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[Amakua]

/rant

I think WoW did become a second job.  Here's why.

In order to get geared up, you had to run some instances over and over and over to get enough badges to get something.  In order to run instances, if you weren't working, sleeping or eating you were playing WoW.  After that there were raids to go on.  Now Projectx was great in that 1) you weren't required to do any raids and 2) there wasn't a raid every night.  You could do something else.

However if you were a raider, you had to run more heroic instances for more badges to get that extra thing to squeeze a few more DPS out.  Or you had to spend hours and hours farming something to make a new piece of gear that would help you out on this one particular encounter because instead of +googlymoogly you needed +pancakes.

Now yes you can pug a lot of stuff which is great if you're into that.  Personally joining some pug raid just to listen to a few people bitch and moan about this or that ruined the whole experience for me.  So I wouldn't pug.  I couldn't commit to any raid times.  So.....what was left?  Do a bunch of dailies and play the game within the game that is the AH or just work on profs.  That got boring not to mention time consuming.

I guess I'm just a different type of player.  I liked just logging in and screwing around for a bit, maybe running a BG.  I remember back in the vanilla days being excited about getting that one hard to find pattern, or killing a certain type of mob hoping the formula for some flask would drop that would greatly help the guild in whatever raid they were doing.  What Blizzard turned WoW into was an orgy of content that no reasonable human being could ever hope to see all of.  If you didn't have the latest tier 4325023 gear, then other people would dump on you for that.  (No not in Projectx, but I got a lot of stupid tells like "gear up your mage noob")  There's dailies and rep grinds and goofy events that you gotta do now because it's only this one time and you might never see it again.  You gotta have the badges to get this but first you need rep over here and then you gotta cap this and color that and do a headstand while talking backwards during a full moon in Calcutta.

Basically, I like my games to be an escape, not something I need spreadsheets and forums and a freakin' math degree to figure out how to get the most out of my character.

Acutally it's not that bad.  I will admit that the encounters are somewhat recycled.  As Lis mention... stand in this or don't stand in this, that part of the it is boring.

To gear up my second raiding toon, it took me playing 8 days for about 2-3hrs a night and I was able to get the triumph badge gear.  I mean what else am I going to do, watch desperate house wives or some other stuff on tv???  That's just me though...
I play on 2 different servers and 2 different faction... my time is just to login to raid, clear the content in 2-3 hours and I'm done. 

But now I have the xbox, been getting into and I just log into WoW 2 nights a week to raid.  Just because it the content is easy and quick.

[Xaren]

I guess it all comes down to what you want out of the game.  if the game doesn't provide it for you, then your smart to let it go. 

Fortunately for all of us, TR and Lis continue to provide this forum, so leaving the game, or transferring servers, or changing guilds doesn't mean leaving behind all the awesome people we've met along the way. 

[Jay]

I guess it all comes down to what you want out of the game.  if the game doesn't provide it for you, then your smart to let it go. 

Fortunately for all of us, TR and Lis continue to provide this forum, so leaving the game, or transferring servers, or changing guilds doesn't mean leaving behind all the awesome people we've met along the way. 

+1

I may fall into the category of the old curmudgeon who remembers the early days of WoW and now I dislike all the new stuff the kids have these days.

[Xaren]

the real question is can you resist when the next expansion comes out, and the whole world has changed, and there are so many new things to explore and find.

I know most of my guild is going to abandon their 80's for awhile and reroll goblins, tauren pallys, troll druids, undead hunters...  it will be a whole new game for us for awhile.  Heck, we even set up a guild on another server for our new worgen toons, just to try them out.

[Amakua]

the real question is can you resist when the next expansion comes out, and the whole world has changed, and there are so many new things to explore and find.

I know most of my guild is going to abandon their 80's for awhile and reroll goblins, tauren pallys, troll druids, undead hunters...  it will be a whole new game for us for awhile.  Heck, we even set up a guild on another server for our new worgen toons, just to try them out.

I will be done with WoW probably within a month time.  Once I can clear the final wing of ICC, it's over for me.

[Magicdealer]

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there are a lot of good alternative choices

I've been WoW-free for a while now. And what have I done?

Not much.

I went back to an old, old game, The Realm Online, because I couldn't find another game that I enjoyed playing.

Recently, I found my *also very old* Guild Wars cd's and pestered their support folks until I got my old account info sent to me. Been playing that a bit lately. Actually, I'm lucky that I've been so busy lately. Only having 4-6 hours a week free to play really stretches out the interest factor lol

I'd play wow again, but for a few reasons. First, my wife hated how much time I spent on the game, and I think she'd make life very unpleasant for me.
Second, I've run the starting areas out of content way too often. I had too many high level characters, and while it would be neat to play a goblin, I feel fatigued just thinking of leveling him up.
Third, my time isn't consecutive, so I couldn't even raid. I'd just pop on for a few minutes *probably while doing homeword* and disappear. The realm only costs me seven bucks a month to do that :p

But I dunno if I can wait another year seriously without hanging out with everyone

I'm seeing a march-june 2011 release date for SWTOR

*starts grinding teeth*

[Mallebull]

Glad everyone is doing OK.  It's nice to check in now and again.

I'm also done with WoW, just not enough time these days, although things are much better then they were mid~late 2009.  There's also not much left to do in WoW in a few hours per day besides Raid.  Heroics are just too easy at this point to be fun.  Since you get badges from Heroics you can get geared quickly--but then what?  I may return in Catacysm when there are some brand new challenges who knows.  .  Worgen Druid does look fun.

I'm currently playing some of the free-to-play online games such as League of Legends http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ and Battlefield Heroes.  Pretty fun, and well, free  .  Battlefield Heroes is about 10min games on average and LOL is 30 min, so it's not much of a time commitment.  Also playing some DS games and I should dig up my Gamecube sometime.

SWTOR is now 2011.  SCII just went Beta though, I'll definitely be doing that.