Wow has lost its touch. Is cata responsible?

[Tonuss]

I agree that taking a break from the game can be a very big help.

I think that persistent-world MMOs change the way we approach gaming, and are designed (not deliberately, IMO) to induce burnout. I cannot recall any other video game that I would play almost every day for at least an hour a day for months, even YEARS, at a time. There were periods during my EQ and early WOW days where I was playing every day, two-to-four hours a day, for weeks on end.

Even games like the Civilization series, which I would play an absurd amount of over a short time, didn't keep me coming back every day for hours at a time over a course of months. Or even weeks. I played a shitload of Civ2, and more than a few of my Civ2 sessions were almost certainly much longer than my longest ever WOW/EQ session. But since each game finishes at some point, I'd go for days or weeks before I picked it up again. Not my MMORPGs, though. Day in, day out, grind grind grind. It was fun, don't get me wrong. But burnout is inescapable, IMO.

So now I take breaks whenever I feel I need one. Or I do as I am doing now, where I play 30-60 minutes at a time with the occasional day off and the rare 2+ hour play session. I don't think I've logged into WOW in three days or so as of today, and I'm not worried about it. And these days when I play, I don't feel as if I'm falling behind and need to make up the slack, either. So the threat of burnout is pretty much gone now and I can enjoy it more when I play.

[AgentSnipps]

Like just about everyone said above me takeing breaks can help a ton. I've played off and on since release and evertime I go to take a break I just watch MMO champion every now and then for something intresting to pull me back in. This is the longest break I've been on (over 8 months) but reading these forums and such has goten me excited to try multiboxing again.

Since I have a tendency to wander and get side tracked I've deicded to forgo RAF this time and either lv my 71 hunter,shaman and warlock to meet up with my 80 priest and pally and 5 box cata or just dual box my priest and pally. This way if I get distracted by oh say SC II again I wont be wasteing my RAF time.

Also considering faction swaping to Alliance, not a fan of ditching the Horde but I think a fresh viewpoint of the game might hold more for awhile longer and I can always go back.

P.S. Why does everyone love BC so much? I had just enough time to hit 70 and clear kara before going to bootcamp and afterwards could never get into it.