Is it the game or the boxing?

[Souca]

So I'm noticing a lot of boxers seem to be heading away from wow to other games they've played before or want to try. I think it's interesting that we tend to be boxers first, and wow players second. Since I started boxing on wow, this is a reversal to me. so for those of you that have recently left wow or reduced your play time I have a question. Did switch to your current game because you wanted a game otehr than wow to box, or because you wanted to play that game and you just happen to be a boxer?

As an aside, do you think non boxers are leaving wow too, or is it something that boxers are more affected by that is causing the exodus?

- Souca -

[daviddoran]

I never played a single MMO before WoW. I box because it makes wow more fun. Not sure if I'd ever get into another game just to box it. I'd probably just solo play it until I come across a situation where boxing would be beneficial to me.

[Bot]

i didnt even realise people were leaving wow (i didnt even think it was humanly possible). ive tried multiple other games and honestly i dont think theres anything out there for me that even compares. i just like the graphics engine and the interface is so well designed (the menus and stuff, i require a bar mod) that all the other games look amatuer in comparison. i just think the cartoony style is where its at. all the other games ive checked out have tried so hard to have "good" graphics that everything looks totally plastic and bogus. too answer your question though, i like david would not leave wow simply to box another game. it would be something that came along well after my switch.

[moosejaw]

Personally I boxed before Wow came out. When I started up Wow I only singled it because I didn't have the hardware to box it and I didn't know of any software solutions. Now it seems that boxing Northrend content requires a large twitch factor that I don't have. I remember eq having much longer fights and less gimicky. I am hoping that eq2 isn't that slow but also doesn't require extreme twitch. Being pve only helps alot too. No accidental pvp while aoe'ing, hehe.

Work keeps me from raiding on a regular schedule. If you can't raid in wow and you don't pvp what is left? To be fair I haven't played enough eq2 to make a judgement on it but there appears to be a ton of group content to work on. So we will see how it works out.

[Khatovar]

I am equally a Boxer and a Gamer. WoW does not get it's own catagory, heh. Unfortunatly, the vast majority of MMOs out there all fall under "must have at least this many people to do X, Y, Z" with X-Z being anything past level 40. Being anti-social/painfully shy and living a 3rd shift life does not fit well with that style of gameplay, so multi-boxing is as much a part of gaming to me as wasd movement is to other people. If I can't box it, I can't play it. It may be fun while the new factor is still there, but once you get to the point where you need other people to progress, I want to be my own "other people".

I left WoW {again} because it was no longer a fun game {again}. I only stayed as long as I did because I got into boxing. If I'd gotten into boxing earlier, I probably never would have come back to WoW. Personally, I couldn't tell you who's leaving. I was a foot out the door about 3 months before Wrath even went live. My husband and I didn't like the changes that were being made and saw things coming back to the same point they were at when we left in Vanilla WoW. Raiders on top, PVP right below, small groups and solo way at the bottom. It might have been a slightly different story if raiding in general felt epic, but it doesn't, it feels gimmicky, and at a 10-man level, that is nothing more than a 5-man dungeon with the annoyance level turned up. So I wouldn't be surprised if it's just that boxers see it faster than other players because they, like larger guilds, have easier and more frequent access to what's in game. The "New" factor wears off faster.

I'll play EQ2 until I find something else, just like I played AC until I found something else and WoW until I found something else. I like to play games, I enjoy playing games, I'm rabid about playing games. I just don't get rabid about titles. There was gaming before WoW and there's gaming after WoW. There was even gaming during WoW

[glo]

Probably the fact that the game has been around long enough to get stale for even the most diehard fans.

[aNiMaL]

Mainly I'm a gamer,
Played most worthwile games which released in the passed 15 years.
Started WoW in singlebox but was interested in boxing the first time I saw it,
Booted up a 5-box last year, played it till december and halted it because my main warrior wanted to be competitive in PvE raiding.
Reactivated one of my accounts last weekend, but I doubt I'll pay after the 10 day trial.

I'm just a gamer, but ever since I boxed i'm thinking about possibilities to box in other games.
Started a trial account in EvE late last night with the intention to upgrade it,
I tried 3 seperate trials before, but WoW consumed so much time back then that I didn't think it would be worth the money.
Considering boxing it with 2-3 accounts, but since I never really looked deep into it's space I think it's better to first play around a bit solo.

[Frosty]

I'm a play-whatever-is-fun kind of gamer.
But, I'm also VERY limited on my game time with 2 kids.

I played EQ single box, CoH/CoV single, WoW both single and 5-boxed and now EQ2 6-boxing.
But the problem I was running into on WoW was that if I wanted to do anything or progress further/different in the game, I had to PvP or Raid.
I suck at PvP, and have never liked it.
I enjoyed Raids back in my EQ days, but now that I have kids, I just don't have the time.
I was logged into EQ2 last night for around 3 hours...but I'm sure I was only at the keys for about an hour total. :P

Edit - OH, I have yet to run across someone I wanted to reach through the screen and strangle in EQ2. EVERYONE has been nice and friendly.
WoW's general community really sucks compared to EQ2's. But, that being said, the level 1-9 chat channel does remind me of Barrens chat every once in a while.

[moosejaw]

I wanted to clarify part of my statement. I do/have raided in Wrath but only on a single character, my priest. I am in a late night raiding guild but with rotating shifts I can only seriously raid one weekend a month. I don't even have kids/wife to bother with so I can sleep when I want and play when I want. After healing so many instances and seeing how gimicky nearly every fight is, I throw up my hands in surrender. There is no way I have the patience to box all of those encounters.

I am going to gather all my gold (about 60k) and resources then pass them out to my in game good friends and completely hang up wow. It has been fun, real fun. Now on to something else.

[Ellay]

Pretty much like to stick to multiboxing anything I touch now, if I want to do a single player I go to my consoles :P