Looking back at Azeroth
Recently, I cancelled my World of Warcraft accounts. Accordingly, this site will probably not see much in the way of updates. If, in thef uture, I reactivate my accounts, or at least one of them, I may start this site back up. However it goes, this site isn’t going to vanish, but the accuracy of the information contained it is going to be shot to hell in a couple of weeks with the 3.0.whatever patch. Let me extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has taken the time to stop by here and let me say that I hope I was able to useful to someone out there.
If you are curious about why I’ve stopped playing, that is going to be the rest of this post.
I started playing World of Warcraft about four years ago with my, at the time, fiancee. Having previously played single-player rpgs seprately and some coop games (mostly FPS), the mmorpg was the next evolution of playing video games together. We leveled together, we joined a guild together, we raided together, and it was good. Before too long, we had a small group that we hung around with and almost every night we’d be on teamspeak just screwing around. Sometimes we’d hit up BGs, sometimes run instances, sometimes level, just kinda whatever. I’ve run Scholomance sooooo many times, even tanking it on my shadow priest once, just for the fun, which is what playing a game should be about.
Shortly before Burning Crusade was released my fiancee became my wife and shortly after Burning Crusade was released she became my exc-wife and playing with her and our group of friends (which then became her group of friends) didn’t seem so appealing. I quit WoW then, for most of the year.
At the end of January I started playing again, because a lot of coworkers were playing and, you know, the game itself was still fun. And for a while I was having a good time playing the game, but the has lost its sparkle. I’ve pretty much done everything I can do many times over. Short of leveling a ton more alts, there isn’t much more for me. I never found the same social group that made the game so enjoyable the first time around.
And with the changes Wrath is bringing, alts becomes less enjoyable as classes become less unique and gameplay becomes even easier. Some things look interesting (the phasing technology) but on the whole it isn’t inspiring me. I have started playing Warhammer Online and finding that to be enjoyable and it has made PvP fun- we’ll see how well that lasts.
But good luck and many phat epix to everyone!
