I don’t have much to say about WoW to be honest right now. I know all the quests by heart, I’ve raided all the content in the game even if it was not current and even tough I haven’t downed the Lich King I’ve seen enough of him to be satisfied. My main is more than geared enough to take on anything and I’ve done most of what I want to do in the game.
Sure, there’s our guild Walk the Plank that I still plan on getting back into raiding come Cataclysm but right now it’s not very exciting. If I was to put a raid up on Sunday for example I don’t know if we would be getting more than 3 or 4 people. Raiding with 6 pugs isn’t exactly super fun to lead but thankfully I’ve had Kaozz, her husband and a friend of theirs to make things awesome. That’s pretty much the only thing that would really motivate me to log in and even then, how long would that last?
So I’m wondering. Have I come to the end of the road? To the point where I’ve completed WoW and I’m truly done with it? Should I do like other games I’ve loved in the past, put in on a shelf and dust it off once in a while to take it out for a spin and reminisce about the good ol’ days? I mean, WoW is not eternal and neither should my playing it. Numerous times in the past I’ve stopped playing but this is actually the first time I’m wondering if I’m simply done with it. I mean that I still have friends playing and it’s fun to play with them but in between those days… I have zero motivation to log in. If I do I sit around for 10 minutes, watching the pugs shout out invites in trade and not really feeling up to spend any amount of time in a raid.
I simply feel like I have nothing left to do. This isn’t even burnout, just a plain “been there, done that” feeling.
I’m giving this a week to see how things go… but somehow I feel like this might be it until Cataclysm at least.
PS: I know about the new Troll and Gnome quests but these are over so fast.
Hmm tough call. From experience id hold off from saying ‘im done’ but rather take a break (with no attached timescale) from it and do other things. Now whether thats other mmos, reading books etc is up to you. One thing i will say from being in beta is cataclysm doesnt look like its gonna disappoint…… More so if your starting a new toon. Blizz have been very very busy.
You could break until Cataclysm, I’m sure you’ll want to check it out at some point. Cataclysm looks great but it’s only another 5 levels (I love questing) and then back to raiding.
If not, try something new. It seems STO looks like it is holding your interest. Or try something you’ve never tried. I have the most fun doing that, I’m running out of games I’ve never tried and back to the beginning again heh- Everquest.
You feel what we were feeling with the ‘been there done that’ feeling, it just wasn’t fun to log in and do the same things over and over with no change of pace or scenery.
I don’t say that I quit games anymore, I merely take long breaks!
I know this feeling very well and I found a cure too – I looked into a few other MMOs, some free ones as much as subs-based ones. After several weeks of wading in that half-finished, badly designed or plain boring and mindnumbingly frustrating swamp of games, I am starting to REALLY look forward to cataclysm…..as often as I see wow failing, I can’t seem to find a half-decent alternative and I really like MMOs.
so by all means give it time hehe…and I agree very much with kaozz, no need to say ‘I quit’, take a break and maybe you’ll be back. funny enough I found I had the most to say and blog about wow after I took my time off.
p.s. I like your blog’s name, vaguely familiar! 😛
Lol! Agree about the blog name. I’m pretty much the same right now. It’s not that WoW is bad in itself I just ran out of content so I’m trying new things. My account still active and I do plan to keep doing events and the occasional raid but like Kaozz said a break or at least very reduced play won’t hurt. STO is a nice break right now but I dont see it becoming a main MMO.
PS: Love you blog name too! 😛
Just a short notice that I took the liberty to link back to your article in my current blogpost – http://raging-monkeys.blogspot.com/2010/09/good-bad-and-ugly-or-fastest-way-to.html
Regards! =)