Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
Myself, I've been boxing (meaning hardware or software key replication, etc, and not just multiple accounts moving between keyboards) since late Burning Crusade.

Many of the current regulars were boxing warcraft (or other games) before me.
But the majority of the regulars play or have played a significant amount of time as a warcraft boxer.

Having done the entire WotLK expansion...
Cataclysm is not that new or shiny.
The game is not horrendous, but it has lost a large portion of its allure.
But someone else, who is newer to the game... might like it a lot more.

And I have taken four or five breaks before.
As long as five months.
Usually something piques my interest.
So you never know.
Same for others, you never know.
^ This. couldnt agree more Ualaa. Blizzard has altered their business model. (As all companies do and should to continue to meet the flow of public desire.) WoW isnt what it was... Thats a fact. But, if you can find something in the game to still keep your enjoyment... do it. Who cares? Its still my $15/mon / per account.

I too have quit several times. The longest was 10 months. I was bored. I came back because things changed. I thought, Id try them out, see if I liked it. For myself, I just found multiboxing 5 months ago. It changed the game for me. Ive done the Achievement thing, Raid or Die thing, PVP, reached the gold cap, Farmer thing, collect all the mounts, earned max level on every toon on one particular account, make the one of each thing, etc etc. Multiboxing has opened another door to this game for me.

Sure, ill likely stop at some point again. Maybe even permanently, who knows. But games are my interest. If its not WoW then it will be Aion, or LoToR, or Guild Wars, or Age of Conan, or SWKotOR, etc. Shoot, right now im reading over Viods posts about Rift. Strongly considering it.


Just as a "eye opener" Blizzard is a company. A "subcompany". Activision is a business out to make money. The reason why WoW sees its expansions and "huge patches", isnt so much to apease the customers. Really. Set aside the game itself for a min and look at business strategy. They already have over 10mm subscriptions. Even if 50 thousand people complain and say "I WANT TO FLY IN AZEROTH!!", Blizzard said. "This will not ever happen. Just too much code and programing to write." LOL - Uhhhh. No, these expansions come to counter competition in the market.

SWKotOR announced a release date publicly... Cata was announced.
Wrath came out to counter Aion.
Burning Crusades came out to counter Age of Conan

I predict when SWKotOR has its actual release date, we will see another large expansion. Id bet my accounts on it.