WoW: I'm done

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Freezebyte

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Well, I finally made level 80 last week with my Belf Mage and it was alot of fun and I enjoyed the experience of going all the way up in WoW. I did a few high level raids and enjoyed it, but lately I've grown tired of having to put large sections of time into playing the game. True, I can easily just jump into it here and there but lately I feel i've had to put off more "important" things to do in my life, and it just kinda came to me "Man, theres alot more I could be doing with my time"

Not to say I blame WoW in any sense. The game is very involving and very enjoyable if your willing to put the time and effort into it, and even if you like to just partially play the game, it can be very rewarding. I guess an incident awhile ago with my girlfriend who was needing my "help" with something and I was torn between doing that and going on a city raid with a bunch of people started to get my mind in a frame of "Whats more important to me?"

Not only that, there are so many other games I'd like to enjoy and spend time playing. Its alot easier for me to simply hop onto say my Xbox 360 and play and hour or two of Halo 3 or Left 4 Dead and I can simply drop my controller and go take care of what needs to be done. No guilt in leaving people in my party or raid hi and dry, no feeling that i'm blowing of my responsiblities just to get "one more" kill to get that special loot.

I guess what im basically saying is, I decided to move to another server to start fresh if I decide to come back, deleted WoW from my computer and i'm gonna take a break and enjoy playing other games, learning and doing my new gun hobby and maybe start getting some more excersice in me.

Looking forward to the upcoming Star Wars Old Republic MMO, whenever that comes out as well as a host of other games that I can spend time and enjoy without having this nagging feeling of "guilt" being attached and committed to an MMO that requires a bit more sacrifice in my part.

Thanks Blizzard, its been fun, but I need a break. Maybe for awhile, maybe forever, dunno.
 
yeah ive been more on my 360 since i gave up mmo's in oct. I can put down my 360 go be a human for a few hours or a day and return and have fun again.
 
let us know of the other decisions you make in your life. Or maybe you can write a book and have us all buy it?
 
sell the account before you change your mind :) nothing like a few hundred $$$ in your pocket :p
 
Freeze, people who play MMO's have been going through that for the past decade. You realize how much time you've wasted. Welcome to the club.
 
I quit playing wow about a month ago. It's amazing all of the other things you can get done when not wrapped up into an mmo.

I've been playing Fallout3 and Left4dead since. Games that you can pop on play a little bit.
Man, those are great games.
 
Udgnim said:
I've quit WoW 3 to 4 times and I have never made a thread about it.
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I've quit about 26 times =/

I said it before and I'll say it again: No mortal can quit WoW.

You can try and think you did all you want, but sooner or later you'll get suckered in again. And again. And again.

Be it a 10 day free wotlk trial, or hearing a song you remember from a PvP video, or a thread here, or a friend coming back and telling you about it.. you'll be back *evil laugh* :cool:
 
If you don't want your account, I'd be glad to take it off your hands and keep it maintained for you. Cause you'll be back.

They always come back
 
I recently put down WoW too because of how mundane and repetitive it all gets at 80. Not to mention, that if you're even in the mood to do anything significant inside the game, you're at high risk of developing a neckbeard.

/shave
/quit
 
I quit WoW. However I'm immortal so I suppose that's ok.

To be honest, my friend did half of the leveling and playing for me because he became impatient. He couldn't believe that I was able to "take my time" playing this game.

I have a lvl 70 warlock. My friend just upgraded my account to WotLK to entice me to play again.

It won't work.

In the past 6 years...I haven't consistently put in more than 7 hours per week gaming. Most weeks it's about 1 hour...and I pwn in that 1 hour :) [ Former Cal-M player, CS 1.6]

I am addicted to WoW in one way: I follow the statistics, class balance, and direction of the game. It still interests me because the game is so popular. However this interest is more just nerdy analysis.
 
Volume said:
I recently put down WoW too because of how mundane and repetitive it all gets at 80. Not to mention, that if you're even in the mood to do anything significant inside the game, you're at high risk of developing a neckbeard.

/shave
/quit
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I lol'd.
 
All MMO games are time sinks basically. The grinding and the leveling alone takes up huge amounts of time. Then there are the RAIDs. And on top of that there is end game PvP if the game has it. PvE play and farming. Yep, lots of time sink.
 
Well, Maplestory is fun as hell lol, and the higher your level gets the more crazy/harder the worlds/bosses/party quests get.
 
I fail to see how almost any game isn't a time sink. The point is to be entertained, if your not enjoying it any more move on.
 
WoW didn't have nearly the hold on me that Everquest did. That was a killer to quit.
WoW I just walked away from.
 
Eseipel said:
WoW didn't have nearly the hold on me that Everquest did. That was a killer to quit.
WoW I just walked away from.
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/agree

Still playing EQ2...but I couldn't call it an addiction. Sure I waste time, but if I had a console I would be playing that or otherwise in front of the TV "gelatinizing my brain" - awesome hulu commercial during Superbowl. http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/55719/super-bowl-xliii-ads-hulu-alec-and-huluwood#s-p1-sr-i0


Got a 4.0 in grad math courses, doing all my homework on time, teaching 2 courses at a Purdue extension...I can at least release some of my stress killing mother fuckers in COD5 or crafting my guys in EQ2.
 
I over did WoW when i played it, i was raiding 6 nights a week for while and cleared sunwell quite a few times pre nerf, I remember when i first started playing when i was 17 at first i didnt like it much then i soon got hooked and pretty much didnt socialise outside WoW and college for about 5 months.

I got quite depressed in that 5 months so cut it down and got my ass outside, it wasnt soon before i was full on raiding again.

Now im 19 and havent played the game in over a month, i didnt force myself to quit i just got sick of the game in the end, way too much effort for just a video game imo, i dont feel like i wasted all my days though, i think i learnt a valuble lesson in life from it, Moderation, Moderation and moderation.
 
Been there done that!....

Well I stopped at lvl 70 with my mage.... Haven't looked back! Congrats dude, theres so MUCH more things you can be doing! :) /dance
 
Tylerdurdened said:
I've quit about 26 times =/

I said it before and I'll say it again: No mortal can quit WoW.

You can try and think you did all you want, but sooner or later you'll get suckered in again. And again. And again.

Be it a 10 day free wotlk trial, or hearing a song you remember from a PvP video, or a thread here, or a friend coming back and telling you about it.. you'll be back *evil laugh* :cool:
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i've been wowless for a good 1 1/2 years.
 
Didn't play for almost 1-1/2 years but came back to WoW recently. No guild, but having fun just leveling up and exploring. If i'm lucky i play about 5-10 hours a week atm and the rest of the time is spent working or with my girlfriend...:p
WoW is only addicting if you let it be imho
(My new time sink is Mount and Blade lol)
 
I love these threads....everyone makes WoW out to be the worst most addictive game ever.

I play WoW and have fun playing and raiding and i'll probably be playing it for aong time. It gives me something to do when im bored. It doesnt stop me from hanging out with friends, meeting new people, going to parties, having a full time job, a girlfirend, hitting the gym a few nights a week, working on my car, heading to the track to race....etc. If WoW or any other activity/hobby takes that much of your time for you to neglect things you need to do then the problem lies in you and not a video game.

Im tired of seeing these threads about quiting WoW likes its some kind of achievement or a hard thing to do.
 
yup, I know alot of people that thank wow for keeping there lives a little better.

If they didnt have something like to wow to waist there time and money on they would be in the bars every weekend, Waisting 200-500 each weekend, and there girlfriends/wifes know where they are now.

Sure wow is a time killer but thats the point of video games, and if your "addicted" to wow that just means your weak and easly addicted to something. Not WoW's fault its a good game and has managed to make you want to keep playing.
 
In response to this dude, congrats
I left wow just before Burning Crusade, and sold my account off for $250, which was a little bit more that the total investment I put into it, and started focusing more on other things, and due to the time I have now, I do a part time job ontop of my full time, and get enough money for my other addiction, my PS3, which I do not play all the time, so its great stuff man
 
life without wow is awesome. My mate has been playing all day with his wow didnt even notice its snowing heavily outside. We just made 10 snowmans and went sleighing all day whilst he sat there in his room pressing buttons. Tsk tsk, mmorpg addiction is NOT good
 
Leepox said:
life without wow is awesome. My mate has been playing all day with his wow didnt even notice its snowing heavily outside. We just made 10 snowmans and went sleighing all day whilst he sat there in his room pressing buttons. Tsk tsk, mmorpg addiction is NOT good
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WoW > snowmans
 
Leepox said:
life without wow is awesome. My mate has been playing all day with his wow didnt even notice its snowing heavily outside. We just made 10 snowmans and went sleighing all day whilst he sat there in his room pressing buttons. Tsk tsk, mmorpg addiction is NOT good
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then kick his ass, my wife would kill me if I ever ignored her and our kid like that all day for WoW.

We work out play time for me, I get on every second to third day a for a few hours after supper and an hour of Tv together and it works fine. I will never understand how people can be really "addicted" to a game as its just that, a Game.
 
Good for you. I quit, a couple years ago. I always thought it would be fun to go back. I played my friend's account for a day and I was totally board. Nostalgia FTL.

Freezebyte said:
learning and doing my new gun hobby and maybe start getting some more excersice in me.
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Awesome, if you don't mind me asking what gun(s) did you pick up?
 
Xipher said:
I fail to see how almost any game isn't a time sink. The point is to be entertained, if your not enjoying it any more move on.
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Well, ya, every game is a waste of time really. You are not accomplishing shit in real life, but are using time. What makes an MMO a timesink?

In SP games you can pause, you can leave the game when the round is over in FPS's MP's too, which allows you to control your life...sort of.

MMO's present this advancaemnt factor and the want to have X, which is largely not present in other games. That factor alone makes you play alot more then you want to. You also constantly interract with a living world that you can't pause, you have to finish what you started most of the time.
 
I did the same, got my toon to 70 (before WoTLK) and realised that while it was as great Massively Singleplayer Role Playing Game, that at high levels when you start the end game raiding that it was too demanding in terms of grind.

The game is primarily singleplayer content, when you reach the end they're basically hoping that you'll be so used to the grind that it's 2nd nature and it becomes all about the reward of getting high level gear, rather than enjoying the leveling.

I'm playing WAR right now because it's more built around RvR which is a lot of fun once it's going, and looking forward to Darkfall because of the more UO style industry/crafting mechanics behind it.
 
GraFFix said:
I love these threads....everyone makes WoW out to be the worst most addictive game ever.

I play WoW and have fun playing and raiding and i'll probably be playing it for aong time. It gives me something to do when im bored. It doesnt stop me from hanging out with friends, meeting new people, going to parties, having a full time job, a girlfirend, hitting the gym a few nights a week, working on my car, heading to the track to race....etc. If WoW or any other activity/hobby takes that much of your time for you to neglect things you need to do then the problem lies in you and not a video game.

Im tired of seeing these threads about quiting WoW likes its some kind of achievement or a hard thing to do.
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The thing is people that are currently addicted to WoW think they aren't. They don't realize they were addicted until the compare the freetime they had while playing to the freetime they had after they quit.
 
Tylerdurdened said:
I've quit about 26 times =/

I said it before and I'll say it again: No mortal can quit WoW.

You can try and think you did all you want, but sooner or later you'll get suckered in again. And again. And again.

Be it a 10 day free wotlk trial, or hearing a song you remember from a PvP video, or a thread here, or a friend coming back and telling you about it.. you'll be back *evil laugh* :cool:
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Whatever.

I quit one morning after looking into the mirror and asking myself "WTF", never went back since, sold the account, and laugh at everyone who plays the game now. Played for 2 years and happy as hell that bs is off my PC.
 
aFive said:
MMO's present this advancaemnt factor and the want to have X, which is largely not present in other games. That factor alone makes you play alot more then you want to. You also constantly interract with a living world that you can't pause, you have to finish what you started most of the time.
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This. MMO's provide an environment where players depend on one another. Leaving the game to go out with friends all of a sudden becomes leaving one group of friends for another.

Happens with other titles too, any long-playing game like a 4x game where it would be inconvenient to save and re-start later(same goes for an RTS). If you're in say, a clan match, you probably wouldn't want to ditch that to go see Paul Blart. (These examples lack the long-term commitment that MMO's...endear)

To be honest, it's not exactly like there's something wrong with thinking that you should stick to a commitment you made, even if it is to an online friend in a virtual world. The problem comes when you constantly make that commitment before and above all others. When your MMO has a stranglehold on your calendar, you might want to step back and think about how much attention you're paying to the real world.
 
bigdogchris said:
Freeze, people who play MMO's have been going through that for the past decade. You realize how much time you've wasted. Welcome to the club.
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Just like any other computer game. It's for entertainment, nothing more. Playing Xbox or PS3 is the same as playing a PC game, a waste of time for your entertainment.
 
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