I am quitting WoW

[Twoflower]

Well, it has been a fun ride :)

Thanks to all of you, i really enjoyed these last 4 years alot. This forum has helped me through so many things with information and entertainment. Not only in WoW, but also before in Diablo2 :)

Unfortunately, the game WoW does not interest me any more. The special feeling is gone. There is nothing to explore any more, nothing new to achieve, no challenge. Ulduar will maybe change this for a few weeks, but generally i spent more and more time hanging around in Dalaran and less and less time in instances.

I feel that way since Wrath release, and i don't see it change, no matter how many chars i level to 80. So there it is, i ll be off looking for new games to conquer :)

I ll still hang around here, ban some goldsellers from time to time, i've been a member here since 2003 and i will certainly still be here when Diablo3 hits :) But i will not follow the course of WoW that much any more.

So then, enjoy the game, take care :) I ll go and lie in the sun a bit :D

[skroob]

:O Twoflower cant leave!! Your like an institution!

Seriously though, I hope this is merely a 'phase' and hope to have you back on the scene full time again soon.. but in the mean time, I wish you the very best with everything. Was great to read all your VERY useful posts.

[triplex]

Can i haz your st00f?

[Twoflower]

Can i haz your st00f?

haha :)

That reminds me of the good old Diablo2 times. I gave away 8 accounts full of items when i definitly stopped playing ladder. ^^ Too bad that all the WoW items are soulbound.

[Maticus]

A sad day, but good to know you'll still be around :)

[snowieken]

Wrong forum, this is WoW or Blizzard related! :laugh:

Bah, I quit WoW about twelve times in the last two years, and right now I'm still playing. I just call it "breaks". Exactly those breaks are the thing that keeps me coming back to the game... If I would be playing it 24/7, to give an extreme example, I would be tired of it in no time. But staying away from it for a few months every now and then keeps my interest up.

I can't be sure, but I do think you'll be back to the game - maybe not soon, but you will. In any case, it's a good thing you're going to keep hanging around, I was all like "awwww" when I saw the thread title. And yes, about Diablo III. One of my new "breaks" is definately going to start whenever that game comes out.

[surodat]

I feel you Twoflower. I've been playing once a week for the past two months for 6 hours. That's pretty much it. I have my weekly raid, and that's all, because I still enjoy that.

But, if it's not fun for you anymore, go out and find something else to do! I suggest joining an Ultimate Frisbee league, as summer is upon us and the sunshine starts to call us all.

I'll miss you a little bit.

[Tollin]

Ensure you fill your time you spent playing the game, with something as enjoyable and entertaining as you found Warcraft. Or you will find yourself right back to the game. Trust me I know.

I was almost completely finished a few months ago, when I couldn't play for a couple of months due to moving cross country. I then found myself logging back in after 3 months, since I didn't want to watch t.v. and I can't do sports anymore, knee surgery number 2 coming soon, ergo back to Warcraft.

Good luck man!

[Twoflower]

I suggest joining an Ultimate Frisbee league, as summer is upon us and the sunshine starts to call us all.

Unfortunatly, in Switzerland we only have 25 Teams ^^ But yes, i am a founding member of the team in my hometown ( Summer 1996 ) and they are now swiss champion ! They came in 8th in Rimini this year. They also have a second team now, and a ladies team, which is the first in switzerland.

I think i ll go down to the pitch and see what they are up to :grin: ( No, i have not played in the last 4 years... wonder why... wonder why i gained all that weight too... )

And i ll still be around, even though i ll mostly lurk and silently ban some goldsellers till we open our DIablo3 Forum :)

[Caderbery]

I havnt played WOW for awhile now ever since i broke my computer and have to use this old peice of rubbish which cant handle it. I might reapir my good one at some point and start playing again but its unlikly, Ive been spending alot less time on the computer since I quit playing.

(Wonders how many people have actually noticed i havnt been around much:P)

[clevins]

2F... I hear you actually. Several people I know are in the same boat as am I. I actually liked levelling from 70-80 in Wrath, but the endgame is sparse and too easily done. I used to login nightly... now it's 3-4 nights a week and unless someone grabs me for something, I'm off after 20 mins or so.

You can argue all you want that making the game more accessible is good... but in a couple of years I think you'll see a noticeable decline in WoW numbers as more people hit the wall and realize that there's nothing much to do.

Take care, say hi once in a while.

[Twoflower]

hmm, seeing the first infos from Ulduar and seeing that the first guild allready cleared it, the 3.1 temptation to come back has allready passed. Next stop : Resist the urge to conquer icecrown.

[clevins]

Haven't been yet. I hear it's a fun place from friends who've stuck their heads in, but the server I'm on has been so crashy that I've not played much. To me, the $15/month isn't much and it's an entertainment option, but WoW is mostly raiding these day vs anything else. I have friends who, like you, log in and sit in Dal - I never did that. If I don't have anything to do ingame I log out. If I want to raid, I log in and raid. It's not an all or nothing thing.

[Twoflower]

If I don't have anything to do ingame I log out.

I did that too ^^

Problem is, since i hit 80 and we cleared Naxx, i spent more time loggin in and out than playing. Therefore bye bye :)

[clevins]

Well yeah, but there's now Ulduar which you haven't cleared, so....

I'm not really trying to talk you into playing, just saying that you don't need to quit to not play for a time. I've never really understood the "I'm quitting" thing aside from your original reason... that it's just not fun at all. I fully anticipate my play time graph looking like a sine wave.... more playtime when there's a new raid out, dropping back off as I've got gear from it and it's on farm.... back up with the next raid.... back down once that's on farm.

I like raiding, I just don't care about the rest of the game at this point.

[rgirty]

Clevins, not interested in the argent tournament?

Personally I took such a break before and for about 5 weeks in feb/march that I have a lot of catching up to do.

I haven't even finished my SoH rep yet *gasp (those relics are expensive lool)

[clevins]

Not really. Went out there, jousted a bit, looked at the dailies. Left. It seems like a rep grind combined with the SSO dailies. I play on a laptop without a mouse so jousting is, perhaps, less smooth than on a desktop with a mouse but desks = work for me.

I *like* what they've done with the tournament... but I don't care about the titles, jousting isn't involving since it's artificial, I don't need the gold that the dailies give and I don't care if the Coliseum gets built or not. I guess that's the other thing... while I'm not an RP geek by any means it seems rather odd to have a big tournament when in the very same zone you have the Scourge trying to eat your brains and in the next zone over there's an Old God who wants to destroy the entire planet. But hey, let's have a fair! um... what?

'd MUCH rather have seen the effort for the AT go into another 5 man or small raid personally.

[snowieken]

I'm not really trying to talk you into playing, just saying that you don't need to quit to not play for a time. I've never really understood the "I'm quitting" thing aside from your original reason... that it's just not fun at all. I fully anticipate my play time graph looking like a sine wave.... Personally, as a casual player, I don't really care about raiding, but for the rest (the bit I quoted here) I agree 100% with you - if only for different reasons. I never understood the "I quit" either, since there is always a chance - and a big one - that you come back.

[mesonm]

and a big one - that you come back.

...especially since your interest is obviously still there, being a mod for a WOW forum and all....

:grin:

[clevins]

Snowi... I raid casually. With a beer.

And I really do - my guild raids 2x a week and while we're not uber, we have 2 Naxx 10 groups who clear the place and we'll start Ulduar as soon as the frelling instance servers decide to stay up. Unless they rush 3.2 we'll have cleared Ulduar by time 3.2 rolls around... and that's all I want... to see the full set of raids. Hence my sine wave pattern...

[Twoflower]

...especially since your interest is obviously still there, being a mod for a WOW forum and all....

:grin:

The interest is more in the community here though, than in the game. And of course in the power i have to abuse :evil:

[mesonm]

The interest is more in the community here though, than in the game. And of course in the power i have to abuse :evil:

haha...indeed

[MrBCorp]

Hi Twoflower

So you've come to join the rest of us who've stopped playing the game. Good to hear that you'll be sticking around here. But by golly, the game MUST be getting past the point if even 2F is quitting. Or something.

.02

[clevins]

Another thing I've never figured out... people who quit a game but still look at the boards about that game... huh??

[mesonm]

Another thing I've never figured out... people who quit a game but still look at the boards about that game... huh??

agreed

:rolleyes:

[wyren]

Thay may just dislike the direction the game is going in and miss other friends who have left. The pendulum is swinging very fast towards easy mode. I do not use easy modes on console games why should I in wow? I still love the game but hope that the short term gains do not destroy the base.

[Lothaer]

you'll be back they always come back... glad to know your gonna stay on these forums though, gives me something to LOL at :D... i love the big red edits :D

[clevins]

Thay may just dislike the direction the game is going in and miss other friends who have left. The pendulum is swinging very fast towards easy mode. I do not use easy modes on console games why should I in wow? I still love the game but hope that the short term gains do not destroy the base.

Oh I understand why they're quitting. I play less than I used to. But if I quit the game you won't see me here anymore... quit is quit for me. I don't MIND, of course, I just do things differently than they and don't really get talking about WoW when you're permanently done (vs taking a break)

[MrBCorp]

Another thing I've never figured out... people who quit a game but still look at the boards about that game... huh??

OK, I'll try to clear up the confusion for you. Just because someone has stopped playing a game doesn't mean they have completely lost interest in it.

Also, it's fun to hang around different forums, you get a different mix of people.

... and don't really get talking about WoW when you're permanently done (vs taking a break)

Who has to talk about WoW in the OT section here? Isn't it the point NOT to talk about it?

The pendulum is swinging very fast towards easy mode.

You mean they're making it EVEN EASIER??

you'll be back they always come back...

Heh, I thought I was done last time, then I came back after BC hit. Then I thought I was done but I came back. This time it feels a bit different though, as if the community is tiring and changing. Perhaps the "easy mode" they've been phasing in is their last ditch effort before it dies?

[Twoflower]

The interest is more in the community here though, than in the game. And of course in the power i have to abuse :evil:

just to repeat myself for clev :P

[clevins]

Oh I read it... I just don't think that way though. If I left the game, I'd leave the community... to me they're all part of my interest in WoW. Just different attitudes, neither's right...

[Twoflower]

I was here for DIablo2 since 2003, and i will still be here when Diablo3 comes out :) This forum is quite a bit more to me than just any WoW forum.

[snowieken]

I definately see what you mean, Twoflower, I have joined the D2 forums back in 2001 and I have spent a great deal of time there before I became a member here. However, it is definately not the same now that I play D2 sporadically. After I cut down on my D2 time, I basically kept residing in the Off-Topic forum over there, but since I became a member here my activities over there declined rapidly. Part of me still regrets that, and every now and then I post there trying to get back "into the flow", but it just isn't the same anymore and I eventually end up leaving again.

Apart from that, I have noticed that in these "WoW breaks" I take every now and then, which I spoke about before in this thread, my visits to this forum are also limited to checking the professions forum, because that is basically my job here. These forums are set as my homepage, so I checked the professions forum and then went on to what I turned on the computer for in the first place. I wasn't at all interested in reading the other forums, because I simply wasn't interested in WoW. And the OTF here is a lot different than the OTF at D2.

Sure, you can be different than me and visit just as frequently when you quit WoW, but somehow I doubt that. Just for curiosity's sake, I did some detective work and noticed that, however your last post at the D2 forums dates from a week ago, your second last post is nearly a year old. You can definately say that you are still a member there, sure, but you have to admit your activity on the D2 forums isn't what it used to be. For that same reason, when D3 is released and you revive your account on diii.net, I'm fairly certain we won't see you post here very often.

So clevins definately has a valid point.

[Twoflower]

i see this entire forum network as one big community. But yes, of course, i post more in the subforum of the game i play at the moment. I have not checked the Diablo2 forum for a year, that is right, just because i dont play diablo 2 any more at all.

Being a mod here will certainly draw me back here more often than just being a regular Member on the D2 Forum did. But yes, i will post more there again once D3 is out. Hope i will see you there, and many other regulars :)