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

By: Coz

Coz — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:21:49 +0000

I’ve been thinking of quitting and after reading this and the comments, I know why. I want to be the best and I am but now there are players getting to 85 inside a week, entering raids in pvp (shit) gear and winning epics that I’ve not been lucky to get yet. There’s no skill involved anymore. I’m sick of it.

By: Kyah

Kyah — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:26:05 +0000

*EDIT* C’mon Kyah….re-read then post. Sheesh. “trying to find WoW info. that’s not blocked by MY company’s internet filter on gaming.” ~~~ “and means something completely different than “I don’t have time to play anymore.”

By: Kyah

Kyah — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:18:28 +0000

I really liked this blog post, and loved all the comments afterwards. I found this post on my own while trying to find WoW info. that’s not blocked by company’s internet filter on gaming. It’s been over a year since I’ve logged in, and I’m still pheening like a crack addict. I remember the account cancellation screen and all the options. There was no “My husband won’t play with me anymore, so I have to quit or lose him” option–though I guess “Personal Reasons” pretty much covers that. Business statistics got mentioned earlier, and I’d like to point out that “I just don’t play it” or “got bored with the whole concept” would be valuable feedback, and means something completely different than “I don’t have to play anymore.” There’s a lot of “snarky” comments on here in defense of Blizzard, or at the least making fun of the blog author. All I can say to those folks is: You’ve embarassed yourself, friends.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:26:08 +0000

I admit I was addicted to WoW. I just could not wait to get home from work and turn on the computer. I wanted to see who was on and what adventure I would get into. The raid dungeons eventually turned me off since alot of failures were happening right at the first boss. Then comes the insults. EPIC FAIL! F***TARD! ect.

The latest patch finally made me realize this is only getting worse and made it so I couldn’t stay logged on or would freeze up. Finally I decided its time to quit for good. Did I waste 3 years? Probably.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:32:22 +0000

I know a lot of people that play WoW, and you won’t believe the amount of time they spend on it. It’s amazing how they see it as like a “Second Life”. I was relieved when I found a site that didn’t have much about WoW – http://iommo.com/games/worldofwarcraft it seems that every site has so much info regarding it.

Anyway, I hope I don’t ever get hooked on that game lol. Good blog post, I’ll peek around a bit more, lots of good stuff here!

By: m

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:43:59 +0000

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!

By: jeffe

jeffe — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:27:44 +0000

this blog is blizzard. blizzard doesn’t letyou cancel your subscription. the page doesn’t work. you fill it out, you click ok, and you see the next screen says blizzard cancellation with a dwarf on it where it looks like a cancel confirmation. way at the bottom, if you scroll down a few screens, you read that it says, there was an problem with your form. it’s not that you didn’t fill the form out. it’s not that you didn’t write your essay on why you do not play, it just doesn’t let you cancel. here, i’m looking for a blog on other people going through the same thing, and you find this blog and another one. they both are set up by blizzard. They have the 1st hundred pages of google pegged. you won’t find a blog. you have this, this was set up and made by blizzard.

By: Wowser

Wowser — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:15:14 +0000

“I MEAN ALOT OF FAT WOW PLAYERS”

I thought they all were, and smelly too.

By: WoW is gay now

WoW is gay now — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:50:10 +0000

i used to be a big WoW player but blizzard screwed me over and i quit and ill let you there are alot I MEAN ALOT OF FAT WOW plAYERs!

By: escador

escador — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:53:21 +0000

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.