The 'I Quit WoW' Post

This post is titled so that I can find it later if I need to.

Well, I did it. I kicked the habit of four, five years. I quit World of Warcraft. This post is to list my reasons why - and god help me, I'm going to turn into one of those people who hate something they loved after they quit and preach at others about it. Oh well. May as well go with the flow.

Reason One: I am defending a game that no longer exists.

Every time people hate on World of Warcraft, I told them the community was amazing, the bosses were satisfying and challenging and PvP was entertaining and ultra competitive. I am always thinking of Burning Crusade when I say that. Burning Crusade was years ago. It is no longer WoW. Thus, I am wrong. WoW's community is shit. The bosses are not satisfying. PvP is not entertaining anymore and is dominated by flavour of the month classes. Even the levelling experience is hasty and dull. WoW as it is no longer appeals.

Reason Two: Five years is a long time for a single game.

Christ, I used to play all kinds of games. Even used to break out the consoles from time to time and play them. Now, I have nothing installed on my computer but L4D2 and WoW. This is a disgrace. There are so many other things I could amuse myself with, and instead I'm playing this shitty MMO.

Reason Three: Tolerance

I have too high a tolerance for WoW. When I first started playing, an hour long session was a treasure and I loved every minute of it. Nowadays I would play for twelve hour stints and be bored for most of that. But I did it anyway. Why did I do it? Because I was addicted. And now the quality of the drug is slipping so I can break my little habit. And I have done.

Reason Four: RIFT

I've been playing the RIFT beta and it's a much more appealing MMO. Very pretty, interesting lore, a community that doesn't suck. I'm going to go and play that - but WoW has killed my desire to raid, and if I'm not raiding, I don't need to sink hours and weeks and months of my life into another game.

I haven't touched WoW in four days. I'm not feeling the pinch at all. In fact, its remarkably easy. Even thinking about logging in makes me feel unhappy. Now I'm free to do whatever I want. Now I have to be a human being who isn't defined by a computer game.
Well, shit.