I had just recently quit wow, cause you have somewhat of a awakening at some point in the game. First thing that really brought down the appeal was the addition of patch 3.2 The game had now at this point become more open to gamers who may have been horrible in the raiding field, horrible in the pvp field, yet now it allows them to come and get last patch's end game gear with the ease of heroics. Granted, this is a stroke of genious on blizzards part, cause really, before this only about 5-8% of the WoW community was doing end game raid content, due to the difficulty of it. But, on the other end, allows the fact that punk ass kids who can now get the end game gear, get their 'ego stroked' and feel the need to talk even more crap then before, and making trade chat somewhat unbearable about 80% of the time. Second thing that made me quit wow, and this is after years of playing, been there since the beta, launch, even had the ashbringer on my lvl 60 paladin from vanilla wow's naxx, is that i think the game is dying. I truly think that even though on top, blizzard is getting desperate for ideas, and content to open up a wider audience to the game. Lets face it, the graphics aren't that great, the appeal is there, but nothing like it was years ago, and personally, leveling a toon used to take somewhat of a long, drawn out process of constant questing. Now blizzard has made leveling so ridiculous that i don't understand the point of quest for the most part. A battleground weekend can gain you 20+ lvls just from winning or losing, the expeirience is insane, which leads to making people hit 80 more often. But i think overall what killed it for me, gear score. Great addon, great way to judge people on the their ability to do the raid that is in suggestion, but takes away from the 'friends' aspect of it. I miss the days when you would level with someone, get up to the end game areas, and get to know more people and get a group together for ZG or MC, you had to know peoples playing ability and get to know them through vent or their ability to understand a raid, now its a 'number' that defines you, not what you used to be able to do in the past, but just a number. Does this mean this person will win a roll on a item and log? Who knows, the number said they should be okay to do the raid? So why does it matter? A lot people i knew from the past had stopped playing WoW and have got on with their lives, i gave WotLK a try, and was very very disappointed in this expansion. Some raid encounters where cool, but honestly, nothing like it was in the past. So really leaving wow is a decision we all have to make sometime, for until there is something that comes out to knock blizzard on their ass, they will never slow down, and if your a fan from the past WoW, don't expect this game to ever retain what it used to have, the days of old are dead, and to me, so is WoW.
I never liked MMORPG's for the simple fact that I do not wish to play a monthly premium to play a game. I rather pay for it once (and once for each expansion pack, etc.) and play it however long I want.
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