I've avoided it for its entire life.
Something about the art style really pisses me off. It's the N64 quality textures, cartoonishly exaggerated animations and character models, yet at the same time it wants me to take its world/story seriously. I don't know maybe I'm autistic but I fricking hate it.
Fricking this.
I remember my buddies being really into it but I hated the art style. Just seemed too cartoony and colorful.
When I was a kid I was an edgelord into GTA, MGS, Hitman, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War etc. Also the grindy MMO stuff just ain't my cup of tea.
>GTA >MGS >Hitman
all of these games were tongue in cheek as frick and extraordinarily cartoony.
As opposed to Orcs, Goblins, Witches, Gnomes in a fantasy world etc? Also let's not forget how in GTA you commit mass murder with guns, running over people, frickin hookers etc. MGS it's shooting guys brains out, corridors full of dead guys... I really see the similarity guys!
>As opposed to Orcs, Goblins, Witches, Gnomes in a fantasy world etc?
Is WoW your first fantasy story?
GTA's world in particular is a literal clown show, and it's intentional. Plenty of fantasy work is serious. WoW is less serious than a lot of fantasy work, but it's not less serious than GTA.
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Yeah, and it's also one th most controversial franchises in history because of the violence, drugs, sex etc. Do you get where I'm coming from bro? Also there's a clear difference between the aesthetics of MGS, Hitman and GTA when compared to Warcraft let alone the tone of the games.
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>the aesthetics of MGS
Metal Gear Solid is filled with moronic cartoony shit, it's a staple of the franchise.
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Yeah dude I know. I can see how they're so alike.
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>noooooooooooooo the colors, they burn my eyes
Thank god they stopped catering to morons like you and making games exclusively in brown.
2 years ago
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Why you getting mad?
Bro, I said in my initial post, that shit didn't appeal to me as a kid becauseits distinctly a cartoony style of game visually. If it did for you, awesome, I'm happy for ya.
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its wowbrain man, dont take him too seriously, its hippocamus is probably halfway rotted through.
I hate "the chosen one" in games, movies, whatever.
NO I don't need to play as the special snowflake who was prophesied for 20000 years to return and destroy evil or whatever. No I don't need super duper powers that are stronger than everyone else. No I don't want to hear any more about a teenager who feels worthless in life until they find a magic ability and they're actually the most important person in the universe. What a sad projection. The hero should always die in the end
>N64 quality textures, cartoonishly exaggerated animations and character models, yet at the same time it wants me to take its world/story seriously
This sounds like Zelda and WoW is about as serious as that.
Same reason I didn't play. Also my brother was hard-core into the game , playing 24/7 really pissed me off, I needed help with something but he's too busy playing that fricking game to stop and help.
towards the end of cataclysm, before panda came out
honestly don't remember the exact reason. probably didn't want to pay the subscription anymore. my friend might have taken a break as well. never made any friends in game, just played with one irl friend
he tried getting me back into it a couple years ago but I just couldn't go back to tab targeted combat
I never quit, because at its core the game is still fun. I just don't play long term like I used to. I take lots of extended breaks to play other games.
*Body type A, you bigot. 1 implies "first" or that God could not be female presenting (that is if you believe in traditional monotheism in which case you are a rapist, we do not condone religious bigotry)
Around end of 2018/start of 2019 at the time Battle of Dazar'Alor in BFA was coming out.
The game already sucked for various reasons:
PVP was dead and forced you to grind arenas instead of enjoying comfy wpvp and bgs (imo things like gladiator's sanctum from WoD are peak WoW content)
I couldn't play my alliance main because alliance was completely dead both in PVE and PVP since Legion, due to various decisions made by Blizzard.
All my friends from rl left years ago.
Majority of content sucked, I never enjoyed raidlogging.
So in 2018 with the launch of BFA I actually decided to seriously raid log and tryhard in PVE because that was the one thing I never honestly give a try while everyone who still played this trash was praising endgame PVE.
I went for 2nd highest rank as a fury warrior on my realm in M+, and something like a top 150 of all warriors in Europe. I joined CE guild that was top 5 on my realm.
And I fricking hated every single minute of it. It was just boring and repetitive plus extremely stressful.
That's when I realized that there's nothing good left in WoW, and I definitely never enjoyed this game as a raidlogging parse sim.
The recent bullshit with them retroactively censoring everything and everyone in this game is just a cherry on top. I'd never return to this pozzed garbage.
Very late into wotlk, when they started rolling out the dragon shit after the lich king raid content was finished.
Why? My GPU died, thank god for that. Made me realize I don't want to have a second job, with a subscription fee no less. Perfect timing I'd say.
Early MoP.
My raid group fell apart (no drama, just gradually bleeding core members over time) and I didn't want to go through the "guild application" process because that shit was pure cancer back then. I assume it's even worse now.
when they replaced white people in sw with Black folk. the following shit only reinforced my descision. this company underwent a classic hostile takeover. the allegations were never proven.
i quit after getting to endgame of wotlk and realizing all the raids were trash
i played in vanilla and bc
i went back for nostalrius and played with a higher population cap on the server and it was actually comfy and i maxed out three characters and poopsocked pvp for gear
once the server went down to dmca i quit for good
due to population caps being so high things were pretty fun while it was shutting down
The moment it was announced.
Never was into multiplayer games, certainly not MMOs, I was rather hoping the RTS series would continue parallel to the MMO.
Since it didn't, well, Blizzard certainly didn't miss my money ever since and neither have all the things I've bought over the years which I didn't spend on that company.
>I actually enjoyed other shitty mmos like Fiesta and Maple Story significantly more.
that's so embarrassing lmao. stupid people did this with runescape too.
Literally the day it got leaked that they were changing things in the old world to make the game 'more inclusive' (get larger subsidies for having a higher ESG score) I cancelled my sub and uninstalled the game for the first time in 12 years.
>homogenized shitpiles
MoP had the most complex class design in the history of the game, though. A lot of people don't remember this, but in vanilla and tbc your rotation was literally just 1 button and the bosses had no mechanics.
the Draenor map just felt really claustrophobic and not WoW-like at all. Combine that we boring zones, garbage story, forgettable instances and quests, and the expansion undoing everything good that MOP had achieved.
I cant stand americans and their troon shit they are pushing onto the rest of the world
WoW characters have been reduced to body type 1 and 2 just like in elden ring i hate it
t. europe
quit slightly before pandaria came out,i used to play wow a lot during a really bad point in my life and anytime playing it now just reminds me of those days,blizzard being fricking moronic now doesn't help either
After finishing Cataclysm, finished it 2nd guild of our server which felt great.
Then decided to unsub until the next expansion but by then i didn't give a frick and never subbed back.
Quit a few months into MoP. Tried WoD and it fricking sucked. Came back for classic. Enjoying TBC and looking forward to Wrath. I wonder what they'll do for cataclysm... they'll definitely change some things, but probably not enough to make that expansion not suck.
the Draenor map just felt really claustrophobic and not WoW-like at all. Combine that we boring zones, garbage story, forgettable instances and quests, and the expansion undoing everything good that MOP had achieved.
They removed the old world. They kept making the best parts of the story only available in comics or books. They then decided to make a whole expansion around Pandaren and released a Dreamworks-like trailer for it.
I only played for like 2 months inbetween Wotlk and Cataclysm and I have genuinely no idea how anyone could spend literal decades playing WoW, not to mention pay any amount of money on it. Has to be some dreadful combination of severe nostalgia and sunk cost fallacy.
> have genuinely no idea how anyone could spend literal decades playing WoW, not to mention pay any amount of money on it.
Probably because you didn't do any real content while you played it.
>Real content >The same exact gameplay but more difficult and with a some sweatlord screaming at you over discord
Holy shit, I'm buying 20 mounts.
WoW players literally just look for the good times they had when they were kids during vanilla/the first expansion they played and chase that high for years giving blizzard thousands of dollars for the same game over and over again
That's literally what it felt like. The only remotely fun aspect in the entire game was PvP arena.
WoW players literally just look for the good times they had when they were kids during vanilla/the first expansion they played and chase that high for years giving blizzard thousands of dollars for the same game over and over again
I quit ten years ago. The only parts of the game I enjoyed anymore were 25M heroic raids and pet battles. I eventually got tired of spending 4 hours a night 4 days a week doing raids. I haven't touched the game since. The only thing I miss every once in a while is playing a Blood DK in Cataclysm because it had a higher skill ceiling than other tanks; being a really good Blood DK is also partially responsible for how I lost my virginity.
Started playing late 2004 or early 2005 vanilla. Quit around early Cataclysm. Came back during Battle for Azeroth due to Classic hype. Stopped playing BfA when Classic hit, stopped playing Classic when I hit like 45, but it was fun for awhile. Never buying or playing a nu-Blizzard game again.
I never even started playing it.
I loved the dreadlords in WC3 and they weren't playable so I decided I didn't give a shit.
By the time death knights were introduced I had already lost all interest.
When? I think it was Pandas for the mainline. Raids were boring time-boxed slogs, the heroics were easy, and the influx of foreigners on NA servers was awful. Worse than when TF2 went F2P. The story was just dumb, and that's saying something considering some of Cataclysm. Tried classic for six months, had fun, don't feel the need to revisit it again. Had years of great times on it, but that's all over and has been for a long time now.
I was a warlock on a top raiding guild on the server. This was during TBC. I basically had to do ~1-1.5 hrs of dailies and mat farming per day just to have the basic supplies to raid, then I had to raid at least 3 hours a day after that 6 days a week. And I wasn't the top lock in the guild because I wasn't working harder than that. So basically I was playing 5 hours a day just to tread water. At that point I realized wasting my life trying to impress guild leaders wasn't worh it.
That's crazy... was it because the game wasn't "solved" yet so everyone was doing shit really inefficiently? I can't imagine have to raid 6 days a week. Back in the day during classic and TBC I raided 2 days a week, 3-4 hours a day and we were in the top 10 guilds. I trounced everyone on dps as a fury warrior (which makes sense for classic, but kind of fricked in TBC) and I only had to farm for materials for 2 or 3 hours a week. I was on an almost 50/50 pvp server as well. How was your experience so fricking scuffed? It sounds like you were a good player surrounded by other good players, it doesn't make sense
During Wrath because I realised that it wasn't what I wanted in an MMORPG. I don't want a game that puts the large majority of its content inside instances, nor do I want one that separates the PvE and PvP content into separate areas.
I quit at the start Wrath cuz I got bored at the time and came back at the release of Cata but almost quit right after cuz I got bored, simple as. I did play a trial for Pandaria and it overall seemed to be a pretty based expack, but I wouldn't have been able to handle the sheer amount of PANDERING. WHOA MAMA is all I can say, have you seen how big they are compared to a goblin? I would've likely been plowing and planting seeds in em mounds 24/7 at the farm.
BFA, the Naga island shit was just too much for me. I stopped caring. After all the shit I played the game through that place was so awful it made me realize it was not worth it.
The whole WoW classic thing of running back through the whole game in release order is the most hilarious and bizarre thing i've seen in consoomer gaming
I'm glad they're doing it because the first three versions of the game were fun, but it's fricking wild for them to tacitly admit their game sucks now, and has sucked for years, by giving us the old content. The things they're changing for wrath is straight up an admission that their implementation of dungeon finder casualizes the game and made it trivial to progress
First tried WoW during MoP, quit when trying to level since the world was completely dead and dungeon grinds were mind numbing.
Tried again in Draino, got bored pretty quick and dropped it.
Tried again in Legion, same as before since the game is clearly just trying to speed you to the new level cap as quickly as possible so you can sit around and do nothing but grind a couple instances over and over with stupid time gating bullshit and mobile integration.
Tried that one big private server for vanilla wow and really enjoyed it, played it until blizzard shut it down.
Played through the entirety of classic into tbc classic but quit when they announced they're bending the knee to troonys and censoring their game.
I was going to another country back in late 2015, and so paying a subscription for WoW wasn't feasible.
I always just enjoyed playing alts and keeping to the low-levels. I didn't care for PvP nor the endgame (especially after WotLK/Group Finder), I never really did raids either. I managed to keep my playing WoW fresh and enjoyable. Met some people in that game that I still do other activities with (they're still the core of my /tg/ activities).
What did me in was the community. Some people back before Group Finder were chode factories (some of the biggest I met were back in Vanilla), but you learned quickly who those people are in your server and to avoid them. I felt the community was a lot stronger when you had to work together and enjoy playing with each other. It blew chunks when you sat there all night looking for a group and nobody wants to go in, but at least when it did happen, it felt like people were at least ready to do the minimum to do their part to invest in that group.
With group finder, no need to do that, and so my frequency of encountering some real turd ticklers bumped up, and soon I stopped tanking and healing for random groups entirely. Not to mention that I felt more and more like people just wanted to rush to maximum level and not actually have fun in game. This only got worse as Blizzard streamlined it more and more, and the world got smaller and smaller as a result.
I only got into WoW because I was a fan of the Warcraft series, my gateway drug into fantasy and other video games as a whole, but the ones who made it feel so magical are no longer there. Burn baby burn.
I don't know what the solution is, but people wanting to zoom through the leveling experience is a cancer. Either people need to learn patience or the game needs to be redesigned around leveling, because it can be the best parts of a game. Even if you ask a min-maxing turbo autist what their favourite memories are, they'll tell you a story about some unlikely situation they overcame while leveling and NOT the time they parsed 99 one week instead of 98.
I'm glad someone understands. It's the World of Warcraft, but it seems the World part got dropped and became <The Latest "Expansion">
Not to mention that "The Story" is pretty cancerous too, because I felt no reason to be part of "The Story" when it's the faction leaders shaping the world and not my character. For that matter, nobody's characters are shaping it at all. All of the people playing WoW can just not show up, and WoW's "Story" can be told just fine without them.
An MMO is most magical when all that "The Story" is, is setting the scene for the Players to run out in and shape it together. All the npcs get to be the sinew and bone of the body, but the Players are the lifeblood of it. NPCs should not be meddling in the story telling, as the story telling is all in the players playing together and against each other and making their own on the backdrop of Azeroth, you know, the World of Warcraft.
I'm not sure how I can spell it out and still be concise though.
I would agree if this is 2007 but we have to face that the playerbase is now so accustomed to the garbage gear treadmill and timegating that they wouldn't understand how to interact with other players in the world even if everything reverted.
These types of games used to be called MMORPG and they eventually dropped the "role playing" part but in the times of everquest people still had a concept of larping and D&D where you actively invested and played the role of your character with other players in the world. The world was the stage and you were the actors going on adventures. But eventually that got locked into the raiding and gear grind meta and the rest is history.
I'm with you there. It doesn't help that the concept of meeting and playing with strangers online is no longer a novelty either.
I'll just keep to my /tg/ stuff, and do my part to play out what I find magical about games to my group, and try and get my players to catch on.
One of my favorite memories from WoW was in Burning Crusade when I was running my Paladin through Heroic Mechanar, and my Paladin had practically no Stamina despite being the tank. The healer was giving me all kinds of shit about how I need more stamina, but he's only sticking around because I knew how to mash my buttons. I was laughing like mad the whole time, and I think he was enjoying it too, because he stuck around and kept the commentary up. When The Sun Eater dropped, he said, "Good. That'll give you more Stamina." If the player behind the Dwarf Priest is reading this for any reason, thank you for those good memories!
Or tanking the Deadmines with a newbie healer, taking it one step at a time for her to learn how to be the healing role, and seeing the rest of the group follow suit. We wiped a ton, but the repair bill was worth it.
Maybe I'm just being a boomer here, but something is missing and it isn't just window dressing. Let it crash and burn. I already sold ATVI short during the sexual harrassment scandal and got my money back from Blizzard. I'll value some of the memories but there is no going back. Whatever is left is only a name.
I can't because he left his own guild/server to go join Elitist Jerks. He wasn't an incel, he had a girlfriend who was an officer in the guild and I haven't talked to him in years, so I have no idea why he started doing the whole troony thing. I actually found out before the whole Dragonlands preview because I wanted to get in contact with him again after finding out he had an homage in the game during Legion. Then I found out about the whole "Hamlette" shit and gave up on that idea. I used to really respect the guy but I'm not touching that landmine with a mile long pole.
they lived together and were definitely a thing for at least 3 years. His girlfriend gave off femdom vibes, but I'd still be amazed if they never fricked during that time.
I quit (for real this time) after the last warmane fresh. The retail zoomers/trannies are already infesting wotlk with min-max autism and GDKPs, it won't be the same at all and I don't want to ruin my nostalgia any further.
I still randomly play it. I've played basically every expansion for at least one month. I never do any endgame stuff, just comfy levelling and exploring the world.
Legion was a completely satisfying ending for the game and was a fantastic expansion overall and I basically regard everything that came after it as second-rate fanfiction, though. I don't know how Legion managed to happen under nu-blizz but they somehow tied up basically every loose thread in the plot, revisited a ton of old areas for fun nostalgia in the class campaigns, fixed Illidan's shitty ending in TBC and saw the big bad get defeated once and for all. If there was ever a suitable ending for the game, that was it.
Multiple reasons:
1. Advertised features for WotLK they never delivered on
2. Plot went to shit
3. Original intended implementation of RealID made it very apparent that Blizzard was no longer a company that wanted to make a quality product for gamers
I saw the writing on the wall at the end of TBC, on that gay elf island with the shitty dailies and the precursor to dungeon finder.
I quit again in classic when they added the shit version of AV, proving that they understood nothing, learned nothing, will change nothing, and were indeed just milking nostalgia.
Interest was fading with Wrath due to all the queue shit, and then did a trial of Cata and got turned off by how the abilities and specs were revamped. Never subbed for Cata.
I stopped paying for WoW at the end of BFA because of how little effort they put into Nyalotha and I could see the writing on the wall regarding Shadowlands being crap. The wokeism and the sexual harassment allegation scandal just sealed the deal for me. I still dick around on Starter Edition with my army of level 20 twinks though.
cautiously optimistic about Dragonflight, gonna wait a month or so after release before I even think about resubbing though
I enjoyed leveling a few times the most as each class and spec was unique to me. Especially enjoyed hpally, surv hunter and holy priest but I did some SL content. Big fan of raids as a healer, really felt you had a major impact especially in pubs once half the raid got deleted and much better raids than other mmos by a long shot. Never bothered with minmax autism for mythic.
But I hate the end game design philosophy of time gating every single fricking thing. Blizzard need to release some sandbox mechanics, like EvE or Albion, which acts as your long term content. Time gating armor sets behind 'you can do this activity once a day and need to do it for 3 months for this set' is insane.
Didn't play Pandas.Bought WoD, Quit a little after WoD's last raid launched. Bought Legion, quit BfA after realizing how shit it was. Played classic until right before BT dropped because my guild was ass, it was to easy to buy gear and I got married and didn't see the point in grinding for weeks when I can buy gold and get half my gear in 1-2 runs. Might touch Wrath if they dont go full turbo-israelite with micro transactions.
The last Blizzard game I ever played was Brood War, but specifically just for the UMS maps: V-Tec Paintball, Evolves, Assassinate the President, and Protect Spongebob.
Well originally they gave hybrid classes the "hybrid tax" where if the class could do multiple roles it would not do it better than classes that only had one role. Giving a paladin that can heal and bubble the same burst damage that you can give a class that can't is incredibly bad design.
Fricking moronic system because it just meant those classes got passed over for any role that they couldn't match "specialized" classes, since being a "hybrid" class effectively adds nothing to an optimized raid/dungeon group. >Oh, you leveled your ret paladin to level cap? Congrats, now switch to holy and become a healb***h since it's the only role people will take you on! But hey don't feel bad, at least you're a """hybrid""" class!!
Thats what happens when you get big Everquest players who mained specialist classes involved with development. It took years for hybrids in EQ to be worth a damn. Vanilla WoW suffered from a lot of similar issues that oldschool EQ also had, like warriors being the only tank that was ever accepted.
BFA Legion wasn't much better but artifacts were at least fun to play with but legion/BFA was when they truly abandoned it being an MMO and it became an always online ARPG. Yes I would see other players but I could obtain full mythic raid gear without even saying a word to another person and gear was the only reason to play.
what will trannies latch on when the tech catches up to actually swap people's sex? Their whole fricking identity is being 'trans' imagine they just become women, they would probably still kill themselves because they are so deeply unhappy.
Shadowlands, towards the beginning. Torghast gave me some slight hope because I like OOT imbalanced shit just for fun, but in the end it was just an RNG grindfest. Been on the "maybe next patch will be good.." hope trip since Legion, which was the last good expansion. I just couldn't bear to see my favourite childhood MMO go up in flames like that
*smirks*
yeah...... i guess you can say i was a little edgier than your run of the mill 13 year old boy... heh.... nothin personal kid
*teleports behind you and installs brown and bloom on all your games*
Effectively in BFA. I bought Shitterlands a few months after it came out, but I played it for less than a week and haven't touched the game since. Didn't even care about TBCC or SoM, and I don't at all feel like going back for Wrath classic. Dragonflight's reveal made me feel absolutely nothing. Blizzard is finally completely dead to me.
Started playing WoW in 2004 like a week after it came out, stopped in 2019 after the Hong Kong-Blitzchung/Hearthstone crap. Didn't want to support the company after that shit, everything thats came out since then has just been retroactive justification imo
9.1
Korthia was doo doo dogshit. I can't believe they gave us a shit timeless isle as a major patch after 7 months of no content. To be fair, I heard 9.2 is great but I just don't feel like resubbing
Frick, I feel like resubbing. Nothing scratches that itch.
Quit during BFA because of boredom. Legion was probably the last time I took the game seriously though, in terms of raiding. Maybe I'm just getting slower in my older age, but my Fury Warrior parses were mid and I couldn't improve
Originally quit during TBC
Came back during Cataclysm and quit again all the way until Battle for Azeroth
Then resubbed and quit during Shadowlands
Definitely done after Shadowlands.
wrath. just didn't compare to tbc. came back for legion and had fun with broken ass legendaries. bfa sucked, shadowlands sucked. on paper i like the ideas of dragonflight ("advanced" classes, the new talent trees, no required grind for raid) but if there's one thing blizz knows how to do it's take something good and frick it up.
the best way to handle this situation with trannies is to select your pronouns, but make them some moronic shit, and demand people follow them or else.
>When did you quit World of Warcraft
before cataclysm launched >and why?
because they deleted the world that i was playing in, i no longer had ties to it
I don't know what expansion was out when I tried it but I only played it for 5 minutes before quitting forever. to the point where I gave no shits when blizzard messaged me about my blizzard account being stolen.
I started on a private tbc server after Warlords was already out, had a lot of fun but never even entered Kharazan
Switched to retail during tomb and had a pretty good time with it, stopped after a few months because turns out the guild I had joined were too moronic to manage heroic Eonyr after we spent the last two tiers on normal
Played BfA at launch then stopped a couple of weeks after Uldir dropped because there was just too much daily/weekly shit for me to be assed to do and I don't like grinding m+
Got Shadowlands on a big discount during late nathria and immediately dropped it basically as soon as I entered Torghast, shit sucked
Two weeks ago.
Massive burnout and devs are morons that can't design classes or balance shit.
Now the wave of woke garbage being shoved into the game is just the cherry on top.
It's just a statistic, ignore it and it'll pass. They wouldn't behave like this on a barren planet with no audience. These freaks disappear once people stop talking about them.
When Blizzard started randomly banning people from Diablo 3 for running GNU/Linux.
That was also right about the time that it started getting a lot of great indie games thanks to Valve porting Steam.
Just didn't need to give money to a company whose policy up till that point had been >We'll take your money, as long as you're ok with us pretending you don't exist.
Exposes them as total hypocrites when they claim to be inclusive of minorities.
I can't help that I'm a Linux user, I was born this way.
I started in open beta. Played through Vanilla and TBC and Wrath and then quit after Firelands released in Cata. I had a number of multi month breaks here and there spread out though.
I probably would have kept playing if I hadn’t left my raiding guild at the end of Wrath. Seriously the “responsibility” shit is a trap.
during legion when they include all their gacha mobile shit mecanics.
I don't know why people still thinks this extension is actually good.
That was WoD with the garrison timers and missons
unironically a fake fan
I never played it, can't quit what I never touched.
I've avoided it for its entire life.
Something about the art style really pisses me off. It's the N64 quality textures, cartoonishly exaggerated animations and character models, yet at the same time it wants me to take its world/story seriously. I don't know maybe I'm autistic but I fricking hate it.
Fricking this.
I remember my buddies being really into it but I hated the art style. Just seemed too cartoony and colorful.
When I was a kid I was an edgelord into GTA, MGS, Hitman, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War etc. Also the grindy MMO stuff just ain't my cup of tea.
>When I was a kid I was an edgelord into GTA
ah yes, GTA, known for its lack of colors and cartoony aesthetic.
forgot pic
As opposed to Orcs, Goblins, Witches, Gnomes in a fantasy world etc? Also let's not forget how in GTA you commit mass murder with guns, running over people, frickin hookers etc. MGS it's shooting guys brains out, corridors full of dead guys... I really see the similarity guys!
>As opposed to Orcs, Goblins, Witches, Gnomes in a fantasy world etc?
Is WoW your first fantasy story?
GTA's world in particular is a literal clown show, and it's intentional. Plenty of fantasy work is serious. WoW is less serious than a lot of fantasy work, but it's not less serious than GTA.
Yeah, and it's also one th most controversial franchises in history because of the violence, drugs, sex etc. Do you get where I'm coming from bro? Also there's a clear difference between the aesthetics of MGS, Hitman and GTA when compared to Warcraft let alone the tone of the games.
>the aesthetics of MGS
Metal Gear Solid is filled with moronic cartoony shit, it's a staple of the franchise.
Yeah dude I know. I can see how they're so alike.
>noooooooooooooo the colors, they burn my eyes
Thank god they stopped catering to morons like you and making games exclusively in brown.
Why you getting mad?
Bro, I said in my initial post, that shit didn't appeal to me as a kid becauseits distinctly a cartoony style of game visually. If it did for you, awesome, I'm happy for ya.
its wowbrain man, dont take him too seriously, its hippocamus is probably halfway rotted through.
>it has blood and sex so that means it's very serious and grown up!
lmao. this is like what a child would think.
>you are moronic for thinking like a 10 year old when you were 10
Based autist
>GTA
>MGS
>Hitman
all of these games were tongue in cheek as frick and extraordinarily cartoony.
it also influenced so many other games with it's god awful cartoon artstyle of having 5 inch thick armor plates
why would you go to war wearing silk dresses? the top photo makes no sense.
Armor impedes your ability to use mana to cast magic
>top
SOVL
>bottom
SOULESS
fantasy needs to return to tradition, unironically. too many "chosen one" player tropes shitting up the medium
I hate "the chosen one" in games, movies, whatever.
NO I don't need to play as the special snowflake who was prophesied for 20000 years to return and destroy evil or whatever. No I don't need super duper powers that are stronger than everyone else. No I don't want to hear any more about a teenager who feels worthless in life until they find a magic ability and they're actually the most important person in the universe. What a sad projection. The hero should always die in the end
Exactly why I skipped it as a 11-12ish year old, lol
ended up in guild wars and runescape until at least 2008 or so though
have not touched an MMO since and probably never will after seeing what has become of WoWgays.
>N64 quality textures, cartoonishly exaggerated animations and character models, yet at the same time it wants me to take its world/story seriously
This sounds like Zelda and WoW is about as serious as that.
God, I just can't enjoy what looks like a fricking inflatable circus.
This. Granted, I'm not much for the genre at large anyways but still.
Same reason I didn't play. Also my brother was hard-core into the game , playing 24/7 really pissed me off, I needed help with something but he's too busy playing that fricking game to stop and help.
I have had this same opinion of the aesthetic since I first saw a trailer for WoW in like 2004
towards the end of cataclysm, before panda came out
honestly don't remember the exact reason. probably didn't want to pay the subscription anymore. my friend might have taken a break as well. never made any friends in game, just played with one irl friend
he tried getting me back into it a couple years ago but I just couldn't go back to tab targeted combat
I never quit, because at its core the game is still fun. I just don't play long term like I used to. I take lots of extended breaks to play other games.
thats a man
*body number 1
fixed it for you
*Body type A, you bigot. 1 implies "first" or that God could not be female presenting (that is if you believe in traditional monotheism in which case you are a rapist, we do not condone religious bigotry)
homosexual number 1
Around end of 2018/start of 2019 at the time Battle of Dazar'Alor in BFA was coming out.
The game already sucked for various reasons:
PVP was dead and forced you to grind arenas instead of enjoying comfy wpvp and bgs (imo things like gladiator's sanctum from WoD are peak WoW content)
I couldn't play my alliance main because alliance was completely dead both in PVE and PVP since Legion, due to various decisions made by Blizzard.
All my friends from rl left years ago.
Majority of content sucked, I never enjoyed raidlogging.
So in 2018 with the launch of BFA I actually decided to seriously raid log and tryhard in PVE because that was the one thing I never honestly give a try while everyone who still played this trash was praising endgame PVE.
I went for 2nd highest rank as a fury warrior on my realm in M+, and something like a top 150 of all warriors in Europe. I joined CE guild that was top 5 on my realm.
And I fricking hated every single minute of it. It was just boring and repetitive plus extremely stressful.
That's when I realized that there's nothing good left in WoW, and I definitely never enjoyed this game as a raidlogging parse sim.
The recent bullshit with them retroactively censoring everything and everyone in this game is just a cherry on top. I'd never return to this pozzed garbage.
>YOU VILL PLAY ZE METACOMPS AND CLIMB ZE ARENA RANKS AND YOU VILL LIKE IT!!1
Arenas unironically killed PvP.
2003
waiting on an actual fricking warcraft game to come out
Very late into wotlk, when they started rolling out the dragon shit after the lich king raid content was finished.
Why? My GPU died, thank god for that. Made me realize I don't want to have a second job, with a subscription fee no less. Perfect timing I'd say.
I Beat tbc when it originally came out with my guild and then sold my account for 1.2k and never touched it again.
Post Uldaur in WotlK. Heroic dungeons didn't hit the same and I got bored of nax real quick.
Early MoP.
My raid group fell apart (no drama, just gradually bleeding core members over time) and I didn't want to go through the "guild application" process because that shit was pure cancer back then. I assume it's even worse now.
>because that shit was pure cancer back then. I assume it's even worse now.
nah, it's always been pretty painless. both now, and then.
when they replaced white people in sw with Black folk. the following shit only reinforced my descision. this company underwent a classic hostile takeover. the allegations were never proven.
wow youtubers are more based than i thought. The best part is the Youtube fricks cant ban live comments nor commenters lol
There is still hope for the zooms
>She’s beautiful ok
>blackface for women
my sides
based zoomers
i quit after getting to endgame of wotlk and realizing all the raids were trash
i played in vanilla and bc
i went back for nostalrius and played with a higher population cap on the server and it was actually comfy and i maxed out three characters and poopsocked pvp for gear
once the server went down to dmca i quit for good
due to population caps being so high things were pretty fun while it was shutting down
Me in the back
The moment it was announced.
Never was into multiplayer games, certainly not MMOs, I was rather hoping the RTS series would continue parallel to the MMO.
Since it didn't, well, Blizzard certainly didn't miss my money ever since and neither have all the things I've bought over the years which I didn't spend on that company.
What the frick is that?
The face of Blizzard.
I hate them. They disgust me. I wish they’d all kill themselves. I wish it was legal to throw them from rooftops.
i understand bro but you are glowing a bit
I tried to play WoW once back in 2008 when The Guild was popular.
I dropped it after ten minutes. I actually enjoyed other shitty mmos like Fiesta and Maple Story significantly more.
>I actually enjoyed other shitty mmos like Fiesta and Maple Story significantly more.
that's so embarrassing lmao. stupid people did this with runescape too.
Literally the day it got leaked that they were changing things in the old world to make the game 'more inclusive' (get larger subsidies for having a higher ESG score) I cancelled my sub and uninstalled the game for the first time in 12 years.
cataclysm
private server I played on didn't upgrade so I dropped wow entirely
cataclysm
world looked shit after that
came back with shadowlands, stopped again when i got timegated
WoD
they removed 2/3 of the skills in the game
crazy how gameplay went from best its ever been in MoP to dogshit so fast
>homogenized shitpiles
>good
Mopgays lmao
>homogenized shitpiles
MoP had the most complex class design in the history of the game, though. A lot of people don't remember this, but in vanilla and tbc your rotation was literally just 1 button and the bosses had no mechanics.
After Wrath of the Lich King released. Played since Vanilla.
I already leveled 1-60, then 61-70 and I did not feel like doing it again.
Warlords of Draenor
the Draenor map just felt really claustrophobic and not WoW-like at all. Combine that we boring zones, garbage story, forgettable instances and quests, and the expansion undoing everything good that MOP had achieved.
I left after we killed Arthas in wotlk, I remember I was disappointed at the ending to his story
Made a brief resubscription in legion to see what happened to illidan and again I was faced with disappointment
I cant stand americans and their troon shit they are pushing onto the rest of the world
WoW characters have been reduced to body type 1 and 2 just like in elden ring i hate it
t. europe
stop playing american games then. there are plenty of games from other countries.
Legion.
quit slightly before pandaria came out,i used to play wow a lot during a really bad point in my life and anytime playing it now just reminds me of those days,blizzard being fricking moronic now doesn't help either
still want to mating press wow elves though
After finishing Cataclysm, finished it 2nd guild of our server which felt great.
Then decided to unsub until the next expansion but by then i didn't give a frick and never subbed back.
After Legion when most of the OGs left
Quit a few months into MoP. Tried WoD and it fricking sucked. Came back for classic. Enjoying TBC and looking forward to Wrath. I wonder what they'll do for cataclysm... they'll definitely change some things, but probably not enough to make that expansion not suck.
Cata is far better than TBC already moron
Lol whatever you say zoomie. Just say you don't like having to actually earn rewards instead of speaking in code.
Warlords of Draenor
the Draenor map just felt really claustrophobic and not WoW-like at all. Combine that we boring zones, garbage story, forgettable instances and quests, and the expansion undoing everything good that MOP had achieved.
Cataclysm.
They removed the old world. They kept making the best parts of the story only available in comics or books. They then decided to make a whole expansion around Pandaren and released a Dreamworks-like trailer for it.
MoP was the best expansion in the game as far as class design is concerned.
>best parts
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Better than what was in-game.
I only played for like 2 months inbetween Wotlk and Cataclysm and I have genuinely no idea how anyone could spend literal decades playing WoW, not to mention pay any amount of money on it. Has to be some dreadful combination of severe nostalgia and sunk cost fallacy.
> have genuinely no idea how anyone could spend literal decades playing WoW, not to mention pay any amount of money on it.
Probably because you didn't do any real content while you played it.
>Real content
>The same exact gameplay but more difficult and with a some sweatlord screaming at you over discord
Holy shit, I'm buying 20 mounts.
That's literally what it felt like. The only remotely fun aspect in the entire game was PvP arena.
>The same exact gameplay
>Queuing up for a raid uninstalls WoW and downloads a good game instead
Damn, Blizzard was based this entire time.
>Probably because you didn't do any real content while you played it.
WoW players literally just look for the good times they had when they were kids during vanilla/the first expansion they played and chase that high for years giving blizzard thousands of dollars for the same game over and over again
I quit ten years ago. The only parts of the game I enjoyed anymore were 25M heroic raids and pet battles. I eventually got tired of spending 4 hours a night 4 days a week doing raids. I haven't touched the game since. The only thing I miss every once in a while is playing a Blood DK in Cataclysm because it had a higher skill ceiling than other tanks; being a really good Blood DK is also partially responsible for how I lost my virginity.
Started playing late 2004 or early 2005 vanilla. Quit around early Cataclysm. Came back during Battle for Azeroth due to Classic hype. Stopped playing BfA when Classic hit, stopped playing Classic when I hit like 45, but it was fun for awhile. Never buying or playing a nu-Blizzard game again.
I never even started playing it.
I loved the dreadlords in WC3 and they weren't playable so I decided I didn't give a shit.
By the time death knights were introduced I had already lost all interest.
When? I think it was Pandas for the mainline. Raids were boring time-boxed slogs, the heroics were easy, and the influx of foreigners on NA servers was awful. Worse than when TF2 went F2P. The story was just dumb, and that's saying something considering some of Cataclysm. Tried classic for six months, had fun, don't feel the need to revisit it again. Had years of great times on it, but that's all over and has been for a long time now.
You are moronic. MoP story was the most based and well-written the story has ever been for wow.
Got a PC recently and started playing, and I like it
What exactly is wrong with it? I guess I'll probably never know since I didn't play it at its peak
I quit in summer of 2007.
I was a warlock on a top raiding guild on the server. This was during TBC. I basically had to do ~1-1.5 hrs of dailies and mat farming per day just to have the basic supplies to raid, then I had to raid at least 3 hours a day after that 6 days a week. And I wasn't the top lock in the guild because I wasn't working harder than that. So basically I was playing 5 hours a day just to tread water. At that point I realized wasting my life trying to impress guild leaders wasn't worh it.
That's crazy... was it because the game wasn't "solved" yet so everyone was doing shit really inefficiently? I can't imagine have to raid 6 days a week. Back in the day during classic and TBC I raided 2 days a week, 3-4 hours a day and we were in the top 10 guilds. I trounced everyone on dps as a fury warrior (which makes sense for classic, but kind of fricked in TBC) and I only had to farm for materials for 2 or 3 hours a week. I was on an almost 50/50 pvp server as well. How was your experience so fricking scuffed? It sounds like you were a good player surrounded by other good players, it doesn't make sense
mods get really asshurt if you quit wow for ffxiv
Use a VPN and ignore troony mods like 80% of us already do
During Wrath because I realised that it wasn't what I wanted in an MMORPG. I don't want a game that puts the large majority of its content inside instances, nor do I want one that separates the PvE and PvP content into separate areas.
What the frick happened to Mike Stoklasa
I quit at the start Wrath cuz I got bored at the time and came back at the release of Cata but almost quit right after cuz I got bored, simple as. I did play a trial for Pandaria and it overall seemed to be a pretty based expack, but I wouldn't have been able to handle the sheer amount of PANDERING. WHOA MAMA is all I can say, have you seen how big they are compared to a goblin? I would've likely been plowing and planting seeds in em mounds 24/7 at the farm.
BFA, the Naga island shit was just too much for me. I stopped caring. After all the shit I played the game through that place was so awful it made me realize it was not worth it.
The game went to shit after Cata
Cata was the beginning of the end though with the overtuned dungeons, also the final raid was shit
tbc, when I realized that the gameplay was garbage and they destroyed the story
The whole WoW classic thing of running back through the whole game in release order is the most hilarious and bizarre thing i've seen in consoomer gaming
I'm glad they're doing it because the first three versions of the game were fun, but it's fricking wild for them to tacitly admit their game sucks now, and has sucked for years, by giving us the old content. The things they're changing for wrath is straight up an admission that their implementation of dungeon finder casualizes the game and made it trivial to progress
What race/class will you roll on Everlook my fellow vanilla chads?
>vanilla!!!! IT'S SO EPIC!!!
BfA because I realized Legion was the final good expac.
First tried WoW during MoP, quit when trying to level since the world was completely dead and dungeon grinds were mind numbing.
Tried again in Draino, got bored pretty quick and dropped it.
Tried again in Legion, same as before since the game is clearly just trying to speed you to the new level cap as quickly as possible so you can sit around and do nothing but grind a couple instances over and over with stupid time gating bullshit and mobile integration.
Tried that one big private server for vanilla wow and really enjoyed it, played it until blizzard shut it down.
Played through the entirety of classic into tbc classic but quit when they announced they're bending the knee to troonys and censoring their game.
I was going to another country back in late 2015, and so paying a subscription for WoW wasn't feasible.
I always just enjoyed playing alts and keeping to the low-levels. I didn't care for PvP nor the endgame (especially after WotLK/Group Finder), I never really did raids either. I managed to keep my playing WoW fresh and enjoyable. Met some people in that game that I still do other activities with (they're still the core of my /tg/ activities).
What did me in was the community. Some people back before Group Finder were chode factories (some of the biggest I met were back in Vanilla), but you learned quickly who those people are in your server and to avoid them. I felt the community was a lot stronger when you had to work together and enjoy playing with each other. It blew chunks when you sat there all night looking for a group and nobody wants to go in, but at least when it did happen, it felt like people were at least ready to do the minimum to do their part to invest in that group.
With group finder, no need to do that, and so my frequency of encountering some real turd ticklers bumped up, and soon I stopped tanking and healing for random groups entirely. Not to mention that I felt more and more like people just wanted to rush to maximum level and not actually have fun in game. This only got worse as Blizzard streamlined it more and more, and the world got smaller and smaller as a result.
I only got into WoW because I was a fan of the Warcraft series, my gateway drug into fantasy and other video games as a whole, but the ones who made it feel so magical are no longer there. Burn baby burn.
I don't know what the solution is, but people wanting to zoom through the leveling experience is a cancer. Either people need to learn patience or the game needs to be redesigned around leveling, because it can be the best parts of a game. Even if you ask a min-maxing turbo autist what their favourite memories are, they'll tell you a story about some unlikely situation they overcame while leveling and NOT the time they parsed 99 one week instead of 98.
I'm glad someone understands. It's the World of Warcraft, but it seems the World part got dropped and became <The Latest "Expansion">
Not to mention that "The Story" is pretty cancerous too, because I felt no reason to be part of "The Story" when it's the faction leaders shaping the world and not my character. For that matter, nobody's characters are shaping it at all. All of the people playing WoW can just not show up, and WoW's "Story" can be told just fine without them.
An MMO is most magical when all that "The Story" is, is setting the scene for the Players to run out in and shape it together. All the npcs get to be the sinew and bone of the body, but the Players are the lifeblood of it. NPCs should not be meddling in the story telling, as the story telling is all in the players playing together and against each other and making their own on the backdrop of Azeroth, you know, the World of Warcraft.
I'm not sure how I can spell it out and still be concise though.
I would agree if this is 2007 but we have to face that the playerbase is now so accustomed to the garbage gear treadmill and timegating that they wouldn't understand how to interact with other players in the world even if everything reverted.
These types of games used to be called MMORPG and they eventually dropped the "role playing" part but in the times of everquest people still had a concept of larping and D&D where you actively invested and played the role of your character with other players in the world. The world was the stage and you were the actors going on adventures. But eventually that got locked into the raiding and gear grind meta and the rest is history.
Let it all burn down and start over.
I'm with you there. It doesn't help that the concept of meeting and playing with strangers online is no longer a novelty either.
I'll just keep to my /tg/ stuff, and do my part to play out what I find magical about games to my group, and try and get my players to catch on.
One of my favorite memories from WoW was in Burning Crusade when I was running my Paladin through Heroic Mechanar, and my Paladin had practically no Stamina despite being the tank. The healer was giving me all kinds of shit about how I need more stamina, but he's only sticking around because I knew how to mash my buttons. I was laughing like mad the whole time, and I think he was enjoying it too, because he stuck around and kept the commentary up. When The Sun Eater dropped, he said, "Good. That'll give you more Stamina." If the player behind the Dwarf Priest is reading this for any reason, thank you for those good memories!
Or tanking the Deadmines with a newbie healer, taking it one step at a time for her to learn how to be the healing role, and seeing the rest of the group follow suit. We wiped a ton, but the repair bill was worth it.
Maybe I'm just being a boomer here, but something is missing and it isn't just window dressing. Let it crash and burn. I already sold ATVI short during the sexual harrassment scandal and got my money back from Blizzard. I'll value some of the memories but there is no going back. Whatever is left is only a name.
I'm currently playing it.
blizz employee here.
That guy isn't even a troon. They made him dress like that to virtue signal
I used to raid with that guy in vanilla & BC. Hamlet is definitely trans now.
Kek can you give us the description of his path from incel to troon?
not him but that path is pretty self-explanatory.
>fail as a man so hard you larp as the women who rejected you
I can't because he left his own guild/server to go join Elitist Jerks. He wasn't an incel, he had a girlfriend who was an officer in the guild and I haven't talked to him in years, so I have no idea why he started doing the whole troony thing. I actually found out before the whole Dragonlands preview because I wanted to get in contact with him again after finding out he had an homage in the game during Legion. Then I found out about the whole "Hamlette" shit and gave up on that idea. I used to really respect the guy but I'm not touching that landmine with a mile long pole.
>have an egirlfriend
>not an incel
anon I...
they lived together and were definitely a thing for at least 3 years. His girlfriend gave off femdom vibes, but I'd still be amazed if they never fricked during that time.
I quit (for real this time) after the last warmane fresh. The retail zoomers/trannies are already infesting wotlk with min-max autism and GDKPs, it won't be the same at all and I don't want to ruin my nostalgia any further.
I still randomly play it. I've played basically every expansion for at least one month. I never do any endgame stuff, just comfy levelling and exploring the world.
Legion was a completely satisfying ending for the game and was a fantastic expansion overall and I basically regard everything that came after it as second-rate fanfiction, though. I don't know how Legion managed to happen under nu-blizz but they somehow tied up basically every loose thread in the plot, revisited a ton of old areas for fun nostalgia in the class campaigns, fixed Illidan's shitty ending in TBC and saw the big bad get defeated once and for all. If there was ever a suitable ending for the game, that was it.
I never played that shit, MMOs are for mentally ill people.
>blizzard now moving into entirely gacha games and lootboxes
>still playing anything they make
You are the fricking homosexuals that are killing gaming.
>When did you quit World of Warcraft and why?
2009
Multiple reasons:
1. Advertised features for WotLK they never delivered on
2. Plot went to shit
3. Original intended implementation of RealID made it very apparent that Blizzard was no longer a company that wanted to make a quality product for gamers
I saw the writing on the wall at the end of TBC, on that gay elf island with the shitty dailies and the precursor to dungeon finder.
I quit again in classic when they added the shit version of AV, proving that they understood nothing, learned nothing, will change nothing, and were indeed just milking nostalgia.
Interest was fading with Wrath due to all the queue shit, and then did a trial of Cata and got turned off by how the abilities and specs were revamped. Never subbed for Cata.
I stopped paying for WoW at the end of BFA because of how little effort they put into Nyalotha and I could see the writing on the wall regarding Shadowlands being crap. The wokeism and the sexual harassment allegation scandal just sealed the deal for me. I still dick around on Starter Edition with my army of level 20 twinks though.
cautiously optimistic about Dragonflight, gonna wait a month or so after release before I even think about resubbing though
I started with SL, quit before the final raid.
I enjoyed leveling a few times the most as each class and spec was unique to me. Especially enjoyed hpally, surv hunter and holy priest but I did some SL content. Big fan of raids as a healer, really felt you had a major impact especially in pubs once half the raid got deleted and much better raids than other mmos by a long shot. Never bothered with minmax autism for mythic.
But I hate the end game design philosophy of time gating every single fricking thing. Blizzard need to release some sandbox mechanics, like EvE or Albion, which acts as your long term content. Time gating armor sets behind 'you can do this activity once a day and need to do it for 3 months for this set' is insane.
Didn't play Pandas.Bought WoD, Quit a little after WoD's last raid launched. Bought Legion, quit BfA after realizing how shit it was. Played classic until right before BT dropped because my guild was ass, it was to easy to buy gear and I got married and didn't see the point in grinding for weeks when I can buy gold and get half my gear in 1-2 runs. Might touch Wrath if they dont go full turbo-israelite with micro transactions.
To clarify I played from Late vanilla until Pandas came out.
I've never played WoW before.
The last Blizzard game I ever played was Brood War, but specifically just for the UMS maps: V-Tec Paintball, Evolves, Assassinate the President, and Protect Spongebob.
When blizzard couldn't balance warriors and made pallys OP for a third time in a row.
Well originally they gave hybrid classes the "hybrid tax" where if the class could do multiple roles it would not do it better than classes that only had one role. Giving a paladin that can heal and bubble the same burst damage that you can give a class that can't is incredibly bad design.
Fricking moronic system because it just meant those classes got passed over for any role that they couldn't match "specialized" classes, since being a "hybrid" class effectively adds nothing to an optimized raid/dungeon group.
>Oh, you leveled your ret paladin to level cap? Congrats, now switch to holy and become a healb***h since it's the only role people will take you on! But hey don't feel bad, at least you're a """hybrid""" class!!
Well originally the game wasn't about autistic minmaxing and screeching at people for not doing the meta.
Thats what happens when you get big Everquest players who mained specialist classes involved with development. It took years for hybrids in EQ to be worth a damn. Vanilla WoW suffered from a lot of similar issues that oldschool EQ also had, like warriors being the only tank that was ever accepted.
Shortly after the release of Legion. I just didn't feel like playing after that.
BFA Legion wasn't much better but artifacts were at least fun to play with but legion/BFA was when they truly abandoned it being an MMO and it became an always online ARPG. Yes I would see other players but I could obtain full mythic raid gear without even saying a word to another person and gear was the only reason to play.
I quit during ulduar when I was the #1 most geared holy paladin on my server and I felt like I won. I realized I would never win again, and I quit.
The troon is not fooling anyone but himself, he thinks he pass?
what will trannies latch on when the tech catches up to actually swap people's sex? Their whole fricking identity is being 'trans' imagine they just become women, they would probably still kill themselves because they are so deeply unhappy.
Shadowlands, towards the beginning. Torghast gave me some slight hope because I like OOT imbalanced shit just for fun, but in the end it was just an RNG grindfest. Been on the "maybe next patch will be good.." hope trip since Legion, which was the last good expansion. I just couldn't bear to see my favourite childhood MMO go up in flames like that
*smirks*
yeah...... i guess you can say i was a little edgier than your run of the mill 13 year old boy... heh.... nothin personal kid
*teleports behind you and installs brown and bloom on all your games*
Effectively in BFA. I bought Shitterlands a few months after it came out, but I played it for less than a week and haven't touched the game since. Didn't even care about TBCC or SoM, and I don't at all feel like going back for Wrath classic. Dragonflight's reveal made me feel absolutely nothing. Blizzard is finally completely dead to me.
Started playing WoW in 2004 like a week after it came out, stopped in 2019 after the Hong Kong-Blitzchung/Hearthstone crap. Didn't want to support the company after that shit, everything thats came out since then has just been retroactive justification imo
I officially clocked out last year. Dragonflight made me lol, I went out of my way to cancel the auto billing 6mo subscription.
Game isn’t for me, it’s for trannies and gays. I respect the pitch isn’t at me and spend my time on things that aren’t for queers.
9.1
Korthia was doo doo dogshit. I can't believe they gave us a shit timeless isle as a major patch after 7 months of no content. To be fair, I heard 9.2 is great but I just don't feel like resubbing
Frick, I feel like resubbing. Nothing scratches that itch.
Quit during BFA because of boredom. Legion was probably the last time I took the game seriously though, in terms of raiding. Maybe I'm just getting slower in my older age, but my Fury Warrior parses were mid and I couldn't improve
Originally quit during TBC
Came back during Cataclysm and quit again all the way until Battle for Azeroth
Then resubbed and quit during Shadowlands
Definitely done after Shadowlands.
Actually I’m wrong about BFA
I played Legion for a little bit then moved into BFA
wrath. just didn't compare to tbc. came back for legion and had fun with broken ass legendaries. bfa sucked, shadowlands sucked. on paper i like the ideas of dragonflight ("advanced" classes, the new talent trees, no required grind for raid) but if there's one thing blizz knows how to do it's take something good and frick it up.
the best way to handle this situation with trannies is to select your pronouns, but make them some moronic shit, and demand people follow them or else.
For pronouns I just say, "No pronouns to me. Just stare at me awkwardly"
Kek I've never had anyone say that shit to me but if they ever make me select a pronoun I'll just say, "Fuhrer of the Reich"
>When did you quit World of Warcraft
before cataclysm launched
>and why?
because they deleted the world that i was playing in, i no longer had ties to it
I don't know what expansion was out when I tried it but I only played it for 5 minutes before quitting forever. to the point where I gave no shits when blizzard messaged me about my blizzard account being stolen.
Wasn't he next to a passing troony in that vid?
Anyone have a link?
No that was just a very ugly woman
Never played it
I never played it
I started on a private tbc server after Warlords was already out, had a lot of fun but never even entered Kharazan
Switched to retail during tomb and had a pretty good time with it, stopped after a few months because turns out the guild I had joined were too moronic to manage heroic Eonyr after we spent the last two tiers on normal
Played BfA at launch then stopped a couple of weeks after Uldir dropped because there was just too much daily/weekly shit for me to be assed to do and I don't like grinding m+
Got Shadowlands on a big discount during late nathria and immediately dropped it basically as soon as I entered Torghast, shit sucked
Two weeks ago.
Massive burnout and devs are morons that can't design classes or balance shit.
Now the wave of woke garbage being shoved into the game is just the cherry on top.
Is this the guy who stopped doing HRT because it couldn't make him a wemen?
It's just a statistic, ignore it and it'll pass. They wouldn't behave like this on a barren planet with no audience. These freaks disappear once people stop talking about them.
When Blizzard started randomly banning people from Diablo 3 for running GNU/Linux.
That was also right about the time that it started getting a lot of great indie games thanks to Valve porting Steam.
Just didn't need to give money to a company whose policy up till that point had been
>We'll take your money, as long as you're ok with us pretending you don't exist.
Exposes them as total hypocrites when they claim to be inclusive of minorities.
I can't help that I'm a Linux user, I was born this way.
I started in open beta. Played through Vanilla and TBC and Wrath and then quit after Firelands released in Cata. I had a number of multi month breaks here and there spread out though.
I probably would have kept playing if I hadn’t left my raiding guild at the end of Wrath. Seriously the “responsibility” shit is a trap.
My parents bought me vanilla when I was like 8 years old and I couldn’t fricking stand the MMO combat and fetch quests.
You have to be a real fricking loser to enjoy this POS game at all, let alone get to endgame and do all the content