Why did YOU quit WoW?

[Kraftwerk]

Originally Posted by Shannacore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tried so hard to get all those damn coins!!1~~~

I have ~8500 acv points including every single one of those coins. God what did I do with my life.

[Reiker]

So, when I played WoW, I was pretty much always high off DXM. It was the perfect game because I could go level with a friend while neither of us knew wtf we were doing. Kinda goes to show how easy that game was. Ungoro was the standout zone. The dinosaurs were huge, and the Nintendo characters/crystal cave were trippy as hell.

The first time I raided TSS with my guild I was of course fucked up. I accidentally fall off a cliff and die in the water, and for whatever reason > half the raid jumps in after me. Fucking hilarious moment. And of course that giant fish thing flung me way out into the middle of nowhere and my guild made fun of me relentlessly for that. Way not enough reaction time to evade that.

[Ripcord]

Hardness debate is skewed here. The scripts for wow raids and bosses were much more complex then eq classic for mostly technical limitation reasons. But let's compare the difficulty of leveling to max level combined withthe pain of wiping on a raid in the first year of both games. Oh noes you lost a few gold and have to spend 15 min getting back and buffing up for the next attempt at whatever wow raid. Or, oh noes you opened that one door in ToV and killed everyone, costing the guild about 2 hours of travel/prep time and a few kpp for coffins peridots etc etc. Now that the technology is equal eq raids are fucking stupid hard the best guilds out there I think havent beaten the newest expantion yet. Anyone ever beat OMM from god expac? I think that was around the time of those wow raids you mentioned and that shit was redunky hard.

[Lucrio40]

Reck-bomb nerf.

[theblaz]

I go back to WoW every now and again.. (Cataclysm expansion upcoming), but the game is just too easy. While some of the quests were fun to do,... I did not like the nearly 100 % quest grind... (yea, I prefer mob grinding / eq style)

In WoW, gear was given to you. In EQ, you really did have to earn it (or buy it with hard earned coin)

I prefer the old WoW days when they still had elite mobs in outdoor zones, like outside of Zul'Farak, and near Shadowfang keep (shadow fang village?). I remember doing a quest to Shadowfang 'village?' where you had to infiltrate the town and grab a book from an upstairs building that was guarded by elites. That was a hard quest!... except that you could just run up there, die without much of a penalty, then run back to the corpse, pop up , take the book, die outside, and then rez outside of town and finish the quest. It was still fun to try and do the quest without 'cheating' so to speak. But.... they must have felt it was too hard so they took out the elites....

It was like over the years of WoW they took a poll of everything in the game that was remotely challenging or hard, and eliminated/replaced it. ;(

Expansions can help or kill a game as well. Wow expansions, while cool at first, trump the gear right off the bat from all the other expansions. There is no need to even have played much of the other content, just go straight to the new areas and you'll have the best gear there is (once you have the appropriate level to be there of course). They need to figure out a way to ensure playing each expansion is necessary in order to progress... I personally loved the EQ Planes of Power expansion. You had to get flagged to progress through the zones. When GoD expansion opened, you really couldn't just go straight to that content and expect to complete it without first acquiring some Time gear from the PoP expansion. It really felt like an achievement when you completed Time, and GoD... I have never really felt that level of achievement in WoW, or any other mmorpg game either.

Ok, this post was much much longer than I intended. Basically I think WoW is too easy like many others do. I hope someone can make another EQ type game in the future, but sadly I think that will never happen again... WoW style is what is 'in' and making the $$$, so other games are mimicking this 'quest grind' / casual style.

Blaz

[Swiftsong_Lorekeeper]

I do not remember what was out when i tried it but I know it was around 2007 ish. I quit at the end of the 14 day free trial. I hated the graphics, the ease of leveling pissed me off (as did the ease of leveling on PoP and later on EQ which is when I quit). I also hated the community on the server I played on. I couldn't talk to anyone because no one replied. The people that did reply were f'ing rude. What is the point of playing a game that is mainly focused on end game content? I personally cannot devote 100% or much less even 50% of my time playing a game. Everybody already had groups or knew WTF was going on and had no interest in people they didn't know. IMO WoW and really any established MMO sucks if you are trying to start playing once it has been out for a while. WoW lovers don't start flaming on me because I admit I might have liked it if I had started from the beginning, maybe. I had the same problem when I attempted to play EQ live again last year. I didn't know anybody anymore and attempted to restart playing my bard and my gear was way outdated and no guilds wanted me because I wasn't current with my gear so no point in playing.

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

only played a few months, wasn't a challenge.

[jyaku]

i technically haven't quit. i have found a decent free server much like these EQ ones, only most of the servers on the WoW list have stupidly high XP rates. it's nice to get away from the grind-fest of p1999 sometimes, not saying it's a bad thing but i need a change of leveling pace sometimes. i won't play on the live servers only because i hate the player base of 10-12 year olds saying they are hardcore gamers as their mother yells at them in the background to go to bed

[soup]

But yeah, the only thing I HATED about WoW vs. EQ was the economy. I love how in EQ you have these very high end items that can be traded around and you have some items that don't drop anymore and prenerf items and all that kind of stuff, whereas in WoW it's just like "Equip item and it's attached to you forever." Made loot and trading seem a lot less interesting to me.

[Humerox]

I played WoW for some time, after I quit EQ in 2006.

It just seemed too easy. I beta-tested VG when it came around, having been a follower of it several years before then. I actually liked it until they went off in a WoW-like direction. I've always been a huge fan of Brad's...I hope he does something again in the future. Something where he doesn't have some corporation breathing down his neck and stifling his creativeness.

WoW is OK for some people. Cheers to them. EQ was the most ground-breaking game ever, and still hasn't lost its appeal...while it may not appeal to the masses, it certainly appeals to all of us, or we wouldn't be here.

Cheers to the devs, again. And thank you.