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After 15 years, it is finally time for me to leave World of Warcraft. As a long time player, I feel that the game has changed so much over the years. And unfortunately, the game has clearly changed for the worse. This video is a story about my journey, and why I decided to quit after so many years.
With New World, FFXIV, Ashes of Creation, and Lost Ark around the corner, I believe there no better time as MMO player to begin exploring new adventures. I know some of you enjoy my World of Warcraft content, so I will still post relevant WoW related videos from time to time. But, until Blizzard begins making serious change; I will not be returning.
For a long time, I feel that I have hampered my channel’s growth. I pour my heart and soul into some of these videos, but sadly, I feel that my attention is best served elsewhere. I know this may be somewhat of a disappointment, but I have to stand for what I believe is right. And at this point, continuing to support Blizzard just feels wrong. Thank you all so much for everything. If this is the last time I hear from you, I greatly appreciated our time together. Who knows, maybe I will return someday. But for now, stepping away feels like my only option.
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Just want to thank everyone so much for all of the support. For me, this was an extremely difficult personal decision. I have such a large attachment to this game. However, I don't think WoW is changing anytime soon. And I can't imagine spending another year of my life talking at what feels like a wall. If Blizzard begins making serious change in how the game is played, maybe I will return. I am not signing a blood contract by making this video LOL. But I can't continue recommending the game in it's current state. In the meantime, I'm looking forward to testing out other MMOs that might be interesting to you all. Also for those of you wondering, SoloQue is our guild name lol. Again thank you all so much; and if you want to follow me outside of YouTube, you can find me here:
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Dude honestly what WoW has become the last few years had ruined pvp for me in most games that have pve content. I don’t even want to bother because I’m so jaded about balance.
Good luck finding your new game Stoopzz. I’m working on FFXIV, New World, and hopefully Lost Ark as well. 🙂
ppl the talent that made the game U came to love is long gone.. al thats left is a mascarade, it wont be back cuz there is no heart to it, its been takenn over by suits that literally want to profit off of once elite's club this community used to be. Is over, relax
I'll check your vids out on lost ark. That's the best mmo since ESO in my opinion. Not very interested in FF and New World pvp isn't as souls like as they gave off so I'm not into it as much. Lost Ark man. Good luck whatever you do though.
As someone who has loved and left games, I genuinely hope you find happiness and success elsewhere!
I quit today after 13 years. 6 accounts, about 80 toons. Masses of fun leveling in world PVE. I'm a healing specialist and so, the stupid healing mechanics today are…….I don't even know what they are. I tried Shadowlands and it felt like a bad Rift xpac, with too much extraneous crap. So I quit that months ago.
My 3 greatest memories :
1. Healing on Iron Juggernaut, right on the edge, even when we got our CD's lined up.
2. 15 seconds of the most improbable unrated Warsong Gulch. We were in the last minute of the run, down by 1, I knew I had to single-handedly do this and it had NO chance of working 1 on 4……AND IT WORKED, WE WON !
3. 100+ consecutive wins for my alliance Holydin on unrated Isle of Conquest.
Remember when WoW Anniversary gifts were a polar bear cub, or the Tiger Mount ? Today you get an xp boost you don't need and some crafting mats. As a friend said to me yesterday, when we talked about this, she said "Those people are long gone from WoW. Whoever runs WoW now just doesn't care.
Even watching CDEW doesn't interest me anymore.
I'm not going away mad. I'm just going away. Almost in tears at what I'm giving up, what I once had. I'll leave you with the greatest thing to arrive in WoW in the last 5 years (except for the appearance of Kul'Tiran druids) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td0pUwrBWjc
3:43 LMAO
if you're gonna focus your stream on pvp, i do not recommend playing ff14. but pve-wise, ff14 is epic!
Lost Ark streams have been mega, the stronk chin is smiling. All good things come to an end and new windows open.
Play classic
see this was exactly my feeling a few years ago when i quit…or should i say banned for 6 months at a clip over n over……the game become such a chore..with dailies and all the dumb bs…..after doing 10 plus years of the same stuff over n over n over n over..i started to hate the game that i loved….i still loved gaming with my crew and raiding 3 times a week…looked forward to it every week those nights we spent progressing/gearing up was so much fun..and i met some awesome people…and at that point is was basically the only thing i enjoyed…so i started to use a bot to do my dailies and other bs that i DID NOT want to do anymore…after 10 years or more i was done with the chores….after a year of so of doing that..and just able to enjoy raiding i was back in love with wow tbh……then they started super ban hammering all bots no matter what it was for..i tried to get back into it doing it all by hand and just couldnt…as this video said…i was spending 80% of my time doin stuff i dread and i didnt want to do …it was more of a chore i forced myself to do then enjoying it and wanting to do it…at that time the main stays of my guild etc all quit…..sucks wow turned to this…i have great memories of this game….the insane time lost proto drake camps 3 of us did for like 4 weeks straight so all 3 of us had it…same with that mount in deep holm etc….i doubt this game will ever bounce back but ill always have found memories of some great times and great people i met playin this game… i still think time to time maybe i should jump on and try again…but i see the game has actually gotten worse….rip wow..ull always be in my heart
To be fair if all the stuff thats come out in the last few months is true blizz was in so shape to be putting out more raids/more dungeons/more meaningful content and probably relilied pretty heavily on the player power progression systems to keep people busy while they scrambled to make stuff work behind the scenes
Hey uhhh, Jamie? Can you pull up The definition of bandwagons? Thanks Jamie.
YES, finally someone else is saying it. I quit in WoD and came back because i missed the pvp but all the Borrowed Power systems were a Shock. for several expansions they talked about leveling the playing field for pvp but now there is shit tons of disparity with gear and how much of the pve content you have done. The game feels like a slog now.
You will be back. Bet your life on it this guy will play wow again.
Check out swtor man! So underrated.
Offensive to pvers and you tell me all your damn life which is soooo interesting to me. How could I dislike this piece of crap? 🙃
Once BFA came out and I found myself unable to justify continuing playing… I still kept playing. Then the Blitzchung thing happened and I lost all will to continue. Every time I logged in I kept having this awful feeling in my gut. Now every time I even think about playing again I get that feeling. Good job, Blizz-Activision.
I totally agree with you @Stoopzz_TV WoW is not as it was back in like Cata or Pandaria, or heck even WoD. The game many of us liked back then is over, now they want to squeeze every single Dollar or Euro ( or whatever currency peoples use ) to make crappier chores of borrowed power systems and make us loose interest even more. To be honest if WoW would die by tomorrow, i not would feel depressed. If i could say, if Activision/Blizzard want to have better income, frankly would be better just make CGI Animation series of WoW from the Start till they not have any more ideas. Think about it if we could see Warcraft 1-2-3 and WoW full History in CGI series. I would love it, idk if i could say this for others too but i definitely want such thing to happen. Anyhow wish you the best in your left wherever it should lead you.
You said it friend, you are no longer part of the target audience, I know is hard as hard as realizing you are no longer a hardcore player, I suffered the same recently, shifts in my life made me a casual gamer and now even if I love the MMORPGs I am unable to play them and enjoy it, there are so many walls in progression in mmos and grind walls that is impossible to me to get to see the actual content and only feels as you said like doing chores and is not fun anymore for me.
MMO Games might be still fun but is fun for the new target audiences.
I apreciate to see this kind of opinions, helps me realize that I dont have to stick to a game that no longer makes me happy, no matter if the game has been a long part of my life or the way to interact with my friends, If you are no longer happy with something and you cant do a thing about it then is better too move and look for something that fills your heart.
Thanks friend and have a great journey wherever you decide to go.
Thanks for sharing your story Stoopzz, I just recently found your channel while looking at Lost Ark content. I wish your channel good luck moving on to greener pastures, I for one will be watching all your Lost Ark coverage.
Perfectly said!
Hype. Looking forward to starting Lostark with you in a few more days!
Gonna miss your content brother. Hope you continue to make videos!
As a PVE player, I totally agreed your comments. We are wasting 80% of time in the game, just because we want to enjoy that 20% of time.
i come back here whenever i get the urge to resub. thanks for everything stoopz and for getting me hooked on Lost Ark. Im f2p currently but idk how long that will last! lol
Awwww Stoopzz! <3 <3
I quit wow as well in shadowlands after playing since classic, Wow was an amazing game but I felt like I had finally outgrown mmos and the grinds. I still get a bit nostalgic thinking about WoW and all the time I spent there.
you should try wow classic
love ur vids stoopz!
Osrs is were it's at brother, us players get a vote on the updates and new things added into the game. if you can see past the not so fancy looks of the game it really is the best game I've played in my life. HIGHLY RECOMMEND
Pvp was shit since wotlk
Pvp isnt exciting because its badly designed
Its impossoble to fix. They would have to act against the remaining dogshit playerbaseto attract gamers back in ( yes current playerbase isnt gamers, its casuals)
Class menus are in no way different than conduits and the rest of it. These are ok to have but they are not much of a content.
1 year later he be back :p
Nice vid bro! RIP to your father and shoutout to your mum for putting up the 15$ back in the day. Hope to see you back for classic hardcore if they decide to launch such a project on official blizz realms sometime.
Loved the journey you had and glad you got your life back together. I have to say I never supported your views and to this day I still think you are one of the creators who pushed WoW to go in the wrong direction by pushing Welfare Gladiator. Were there other rewards that could be placed for PvPers? Yes, but this push for all inclusivity and other easy game mechanics has lead to the state of the game right now. Legion was had its issues but it was the best time for PvP in a long time and listening to all these creators they made some terrible choices for BFA. Not a fan of you but appreciate you making content so people play WoW
well guess this video title didnt age well as he reached back to the needle