WoW feels like a job

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That’s an absolutely horrible comparison and you know it. Come on

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If WoW feels like a job, you need to stop playing it and take a break. As soon as it feels like a chore/or I’m not enjoying the game, I disappear and focus on IRL hobbies, and come back with a fresh perspective, and enjoy everything again in WoW I found unenjoyable.

You’re burnt out. Playing and doing anything for hours a day will make you feel like it’s a chore.

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what you described is not human nature.

you described greed.

rich people rarely do stuff for more money . its more of stuff you do to get more power and investment is fun in itself. money usualy comes as byproduct.

you mistake human nature with absolute lack of any restriant.

its telling that you are comparing it to addiction. because what you think about is indeed gaming addiction .

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i mean - again - you are showing lack of any restraint.

normal people who eat at buffet dont stuff themselves with food like pigs. they eat what they enjoy in moderate amount.

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Most people are overweight… So…

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But according to complains it’s not an all inclusive buffet. It’s more like you can get an apple for free, and elite seafood for 10 stick strokes. Someone tells I’m pretty fine with the apple, it keeps me healty and relieve the hunger. And you keep arguing, no, you should take 10 stick strokes, because seafood has more value, because it’s people nature to suffer to get something they don’t really need. This is unhealthy dude.

With WoW it become even more absurd. People playing games for fun and joy, but for some reason they keep doing stuff which keeps them frustrated and angry.

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and this is again depending on which people you surround yourself with . most of my friends and family are super healthy - my mother who is nearly 70 get very often comments about how 30 year old women are jealous of her figure . the whole secret is she eaths healthy and exercises. same my father in similair age has better form then a lot of 30 year olds. why ? because in winter he swims twice a week doing 2 km in swimming pool each time - and skis a lot - and in summer he rides bike a lot and hikes in mountains.

and guess what i do - i eat healthy and exercies - and you know what i will teach my kids ? to eat healthy and exercise .

if most of your friends eat healthy - then its much more likely that you will eat healthy too.

if you gonna surround yourself with toxic people in wow instead find a nice guild to play with you will encounter mostly toxicity .

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We are all WoW addicts, some of many years. Addiction comes in many forms, not just binging.
Its how the game is created, its called “intermittently reward system” and is used in all Casinos around the world. Its the most toxic addictive system developed by humans, to feed addiction.

  1. You create a random generator number for rewards
  2. Create desirable rewards based on vanity and elitism feeling
  3. Make them available to the wider audience
  4. Watch and enjoy how people: farm a mount since 9 years with 200 chars, spam M+ for that thing that doesnt drop, camp a mob for a mount/toy/xmog for hours in row, farm a Bow (second exp in row) with a ridiculous drop rate making all hunters beyond frustrated, do A B C in order to do X Y Z in order to access a mythic raid in order to have a chance at min/maxing

I encourage everyone to just google “intermittent reward system” and the implication it has on the human brain. Then come and tell me how we can be satisfied with LFR loot.
Yes, some people are stronger than others and it doesnt affect everyone in the same way, but it DOES affect the vast majority of players and thats why Blizzard is milking this cash cow paid by the same old players, for years.

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you gotta speak for yourself here. i have long weeks/months when i dont play wow at all. and then from time to time i have times when i play a lot.

you cannot say that every player is an addict - because most people have no problem with letting go of game once they achieve what they want.

you have milions of players who literaly never even touch m+ - and they play and take breaks. because this game is really vast and there is plenty of transmogs and mounts to farm and stuff to do when you dont chase of itlv and io.

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You understand wrong what addiction is then. I said it and you can research it as well, addiction =/ binging. I actually work with addiction and I know what I speak about, is my real life job

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I really enjoyed legion it got me into raiding mythic… eventually I realised that the last few bosses in a mythic tier are just not fun at all…300-500 wipes and resentment towards those who made it last that long… Highly competitive environments do not cultivate a healthy community. Its soo sad because it was when i joined the guild and we were progressing in normal then heroic that i was having the most fun… in mythic the banter died off and things became too serious.

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This is something blizzard will never be able to realize with ion being there.
He was working tirelessly on making this game more and more hardcore after legion, thus widening the gap between the players and I think he has finally succeeded with it.

All they achieve with these continuous difficulty increases in each expansion in effort to make the mdi at least somewhat interesting to watch, is cutting the existing playerbase in half every single time they do it.
And not only that but this time we are also respected with up scaled old content on the first patch of the expansion being sold as new. This is by far the most shameful iteration of wow surpassing even SL and its content droughts…

Maybe some later patch will provide a more fun experience, but this season I have not found a single enjoyable thing in this game apart from the view of the open world zones and the dragonflying.

Why is it I feel exactly alike when I think about it? Its horrifying to think into the fact that job and uni has recently became significantly more relaxing, livable and rewarding than wow… which is supposed to be a game?
Its really nothing like it used to be not long ago.

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Eh i dont thjnk the problem is difficulty causing burn out. I think its simply the unfun mechanics tied to them right.

This season has proven how toxic the affixs are, and most of the rage i see is to do with those affixs specifically.

Agreed, i find it weird by +5 mechanics are already 1 shotting you upon making a mistake. And not sure having the game be that punishing from a low keystone level is a good idea.

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No it isn’t, and it’s baffling to have people still not understand that not everyone has the same mentality they do in these games. Gear IS the goal for many people, it’s why they do content, it’s not a tool FOR doing the content.

I enjoy doing the raid once or twice, but I continue to do it for the gear if smooth clearing is an option, and same with M+ tho infinitely more frustrating.

Many people like gear, they like getting stronger and topping the meters and couldn’t care less about personal arbitrary goals. This is the exact reason I personally can’t play GW2 and similar games with no objective progress and with every goalpost being an imaginary fantasy, I don’t like playing games that way just like many others don’t either.

It’s not for nothing, it’s for making your character stronger which is a core principle of an RPG. You know what’s for nothing in my opinion? Setting random goals for yourself that mean nothing, but I realize that some people find that appealing so I’m not telling them how to play the game.

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U shoud play for fun, doing stuff u don’t like ofc it gets like a job.

If u don’t like mythic+ just don’t do it.

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