Finished with Warcraft (and gaming in general)

[blast3r]

I sure had a blast. Warcraft is very stimulating to the brain and that is what I need. Constant stimulation to my brain. But since I have a very addictive personality this ended up being a problem. All I did was play WoW for about the last year and a half! I haven't created any art, any music gotten any exercise, blah blah.

Today I canceled all 9 of my accounts. I will most likely not be playing WoW again because well I won't be able to play it casually. You know me!

I am going to miss you all. Ended up being on the best server with the best guild I could have ever hoped for.

Thanks for everything and good luck to you all!

You can get hold of me if you need visiting http://www.myspace.com/dlaneart or http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=622015&ref=profile

[Gomotron]

Sorry to hear you're quitting, but good luck with your other endeavors.

That being said, a true WoWer never quits, they just take breaks. In the spirit of that statement, see you next expansion! :D

[Tdog]

You'll be back. Trust me :D As someone who has "left" gaming behind several times due to pretty much the same reasons you mentioned, WoW is just a fun game simply put. I use to be incredibly hardcore player as well and after a few times of going back and forth the "lust" for the game dies off and you'll be able to just enjoy a causal playstyle. I assume you're like I was in that I felt like if I took a break from the game I would get far behind everyone else and that just wasn't acceptable to me back then :) After awhile you just stop caring about that and just enjoy the game at your own pace.

[Feider]

While I'm sorry to hear you're leaving the community, I wish you lots of luck. You've been an entertaining and insightful poster. Enjoy Life!

[Fat Tire]

After how much leveling you have done(according to your sig). Holy crap if I would not be burnt out also. Sheesh!

Take a break make some music, art and get an excercise bike/weight set. ;p

I think most of us have gone thru what you are going thru. When/if you come back you will be alot more casual.

[pinotnoir]

Damn sham.... You burned yourself out leveling. I burned myself out too. I may cancel my accounts too because it's just not fun anymore. Maybe if we started doing 25man raids it would be exciting. PVP is a bore, heroics are a bore, solo play is a bore. I am in the process of opening a new wine store so this may be a great time to go on a hiatus from wow. Hope you have fun and maybe we can hook up again in the game.

[Dzonatan]

he'll be back...

[Gadzooks]

I kinda feel for the OP, I almost reached the same point myself.

Just as a background, I am a full time designer and art director, and a freelance illustrator and artist. I do it all - draw, paint, sculpt, I'm heavily into digital art, and am learning and dabbling with 3-d, mostly with Silo and zBrush.

Any one of those could take all your time, easily.

I indulged in WoW, heavily, about 2 years ago, and burned out much like the OP did - and realized my output art-wise was way down. Not good.

So, now, I do everything in moderation. Wow is for after I've worked on freelance assignments, or worked on a project, or taken care of what I need to do. For example, this past weekend, I had all weekend free, so I wanted to get my team to Northrend.

Did it happen?

Heck no! :D

I found other things to do - I worked on some files, I bought and installed Creative Suite 4 and dabbled with the new tools, I browsed http://www.cgsociety.org/ like I usually do, watched some movies, and Sunday got around to logging in...and leveled my rogue's fishing, and started the fishing and cooking dailies in Dalaran at 71. :D (Wintergrasp at 71 is...interesting...)

This week, I may get to Northrend, or I may not. I don't care - and I don't care what other people are doing. I'm on my own timetable, and if I don't log on for a week, so what?

THAT is the best way to play. Yes, I know, the game is addicting - but I proved I am not addicted, I just fell into the more powerful forces that Blizzard designs into the game, that makes you itch if you're not logged on and playing.

Let the OP go, and don't say "You'll be back!" Let him go on the path he's chosen with the best wishes possible, and make the same healthy choices when we need to.

It's 9:15 here in CA, dinner over, kitchen clean, I my log on, or I may work on a drawing. Dunno. And that's okay!

[Bot]

right on zooks :)


edit: almost forgot have fun blaster!

[DIllett7799]

You dont quit wow, wow quits you
I used to be hardcore raider. 5 hours a night 7 days a week. Thats all i did. Two summers ago I litteraly played 18 hours a day for 3 months. I did not miss ONE day. I got burned out, and quit for a few months. Now I play casualy, and take breaks and such. I found the perfict medium.

I do hope to see you back, you helped me out a lot when it comes to boxing. Much love and GL in what ever life brings your way.
P.S. Hit you up on myspace bro.

[Stealthy]

Hey man,

Sorry to see you go but totally understand your reasons. It's been hella fun playing with you...from the Ring of Blood quests in Northrend, to WG, to curb stomping would-be gankers in Winterspring, to helping newbie boxers get up and running on Mag...

And I know that every time I open up my character screen and look at my Titansteel Guardians, I will always see "made by Sham" to remind me of the good times!


Take care of yourself mate...and if you're ever down under in Sydney, let me know and we'll hook up for a beer or three! :)

Cheers,
S.

[Zaelar]

Just play one character. You'll only want to play when we're raiding. Addiction (at least partially) solved?

Besides, you're just going to get addicted to something else :x

[Prepared]

he'll be back...

This is guaranteed. If he was leaving for good, he wouldn't have posted here saying he was leaving. In other words, he cares about what he has done here enough to make a goodbye message. This means he will return :-)

[Otlecs]

Can I have your stuff?!!!11eleventyone

Erm... I mean...

See you around Blaster. All things in moderation :)

[Enndo]

I have quit many times and always end up coming back to world of warcrack lol. But after my last "im quitting" where I actually put it down for 2 months I came back and started boxing. Now thanks to boxing I get to play the game at my pace, when I feel like running a dungeon I can without being at the mercy of LFG lol. Good luck in your future endeavors.

[Marathon]

Best of Luck

[d0z3rr]

I've quit WoW 4 times since the Alpha:

1st: Quit the Alpha
2nd: Quit and tried City of Heroes
3rd: Quit from raid burnout
4th: Quit from Northrend burnout

There is no escape my friend.

[Tasty]

This is guaranteed. If he was leaving for good, he wouldn't have posted here saying he was leaving.

No offense but thats some really skewed logic in my mind. If you spend a lot of time hanging out with nice people and enjoying yourself why on earth wouldn't you say goodbye? Just curious as to your line of thinking.

@Blaster - It makes me sad knowing one of the few all rogue boxers is leaving ;) regardless good luck with real life stuff. Musics always a really enjoyable hobby so hope you get back into it :)

[wolpak]

Good move. Nobody denies that the game and gaming in general is fun, but I am amazed by how much time I tried to make to get in as much playing time as possible. It's too much and I am sure everyone here has given up doing something that would have been important to them to play.

[SoulSeekerUSA]

Good luck! I could never ever give up gaming 100%, I have been doing it for way to long its part of who I am and my wife hates it so I have to make sure she has something to be pissed at me about;-)

[zanthor]

Can I have your gold? It helps break the desire to come back when you think "god I sold all my stuff to a vendor and gave the gold to Zanthor..."

[Korruptor]

Hey Blastr, thanks for the warm welcome you gave me when I started up my latest (and last RAF) on Mag.

I can empathize with your situation. I've done two prior RAF's and played far too much that I had to quit twice (from burnout) wasting both RAF periods but this last time I'm doing it much better and am keeping it balanced.

I do hope you return.

[Multibocks]

Hah, I have quit for a while too. I hope I dont come back.... currently I am wasting time by learning Spanish and messing around on Photoshop.

[Tonuss]

Just play one character.That's not a bad idea. Going cold-turkey can backfire. Playing a single character lets you get your WoW fix, but if you're not multiboxing you may find it boring enough that you play a lot less.

I stopped playing for a while, then activated one account and leveled my shaman from 77 to 80 via normal questing, then stopped logging in. Not because I was trying to avoid playing, but after getting a single character to 80 I didn't feel like bothering with the quest-for-gold and daily-til-you-puke grind. I activated my mage's account and have started questing with her as well, and I find that I can only do so for an hour or so at a time and I don't feel driven to play anymore. So I may try to keep it this way, but if I happened to accidentally activate a few more accounts then, well...