Im writing this here since the support page led me here, I just want to leave feedback or otherwise tell people/anyone who work at Blizzard about why I loved and play wow. If someone replies, im sorry, I wont be reading anything. I just want to say a few things. Doesnt feel good that it has to be on a forum.
I remember playing wow when I just had bought the battle chest or whatever it was called. I remember playing when all my friends already were pretty good at the game and I sucked. I didnt really like the game at first, maybe because I just had gotten nagged into playing it myself. I also remember feeling determined to get good enough so that I could play with my friends, this included reaching max lvl for starters. Skipping school happened a few times, mostly to be able to focus on getting into a work flow of leveling up fast enough in comparison to how fast my friends usually lvld up.
Wow was the activity I could share with the friends I no longer could do other things with.
I reached max lvl 2 weeks before the launch of wotlk on my hunter. I played maybe 2 BGs before tbc was over. Leveling was very, very fun and I remember the first time I was in Duskwood for example, the same way I remember how I met my 2 best friends. To the same intensity and with just as much nostalgic happiness/sadness that it was so long ago.
I remember standing outside in the middle of the night, in a queue I couldnt see the end of, to buy the expansion. In wrath I fell in love with the game completely I think. The game world felt amazing to log on to and be in. I loved pushing myself to join BGs and do dungeons. “Pushing” since I get very anxious around people. Joining my friend’s guild’s weekly raid of 25Naxx was awesome, I got the gun from KT.
I remember buying Cata from a store maybe a few weeks to a month after that released. Hunter losing mana was not my favorite thing ever. “Its a good thing though” said my friend, ok well I still dont like that hunters dont use mana. Not sure why though, but im not a game designer.
Good point maybe. Im not a game designer. But I love when games are fun. I remember my friends constantly saying “Blizzard doesnt listen”, “Blizzard never listens to player feedback” and I wasnt able to contribute anything to those conversations exactly, because I was too much of a noob. I was a noob for a lot of years, since my friends always were way better than me. Didnt like it but I loved the game. A casual I guess.
Got sad now, since I just started to think about wod. Which was a positive expansion for me. I didnt pve. I only played pvp and I played pvp by myself, with no friends playing the game anymore. So I went outside Org and asked the first guy I duelled if he wanted to add me and vice versa since I needed someone to play 2s with. We played tons and tons of 2s. I still have this non-real life friend on bnet and talk to him sometimes.
Im not good at the game, never have been, I guess I wont ever be. But I want to enjoy the game. I loved the game just as much as I loved anything.
Didnt really like Legion. Not BFA. Not Shadowlands. Not DF. Now TWW. Improvements absolutely, so ive heard, so I imagine etc etc. But I dont find it fun. The game world feels dull, grey and boring. Not alive. Not because there wouldnt be players around. But I get the feeling people in general just arent liking the game that much either. But maybe thats projecting. Although how could I know? No one talks to eachother pretty much.
When I enter wow again now, every time, from a hiatus - I just stare at my characters on the character screen. I used to log on to any and every character all the time, switching, to do whatever and my friends would say “play ONE character and get good at that instead”. Now I almost cant find the strength to log on to any of them without it feeling forced.
This isnt exactly constructive feedback, nor was it meant to be. I just need someone, who at least represents Blizzard to some degree, to read what my experience have been. I dont want to paint a captivating story or anything, I just need to write this to balance things out in my head vs. the universe outside of it.
THANK you for making the game that I loved as much as I could love anything. Actually and really. I will never forget about Arthas for example. On my deathbed ill still probably be able to remember stuff about wow.
But I wanted to play wow for longer than this, and im very, very, very sad about it.
Take care.
