I voted for the 'Gameplay got boring' option but this was more due to the fact that i'd been playing for 5 years and simply had done everything that i wanted in the game.

Once i feel that ive reached my goals i lose all interest in forcing myself to continue to play. I may visit again for MoP but im currently undecided, If i see something that appeals to me then i'll have no issues with re-starting my Sub again.

I'm going to sound like an ass here, but English speaking continental Europeans ruined it for me.  For starters all chat was spammed with language I did not understand, this is on a English speaking server.  Most of the assholes spamming noob and repugnant memes were also of that demographic..  Back in 2006 Brits over populated the servers and I got on with people great, but yeah, the demographics changed, started seeing less English spoken and more douchebaggery.

 

Not that I have anything against continental Europeans, not in real life anyway, but on the internet, as a group, they have a massive attitude problem.  Colour me racist, whatever.

 

I only play with Americans now.

That's blatantly racist I'm afraid. I found that it was mostly people that were clearly unhappy playing the game and were not having fun that were the most repugnant and that over time it was this section of the population that grew worse.

Voted "other"

 

Expansion packs and patches changing gameplay.  It's no longer the game I was enthralled with.

You missed the one option who is responsible for the road WoW is heading, namely the man in charge Ghostcrawler.

Ever since half the development team went to Titan the game went worse and worse.

 

Druid shapeshifting out of roots versus the famous precious of ghostcrawler the frostmage.

Warrior charge intercept taken away.

the 4 button rotation + Cata's MoP's talent systems getting dunmed down more and more.

All classes feel the same these days.

The lack of a good World PvP map design over and over.

Al the changes to classes....

Arena carrot on a stick ugh....

Battleground farming with bots and 8 year old CoD kids who dont fight for those objectives.

Boring Battleground designs

Random Raid finder with 8k dps scrubs 

Random Dungeon with ninja looters the same CoD kids with no patience and big mouths

And one of the most gamebreaking thing in WoW at this point is the 60% / 70% low to death servers who wont receive the much needed assistance or server merges.

 

Blizzard ask 12.99 euro for a month sub + they have a cash shop + you need to pay to get off a death server 25 euro a char.

Blizzard equals greed for me, it has nothing to do with business but milking their loyal playerbase out till the last drop.

Veteran players like me who stayed with the game since launch dint even receive a simple mount......

 

Nah WoW is taking a road to kiddy garden, their new target are the CoD kids, check the panda's and pokemon stuff and you see what audiance they target.

 

Game over for me and my wife.

 

Preface: I voted for sticking with Guild Wars 2.

I started playing shortly after release after several friends got me into it. I was heavily into Guild Wars at the time and had mixed feelings about World of Warcraft as a result. Nonetheless, I played a druid until 30 and received little assistance from my friends. I continued playing Guild Wars and then played Lord of the Rings online for several years. I came back to World of Warcraft a little while after Wrath of the Lich King; real life friends had pulled me in again.

So I played and I leveled 3 characters to 85 and then I got bored. The solo leveling, the persistent grind for everything, and the prospect of the new expansion all began to turn me off. Then I played Guild Wars 2. Then I couldn’t go back to the old combat system and didn’t have the patience for the same quests I’ve done time and time again.

It’s not that I don’t like the game. It’s great. It’s right up there with Guild Wars and Lord of the Rings Online (pre-Moria). Yet, after all these years, I am not sure I can play anymore. The Guild Wars series has always been my favorite and the sequel is quite possibly the most fun I’ve ever had in an MMO.

I hesitated on getting Cataclysm, I may get Mists of Pandaria in the near future. But that remains to be seen. What I do know is that it will take a back seat to Guild Wars 2 if and when I get into it.

I voted still playing, though I did take extended breaks. My last break was to go play SWTOR. Now I'm just doing the Ironman Challenge on my  Orc Hunter.

 

After leaving the progression raiding scene, the game doesn't hold as much interest to me. It's a fun place to visit, but when you aren't raiding, doing the same 5-mans and dailies just isn't cutting it. Raiding was fun up til you had it on farm, because there is something to be said about downing aboss for the first time.

When they called ToC their most successful raid...

 

Raids stopped being about progression and became yet another boring gear grind. Dungeons stopped being about having fun and meeting new people and became yet another boring (silent, antisocial) gear grind. Guilds became smaller. The community stopped existing. Convenience killed most of it. All of that combined in various measures made the game pointless and boring for me.

 

I wouldn't go back because the game is too far gone to return to what I loved about it. But there's always the hope of Titan or private servers or Blizz releasing old versions of the game (for which I would return and pay a sub).

I played it for god knows how long. I think I have played WoW more than all my other games COMBINED! So yeah a game is bound to get boring after 100000k hours.

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Originally posted by jpnz

The 1 year of farming in ICC.

God, that was awful. Absolutely awful.

Guild got bored but we kept plugging away which meant no one really enjoyed the raiding.

So one night, guild got together, exchanged non-WoW contact info and half of us quit that night.

Remaining half took a 'break' and some went solo.

I still talk to some of them to this day (2 years after I quit WoW).

 

This was why I left too.

 

Worst of all, there was no reason to do anything that wasn't ICC.   So you raided ICC, then you just shelved your character until the week long lockout was over because doing anything else was pointless.

I played for 3 or 4 years and was finally just "done". I don't know how much time I spent in battlegrounds and the pvp zones, but it was a lot. I finally found myself just logging in and running around the main city, doing a lot of nothing. I had exhausted all the stuff I wanted to do, so went and bought Half Life 2 on Steam because I had gotten Left 4 Dead 2 for Christmas and that pretty much sealed the deal.

I stopped playing WOW mostly because too much of the community was rotten and I didn’t have anything to invest in outside my character’s shoulder pads...

I quit because the endgame ever since Wrath has just been boring and linear. Grinding the same instances every week just for the chance to raid the one viable raid in a 2-3 month cycle. I had hoped maybe Cata was going to shake things up, but after the first few months I was back to the boredom of Wrath. I miss the progression-based PvE endgame as well as Alterac Valley before Blizzard kept dumbing it down and turning it into a dull 5-minute base race.

I know current players like to use the "nostalgia goggles" argument and will tell me I'm forgetting everything that was bad about BC/Vanilla and will tell me that I hated BC when it was the expansion. Fine, believe what you want, as for me, I only have to remember that back in the BC days, I was subscribed and having fun playing the game, compared to today where I'm not subscribed and feel no desire to return.

Elitism with gear, I love MMORPG's, I don't mind grinding and I know how to play my class but seeing as I was late getting into Cataclysm for one reason or another, I was pretty much stuck in a low-end shit guild that wiped on the simplest mechancis with the simplest bosses. I tried to get into a Guild that was up to my level of progression but because my "item-level" wasn't good enough I was pretty much boned, same applied to the achievement. 

I quit at the end of the FL patch (dont recall number) and I never killed Rag even though he was probably one  of the easiest bosses to encounter. 

Because the game is over.

I quit because of the toxic community comprised of impatient children / man-children. People don't run dungeons for fun anymore, it's all about the loot and nothing else. You're supposed to know all the fights, watch videos and read strats, etc. before you can do anything which quite frankly is bullsh*t.

The most fun I ever had in WoW was during TBC, when myself and my guildies ran those Auchindoun dungeons / heroics without any form of outside help. Yes we wiped a dozen times per night trying to figure out the pulls and boss strats, but we didn't care. We laughed, we got angry, and we figured it out on our own, something people these days are unwilling to do. 

I played on and off since release until about a year ago. Although I will argue with anyone saying WoW is a bad game (it isn't), I just couldn't take the people anymore. If those people are the future of this planet, then we're all f*cked.

It was all about the gear grind.

Also, the run away market value.  Gold selling is through the roof.  This would explain why Blizzard has decided to make things like flying over the new lands in the amount of 10K.  This is Blizzard idea of controlling the in game market issues.  Anyone thats checked the AH can see that even low level greens are in the hundreds of good.  I don't know any new player level 10-20 with that kind of resource.

because my DK was just useless after all the nerfs

Originally posted by Jessina

Elitist and Immature Community drove me away 14 months ago.

^^this^^