Getting bored with WoW

[JohnGabriel]

Man after all the time and money I put into the game and 5-boxing, I'm getting mad at myself that I play less and less now.

[Zub]

time to cut your losses methinks

[Khatovar]

Well, you can either find some other way to play, like spending time in PvP if you've been mostly PvE. You could try rolling a new team on another server or the other faction. You could just quit for a while and try another game, either solo or boxed. You can even pick up a F2P game to do that. Or you could quit gaming altogether for a while.

I haven't played since February. I'm taking advantage of free time from Blizzard to screw around for a bit, but I probably won't subscribe again until September or October. Your toons aren't going anywhere. Nothing wrong with taking a break and coming back later. Or moving on to something else.

[Shania]

why are you actually mad at yourself ?

[jeepdriver]

I get like that myself as well, I tend to do other hobbies for a bit, maybe tinker on the car, work on my liqour recipes, play minecraft etc... take a little break ,enjoy whats left of the hot weather for a bit, come back when it starts gettin cold :)

[Zub]

Man after all the time and money I put into the game and 5-boxing, I'm getting mad at myself that I play less and less now.
try and think of the amount of money you spent on beer or smokes or whatever, you won't feel so bad about wow :-)

[drarkan]

try and think of the amount of money you spent on beer or smokes or whatever, you won't feel so bad about wow :-)

Thats what I say to my friends when I tell them I subscribe to 5 wow accounts.

Also when I feel bored from playing, I just either play another game, like a strategy game like Civ5, Space Empires 5 or 4 (really good games), Age of Empires, or the old school warcraft games. And if its not the game itself and more the games per say, I'll just draw, read a book, take a walk, hit the gym (should be doing that more often anyway, gaming or not lol) or some other activity.

Remember its your life, what you do with it and how you feel is totally up to you. If you feel you aren't getting the most out of life, then only you can make that change, and nobody else can tell you what it is you want or should do with your life. And if they do and you don't like it, well you don't have to do it. Thats why I renounced my religion. :D and dispite what my family thinks, I will not burn in hell for it ;)

[Tonuss]

Man after all the time and money I put into the game and 5-boxing, I'm getting mad at myself that I play less and less now.
Take a break. One of the benefits of multiboxing is that you are your own group or raid or guild. You don't have four or nine or twenty-four other people depending on you to show up on a regular schedule. If you need to step away from the game for a while due to burnout, you can do it without worry or guilt.

I take breaks all the time; if I don't feel like logging in, I don't. At some point I come back and while the game won't feel new (it can't after all of these years) it is fun to play. There is bound to be something useful you can do with the time that becomes available when you aren't playing WOW for a while.

Thats what I say to my friends when I tell them I subscribe to 5 wow accounts
Earlier this year I paid off all of my credit cards. Before that, there were many months where just the interest and finance charges on my credit cards would have paid for 30-40 WoW account subscriptions. Not to mention the cable bill or the rent or ... etc.

Anytime I see someone act as if paying for five WoW accounts is a lot, I chuckle. Now that I have no debt, I could pay for almost 100 WoW accounts a month and still have cash left over. It's not as much money as it seems to be, when you consider all of the other things we have to pay for.

[Apps]

try and think of the amount of money you spent on beer or smokes or whatever, you won't feel so bad about wow :-)

Add to this..
the cost of renting movies, renting games, going to the movies, going out for entertainment....

My wife used to complain about wow time. After some time she stopped.

When I asked why, she said "Well, you arent at a bar, you arent spending money on a one time movie that will be out on DVD in a month for less, arent drinking, arent on the road at risk of some random drug addict or drunk killing you.. I like knowing you are upstairs, safe, happy. $15 a month for that is damn cheap."

Best wife ever.

[zenga]

Anytime I see someone act as if paying for five WoW accounts is a lot, I chuckle. Now that I have no debt, I could pay for almost 100 WoW accounts a month and still have cash left over. It's not as much money as it seems to be, when you consider all of the other things we have to pay for.

A 100 wow accounts @ 15 a month is about 1500 euros. Many people in their 20s/30s where I live (Flanders, about 60% of Belgium - one of the top most developed areas in the world in terms of living standard, yes higher than 99% of US) get 1500 euros in their hands every month after taxes, from working 40 hours a week. Housing, insurance, energy, internet, food, clothing, transportation ... and for the amount that is left 5 wow accounts is quite a big % (if you have 250 left to spend where you want, 75 is 30%. If you live together and work with 2 that makes things different, reality however is that more and more people live on their own. This while we are (one of) the only country in the world that uses the index system (if life gets more expensive from energy / housing / .. basic needs, your default pay check will rise by the index number, paid by your boss).

My point being: saying that you chuckle when someone says that 5 wow accounts is a lot, is ignoring reality and it makes you look like a bragging dick when you use numbers like that. Someone might as well say that his porsche ain't a lot of money for him, and that he chuckles when someone tells him porsche is expensive.

[Tonuss]

*shrug* I worked my way out of poverty and debt and into a very nice and comfortable life where $75 a month for video game subscriptions is no big deal. Not sure about ignoring reality, if reality is that hard work, dedication and managing money carefully pays off. If that makes me a bragging dick, I'm pretty cool with it. Heh.

[daviddoran]

Add to this..
the cost of renting movies, renting games, going to the movies, going out for entertainment....

My wife used to complain about wow time. After some time she stopped.

When I asked why, she said "Well, you arent at a bar, you arent spending money on a one time movie that will be out on DVD in a month for less, arent drinking, arent on the road at risk of some random drug addict or drunk killing you.. I like knowing you are upstairs, safe, happy. $15 a month for that is damn cheap."

Best wife ever.

My wife is just like your wife. She likes knowing that the wow expense is a set rate per month, not a variable one, like bar bills, pay per view, etc etc. It's easier to budget for wow.

[Apps]

+1 for great and understanding women, aye David?

(note: there is a consequence to my wifes understanding... she gets to poke fun at my inner nerd at her liesure..lol)

[Gomotron]

Cancel your accounts. Your characters won't be going anywhere.

At some point in the future, if it strikes your fancy, you can resub. I think most of us have done that at least once, if not several times.

[Zub]

Plus if you cancel your accounts you'll get all excited when you receive those FREE 7DAY passes lol

I know I was, and ended up only playing 4 hours in those 7 days as I couldn't be asked to play more.
Basically i logged into most of my toons to check for online friends, noticed that none were ever on, and proceeded to simply do a few WSG with my lowbie gnome priest until I got the Ironman (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/shadow-council/Hott%C3%ACe/achievement#95:14804:a204)achive ;-)

[Khatovar]

Plus if you cancel your accounts you'll get all excited when you receive those FREE 7DAY passes lol

I know I was, and ended up only playing 4 hours in those 7 days as I couldn't be asked to play more.

Hehe, I managed about the same. First day was spent updating and replacing addons since half the crap I was using hadn't been updated since Cata was released. Then I spent the next 4 or so redoing my HKN scripts, macros and interface. Next thing I knew, my time was up. :p