Which expansion did you quit playing retail WoW?

[Fusken]

Cataclysm. My main Problem with Retail Wow is that it doesn't feel like an Adventure anymore, classes feel the same and the game is a fucking button smash. Draenor was supposed to fix this but they failed horribly. Every time I'm in the mood to restart Draenor I go on Twitch.tv, look for a streamer playing Arena and watch him button smash for 15 minutes until the "Dampening"-debuff comes. This is enough for me to kill the urge to play Draenor. I was excited for Draenor. I played a WW-Monk to 100 and the Class got nerfed 3x, from 20% Bonus Damage to 5% Bonus damage on all abilities. The Class was shit so I tried other classes: Everyone of them bored me. The World isn't dangerous, until lvl 20 you only need to Moonfire/Shadowword:Pain them once and they die.

The world in Vanilla wow feels huge, alive and dangerous. Classes are extremely unique, every class AND! specc plays completely different.

I can't explain why Blizzard doesn't understand that Player want challenge and an Adventure. The biggest gain of Subscribers were in Vanilla and BC. Can you image how much bigger the Team must have gotten by now? And still, they have less subscribers than they had in BC and Vanilla. Add that they invested heavily in Ads, launched an native client in Asia and Russia and you have a clear imagine what players want: Challenge, adventure and a feel of "togetherness" not free epics, shitty missions from a shitty phased home and safety guaranteed everywhere. They want to be challenged and getting an adrenalin kick. Draenor is like playing Farmville: No danger, no challenge, no skill required, failing is impossible. Everyone gets their Corn with a click.


-A frustrated Player who hates the road Wow took.

[Ritzy]

Still playing, account has been alive since December 2004. Still enjoy raiding but I'm not on much outside of that.

[Cromags]

Off and on throughout really, but mostly active during Vanilla and WotLK.

Played all the time through vanilla, completing or attempting server firsts, etc.. etc... but quit before AQ was released i think due to exams and other guild related stuff really. The pressure and time consumed at that stage was perhaps a little too much.

Completely missed TBC, but came back during WotLK just as Trials of the Crusader was coming out i think, so i missed the whole Naxaramas deal, but did start raiding again with a decent guild and really enjoyed the feel of wrath as a whole. I felt involved in a big story and it was suitably dark.

Possibly had another break around this time, but didnt miss any major content and came back for the start of cataclysm where it went downhill in my eyes. Although i did like the story progressing and some of the new lands, it just wasnt enough. I had no intention of raiding during cataclysm and although i did some through the raid finder i hated the experiance. Played it, got bored, took a break and came back for MoP.

MoP just felt similar to Cataclysm for me. Looked a little better, but everything was far too channeled and the game had long lost its soul by then and no-one on the server knew anyone or talked to anyone.

Havent bothered with WoD at all.

[Mdmadam]

Played from launch until around patch 3.2 in Wrath when they released ToC. Naxx 10/25 was fun and so was Ulduar but it all start to go down hill after wards. They started releasing 5 man dungeons that had better gear than in the T7 and T8 raids and so noobs could skip out on those raids and just gear up from newer dungeons. The game itself was already hanging on by a thread, the LFG Tool and Achievements hit the game hard as well as Blizzard themselves selling out to Activision and a new CEO who knows nothing about MMOs or gaming in general took over. I still raided after that patch but I was never as hardcore and dedicated to the game after that, plus having half your guild quit at the time for the same reasons makes it harder to come back.

All in all, just like every other promising company before it, Blizzard got greedy and sold out to a company who did not share their vision but only saw potential profit.

[Setup]

Started early vanilla, just before 1.5.

Quit at WOTLK.

Didn't care for the direction the game was going.

[AverageJoe]

So, going off of everyone's input save for the people who frequently quit then resub repeatedly, the stats are something like this:

TBC: 1
WotLK: 7
Cata: 16
MoP: 4

Wow, I think it's safe to say a lot of Nostalrius players dislike Cataclysm. Or at least, enough people were bored with it that they decided to unsub for the first time. Wrath is a distant second with MoP closely following it.

Cata. I had a lot of fun in Wintergrasp, but its successor in Cata (with a name I can't remember) was just two zergs chasing each other around. And the world was dead and empty.

Tol'Barad, and yes, I feel the exact same way. I absolutely loved Wintergrasp; couldn't ever get enough of it. I was so pumped when I heard about Tol'Barad in Cata but when I finally got to experience it, it was utter garbage. I don't think I played more than five full rounds of it throughout Cata honestly.

Still playing, account has been alive since December 2004. Still enjoy raiding but I'm not on much outside of that.

You sir deserve a medal. Your patience and tolerance are unmatched.

[b1oodx]

I really enjoyed cata personally my fav expansion:) excluding s9

[Ernestos]

I did quit before cata release because of cata release. For me vanilla, tbc and wotlk = old good wow. After wotlk, when cata came out wow changed too much.

[Meistern]

I quit in WoD, the day they introduced Selfie cameras. It felt like wow turned from 16/18+ to the actual 12+. Just.. bad. And PvP/Talents/Hybrid speccing totally ruined, there's not even a challenge anymore.

[AverageJoe]

Bump.