As of today, my WoW account, which has been active for four years and 11 months, has expired.

As of when I quit playing, which was about two months ago, I'd accumulated about 346 days played, meaning 8304 hours, or about four full-time work years.

Aside from playing a lot more Starcraft 2, this has given me more time to get my social life back, as well as learn to improve my cooking and get more sleep.

I'll miss my friends from WoW, but at the moment I do not really miss the game.

Crais

Canada2136 Posts

March 24 2011 19:35 GMT

I just did the same. Been playing since release. I made a lot of great friends on there that I will try to keep in contact with. I was the same, loved the people, hated the game.

Zeri

United States773 Posts

March 24 2011 19:35 GMT

Welcome back! I've been playing since vanilla and quit when sc2 came out... I agree as I do not miss the game at all...I really don't like what blizzard did with end game raiding in WotLK and cata. Leaving the friendships is the hardest, but its ok, convince them all to play sc2 with you =)

Laggy

United States385 Posts

March 24 2011 19:37 GMT

Lysenko you should keep in touch with them through skype and messengers even e-mail and face book. No reason to leave friends behind because you play different games.

Crais

Canada2136 Posts

March 24 2011 19:40 GMT

On March 25 2011 04:37 Laggy wrote:
Lysenko you should keep in touch with them through skype and messengers even e-mail and face book. No reason to leave friends behind because you play different games.

Exactly. A good use for real ID friends

stk01001

United States786 Posts

March 24 2011 19:43 GMT

I stopped playing recently as well.. the constant grinding of heroics and raids and upgrading gear just gets too repetitive and boring... got to a point where doing dailies felt more like a job then playing a game..

also I hate having to rely on others to do well in a game... going back to single player RPG's when I get that itch.. been playing BG 2 and Mass Effect 2 instead recently.. and of course SC2=p

Also looking forward to D3..

Overpowered

Czech Republic764 Posts

March 24 2011 19:44 GMT

Well you are still on battle.net

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

March 24 2011 19:46 GMT

No reason to miss your friends, I still hang out on my old guild's vent regularly

Kenny

United States678 Posts

March 24 2011 19:50 GMT

Life on the outside is way more fun anyways...good choice

Offhand

United States1869 Posts

March 24 2011 19:58 GMT

#10

There really isn't anything in WoW worth playing anymore. Most people still do because, like you said, their online friends are there and that's the only way you interant with them.

Get their contact info, get their gamertags for consoles, or steam account, etc, so you aren't just limited to seeing these people through Blizzard games. I spent last 4th of July with 10 friends, only 3 of which I had actually known personally before, it was great.

Noxie

United States2227 Posts

March 24 2011 20:01 GMT

#11

Hell, its about time

Grats on quitting dude.

shineq

United Kingdom1453 Posts

March 24 2011 20:01 GMT

#12

High five man, did the same 2 months ago, subscription expired on the 7th. Working out great for me

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WoW is slowly dying now anyway, a lot of people are quitting. A lot of my friends and family who were playing the game have quit in the past few months, so I had no one to play with anyway.

te3l

Canada126 Posts

March 24 2011 20:03 GMT

#13

It's great that you quit and don't miss the game. It would have sucked if you quit and still wanted to play. However don't leave ur friends because they play wow and u dont.

Masq

Canada1792 Posts

March 24 2011 20:08 GMT

#14

On March 25 2011 04:35 Zeri wrote:
Welcome back! I've been playing since vanilla and quit when sc2 came out... I agree as I do not miss the game at all...I really don't like what blizzard did with end game raiding in WotLK and cata. Leaving the friendships is the hardest, but its ok, convince them all to play sc2 with you =)

AFGM Zeri? ;p

ryndaris

263 Posts

March 24 2011 20:19 GMT

#15

Congrats on quitting, hope you don't succumb to it again down the line though... I've quit WoW about four times before actually being done with it. As my friend put it... "Yeah, you just play it for a few months to get your fix and then you're good for a while."

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

March 24 2011 20:25 GMT

#16

Tell us about your days as you get back into socializing in the real world.
Agree with Antoine.

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

March 24 2011 20:54 GMT

#17

jesus christ man, thank god you stopped!

LonelyIslands

Canada590 Posts

March 24 2011 22:29 GMT

#18

I've played off and on since release, I recently wondered why I still played. My account expires early April, and I played maybe 10 hours a week if that. It's the social aspect that kept me so long, I've made friends and deactivating my account meant not speaking with them anymore. I think that's the real hook to that game.

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

March 24 2011 22:42 GMT

#19

When I quit WoW I regularly hung out on my guild's vent and still participated on the forums. What inevitably happened was that they began to disdain me because I still spent large amounts of time on the computer, just not playing WoW(no doubt due to the massive void that quitting created in my daily routine.) Eventually, the void was filled with many things that I discovered or re-discovered after quitting.

Any particular reason that you quit? For me I just said "enough is enough" one day; one guildie cited his reason for being on less that it was more of a job feeling than fun. Once that happens it's time to move on. I had only reached 100 days played, but mind you this was when MC/BWL/Ony were the only raids in existence.

Lysenko

Iceland2128 Posts

March 24 2011 23:19 GMT

#20

I'm definitely staying in touch with friends from WoW, through all of the means people mentioned.

The guild I'd been in, and of which I'd been an officer, had struggled to keep a 25-person raid going when Cataclysm raiding started, because the incentive for people to apply to 25-person raiding guilds had gone away. In Wrath, we'd had a constant stream of applicants, but in Cataclysm all you could hear in our application forum were crickets.

So, we went ahead with two 10 person runs, with some difficulty, and finally stresses coming from that caused a few people to leave the guild. Once the guild was on a single 10-person run that was chronically oversubscribed, I realized that I wasn't really needed to keep things going, so I decided to take a break.

Shortly after I took my break, the GM and his wife (who have become RL friends of mine) decided to wrap things up. The guild is now an alt guild, they transferred to another server, and everyone else has moved on, mostly happily, to more guilds that are trying to keep 25-man runs going.

I keep in touch with my friends who still play through RealID, our old guild website is still up and people stop in to post, and I am connected on Facebook with my better friends. The personal difficulties that we had over our guild problems are totally water under the bridge. The guild dissolving pretty much eliminated any urge I might have had to go back. So, all's well that ends well.

Edit: Many of my ex-guildmates have moved on to playing Rift. They seem to be having fun, but it just seems like more of the same to me.