and generally was listed in the top ten. But it wasn't just me but other long time players just seemed to lose interest and we finally disbanded. Some still play but many don't. Most of the top guilds of a year ago have had radical changes to their active memberships. It seems like there are still plenty of players on the server but it feels much less like a community than it did.

Basically, I stopped playing because it was no longer fun for me.

I quit back in April from a accumulation of different things. Part of my main reason was that raiding to me required that I give 110% to the task at hand for my guild (I was an officer) and as time moved on my personal life required that I devote more time to those things. That in turn whittled away at that 110% bit by bit until I was no longer satisfied with what I was giving to my guild mates. So I weighed me wanting to get more things done during the day, against how important playing WoW really was. Needless to say WoW lost that argument  and my guild understood.

Alas, I have no ill feeling about the times I enjoyed in WoW both bad and good. And I'll more than likely make a return in November in preparation to the release of CATA. Although I will not be as devout to the cause as I once was. My guild has since moved to a new server and I have no desire to rekindle that web of responsibilities. I will just simply enjoy roaming the new areas with my wife and friends.

I've quit several times- only to relapse because all of the worthy alternatives have died along time ago.

details -> ww.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/251473/give-me-a-reason-to-come-back.html

Most of the games out now with the exception of eve and darkfall offer the same gameplay just about- the only thing wow ever really had going for it was a population.

First time I quit was a little before the release of TBC, got tired of watching the fun factor of the game decline after everyone I had known that played from release started to get sucked into only raiding MC and BWL, basically when they took the "world" out of World of Warcraft and it plainly was turning into world of raids.  People starting changing, caring less about world pvp and more about guild drama merging guilds to raid for purples etc...  just changed the way I used to look forward to logging in, went to not even wanting to play really so I quit.  Was crazy about the game until then.

Came back for a little while when x-realm battlegrounds were at their "peak" and there was alot of activity as people grinded those day and night for their epics, played again for the duration and just did BG's pretty much  until TBC released, played a month or so and end-game once again when we reached it just looked like the same coat of paint on a smaller dungeon.  Just doesn't appeal to me, cancelled again.

Resubbed again and started anew with a new character on a new server, made some good friends there and just quested and did the smaller stuff with them for about 2 months, then it became, once again, the rush to get into or form a guild that just raided the same 3 or 4 places weekly as their *only* activity and yet once again I tried it and it made me go "wuuurghhh why am I even playing this, so f*cking boring!"  so I cancelled.

Thought I had finally got over the game as a whole when I didn't even go an buy the WotlK expansion, thought I had totally lost interest.  Took a few months until I got the urge to check out the content at least in WotlK but this time I said...not going to take it seriously at all so I just downloaded the client from Blizzard and played on the best and most popular private server I could find that had Wotlk stuff enabled.   At least I got to see the new zones, run some new quests pvp with the new skills and whatnot, to scratch that itch.  Oddly enough that was the most fun I had in WoW since the first time I quit.  People there were really enthusiastic about fighting out in the world and you would just get  in the mix all the time, which started drawing me into 5 and 6 hour sessions like the old day, forgetting what time it was because I was genuinely having a blast.

One day though I just got sick of the bugs, missing/broken skills and just uninstalled.  Been a few months now since then.  Probably will do the same thing again in a year or so to check out the new content in Cataclysm, but no, I won't sub to that game anymore.  I'm just waiting for D3 to be released and just killing time with other crappy games until that day.  What a brutal wait.

I'll keep it short and sweet, since I know these are common reasons but:

1)  The single worst MMO community I've ever had the misfortune to be a party of.

2)  Perpetually trivialized accomplishments with each new expansion/content patch.

3)  Minimal variety of endgame content for either PvP or PvE.

4)  Extreme class homogenization/ Constant balance issues.

5) Raiding 4 hours a night, 4 nights a week in the same exact content burns you out (this one is as much my fault as the game's).

Classes have become too uncharacteristical. The balancing of the classes are failing and I really don't like there being less and less difference between them. Why can a druid or paladin be both a competitive dps'er, tank and healer when, say, a warrior can merely choose from 2 of these and a mage only 1 and not do better in them? I miss the old style where the roles were more set from the beginning. It was great as druid in Molten Core and BWL being a true hybrid as well - never really excelling in anything, but able to switch mid-fight to support in the role lacking. While the whole class balancing Blizzard has done on paper looks great, I would much rather prefer less balanced classes really that would fulfill the role we picked them for originally. Rogues that can one-shot clothies in pvp but die immediately if they're seen first. THOSE were the times :D I think the changes has made people less committed pve wise as well - the amount of people REALLY having a heart for tanking, healing or dps'ing are diminishing and many are fiddling a bit about with all the different roles, never really excelling in any of them. I don't know if people not being challenged in their main role is a primary or secondary cause - clearly the lack of challenge in late TBC and Naxx (and to a degree also Ulduar after the nerfs/dumb-downs) has a part here too

I frankly miss 40 man raids a lot - the whole organization behind them and the much higher degree of commitment they required from everybody. Being guild master, trying to keep raid alliances going, trying to keep raids steered the right way etc. were the best challenges WoW has ever given me. That's gone now. I also believe the smaller raids have lowered peoples' commitment - it's so much easier now to get 10 random people together, raid a bit and then give up at the first signs of challenge to start over again with another group. I'm sorry to say it, but that only encourages selfishness and to slack - there aren't really consequences if not.

Blizzard's plans for IC and Cataclysm are unattractive to me. They continue down the path here that I really don't like - trying to balance the classes to more and more look like each other with merely flavour differences, allowing more races to use the same classes (some of them don't even make sense - tauren paladins, goblin mage/priest huh?) etc. I can follow the arguments that people are looking forward to seeing the whole old world revamped and I hear that people are marvelling at being able to fly there. That's just not what I'm mostly looking for in an MMO or what I would've liked fixed. And - I'm also a bit afraid that the fights I remember with so much fondness of old will lose their glory after a revisit in new 10/25 man made-easier modes... Rather stop now then and keep remembering them for what they were - and remember all the great things that, after all, have kept me playing for almost 5 years :)

I had only fun raiding. But 25 man raids take up soooooooooo much time... I felt bad when I told buddies "playing cards tonight? Ah sorry, it's raid evening. Cinema? Without me." and so on. So I used the moment when the raid-guild I was in fell apart to stop for good.

But I had lots of fun during the time I played it. No matter if my lvl 60 Boomkin moonfire-spammed Nefarion to death, my lvl 70 hunter had his tailstrider bite the Karazhan bosses in their butts, or my shadow priest melt Yogg's face on 80. ^^

I didn't quit yet, but i will soon. And the reason is the stupid Achiement system, that preventing ppl for doing high end dungeons! Practice makes perfekt. If you don't have achiement you can't get invite. How to get the achievement without invite? ??? Guild? What if you don't have one?  This is anoying i won't play anymore after my gamecard is over!

I saw the light, and realized what an epic waste of time the game really was. I realized the entire game was just a pointless gear grind that would be reset with every expansion. I found the game fun while I played, but having to grind a million different things to get good enough gear to compete was just stupid. I found that the only challenge in the game was in fact "gear checks", and since you could always get better gear, the challenge was overcome by sinking time into grinding, instead of strategy or becoming a better player.

I've wasted a lot of time in my life playing video games, but the time wasted playing WoW is the only time I regret.

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.