This thread is for all those players who are jaded with the game and want to quit but cannot. I was in a similar situation. I started playing WoW back in 2009 when wotlk came out and I started worshipping the game. I forgot all other single player games and mmorpgs when I started playing WoW that it became an obsessive relationship.
But when time went on I became jaded and angry with the game. This started happening during Legion when I had to farm AP to stay relevant in my raiding guild. When BFA launched I started becoming really angry with the game and started making âI quitâ threads in GD only to come back 3-4 months later. I could not quit because the game made me mentally unhealthy. When Shadowlands launch my mind was in a completely different state. I played that expansion for 1 month and then I quit. After a few months I returned again and started playing wotlk classic on a fresh server thinking that it will make me feel better playing the old version but it didnât help. I felt empty inside and quit wotlk classic after 1 month. Since then I started thinking on how to break this unhealthy obsessive relationship.
One day in the morning I had an epiphany. The problem was not the game but me. I treated WoW like a relationship not as a game. When I play single player games or other mmorpgs I treat those games like games but with WoW I treated it like some form of important thing in life that I cannot part with. So from that point on I knew that I have to change my way of looking at WoW. And for that to happen I have to abandon my old account. Yes my old account that had lots of achievements, mounts, transmogs, etc I had to abandon it and make a brand new account and treat WoW like a GAME. Reason I had to abandon my old account was because when I logged on and saw my characters my mind went to that unhealthy obsession again.
Thereâs a saying âTo forge the future you have to abandon the past. Learn from the past but donât cling on to itâ. And so from that point on I abandon my old account and made a brand new account with a different email ID and look at WoW from a fresh perspective. Now I can play WoW normally like a normal person and also play other games. I made a human paladin on the server Silvermoon with 0 achievements points and with a clean slate and I am excited for the journey ahead. My goal with this new account is to get the loremaster achievement and play when a major patch or expansion releases and take breaks to play single player games and other mmorpgs. For the first time I have started treating WoW like a game and this thinking has made me so much fresh and healthy inside.
I hope this thread helps people that have unhealthy relationship with the game. The problem is not the game but your thinking and mentality.
How can you claim to have broken the cycle when you created an entirely new account just to keep playing? If the game is constantly making you angry you need to just straight up quit. As someone who quit for 7 years I can say, yes it is as simple as that, all it takes is the will to do so.
The man reason certain community sticks to playing 1 mmo is that it has (supposedly) indefinite continuity, so you previous achievemnts/collectibles mean smth to you, you have earned them and kept them.
Would John Doe farm something like Soundless if they cant keep it and have to start from 0 next year.
I dont think a mentaly sound person would.
But you are free to persuade yourself your decisions to let go all what you have made you happier.
Its a free game, be whoever you want, play it the way you find enjoyable.
I would call you nuts quetly in my mind, but thats just my opinion.
You could have carried on with the old account and set yourself limits but:
You are right. Youâre halfway there and itâs a massive thing to admit to yourself.
If you have a massive issue with the game a new account wonât fix it, but time with a therapist can help you with addictive patterns and why you have them. We all have our demons and finding out why and facing them can help a lot.
Depends on whats making you angry in all honesty, sometimes something changing is enough to relinquish that.
I think preachs return to WoW after 15 months video gave a rly good example of this.
He was at wits end with the game, so this ment this cloud of negativity just bled into everything he did. Returning to the gsme he enjoyed castle nathria etc etc.
Once your jaded, its rly easy to only see the bad things in everything and oftenly never see the good things.
Sometimes a change up, a new challange, or a simple refocus mentally can relieve that jaded feelings, other times a break from the game
Now will the problem likely repeat for the OP? Yeah it most likely will, as once the challange is over old roots are going to set in. Sounds more like a fight against burn out realistically.
Sometimes the best thing you can do, is leave the game for 6 months.
After my 2 year break from the game and coming back i found: Ironically my downfall was my altaholic behaviour, due to both wanting to make lots of chars and keep swapping mains i also wanted to be high geared. So id spend 4 weeks spamming content to catch up, to then reroll and do it again.
Meaning i ended up devoting huge amounts of time to the game and when things are susposed to calm down and engagement is suspose to go down id be rerolling and recomitting to it all again.
Ive found my fix, which is simply to play 1 char and 1 char only. And ignore the feelings of the grass is greener elsewhere.
But Preach contradicted himself. He said the reason he stopped playing WoW was because of the abuse scandals within the company, not because of problems with the game. Then he came back and claimed the problems with the game were now fixed, so it was all good again.
The real reason Preach returned to WoW was because he figured he could make money creating WoW content again, and that outweighed any moral issues he might have had with Blizz management.
preach did continously state he hated SL At launch, every video he did on content was completely negative. and the Scandals was as he orginally said âthe last strawâ
while its Weird, that yeah he seems to easily forgotten a Major point regarding when he quit the game, It was very evident he DID have Pure hatred for the game. u only had to watch a few of his videos surrounding SL Launch. he was a Major adovcate in delaying the expansion ALOT Longer then it was actually delayed aswell.
He Did not think SL Was good, He also Outright stated in BFA he was considering not buying that expansino either, it was to such lengths in both expansions he said in terms of rolling a main âI aint even doing it, because i cant be bothered, there all terribleâ.
The first video of his that I ever watched was him explaining why the SL systems were so much better than people believed they were, and how there was so little required grind (but a lot of optional grind). He didnât have anything negative to say at that point.
Of course he has. Why the hell else do you think content creators spend so much time and effort on what they do?
Because in the alpha half the systems Did not exist, Torghast was Completely optional and ran to level 100, Legendaries werent in the game, and Covenant Levelling was fully exposed.
so yes, in the games Alpha it appeared its Systems were very easily and no huge grind.
i ment As in. i think Preach ironically has made More money from moving to FFXIV then he was making in WoW. i dont think coming back to WoW is as fruitful as youâd think.
remmeber when asmongold Tripled his viewership going to FFXIV?.. and Now hes Dropped Since coming back to WoW, same with preach lol, same with annie. they get FAR More money from FFXIV then WoW.
the problem is: Preach loves WoW too much and thats the fundamental issue, WoW Is the mans Childhood, FFXIV Is not,
FFXIV is played by 37 million players, with a company which give their content creators FAR More and Treat them far better.
WoW is played by 6million players, with company with At best gives u the expansion for free.
if u beleive WoW is their Best Revenue, i think ur mistaken, i dont think they make near what u they do out of WoW Content as they do FFXIV, but also. i think these players Earn enough not to care as much.
While this is true you didnât need to start a second account for this, you could have just worked on yourself and set boundaries. If you wanted a fresh start you could have just created the new character and started your new WoW journey.
Iâm actually tempted to do this; alts can be great but having a single character to focus on sounds better the more that I think about it.
The number you quote here includes inactive accounts; the active subscribed player base will be nowhere near this figure.
Guys, reason I started a brand new account is to let go of the past and treat WoW like any other normal game. I donât want to repeat what I wrote above but previously I treated WoW like a very important part of my life. That is no longer the case now. Now I treat WoW like a normal game that I will play in between other games. I am finally free and feeling relive. Thank you for the replies guys.
I feel you.
I had an obsession once and started to figure out what it really is i want with wow
For me the heureka was find a guild from my own country. Get to know them and get socialised doing whatever. Pvp/pve. Aslong as we have fun i am there but i feel the systems dragging me in and i âwantâ to become the best to what i do. Just to again realize that its the elitism that destroys the game for me. I let i go and just do casual stuff aslong as i can play with some friends.
Wow is a great and bad. Its a sharpedged sword that you need to balance on not to get cutted and hurt
Itâs in the wording, the number of accounts is different to the number of actual subscribers. If Blizzard did the same they could say over 100 million for wow probably.
I sort of understand. I lost interest in games except WoW and played the content over and ovet ad nauseum just to play the game.
I have in the past 6 months caught up with other MMOs and thinking of WoW⌠I look forward to doing the new expansion on my main but the whole alt army etc? Nah. I can go catch up on the other games instead.
Shadowlands was cure for my addiction maybe you just needs to find your shadowlands