To Present and Past WoW Players

[coldshadow]

If you really got into the lore then its even harder not to go back.

 

[Icecoldcynic]

I sometimes think back and get an urge to play it again but then I remembered what made me quit: Why pay money for one game continuously when I can spend the same amount playing a new game every so often? Especially when that one game is so repetitive and work-like.

 

[haruvister]

Perhaps when I watch Raimi's film adaptation I might be tempted, but since realising LotRO is better (for us non-PVP'ers) I've barely spared it a thought.

 

[AnneSQF]

Gave my brother my level 80 druid so now I only got my death knight and my bank chart left. I deleted the other charts. Thats a good way of quiting WoW. I would have deleted my DK too, but my subscrition ran out and didnt want to pay for another month.

 

[AplChild]

I got sick of the whole drama the game gets. People took it way to seriously or thought they were part of a cool clique for playing it.

My friends who still play it have this problem...

 

[King_Julian]

I quit just after last christmas after only playin for a few months, i has a 30 human mage and a 56 human pally. I get the urges constantly to go back to it and i will someday but not during college because it will ruin everything.

 

[asdasdasdasda]

Every time I quit and try another MMO, I realize how good it is. I suppose that's what is keeping me playing, well, that, and my guild.

 

[AshuraSpeaks]

I did play; untill I reached level 6..and left because I almost cried of boredom.

In Patch 3.3 Leveling will be sped up at 1-15 due to a massive mana/health regeneration, starting with essential class skills (for instance, Rogues have 70% movement stealth at level 1), all of this is in addition to the increased XP gain and the lowering of mount requirements (lvl 20, 1g-Rep for Horse, 5g-rep for Riding skill).

All in all, it's a great time to make that Blood Elf Mage you always wanted to.

 

[TheZapper]

I quit about 2 years ago for the second (and hopefully last) time. I just realised that everything you do in the game is exactly the same, and that I could be using the money to buy games where I didn't just click once on something until it died.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I would love to go back. However...
-All my friends left the game.
-I don't have time for it.
-My current computer is somehow too slow these days.
-I've been trying to get more social and try other things other than gaming.

 

[camazotz]

I've played WoW since Feb. 2005 and have taken a few significant breaks; I started up again a few months ago, as the game has become much friendlier to casual players who can't afford a time sink but enjoy the fantasy RPG aspects of it. As of yesterday with the patch and the new dungeon finder, the game has basically changed....profoundly....and for the better; in the last 14 months I'd had time to go in to instances twice. Last night I managed to do five in one night (about 4 hours of play). I'm sure hardcore WoWers will be agonized at losing their elite status as nut jobs crazy enough to grind forever to get their top-tier gear and rep, but now even a casual player like myself can get in to a group and run an instance immediately, without snobbish players looking down their noses at my green-geared quest-leveled arms spec warrior. Er, anyway....it's a fun game, when taken in moderation, for those who enjoy MMORPGs of such a nature.

Fallout 3 is still the best game ever, though! And no pesky other players to ruin the experience, heh!

Also, should mention I empathize with anyone who left the game due to too much drama; I avoid guilds because I dislike people, even though I enjoy playing a game in which other people are present--my wife, however, always manages to find guilds that make high school kids look like rational and composed individuals.

 

[marcusanddoom]

Thats what they all say.

 

[Tekyro]

I really would love to get into WoW, but the whole subscription fee thing puts me off.

 

[slipknot4]

I miss it allot.
I just wish i had a level 29 hunter that i could take to the bg's

 

[camazotz]

I did play; untill I reached level 6..and left because I almost cried of boredom.

In Patch 3.3 Leveling will be sped up at 1-15 due to a massive mana/health regeneration, starting with essential class skills (for instance, Rogues have 70% movement stealth at level 1), all of this is in addition to the increased XP gain and the lowering of mount requirements (lvl 20, 1g-Rep for Horse, 5g-rep for Riding skill).

All in all, it's a great time to make that Blood Elf Mage you always wanted to.

Trust me, if he didn't like the level 1-6 experience enough to see how it evolves, he's not going to enjoy any of it. Sometimes its got less to do with what the game's all about in the big picture and more about how it "feels" to that person at the moment. I've played plenty of games where I knew 5 minutes in that no matter how good the overall game probably was, those first five minutes were enough to tell me to get out, now, before I wasted any more of my own time. Mirror's Edge was my most recent experience with such; I'm sure it's a fine game and all, but I'd barely gotten halfway in to the tutorial when I realized I HATE this kind of game with a passion. I know other people will enjoy it. Not me.

 

[Jaranja]

I use to play WoW a couple years ago but eventually I left after growing tired of it. But WoW isn't really a game you can forget easily. With constant patches and expansions gamers are usually bombarded with imagery and news on this game. Sometimes I do miss playing. I was just wondering if past players also feel like giving the world of warcraft another try. If you don't play anymore, why did you leave? If you still play what keeps you playing?

I played for a long time, got 2 level 80's and lots of nice gear. I left earlier this year and I've never thought about going back to that awful awful game.

 

[Discon]

I played for three years and then it got boring. Lately I've been tempted to play again, as I really miss the continuiety (spelling please) of WoW. Team Fortress 2 is a great game, and it's lots of fun, but you don't get anything but skills for playing it long-term.

 

[Danpascooch]

I use to play WoW a couple years ago but eventually I left after growing tired of it. But WoW isn't really a game you can forget easily. With constant patches and expansions gamers are usually bombarded with imagery and news on this game. Sometimes I do miss playing. I was just wondering if past players also feel like giving the world of warcraft another try. If you don't play anymore, why did you leave? If you still play what keeps you playing?

Personally I go through cycles, like one year of playing, one year of break, and so on.

After a year there is enough new stuff to keep me going for a year (compounded with the stuff that comes out DURING that year of play)