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What made you quit WoW?
godpuppet
Member Posts: 1,416
Theres alot of WoW hate on these forums, im curious to hear where peoples fueled anger derives from...
Answer my simple question: "What made you quit WoW?"
I quit WoW after two long years. Why? Becuase of weak endgame and the worst community I have ever bared witness too. Do I hate WoW? No, I got alot of enjoyment out of it.
Your turn.
Answer my simple question: "What made you quit WoW?"
I quit WoW after two long years. Why? Becuase of weak endgame and the worst community I have ever bared witness too. Do I hate WoW? No, I got alot of enjoyment out of it.
Your turn.
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I quit WoW after being stuck at lvl 52 for over a year... a year of fustration and the agony of being FORCED to solo due to the horrible community... the inability to locate a party for anything beyond instances and complete lack of depth to the game and nothing to look forward to at level 60... the repeated problems on my server and massively unbalanced factions didn't really help much... do i hate WoW... YES
No more things get in my mind now, but thats already more than enough to leave and never go back...
It's better be hated for who you are, than loved for who you aren't.
Not a WoW-hater here, but the reason I quit is I just foresaw too much time needed. I wanted to enjoy pvp and to enjoy that I had a variety of classes, but to level any of them required a fair investment of time.
Stranglethorn 40-50, and badlands without needing grouping.isn't stv more like 30-38ish?
you can solo to 60 though. there's quests in each zone that'll push you along your way. getting to 60 from 40 really isn't any different than getting to 40 from 1. you talk to quest guys in the zone, then just start randomly killing and you'll have them all complete in no-time flat.
the only thing wow has going for it, imo, is my wife plays it. her first "real" online game and she doesn't want to have to start over in another game. she tried guild wars with me when it came out, didn't go for it. i'm hoping that if one of these new ones kicks butt, she'll go for it... OR if the new uo looks good, she'll try it, which would be great, because i've got a few accounts on it and could give her a vet account to play on.
anywho. raids, and kaplan's mouth -- these are the things that made me quit. uo never required me to devote endless hours on end to play and enjoy EVERYTHING the game had to offer. if a game has raiding, then yes, in order to enjoy EVERYTHING the game has to offer, you have to raid.
o, and the farming. how many of those bugbear guys in felwood and um, the icy place to the east of it, do you have to kill in order to advance your rep to exalted with timbermaw hold? how many deaders (and then just deader turn-ins) do you have to kill in order to get exalted rep with argent dawn? now.... how many items do you actually unlock at each rep level? i mean... the game IS item based - period. so why is it, when i unlock a new rep level, i DON'T get access to 5 new items per profession and at least 5 new items for each class? items are ALL this game offers. yet, i would have to spend countless hours/days/weeks, in real world time ingame, to get rep to exalted with one faction after the next.... but what does unlocking those factions give me?
raids. faction grind for not much reward vs. effort+time. kaplan being employed at blizzard still, especially following his 'learn to raid' comments at e3.
otherwise, for a cartoony graphic game, it's pretty fun.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
edited: that's an email address to contact, not a snail mail one.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
40-man, 6-hour raids and competitive PvP ladders that gave rewards relative to other, more obsessive, players. The rest of the game, IMO, is pretty tight.
I may give it another whirl after the expansion comes out, since they're changing both the things that made me leave.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
Raiding.
On day 1, of release, I read their devs talking about their endgame. I was tempted to stay for epic classes, but I didn't (turn out they cancel epic classes; lol I would have been in a fit of rage there hehe). As a former EQ player and someone who already quit EQ2 (was 2 weeks old back then), raiding wasn't acceptable, quite simple. I try to play WoW, but I was remembering their devs talk about endgame and I feel it was completely useless and a waste of my time to play and I was actually not having fun, but raging; and the fact I was already having 2 toons over level 10, on day 1, was really not improving this feeling.
I feel devs where trying to trap me in raiding, all again. So I quit. Faster leveling up only lead to raiding faster. When I express my concerns, I was laugh initially by forums folks. Now seem like raid-haters are more numerous than ever...and the thrend will only increase in time. As peoples learn to know what they want, and what they don't want.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
I don't play Wow anymore either, But I don't hate it.
My first character was a warrior. Had alot of fun with him, but I was also a member of a great guild. When it came time for end game we began heavy recruting, we where not prepared for this. Complete Random invites got us the numbers and we were soon exploring MC and Onxy (this was befor ZG). How ever the guild itself was getting out of control and we lost the "small family" feel we once enjoyed. One by one we all went our seperate ways.
My wife and I started over on a differnt server. It went well, I took a druid to 60. Then we began missing our first characters. When we went back it became obvious real fast how far behind the rest of the server we were in end game. I was a warrior and NOBODY needed another warrior. My wife was a warlock, EVERYBODY wanted locks. She made deals for me, "sure I'll join, but you must take my warrior husband" Obviously this didn't go well, While she had no problem getting in on every raid, it was like fighting tooth and nail for me to get an invite. And I do not blame anybody for this, there where just way to many warriors on my server.
So, we tried yet again
I took a shamen to 52 and then....I woke up. Time to move on. I think getting in on the ground floor of a great guild in this game is a must, I will be sure this happends with my next game, whatever that may be.
Run out of new content.
Only 20 man plus raids left to see, and 10,000 hour crafting grinds.
Looking forward to the next installment.
When I'm 70th level I might even go back and do some of those raids.
I really enjoyed level 1-60 infact so much that I did it 3 times with characters both on the alliance and horde side. But the "end game"... Seriously, I will never play any MMO with any sort of "end game" concept, What kind of crap is that?
I am a casual gamer. I do play computer game quite a lot, but I do it at times when *I* feel like it. Looking to my little brother at the hight of his raid days: EVERY sunday he had to sit there with no possibility what so ever to participate in any family related activities. We even had to bring the food to him because he could not come down for dinner. My parents did not mind as he is a grown up man, but seeing that as my future in WoW in quit immediately.
Every time I think about going back to WoW I think about loggin into Iron Forge and seeing the screams: "Lfg, lfg, LFG!..."
PS. Luckely I experienced little problems with log-in qeues. That would have put me off right away.
I was playing on and off with WoW but what got me to quit was the fact that I was constantly doing the same thing over and over. Everyone in the community were jerks except a few people that I would team with once in a while. Constant solo was VERY boring. It's like the game forced you to do the same attack chain over and over again nomatter what class you were. I played a mage, hunter, warlock, shaman, warrior, paladin, and rogue because I couldn't just stick with one class doing the same thing over and over again. It's odd because of those classes I usually favor the summoning or mage classes but I hated them in this game because for warlock you would just have your pet attack then you would shoot a shadow bolt and a couple curses and then hope your pet doesn't die. And if you were a mage, all you would do is ice bolt, fire ball, fire blast, repeat. It got so boring so i eventually gave up. But what I did like about this game was the PvP. It was awesome fighting other people in battlegrounds or just duels. The one problem with the PvP was most of the community would just say that i'm a "rigged noob who is t3h sukz0rz 4nd g07 luky" when I beat them. I truely HATE that community.
The only way you could possibly have been stuck at 52 for a year is if you weren't playing. Leveling to max level in WoW, even solo, is trivial compared to most MMOs on the market. If you couldn't get to 60th in WoW then you really should find another genre of game to play other than MMORPGs. I'm not saying this to bust on you, it's just the truth. Not everyone likes MMORPGs, you might simply not like this style of game.
I perfered FFXI to WoW... it was the community i couldn't get a group... and I absolutely refuse to solo 99% of the time in an MMO((that 1% being the begining few levels)... if I had wanted to solo I would be playing console games... so I'd say this is the exact genre for me since it's designed for a community to work together WoW just wasn't an mmo in that sense as it was designed for you to solo to 60 whats worse is you can go that entire time without talking to one person...
I quit because the PvP/PVE was pointless, and I was getting pretty bored of it at level 40.
(Note I played the first month that the game came out so they didn't have close to what they have now.)
I don't harbor anger like you assume I do just because I don't like WoW. But the reason I don't like it is because of the following:
Lack of initial character customization.
Not enough variety of classes.
Everyone is a clone pretty much concerning their class and skills they have. If you are a Warrior, you will have the same Warrior specials that every other Warrior has.
No player ran cities.
The game fosters selfishness, due to the high demand the game places on good gear.
Too many immature people.
I hate quest based content, because it encourages solo play which I dislike. The quest content is also lame, because it is all mostly kill x this many time and then return, or kill x for this many of y items and return or deliver this very important recipe of clam chowder to my very dearest friend and return. You do more running around getting and returning quests than you actually do killing things. I like quests, but they must be Epic in nature. It must have a real plot, a long story, it must last for a long time, such as saving the realm from certain doom. The quest could have several little small objective along the way to help get you to the last objective. Just think of the quest to return the ring back into the volcano in Lord of the Rings. It took a long time, they had several side stops, and ran into plenty of dangerous things along the way to make it adventurous.
The community is mostly full of MMORPG players that want just to solo. WoW is pretty much a single player game with a chat channel.
Raiding over and over again sucks. I love to raid, but I do not want to do the same dungeon after I kill the boss. Because after I kill the boss, wouldn't he still be dead the next time? I like DAoc style of raiding better.
I don't like the style of graphics either. I prefer realistic avatars and enviroment.
GM's don't enforce RPing rules on the RPing server.
I think that is about it.
MMORPG's w/ Max level characters: DAoC, SWG, & WoW
Currently Playing: WAR
Preferred Playstyle: Roleplay/adventurous, in a sandbox game.