Blizzard Does Not Believe People Quit World of Warcraft Because They Don’t Play It

The point of that little survey is so Blizzard can use the feedback to improve the game and increase user retention. “I just don’t play”, while a valid reason, offers no useful feedback to improve the game, as there is no specific reference to a problem. As such, it’s not so much they don’t believe people quit for this reason, as they don’t care about this reason, as it offers no useful data. In effect they’re going to try and weasel out the reason WHY you just don’t play, and not offering a generic option is the best way to do so.

Jesus Christ do you guys work for Blizzard? Who told you to come over here and take up for them???

[...] on his blog that of all the various options Blizzard lists for quitting the game, simply not having the time to play it isn’t one of them. Whenever you decide to cancel your subscription, you get a little survey to fill out, with two [...]

[...] on his blog that of all the various options Blizzard lists for quitting the game, simply not having the time to play it isn’t one of them. Whenever you decide to cancel your subscription, you get a little survey to fill out, with two [...]

No — what it is, Alice, is that unlike you, they know something about development.

Oh you silly internet peoples. It’s obvious that you missed something from my blog post, and let’s be clear, it’s a personal blog post. It’s a little thing called Satire, cousin to humor, in other words, a joke. Obviously I know that Blizzard is not that stupid, and I understand the point and subtleties of statistical analysis, I work in Business Intelligence for Pete’s sake. The point was that I found it “funny” that when I just wanted to cancel, I had this huge mountain of options, some of which I found funny.

“I just don’t play anymore because I don’t want to” is quit different than “I really want to but don’t have the time”, don’t you think? you guys are taking this post way to seriously, but thanks for the traffic and comments! – Jason

Well aren’t you pissy? Did your sense of humor call in sick today? I’ll bet you’re all three the same person. LOL say hai to Blizzard for me.

The thing is that by canceling, you obviously “don’t [want] to play anymore.” Blizzard wants you to be more specific. You clearly don’t know how to make a joke.

Classy, post a picture of a fat guy in his underwear because it encapsulates every WoW player ever. You made a retarded blog post, you got called a tool for it, and now you’re making ad hominem attacks on a straw man. Pro moves.

By the way, since you’re a programmer, I assume you have no social graces, talk in an over-excited awkward lilt, and watch sci-fi alone on your couch during all your free time.

C wut i did thar?

The old pot/kettle/black adage seems to have a strong foothold here. Calling people nerds when you fit the same descriptor is a little misguided.

i think you should google the definition of the word “satire”

ah, this is why I love my blog…

well maybe Blizzard considers his game as perfect and doesnt want to say that people dont want to play it anymore…anyway, it is a consuming game, I played it a lot, maybe too much…and yes at the moment I dont want to play it anymore

It amazes me the length people will go to justify spending all their time playing a game.

Anyone who spends a large amount of their waking hours as a Cow, with a gun shooting anything that moves, and mindlessly following generic quests centred around heading North and killing 10 ‘X’ has serious, serious issues.

“I MEAN ALOT OF FAT WOW PLAYERS”

I thought they all were, and smelly too.

I realized that after I changed servers last year the type of people I disliked so much for being elitists snobs and over geared was actually my own self.

In order to feel like I was important I had to run the instances, get the achievements and have the tier gear that was tops. With no one to admire me or show off for the game was empty. In a guild “eve of destruction” with over 260 players I realized that even the guild master had not logged in for over 28 days, only I was left. My alt had a guild given to him and no one was in it and that was with a 4 slot bank tab.
Today I rolled a perfect 100 on a purple item that was not really anything to write home about and the raid leader handed it to someone who rolled 99. This annoyed me something dreadful and the anger about it drew my attention to the fact that the game was getting to me.
With 3 level 80s with 2 having elite flying and gears I have become attached to a cartoon and not bothered to do art, write, build my web pages or communicate in a natural manner.

The brain chemistry changes from the stimuli-response-endorphin rush had began to control me, something I will NOT allow alchohol, drugs or oher people to do.
Then today I saw the 10,000Th noob shouting for guild siggys and it hit me what a waste of time this is. After i shut the game down for the last time I found myself really wanting to log back in and the idea hit me: I am DONE. And NO ONE in the game will miss me and I will never be called crap for “Fail” or blamed for a loss in a run or stand by while it happens to others as I have done repeatedly.
ALL the players and I mean ALL of them from over two years ago are LONG gone. Now I am with them and deleting the game from my hard drive. This is the 10th year for online MMORPG for me and the last.

I wasted hundreds and thousands of hours on mindless repetition in every game from ragnarok online to WOW. At 10$ a month average that is $120.00 a year times 10. I laugh at the poor idiots smoking and hooked but I am NO better when I cannot control my own time.

The deal is for me that if I am going to play I want to be at the top or near to it and that is simply impossible as the rules change constantly with new items and so forth. I will NOT be substituting another online game as I KNOW I have an addictive personality.
I hope everyone reading this understands there is a reason why the games are so hard to stop playing, and that they can be in control over whether they log in.
Good luck!