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Originally Posted by choklo
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Eventually you have to get off the treadmill. Work, a spouse, kids, friends, other interests, become more important than a video game. After you have spent hundreds of hours getting the best gear and spells, the next expansion starts the cycle over again. Eventually you get tired of the endless cycles of loot inflation(mudflation) and other things become more important.
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I feel like I need to address this entire point, in regards to wow. The biggest reason I quit wow is because since halfway through wotlk(the downfall) two things happened: cross server instances, and patch gear resets. By a reset I mean every time a new raid patch comes out they basically have an easier raid instance than the ones you just did on heroic mode that hand out better gear. The point of this is so that everyone keeps moving forward and no one gets left behind.
Basically on wow right now EVERYONE gets gear. This sucks. It sucks because it makes you feel like there's no point playing. I only played for the raids anyhow, but the whole pushing people along so they can do more content feels too artificial once you realize whats going on. Wow was decent till halfway through wotlk. When gear reset every expansion and instances werent cross server, it was fine. Current game is unplayable becasue there's no server community and no meaningful reward for doing anything.
To address initial point, wow was popular simply because it was easy to "keep playing". The gameplay is hard, but the game is set up so that it's impossible to quit to frustration. I subbed to wow 6 years, played eq on and off for much short months. Still loved eq more though. Wow was less addicting(and less special) but set up so that there was no reason to want to quit.