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Well just thought I would post here and let you all know that I cancelled my WoW subscription. I still have about a month left and haven't decided exactly what I will be doing with wow at this point, but I feel in any sense, I need a break.
Lately the game just has been a chore and boring to me. For some reason logging in no longer provides the same level of fun for me as it has, and this has been an ongoing issues since Wrath of the Lich king was getting stale. I had hoped that Cata would revive my interest in the game, and it has for the last couple of months, but here I find myself again, having a hard time signing in to wow.
I really am not sure what it is. I feel that Cataclysm is a great expansion, that as a whole definitely develops this game further in a positive way. I also feel that I have been here before. I just did not have the same excitement for Cataclysm that I had for BC or even Wrath. I think after playing this game for 6+ years, it is just starting to get stale and feel like the same old thing, just rehashed and redone to a certain degree. I don't know if I can blame my shift in late Wrath on some of the drama that went on in my life, or if my playstyle has shifted, but it is definitely not the same.
I feel that the community for WoW as a whole has dropped to an all time low, and I admit that the cesspool of whiners and complainers in WoW's community has tainted my opinion of the community a lot. Back in Vanilla, or even BC, trade chat was not the profanity ridden place that it once was. I didn't have to deal with "johnnycoolbonez" and "bigboobelf" in town nearly as often as I do now. There are rarely good discussions now in chat... It requires people to move to private channels to maintain some sort of order. I know people deal with it, and I could do things to just ignore that part of the game, but it is still there in the back of my head.
I also just feel that WoW is old. Six years. That is a large chunk of my life, and while I do not regret it, I have to think that at some point you eventually need a change of scenery, and an expansion may not be enough to keep me going. Logging in just isn't the same fun that it used to be. Hopefully all I need is a break to get back into things.
Anyhow, I will pop in and out still during the next month or so. I will let you all know what I do ultimately decide once I figure out where I am going. Do I pick up another MMO? Not sure... Nothing really interests me out there. Only quality new game that is coming soon seems to be rift, but after dabbling in a couple beta weekends, I feel that it is just too much like WoW and that I would lose interest in it as well.
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