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This happens to me very often. I find asking myself why I'm even playing this game when can do so many different things with my time. *Playing WoW since 2006.
This video is the TL, DR of why I stopped playing WoW in the end of 2021. Been playing GW2, SC2, D4, among others…
I feel you man. The game’s no longer enjoyable, but before real life responsibilities catch up to me, I’m gonna give Dragonflight all I got even though I find it disappointing.
Diablo 4
It’s because people feel empty after the dopamine tolerance causes the game to feel boring and they realize that they’ve spent thousands of hours racking up meaningless accomplishments. At least that’s what happened to me when I finally quit, and realized no other game was going to be able to fill that void of my life.
Dude I have not felt like being on my – is anyone else like this? Like the past like two months man I dont wanna be on my computer ever. Like Im so over the computer.
Are people seriously taking the erobb copy pasta seriously LOL
had several friends who were like this too. they paid for WoW, played it and then complained about how shitty it was and how they don't even feel like playing at times. i was always like: wtf why play it there's so many other amazing games
it is kinda creepy how good the psychological manipulation in such games works
“I’m not enjoying my game, what do I do?”
Stop being a skiller and leave the homo clan. They’re not friends. They hate you and love their superiority complex.
Ps, the first skiller was a bit, collecting junk for their main.
i left wow 5 years ago and honestly it was the best thing. i came back to it recently and its just total fugging garbage now. tanks and healers dont fugging do their jobs at all. they just rush and dps and doing so makes everyone wipe and have to take even longer in a place where no one wants to be.
your raid team will find someone else if they're a big enough guild otherwise sure it sucks but to keep spending money on something that doesn't give you joy isn't exactly healthy lol.
not to mention 5 years ago i had more time to play. it was still pretty much living with my parents so i could play games, but now i have a fiance, im renting a house, i have 6 dogs. i just have too much to do to really play anymore. i mean we were raiding the other day and 5 people were complaining about "ugh i have 23 alts i need to raid lets get this done already! how does no one know this fight! its been out for weeks!" and im just sitting there not saying anything and just thinking "yeah well someone of us are adults and have lives now and can't just sit around and level alts and watch vids on how to do the fights" lol.
i mostly play games now that dont require others to depend on me since ya know, i have a house to take care of and dogs while the fiance works 12 hours a day 6 days a damn week.
all that being said after i left, i really didn't miss it. not until years later anyways and what i missed was already gone from the game. they did bring back classic but they're already making that pay to win so im sure they'll ruin it further to where people wont wanna play that either anymore.
games have been making me bored lately though, new games suck so all i do is play older games and ive played through a lot of em in my 34 years and its getting old but at the same time i dont really know what else i'd do for a hobby. reading sure or movies and tv but thats not enough really. also reading takes time and when you have shet to do thats best left for a bed time thing.
MMOs that force people to communicate can be a bliss for people who like to socialize.
The problem with MMOs where you're surrounded by people who don't want to talk a lot is that in your attempt to try and talk to people you'll find yourself talking to a wall more often than not.
Even if you find yourself a good guild that fits your needs you'll be isolated within that group.
It's the reason why I've quit most MMOs I've played long before end game.
There was an MMO called Age of Wushu which was almost all about communication and diplomacy back in the day and man did it hit the right spot even though the gameplay loop wasn't too good.
Unfortunately it's pretty much dead nowadays and the devs are murdering it bit by bit outside of China.
i played diablo 4
for about 12hours
not played it since cos its shit
I was pretty hardcore D&D player with weekly 4 – 5 hour sessions. After a handful of years I was not having fun anymore. The problem is and with my personality type is that I said to my group that I was going to have a break and be back in a few months or something but in the end, I never came back and mostly cut off ties with them.
Sad really. I saw a thing by Healthygamergg and he said it is a trait of certain personality type, we that guy who will have a really intense amazing connection with you or someone for like a year or something and you will become really good friends then they we will just dissappear lol
Ogre
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While I agree that servers and development cost money, the sub model doesn't make many people feel good about it. While it may be close to nothing for people in US, here in mid-EU and east-EU countries it's often 4x to 8x more compared to our avg-salaries, compared those to western EU and US avg-salaries. Combine it with the grind and more people will rather turn to classic pay-once-to-play or free-to-play models like League, Valorant, CS and whatnot. I know many people IRL who would tell me that they think WoW is fine, however they don't wanna pay this much money for it and it also makes them feel forced to not quit even if they wanna take a break – also combine that with 6-month subs and a new patch once a few months that will never come back.
I can't believe he started the video with an erobb copypasta I was not expecting that one bit
That is the problem with wow, there are 5000 achievements in the game, but only 200 of them are actually attributed to stuff that would be enjoyable doing if it wasn’t for the achievement. You know this Daily quest you did in an expansion and the only point of it was to get rep to unlock flying eventually, Well if you want to be a completist, you did that quest 17 times so if you want to get the achievement then go do that quest 200 more times just cause. That is what deterred me from completing stuff in wow, it’s very poor made, and the only goal is to make a time sink for your monthly sub.
Josh you hit the nail on the head with this one. I've caught myself forcing myself to play a game when I wasn't enjoying it. Especially as I'm an older gentleman now, I'm trying to ensure the little time/energy I do have to play a game is spent on something I'm having fun with.
i got bored of games so i started learning how to make ones i like…lol
That's a funny looking wow mod. Thanks youtube.
All I play wow for is looking cool, it's my sole motivator.
Wow needs to be F2P. No sub fee. It's not worth 15 a month or 300k+ gold.
Can confirm he is a filthy reddit user… he's replied to my filthy reddit user posts
There's so much to this. For one, MMOs were sorta the first game that felt like you could 'play forever', so expectations come into it as well as 'what you have built' (all aspects) during your playtime. Prior to MMOs all games ended or you popped on for some fast paced fun (like FPS, which ends over and over and over…), for the most part. A game like Baldur's gate I and II might make you feel a little sad that it was over, but they always ended. An MMO may never end, becomes a lifestyle. It sits differently inside the brain. This is both great, since it can feel more epic, but also has many drawbacks. Other games have been pushing into this kind of 'feeling/expectations' but nothing can capture it the same as a virtual world. How and why is hours of discussion on human nature. Unfortunately, should never 'buy in' 110%, since all games eventually 'get old'.
Design a game where ppl have to talk to ppl…..lotro…. Less than 100 views on twitch primetime every day
i actually never hunted achievements nor cared for them.
I may be making a false equivalency here, since you do touch on games "not being a job", but please humor me.
If a person has worked in a profession they enjoy for 18 years, then suddenly they feel this gnawing emotion in the back of their mind of "I do not enjoy this any more", and they confide this feeling in a friend outside the profession. That friend giving the advice of "Just quit!" doesn't really pluck the right strings with me.
Again, I get it, a job pays bills and is a necessity for virtually 99% of people. I get it. It is a profession, not a game.
And yes, many times the simplest solutions are the best, barring that "behave your way to success" is also good.
However, we're talking about people who have grown up with something and gone on many, many, MANY adventures with often hundreds, if not up to millions of other players. They've spent a lot of money as well. It is a game, but in much the same way you grow attached to pets, cars, etc. It's disingenuous to tell the person it's just a game. There IS something a bit more substantial when it comes to WoW than it "just being a game". It does warrant a special case of attention. While I think you are correct in saying that you should not lose perspective on things, it's a bit too draconian to say just drop something you've gotten thousands of hours placed into because the game has already gone above and beyond the typical crummy B- Gamestop Game.
one of my friend is an achievement hunter for sure. Plat's whole games even if they're shit.
I’ve been suffering from this phenomenon for a while. Have tried to quit Destiny 2 for ages but the FOMO I get from the season passes always drags me back in. I’ve gotten better at playing games I actually like but Destiny has been that one thorn in my side for about a year now.
Well said
wow sux lmao
ah yes tell the person with an addiction to "just quit lol"
I quitted wow since all the scandals and went to FFXIV. I think that game is superior. And i told my wow guild, that happen to be my friends too. They did not follow me, but i am still part of the chat and the discord, and we still share experiances and memes of both games. If you play with friends, they will undestand. If not, you dont have to feel guilty for putting your happiness first.
I can't treat every addiction in this manner, but the only way I was able to quit WoW and stop playing faithfully was by these two things:
– Find a substitute to rediscover and relearn that will hold your attention
– Forcibly stop yourself from playing WoW. Just drop it, leave it. Don't even boot it up.
That's how I was able to quit: I discovered I didn't need WoW like I used to, I'm not as desired as I thought in teams, and WoW sure as hell doesn't want me anymore.
Quitting WoW for good was one of the best things I have ever done. Once I started playing other games, I was blown away at how good they were. WoW is so far behind the curve and I'll never play it again.
I once felt empty and without motivation once I got into the capital in Elden Ring. I then did a break for two weeks and I started loving it again.
i took a break from classic wow, got kicked from the guild discord and kicked from the ingame guild.
【Shades Finnish Pirates】Smooth video, sipping beverage and throwing wisdom at our ape faces 🙂 Or atleast widsom for this Ape
The title and the loot are all that matters man… oh and of course the mount collection.
Dude this is me with runescape lately. I literally sign on just to do something with my friends, the game is not entertaining anymore. Thinking of getting back into XIV for a change of pace.
It's very weird how the phenomenon can happen where a game goes from being something you enjoy and want to do, to something that feels like a job that you have to do. I've experienced it with multiple games across multiple genres, it's not just an MMO thing.
And I agree with Josh here, when that happens, find something else to do. Play another game, watch a movie or catch up on a show (or start a new show), go outside, go visit your friends and/or family. It's YOUR leisure time and you only get so much of it. If you're guild mates can't understand that you're feeling burnt out and not into it right now, then they're not your friends.
Life is for living, not for mindless grinding that you don't even want to do. Live it.
Worst achievements in any MMORPG : "Kill 10.000 of Creature X"
For some its gameplay for others its the lore
The rts warcraft lore is what brought me to the game but its world of Warcraft lore that made me quit
World of warcraft has FOMO like most modern games. I don't need the 1800 elite sets, I don't need the KSM, I don't need 2100 wep illusion. But I want it because it's FOMO. I hate FOMO it makes it unenjoyable for me. It's manipulation
I don't think "I'm not enjoying myself what do I do" means they're asking what do they do about that situation. They mean "I'm not enjoying my game, what can I do to go back to enjoying my game that doesn't take too long?
i'm guilty of that achievement hunting in wow