Looking to leave World of Warcraft? Good luck!

I actually lefta few days before the 3.0 patch and haven't regretted it once. It is a fun game and I had my fun but I got tired of it and left it for good.

Now I am sitting in LOTRO again and realizing that this is the game for me. I won't be back to WOW, had my fun and moved on.

Will laugh when we'll see how many will re-dump wow as soon as they discover that wotlk is the same old soup served in the same old way, with the same old boring grind & farm.

This, of course, even not considering that Morahime is just spewing plain bull droppings, as usual, expecially due to Warhammer definately high account retention ratio, which is higher than 72%, a detail that Massively has quite conveniently forgot to mention since when it's been made public.

Lol, with all the WoW slant on this site, you guys might as well close Massively and just write for WoWInsider.com.

I left because WoW wasn't fun (that's not pvp that's harassment) and the only way to get anywhere is by grinding, also not fun. And because they restrict a lot of content until the highest levels, and my highest level character was 30. I'll admit I looked into LK but all it's features were for high level characters.

But what about the 30% who left for AoC and 52% who left for WAR, and did NOT come back to WoW? I think that's far more newsworthy, because even with the millions playing WoW, it shows that other titles in the genre can errode WoW's numbers.

joy yet another pointless article about how wow is king or is that queen anyways i wonder if wow will be saying what they are saying in 4 years from now when we should have this talk.

why because it took wow that long to do it's thing why not let others do theres

WoW was awesome for me for some time. The most fun I had was while playing with my old RPG pals. Doing instances with good friends is something pretty cool, however, playing alone was like drinking wattered coke. In the last days I would only play with my budies, but once everybody started focusing on other things, the game died for us. Well, at least for me =p

I very strongly believe that WoW is a fluke. You can only really do what they did once, then you start cannibalizing your own market share. It simply continues to be a success because it has the right mix of being as much for the casual player as it is for the hardcore, and I don't think there is a single studio that has anywhere near the same reputation as Blizzard when it comes to mainstreaming a gaming platform. There isn't any REAL innovation in any of the games they make, but they are all entertaining and are as casual or in depth as you want them to be, why do you think Starcraft is STILL nationally televised in Korea?

When it comes to pure sub numbers, it's probably pretty fair to mention that they've released the game in far more countries than any other MMO, and they've got the money to pump advertising into each new territory they go into. The new 11 million number comes right at the wake of releasing the game in Russia, so of course you're going to see the numbers rise. Like it or not, it's not going anywhere until Blizzard decides it is.

...and non stop Scenario grinding is sooo much better than WoW grinding.

I have an active WoW and Warhammer account. Before patch 3.0 in WoW I was playing War exclusively. I have not touched War for almost 3 weeks now. I do like it. It is rather enjoyable to play. Unfortunately I have not been able to get into it as much as WoW. With the new talents and the expansion coming up, trying to get to 80 as quickly as possible so our guild can start raiding 25 man content ASAP, and the overall familiarity of the WoW world I do not see myself going back to War for some time.

I will pop on occasionally and run some quests or scenarios, but when it comes down to it, both games are similar. They are both a grind and farm experience and no one in the MMO industry has really done anything to change that dynamic in any game that has been released over the 10 years that I have been playing MMOs. It is a matter of making that mind numbing experience fun and interesting and even then at some point there is burn out. Then a choice needs to be made to move on or stick it out. Most in WoW have stuck it out, but a decent amount have left. A lot have come back, but some have left. That is the cycle of an MMO. At some point people get burnt out and move on. It doesn't mean anything is wrong with the game you are moving on from...it just doesn't peak your interest anymore...and that is ok.

There is no need to try to be little someone elses gaming choice just because you have decided to move on and do something that is better for you. It's ok for people to play Wow and it's ok for people to play War. Both are excellent games and neither is better than the other.