As the title said. I don’t know why but I don’t have that drive to want to log in and roleplay…. Or even simply play.
I guess it makes sense as I don’t really pvp or do any of the end game stuff. My idea of fun is exploring and role playing and transmog but truth be told I haven’t logged in a long time. Since the transmog event (If I recall correctly), the trail of trials or whatever it’s called. and that was a long time ago.
Could this be the end of wow for me? And I’ll join my cousins in retiring completely?
If that’s the case I’ll be thinking of donating my coins away…… but then I remembered I can’t log in my main because my subscription ended lmao.
The thing is it’s not burnt out. I’ve taken many breaks before so I know.
This is different. A feeling I cannot describe, as if the drive for wow is completely gone for me. It hit my cousins in mist of pandaria, but it hit me much much later. Now.
I do love wow, I have no hate for the game. But I guess things don’t last forever and some people simply move on.
I had a good long run and I always remember the good memories.
WoW, like any game, is something you do for fun. If the fun stops, you stop and find something else to do.
For a lot of people there’s a sunk cost fallacy at play. They’ve been subscribed and active for so long, it feels like they’d have wasted all that time if they left… but yeah, that’s a fallacy.
It’ll be waiting for you if you get the itch to play again in the future. But in the meantime, do what you enjoy instead.
Quite possibly. After quitting during DF I’m quite likely ‘done’ with the game (and possibly all MMOs) for good. I do still feel the itch to come back - play the story, fall into the same circuit of grinding mindlessly for no real reason - but whenever the itch graduates into idea it dies when I think of the time I could be spending playing or doing other stuff.
Don’t hold me to this when Midnight rears its elven head though. I make no promises at that point.
Tastes and desires change. Sometimes you just drink your fill of your favourite game and only get thirsty for it later with new content or other news. As long as you don’t force yourself to play, it might come back again! And… If it doesn’t, then that’s just life.
I played through pretty much all of Shadowlands and weirdly it was Dragonflight that saw my interest wane more. Now I’m roleplaying my blorbos in the lands of Eorzea and waiting to see how War Within looks before I consider coming back to Blizzard’s embrace.
Unless something catastrophic Cataclysmic happens, we’ve got at least another six years assuming each expansion cycle for the next three revealed is two years per xpac!
I think a lot of people are in a similar position. Personally the setting has changed too much in terms of tone and aesthetics for me to really enjoy it as much as I used to. Classic WoW renewed my interest but only partially.
I’m mostly waiting for the ‘next big thing’ to come along. Though any viable alternatives are potentially years away.
“I don’t even play the game, but I don’t want to play the game.”
Aside from that, MMORPG genre can be demanding and stressful in general, so taking a break to play single or MOBA games can be refreshing. I used to play LoL and it was taking a huge toll on me. Now I’m finally happy and content.
This pretty much. The combined power of Shadowlands and Dragonflight killed most of my interest for any ‘serious’ roleplay, though I did play a fair bit of DF I have to say, I haven’t had this many alts since Legion and I’m not really someone who likes to play alts.
There’s just way too many interesting games out there to be as invested in WoW as I used to be.
RP has been the thing that kept me in the game. Even during SL, as accursed for the setting as it was, I’ve been having a great time doing things other than actual content, and in DF it didn’t change except for finally adding new matters to accomodate with, as little as it affected Pandaria. So if you don’t want to touch specific elements of the setting, you can play the game and not do that, it’s normal. I hope to see you back someday.
Technically true as I don’t play the game for months now.
But logically speaking, there are many ways to enjoy a game aside from PVP or end game. Remember, this is Argent Dawn (a rp server) so rp is the main emphasis. What you do outside of that is up to you.
The most fun I’ve had in this game is doing stuff like pet battles, exploring, events (like lunar event, Valentines, Christmas, Halloween, eggs, and the transmog event). Roleplay of course. and transmog farming (mostly in old dungeons)
