It's been some months since I quit playing wow. About 3 I guess. I am glad I finally quit. It didn't happen at all the way I thought it would. I thought that I would have to end up forcing myself to quit...since I had played 3 years straight nearly every single day (sometimes several hours a day). In fact it was the game in itself that eventually turned me off.
I was very excited for the WOTLK expansion...waited in line at a midnight sale...got it, took it home...played all that night into the next day...and that was the start of the decline. Over the next week I played a bit here and there...but every time I did I found myself more and more disappointed in the new class, the new lvl cap...it was the same old stuff. They just seemed to be selling me everything I didn't really want. I didn't want a new class, or a new lvl cap so everyone could race to 80 to get all the best gear. I wanted the old wow back...the 60 cap...ya know...when everyone was 40 and hardly anyone was 60. When guilds had scouts to wait for dragon pops that would start world pvp between rival faction guilds. When you very rarely saw an epic lock mount.
But that's probably just me. I do love the game, but the romance for me is gone. All I have now is the nostalgia of lvling my first char...being lvl 20 and trying to run through Felwood on my way to Moonglade...and wondering if that ?? bear and wolf was an npc or a player...being a warrior and wearing all leather gear cuz I thought it looked cool. Ahh those were the days.
Or maybe I quit playing because someone hacked my account and stole my 70 Rogue, 70 lock, 68 warrior, 55 priest, 55 mage, 48 hunter, 48 shammy, 48 druid, 30 pally and when I reported it Blizzard permanently disabled the account because it had been compromised.
That is all true but the later happened after I had quit for a few months and I didn't discover it until I had gone back to play...so it pretty much ruined me for future playing. I don't think I have the time or energy to start over.
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