Yes. For the moment. The reason is simple. Steam sales. I bought over 30 games LOL and now I am going to enjoy them. Wow will always be there. There is absolutely no rush for anything in wow. Only monkeys rush for things in wow.

The short answer: No.
The long answer: Yes .

Personally, I am already "gone", but it is the guild and friends that frequently summon me back. However, I did play seriously in terms of playings with a neutral viewpoint - yet, I am still disappointed of Cata/WoW somewhat.
People here already mentioned the woes. I also already wrote something about it in another thread so I don't want to spam with all of text.

RIFT does look promising. At least in the aspect of flexible classes.

When I saw Cata's Vashj'ir zone, I immediately thought about Daoc's TOA and screamed NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Although I did not play all classes, I know how most of the classes are since I've been PVP'ing them ever since release.

Cata was a good idea, especially revamping the old content (and quests) - but as usual, the execution of certain ideas "never fully fulfill" our expections.

 

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Yes, I am considering quitting WoW.

I've been playing off and on since Open Beta. During vanilla I played almost non-stop. For some reason, I still have a soft spot for Scholo, and every time I go there it reminds me of when it was a 10 man raid.

In my mind, however, the game has been declining since BC. Yeah, BC had some interesting moments, some good dungeons, and some "OMGWTF" raids. But it's all been downhill since then. WotLK was just a stopover until my guild dropped LK. KT? Been there. Tourny? Really? Pff... Most of that expansion was pretty meh until we killed Arthas. I think that was really the only time I felt any level of accomplishment in WotLK, and even then it wasn't much since everybody and their dog was killing LK within a month of that patches release.

I see this expansion being even worse than WotLK. There is very little story, despite how much Blizzard tried to encourage it. So far I have done every quest in every 80 - 85 zone in Cata that I can find (and have all the achievements). Just seems like a bunch of "Well since this happened you should do this and not worry about the rest, because these guys are a bigger problem than Deathwing". Uh... what?

Not only that, but everything goes so fast that you could really finish all of the new quests and story lines in a week with heavy play.

Then we get into the dungeons...

I have nothing against dungeons that are more challenging. In fact, I welcome it. But I'm about tired of the "don't stand in the fire, dispell this debuff on the boss, cleanse these debuffs on the players, kill the adds, DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE, run to that corner or die, look away when this boss does this, run away from the cyclone coming at you, DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE, cross your eyes and count to 10, jump repeatedly for the next 2 minutes, switch to the mob carrying away a player, kill this mob before this one or the other gets a buff, DON'T STAND IN THE FRIGGIN FIRE!" fights. It has become MUCH less about a player knowing their class as opposed to knowing ridiculous mechanics on a fight that you will fail at unless you watch 10 frickin videos about it.

And it's only going to get worse. That is obvious after seeing all of the heroic dungeons in this expansion so far.

So yes, I will be quitting. It won't be soon though. When Anarchy Online gets its new graphics engine soon, I'll be going back to that until SW:TOR comes out. Hopefully between those 2 games it will keep me busy enough so that I can and will avoid WoW like the plague that it has become.

 

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I've been spending my time between WoW and EQ2 - if they removed about 66% of the skills from each class in EQ2 it would be less of a button meshing spam fest and feel like fights were more strategic and I'd play it more seriously. Sony won't do that, so - I'll be back to WoW as my main until Diablo III comes out.


OMG that will be this year!!!

I find it sad that its taken you six years to decide you don’t like WoW.
Just think of all the money you could have saved if you had found out in the first week !
I must have been playing a different version to you because I have enjoyed all the expansions.
Hope you find some fun in whatever you decide to play next.
Happy New Year

 

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im still subscribed, and keep playing my rogue...i thought i would want to PVP full time until i did it...wow, its still terrible, and i dont think a rogue can really kill anything one on one..lol

raiding, my schedule really doesnt allow it, so i have been lvling up a paly. so far so good and the paly is a lot of fun. the community is just the same..i have found a lot of great pug groups. but the community when doing dailies in Tol Barad is just terrible...the rudeness level is at a extreme high!

ill be playing SWTOR on day one...and D3 on day one. at that time, my sub to WoW might stay or go away forever..depending on how those games play out.

but the OP had a great #1 post...those who call him a troll, i usually dismiss in most posts anyways.

 

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Thanks for the welcome everyone, and thanks for the 'rift' idea; much appreciated. I created the original wall of text to explain my view of why I was leaving wow. Not to be a troll. Really all I wanted to know was: are you going to keep playing wow or are you looking into another game to play? If your leaving what are you looking at. I really don't have any idea where to start and these boards had quite a few games to look at. Came acrossed it a few days ago and had to ask.


Sorry if you thought I was a troll. Not intended.

I will be tempted to leave when Rift is released. I am in beta and it is super fun so far. Until that day, WoW will get my $15/month.

 

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I headed that way. I liked the new leveling zones, however, I'm not sure I would like to repeat them twice, or even three or four times with alts since the paths are exactly the same.

Now if blizzard would add a new quest zone every month (like Uldum or Hyjal), I would probably play the game indefinitely.

But we know all we are going to get are new raids (when most people haven't even done the current ones) and a few new massively tedious 5 mans (even more tedious than the ones we have now).


I just don't see any "staying power" for this xpac.


I'm looking at Rift (if assassins are done right, I'll play that game a long time probably).

Guild Wars 2 is about a year away, so not even looking at that yet.


I still think that blizzard will lose enough subscriptions that they will have to wake up make dramatic changes to cata before all is said and done though.


New subscribers replacing old ones is no doubt their business model but I think those new subscribers will get to 85 pretty quick and 70% of them will leave (blizzards numbers, not mine). Their market research has already shown that 70% of those who try a new game like easy mode (from their own press release), because they quit before level 10 (hence all the changes to the starter areas).

 

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For a slightly different perspective: I have played WoW since very close to launch. It always did what other MMO's didn't, which was be more enjoyable and rewarding (generally speaking). Now it's not.

I toyed around a while back on a friends account when Cata launched. I recently returned in a *sort of* earnest manner when they reactivated my account for the trial. I was very impressed with the early game, the end game is too 2003-ish.

It feels like a hassle to progress. WoW's end game now strikes the same chords EQ did back in the day when MMOs were stigmatized: frustrating and punitive.

It's not more challenging to limit healers' mana and reduce their options, or make CC more of a prerogative. It's just plain tedious. It's like Ghostcrawler and his current crew developed the game in a vacuum. There was and is precedent, people, why ruin a good thing?

I won't be renewing past the trial. I love the new starting experiences and I commend them for it. But thinking rational human beings want to be subjected to the crap that is heroics in 2011? No. Just no.

 

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