Anyone quit WoW and looking forward to going back?

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I've played since the beta, played to the point of addiction in vanilla, pretty solidly at the beginning of BC, stopped near the end but came back for LK, quit again ages ago (start of summer) after doing 90% of stuff, but now I'm really looking forward to Cata and will probably even renew for the patch this week to play through the new content.

Who else has quit but can't wait to go back?
 
Paramount said:
I'm really looking forward to Cata
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I'm not in your position, but I'm wondering what it is about the upcoming expansion that has you so stoked for rejoining the game? It doesn't seem to hold any more surprises than the other expansions. Is it just a case of absence making the heart grow fonder?

You'll find the game now has many, many more 'elitist noobs' than when you quit.

EDIT - predictable tedious WoW hater takes a whopping 6 minutes to crap the thread. Surprised it took so long.
 
I've quit.

I am looking forward to cata *IF* they fix it. And by fix it I mean:

Make classes work how they were originally meant too. (by that, DK's as cooldown tanks, shadow priests to provide damage and buffs, fix warriors rage, and so on)

FIX the balances between classes. It's not right yet, I don't care about PVP - make stuff work different against people if needed, but I'm tired of my classes nerfed or changed completely just because someone whines about PVP.

Sort out the talent trees.

Make things feel fresh again, I loved early WOTLK, but by the time ulduar came out I just started to feel like I wanted to twiddle my thumbs at times rather than raid.

There are lots of other points too, but I can't be bothered to list them all for the 100 th time.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
I'm not in your position, but I'm wondering what it is about the upcoming expansion that has you so stoked for rejoining the game? It doesn't seem to hold any more surprises than the other expansions. Is it just a case of absence making the heart grow fonder?

You'll find the game now has many, many more 'elitist noobs' than when you quit.

EDIT - predictable tedious WoW hater takes a whopping 6 minutes to crap the thread. Surprised it took so long.
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The chance to explore new stuff and do it all again, the grind, the instance runs. Wow has a winning combination and doing it all again for the first time is always epic. It's an awesome feeling of excitment and unknown imo.

By elitist noobs you mean "show me your gear" and if you don't have full TotC epics you don't get to join the naxx group?
 
I'll probably give Cata a look in, but the game has changed so much since vanilla (when it was actually fun) that I can't see myself staying.

It was great back then, all the classes felt different, and even though they weren't totally balanced, they were far more balanced than they are now. Instances were well structured, and despite being ran 100,000 times still felt fun.

Blizzard are just going backwards for the sake of a few subscriptions, personally (if I was them) i'd rather not see my masterpiece defecated on in order to pander to the kiddies who inhibit the servers like a bad rash.
 
When WoTLK came out, it just ruined it for me. I loved TBC so much, mainly because back then I had my guild, all my guild mates and we were a pretty decent team and cleared most raids.

When WoTLK came out it just didn't feel like WoW at all. I got a couple of 80's and quit after clearing most of Uld and haven't bothered to go back.

I do miss the older times in WoW though, they were my best gaming times.
 
Allow me to elaborate, i got seriously addicted to the game back in vanilla times, balanced pvp, great pve addicitive formula, they just completely lost the plot from that point on, much like lotro actually
 
I tend to go back to it every now and then. Played for a little while after Lich King but that's it lately.

Think I'll resubscribe in the new year though as I do feel a slight urge to go back. Good research pre Cataclysm too ;)
 
Quit WoW after playing UO and DAOC, then went and played WAR for about 9 months. Oddly enough when I left that I've had no need to ever play an MMO ever again, it's like cold turkey.

Honestly go play WAR, it'll help you kick the habit as PVP is so dire past T1/2 :)
 
Classic - and to an extent TBC - was the most fun and immersive gaming experience I've ever had. I dread to think how many hours I've spent playing WoW. But as soon as WoTLK came out, I lost that feel I used to have. After just a few days I felt the whole environment and experience change to something much more commercial; it wasn't vanilla any more. That 'homely' feeling I used to get felt traded by Blizzard for "CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT!!".

Blizzard (quite rightly) believe that people will stick around and keep paying for new content. The game - at it's core - is broken now. But as long as there's a new instance, or new armour set, etc., the money will keep pouring in.

I'd trade you a guild "lowbie" Wailing Caverns run on teamspeak for Naxx 2.0 any day.

I miss WoW. But there's too much of it - both in and out of its realms.
 
Pete.Dakota said:
Classic - and to an extent TBC - was the most fun and immersive gaming experience I've ever had. I dread to think how many hours I've spent playing WoW. But as soon as WoTLK came out, I lost that feel I used to have. After just a few days I felt the whole environment and experience change to something much more commercial; it wasn't vanilla any more. That 'homely' feeling I used to get felt traded by Blizzard for "CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT!!".

Blizzard (quite rightly) believe that people will stick around and keep paying for new content. The game - at it's core - is broken now. But as long as there's a new instance, or new armour set, etc., the money will keep pouring in.

I'd trade you a guild "lowbie" Wailing Caverns run on teamspeak for Naxx 2.0 any day.

I miss WoW. But there's too much of it - both in and out of its realms.
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Exactly how I feel to be honest. Hit the nail on the head.
 
I really feel like I missed out on something with WoW - I just never got into it. I trialed it, several times, but I spent pretty much my whole MMO phase on free MMOs, Thang for the most part, but a lot of others too. It's not something I'd hasten to correct in my gaming history, but rather something I've accepted as a missed opportunity and let lie.
 
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