Quit WoW

Funny, but I can never bring myself to deleting toons. Uninstalling the game was all I needed.
 
I just got an account again recently, leveled to 70 in about 13 days /played.

I grinded 4/5 Season 1 gear, epic boots, belt and bracer and all the rest was 70 dungeon gear.
I had the account sold for $200 by the time I hit 20 days /played

Not that bad considering I actually had fun playing during that time and I was going to keep the account but my isp has severe lag during the time I actually wanted to play (wireless isp)
 
Ai, trust me people....this is hard. My account wasn't worth all that to even try to sell on ebay, and I would never bring myself to do it.

I can't fall asleep, I am happy that I won't waste my time like that ever again, but I am sad that i will never get to play on my character.
 
It was hard to tell from the portion of the video I watched (at work, couldn't watch entire vid), but I did something similar when I quit.

I sold all gear that was bound to me, walked around in a town until I heard some noob complaining about being broke and needing help killing something. I chatted briefly, then sent a mail with all my gold and any items that were not bound. Then, I followed the guy around a little and helped him out until the mail showed up. I quit, uninstalled, and have not looked back since.

Good feeling, not being addicted to WoW anymore. Too bad BF2 has become my next vice.
 
Reminds me of Diablo 2. I played this thing online for 5 years, I had everything anyone could ever dream of having. This game took my life away much like WoW does to so many people nowadays. Then on december 2005 I finally had enough and deleted all my characters with every godlike imaginable item on them and never looked back. I felt bad for a few weeks, it was like stopping an addiction and you have to go through the detoxification period. Since then I've never played any kind of MMO and never will again, these kinds of games can addict me too easily. Actually any kind of game that requires grinding/competition between other players is a no no in my book, since you have to be always playing to keep up and it leads nowhere.

Quitting is the hardest part on this kind of games, I salute you and try not to replace it with something similar.
 
I'm proud of you. I'm very against WoW since I have lost some of my friends to it. Another WoW quitter brings tears of joy to my eyes.
 
I got back on my pc around 5am because i could not sleep. Luckily my real life buddy was on google talk, I talked to him for a bit. Now, I honestly really do not care about WoW, was just a game. It was time for me to move on and never think about it again, I am glad that I have done what I did. I can only encourage others to do the same.

I happen to know a guy who has been severely addicted since the release, he even skipped college to play WoW. All he does all day is play the game, nothing else, his parents support his sorry ass.

He actually did the same thing as me couple of years ago, however Blizzard has restored his account, he went back to it. Haven't talked to him in few monts, last time I did he sounded pretty pathetic. He told me that he was becoming belemic from not eating right because of his game style...
 
I played every day from closed beta up to about 2 months after the 1st expansion came out, then it just got boring. Quit for a year, started playing again about two months ago, still boring and already canceled again
 
aFive said:
Don't think I would do that. However, our of curiosity.... would all of the armour pieces be revived as well?
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Nope, they are gone for good. There is no going back for you.

(Dont correct me on this, its for his own good! ;) )
 
It pains me to see that some of you treat this game as if it were heroin.


It has very little replay value. OP didn't even make it to max level and he got bored. How people can possibly get addicted to it is beyond me.
 
[in cowboy voice] I wish I could quit you... j/k I love the game, just hit 56 last night. Can't wait to get to Outland!
 
todlerix said:
It pains me to see that some of you treat this game as if it were heroin.


It has very little replay value. OP didn't even make it to max level and he got bored. How people can possibly get addicted to it is beyond me.
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Well, I didn't really get bored. Some of the things were boring, but for the most part it was fun. I quit because I wanted to start working on my server and other small things, instead of WoW.

You are allowed a few full char restores.
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Does that mean they would restore everything? Even armour? Just wondering since I think that I should have just uninstalled...lol
 
Does that mean they would restore everything? Even armour? Just wondering since I think that I should have just uninstalled...lol
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Yes. Everything that you had when you it the ground in zangamarsh will be there when you get him back.
 
lloose said:
Yes. Everything that you had when you it the ground in zangamarsh will be there when you get him back.
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:p I don't know what to say now.... All of the efforts for nothing? Lol i guess I lost a ton of inventory at very least. Well, I can't bring myself up to creating new char and contacting GM, /uninstall.
 
By the way, I quit too. After a while, I honestly got bored. I am not a fps kind of guy and even after trying out a slew of games, I just didn't have much interest in them.

I took more time to work on other hobbies (Gym, photoshop, blogging etc). After that I still had some free time.

I got back on world of warcraft and rerolled a horde with the mindframe that I am going to enjoy the game for what it has to offer. I started reading quests and really taking time to level. I found that I didn't play as much and what little I did play felt more substantial. I could play for an hour and call it good (and not NEED to play more). I always put real life first and my other activities are a priortiy.



If you do go back (and you will), give this a try.
 
Grats, now if you ever want to go back you just talk to a GM and have your stuff restored instantly.
 
lloose said:
By the way, I quit too. After a while, I honestly got bored. I am not a fps kind of guy and even after trying out a slew of games, I just didn't have much interest in them.

I took more time to work on other hobbies (Gym, photoshop, blogging etc). After that I still had some free time.

I got back on world of warcraft and rerolled a horde with the mindframe that I am going to enjoy the game for what it has to offer. I started reading quests and really taking time to level. I found that I didn't play as much and what little I did play felt more substantial. I could play for an hour and call it good (and not NEED to play more). I always put real life first and my other activities are a priortiy.



If you do go back (and you will), give this a try.
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Well, right now I am focused on school and basketball, I play maybe 4 hrs of bball a day. Everytime I played WoW I felt as if I could be doing something more productive. My friend and I were going to set up a small webserver and start learning SQL and making a cool little site, now I think that I can finally do it, instead of making WoW excuses.
 
I treated the game like heroin due to the nature of addiction. And yes, I think I was addicted.

I was staying up way too late on week nights (with work the next day) so that I could go on a raid. And I am pretty certain that rushing home after work in order to grab a snack and power on the PC in order to get into the action as quickly as possible wasn't the healthiest of actions. Especially when i would pause long enough between raids in order to grab dinner (heated in microwave, eaten at desk).

Definition of addiction: The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
 
jslater25 said:
I treated the game like heroin due to the nature of addiction. And yes, I think I was addicted.

I was staying up way too late on week nights (with work the next day) so that I could go on a raid. And I am pretty certain that rushing home after work in order to grab a snack and power on the PC in order to get into the action as quickly as possible wasn't the healthiest of actions. Especially when i would pause long enough between raids in order to grab dinner (heated in microwave, eaten at desk).

Definition of addiction: The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
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True, that right there just told me that I shall never even play again.
 
jslater25 said:
I treated the game like heroin due to the nature of addiction. And yes, I think I was addicted.

I was staying up way too late on week nights (with work the next day) so that I could go on a raid. And I am pretty certain that rushing home after work in order to grab a snack and power on the PC in order to get into the action as quickly as possible wasn't the healthiest of actions. Especially when i would pause long enough between raids in order to grab dinner (heated in microwave, eaten at desk).

Definition of addiction: The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
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I think WoW gets a lot of heat because so many people play it or know somebody that does play it and have lost friends to it. But I imagine that there are plenty of other games out there that cause the same amount of addiction as WoW, just they are not brought to light.
Different game but same though as I was going to say I thought I might be addicted to CoD4 right now, but there are times where I come home from work, hop on a little after 5pm and game till about 6:30 or 7 then just up and quit sometimes for the rest of the night. It is sad that games are so addictive though and we lose friends to them. :(
 
Aww, everyone seems to hate WoW so much :D Doesn't anyone on this forum like it? I've been playing for two and a half years.. I've gone through periods of time where I would stay awake for 36+ hours playing (Even 48 hours one time).. and I've gone through periods of time where I wouldn't play for 6 months. I haven't been playing it lately, only because my computer won't play it over 5 FPS and it gets so very annoying.

When the rest of my new PC parts get here Monday though, I'm sure I'll be back to playing it a lot... Although... I DID order COD4, Crysis, Bioshock, TF2 and Assassin's Creed.. so I may be a bit busy with those to play WoW :x
 
Back in the day before TBC came out I quit WoW and deleted my 60 shaman. Gave away pretty much everything that wasn't soulbound to my friends, vendored all sellable equipment, and deleted the character. Came back after TBC, had a warlock I was leveling, realized I could get the shaman restored...so I did so. I had to spend some gold on the auction house to get a crappy set of greens but I replaced it quickly enough.

Got sick of it again and sold the account (by this time both my shaman and warlock were epicced out 70s) for $500. IMHO, selling is a much better method of quitting than deleting characters. :)
 
Grats to the OP for quitting, WoW is comprised of such epic amounts of suck and fail that I'm not sure how anyone can enjoy that game. I played it for awhile, I was bored by level 30, quit before 40. It's just so damn repetitive, go here, kill this, get this... rinse... repeat. What a waste of time and money.
 
StarTrek4U said:
Grats to the OP for quitting, WoW is comprised of such epic amounts of suck and fail that I'm not sure how anyone can enjoy that game. I played it for awhile, I was bored by level 30, quit before 40. It's just so damn repetitive, go here, kill this, get this... rinse... repeat. What a waste of time and money.
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If the enviroments were awesome I would not have minded it, however in most cases the areas simply suck.
 
you guys must have some very addicting personalities.

I've been playing wow for 2 1/2 years as a super-casual. I could drop it for weeks at a time and come back to it due to nothing being on TV that night.

Highest level character is a 63 hunter.
current favorite is a 18 warrior.

i dropped it for 3 months to try out LOTRO last summer. and i'm currently back after not touching it since before Christmas.

just a game/old hangout to me.
 
I play wow on occasion. i just reactivated 1 of 3 accounts we have. same shit diffrent game. i play rfactor and i love it, race 6 leagues on 6 diffrent nites. its the same thing, just a diffrent game. Im addicted to it but even it gets old after awhile.

I dont see the addiction to wow tho. kinda boring after level 30. i bought 3 games so everyone can play. even my son doesnt play it anymore after he got to 30. same crap over and over.

just my opinion
 
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