Quit Warcraft.

I quit for the third time a couple of weeks ago.

Uninstalled the game earlier today.

Thankyou Blizzard for your utterly stupid and retarded "fixes" which finally made me realise the game wasn't for me.

- You introduced PCT, thereby wrecking the community on most of the new servers.
- You made Shamans/Paladins cross faction.
- You released a new but surprisingly mediocre addon pack.
- You then decided to introduce a "faster levelling" scheme, devaluing all those who bothered to make the effort.

Whereas before I always felt i'd go back, this time I think i'll stay clean. :)
 
I played this for a while. But went back to games like NWN. Wow is too easy, no skill is needed just plenty of time to spend grinding and clicking the same old buttons. You dont trully build your charactor, its all about getting stat improving gear. The real money grabber to keep people paying their monthly bill is not having any death penalty, just think how many people would throw the toys out of the pram if they lost xp for dying!

Its the first person shooter of roll playing games.
I think people get comfortable thinking that there are lots of other people doing the same thing, which i this is a bit false, im sure a good cut of that 8 million people who play it are either bots, farmers or boxes.

What appealed to me about the game was the exploration, it was great to roam about and find houses and farms in the middle of no where, but when i had been almost everywhere it got boring. I played lotrol, thinking i could get that same exploration buzz but after i left the Shire i didnt feel like there was much exploring to do.

I guess this game is a good opening for people who shy away from RL, they can feel like their acheiving something, but at the end of the day this whole wow thing isnt going to last forever...

I was brought up playing computer games and having my education with the first computers to be brought into primary schools. I find it very strange how people can become addicted to a game - I guess that is because i am happy with my life (and always have been) and dont need to escape as much as game addicts.
Most of the people saying 'ive quite wow' are probably concidered addicts.
Maybe getting addicted to wow is just as bad as cannibis? I think cannibis is probably the worse drug as its so readly avaiable and usable. People will always want to escape from RL - im sure thats healthy as long as its kept in check.
Maybe its concidred cool to be a wow addict in the world of mmorg's?
 
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Well I could certainly be considered an addict for quite a while. I can safely say that the reason I screwed up my first year at Uni and had to redo it was World of Warcraft.

I used to spend 12-18 hours A DAY on it, would miss lectures, do no work, etc.

This went on for around a year in all.

And what's ironic? All that effort - and in the grand scale of things I made very little progress into endgame.

[Edit] Oh, and just to add that the whole "9 million subscribers" I guess includes bots, inactive accounts, and even banned accounts.

From having a look around, you generally get around 1 million "active" players in total from US and EU. So are you going to tell me Asia makes up the other 8 million? I know there are a fair few bots going around inimpeded but seriously Blizzard, pull the other one. :rolleyes:
 
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Well its addictive alright. Upto the level cap it comes from relative ease levelling. At the level cap it comes from the raid or quit syndrome.

I felt the same about LORO just didnt do anything for me and a lack of any 'real' pvp made it pointlessly dull imo.

Some of the best moments I can remember are the pvp battles. MC'd in the lava in BRM, 1 shotting a mage not knowing what hit em, ganking the gankers, getting to BRM and finding 100 oposing faction at the MC portal. ahhhhhhh......


Now wheres my disks? NNNNNNOooooooooo must resist.......mu....
 
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i allso quit wow after playing it since beta and clearing all current in game content.

i must say im happy i quit have a lot more time to enjoy life, when u are realy involved in wow 1 year flys by and now i realise how sad it was :(
 
It ruins my ability to play other games, ive got Bioshock, company of heroes, quake 4, call of juarez and san andreas all waiting to be completed..

but i never bother, i seem to think time is spent better running around cities in wow talking to people i know :(

I think selling my account should be in order
 
Hedge said:
It ruins my ability to play other games, ive got Bioshock, company of heroes, quake 4, call of juarez and san andreas all waiting to be completed..

but i never bother, i seem to think time is spent better running around cities in wow talking to people i know :(

I think selling my account should be in order
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Don't even get yourself into an addiction mate take my word for it.

I got addicted to an online game a few years ago, i got so bad i spent like 12hours a day on the game, i didn't do anything else, and i didnt even realise it was happening. I felt the need to get higer level, skip dinner to do so.

In the end i realised what i had done and haven't played the game since.

You will be much more happier if you can play other games light heartedly.
 
Hedge said:
It ruins my ability to play other games, ive got Bioshock, company of heroes, quake 4, call of juarez and san andreas all waiting to be completed..

but i never bother, i seem to think time is spent better running around cities in wow talking to people i know :(

I think selling my account should be in order
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Why not get a group together and do a heroic instead of running around in cities? :p
 
I started playing when it was first released and quickly became addicted to it. I used to rush home from work and sneak an hour in while the wife was making dinner!! Every spare minute I was on the damn thing, my wife got really cheesed off with me and the only thing that stopped me playing was going to Afghanistan for a "holiday".

I tried to get back into it earlier this year but found loads of annoying people playing on my server. Complete strangers just asking me for items or money with out so much as a how'd you do. I bought BC but I've not even installed it yet. However, now that the dark nights are drawing in I can hear the jumanji drums drawing me back in :D
 
Hedge said:
Time to resurrect this thread. Just to say....

I started playing the damn game again! hahahaha.

Although i wanna quit again too! :D
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You've serverely owned yourself by resurrecting this thread mate :p

You'll be raiding before you know it. Hello SSC, goodbye social life!:p
 
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Why not get a group together and do a heroic instead of running around in cities? :p
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I do that too, but when im not, i just seem to run about aimlessly, cos grinding mats is so boring.

Essentially the game is pretty crap, but it does what it does very well lol.

Just played on company of heroes for an hour, awesome game, think ill spend more time on that!
 
wordy said:
You've serverely owned yourself by resurrecting this thread mate :p

You'll be raiding before you know it. Hello SSC, goodbye social life!:p
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Ive been doing a bit of Kara recently and its reasonably fun, but the guild im in doesnt guarantee me a place, there is always like 4 mages waiting for a couple of spots, so its just down to the raid leader who he picks

he seems to have favourites so they gain loads of dkp and i dont get much, so even if i get in, i wont have points to spend.

pesky game!
 
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Ive been doing a bit of Kara recently and its reasonably fun, but the guild im in doesnt guarantee me a place, there is always like 4 mages waiting for a couple of spots, so its just down to the raid leader who he picks

he seems to have favourites so they gain loads of dkp and i dont get much, so even if i get in, i wont have points to spend.

pesky game!
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Some wise old man once said

SomeWiseOldMan said:
After playing for 1.5years i decided to quit. Went back to occasional CS games, and less PC time.

Get yourselves away from the life draining game. When it all comes to an end you will realise, like i have now.. That you spend weeks playing for an item, to wear on an imaginary character.. Its actually quite sad when ya think about it.

Join a gym guys, get out the house more. But whatever you do, Dont let it drain ya life! :D

Just a bit of friendly advice :)
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Hedge said:
I do that too, but when im not, i just seem to run about aimlessly, cos grinding mats is so boring.
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I log on, and unless I have dailies to do I raid or instance, I have ended up faffing about for an hour or so every now and again while struggling to get groups but I find I get bored if I just kick about in cities. You might as well farm or do dailies while getting groups together. Join an active guild who do lots of heroics. It's free epics from the badges anyway. :)
 
Meh, i just added more accounts.

Its very good advice - not letting the game run your life. For me its a hobby that i can jump on and spend a few hours questing/instance etc... real life always comes first.
 
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