no. WoW has always had crap dynamics in my eyes from day 1. very different than the mmo that got me into mmos, daoc (back then at least...daoc nowadays is crap). i have always had to pick and choose which parts of the game to play, and i still have to do that today. however there just is no other option for a mmo that does not suck all around. so even though i had 100 things to complain about in WoW 2 years ago, the dozen or so new things to complain about are not enough to make me quit completely.


i will continue to play off and on and only do the things i like in game for a long time.

I will keep playing WoW, but I expect I will cancel my accounts for a while (until more content comes) sometime around the end of January.


I want to catch up on other games anyways.

 

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Not yet.

 

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I've been waiting for something better to play since somewhere near the end of BC. That's when they started dumbing it down too much for me.

Vanilla and most of BC I enjoyed, a lot.

A few "difficult" instances aren't going to keep me playing. The whole game has become fairly ridiculous to me.

I loved PvP in WoW because of the character control/combat system, which has remained pretty much the same. But the Battlegrounds/Arenas and gearing system has pretty much ruined PvP for me.

Hopefully Guild Wars 2 or The Old Republic will give me something decent to play. Right now my "playing" of WoW consists of making money on the AH and playing a Healer or Tank combo with a friend.

 

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I have been playing WoW off and on (mostly off) since the first public beta. I get into the game for a while, and each time I "come back" I tend to do something a little different. In vanilla, I was all about PvP with my rogue. After about four months of that I gave my account away to a friend and stopped playing till BC came out, at which point I started from scratch and leveled up to 69, focused on solo questing and kind of kept to myself. Shortly after WotLK came out, I started playing again. This time around, RL friends of mine got me into running five mans and doing raids. I played for a year straight at this point, and in the end I gave the account away to a good friend of mine. I thought for sure I was never coming back, I was burnt out and had enough of WoW.


Three months back, I get yet another account and eventually upgrade it to Cata. My highest level is a 73 prot pally that I quest with and run 5 mans regularly. With my work schedule (or lack of) I will not be able to participate in scheduled raiding . . but I want to try out the new content. I will probably make it to 85 and then shelve the game once again.


Long story short, even if I do leave WoW at some point in the near future, I will eventually come back, just like most of the people who are quiting now.

 

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Not yet, but I don't think I'll buy any more expansions. I've got enough to do in WoW for another year probably at the rate I play. After that I'll wait for the next mmorpg that catches my interest.

 

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Can I have your stuff?

 

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Nope. And since arbitrary guild reports seem to hold weight, prior to Cat we averaged around 20 online during prime time. After Cat, it is hanging at about 45 during prime as well as several hours either side of prime.

 

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I've found this expansion to be a total mess. It's not a real Blizzard product - Blizzard releases polished, fleshed-out, excellent games... this thing is still in late beta. It was released for Christmas profits (google 'Bobby Kotick' and then everyone at Bliz took a 2 week break...

So I'm rather ticked off at the moment, but I'm going to wait to see how much and how fast they fix all the broken crap. So we'll see.

Ultimately, it still gets down to the fact that there's nothing else out there. I'm glad some people are tickled by Rift, but I have no faith that it will be anything more than a 1-2 month distraction. As long as that's the case, I'll probably keep playing WoW, at least on and off.

 

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After lurking around the forums here (which I just started doing after Blizzard changed to that God awful format),

you have 3 camps: those will defend WoW to their dying breath, those who will curse it to their death bed and a group in between. I consider myself in the group in between.


I played August 2006 to July 2010. I loved the game. I remember my first night in Elynn Forest on my mage, watching people run by and the wonderful, peaceful music. I was hooked in by my co-workers who hounded me into trying it. I balked, "$15 a month for a role playing game? Please!" He gave me a 10 day pass and the rest is history. I went on to create 80s of many classes and created a pocket tank, healer and a DPS class just for running dungeons. When I was bored, I would take my rogue down to Booty Bay and cause a little trouble. WoW is great in that you can distract yourself with many different things.


I enjoyed BC and I enjoyed WoTLK. When news and details of the next expansion came, I was like "meh". All I thought about was making a worgen hunter alt from level 1 and what characters to level first to make the best use of my professions. WoW had become a part-time job: I was running 3 dungeons a night without fail for my frost badges and doing the argent/cooking/fishing/alchemy/jc dailies. Then, the RealID issue came up in July. I read countless messages on the Blizzard forums and I didn't like the tone Blizzard was giving off. I remember distinctly one guy bringing up

the fact that posting personal information was against Blizzard's own TOS. Their response? "Duh, we're making new forums which will of course have new rules". This just struck me as Blizzard having lost touch with their customers, so I unsubscribed.


I just did the 10 day trial last week and I did enjoy the 1-60 experience for the most part. Most LFD groups were pretty good for the most part; others ended with profanity matches over gear or "why didn't you heal me ffs" statements. I think this has been bought up many times before, but grouping with people cross realm has really brought out the jackarses in the game. Something about never seeing the same people ever again seems to bring out the worst in people. I got to Outland and stopped. "I did this 8 times, I'm not doing it a 9th!". I bought 310% flying on my 80 Shaman and flew around the new areas. They looked pretty cool. Did some questing in underwater city for a few hours: hated it.


Logged off on the 7th day of my 10 day trial: still not impressed enough to buy the expansion. Is WoW dying? No, I think it will be around well past 2020, even if 12 million people aren't playing it anymore. If the next expansion looks awesome enough, I will buy it. I just think there isn't enough content for high level characters in this expansion. I tried the Rift beta a few days ago and it was just too crazy: too many explosions, too many talent trees.


The only solution might be to go to the dark side...Scapegaming, say no more!