What made you stop playing your previous mmorpg

1) Line][Age.
L2 was my fav mmorpg. I stopped playing it when I moved to Australia and the time zone would make it difficult to play with my inrl fr.
If it wasnt for that I'd stop playing it because of the outdated combat and graphics. Besides that I have never found an mmorpg that offered as much as that game to me by far.

2) Tera Online. My best mate moved to Thailand the same time I moved to Australia. He showed me a Warrior, a dual sword class similar to what I was playing in L2.
I stopped playing Tera Online because of the ridiculous outfits from cash shop, the ridiculous jumping castle themed BG and because even though the PvP and PvE combat was great I didnt like how much of the game was instanced (50%)

3) FFXIV. FFXIV for me it's not an mmorpg. It's an rpg with team player modes (instanced PvE).
I stopped playing it because it was making me feel asleep, I disliked most of the happy fo lucky music killing my vibe, the mute always head noding character that was me and there was no PvP.

4) BDO. Again with my friend living in Thailand we started BDO. I was very very very dissapointed to finally find a proper mmorpg without dualswords.
Second dissapoubtment was the overly flashy visual effects attached to attacks. Third dissapointment was how much time you had to spend NOT doing combat to earn very little gold, with which gold you'd still face barriers in trying to improve your character.
Fourth dissapointment was the parallel worlds making the environment feel empty of players.
Fifth dissapointment was that even though the world was beautiful it was only 1-2 landscapes.
I found the game to be a second job even though I am a hardcore mmorpg player.

6) ESO. Again, I dont find ESO to be an mmorpg. It is a single player with team modes.
I played it solo for 3 years just using Group Finder, with an empty friendlist, belonging to 5 'guilds' that I may have done content with them 24h total in since July 2015, and never did I miss getting an item. So ez.
I managed to convince some of my old friends to play the game. Within a month they were bored. Meaningless instanced PvP, instanced PvE. Not an mmorpg. Before I realized that I never enjoyed the game besides my awsome looking class (whose awsome ability
Animations were totally messes up by a terrible animation cancelling application) the performance of their servers became so terrible that I though to myself, why bother with this PvE that I have done countless times, and a meaningless PvP that is less fun than LoL?
So I started FFXIV again to try the Gunbreaker which is basically Squall from FFVIII. Again the game makes me feel sleepy.

Tried getting into GW2 by my name was taken in every world so ima give it a rain check.

What are your reasons for looking up to AoC to make a great mmorpg?

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Dygz

I'm tired of the endgame treadmill.
I'm waiting for an MMORPG that is literally an ever quest.

Varkun

For me in the past it has usually been the death of a guild. Guild mates who stop playing get bored and move on to something else or just stop playing games all together. I find that once the people I enjoyed playing and interacting with move on most games hold little appeal after a year or two. The only reason I am playing ESO is because of my guild mates plus a lack of a decent alternative MMO out there. Though as soon as AOC launches we will move as a guild to AOC with many old guild mates returning.
But that day is at least 18+ months away yet so with ESO we stay.

Wandering Mist

I stopped playing WoW because I was sick of the way they handled end-game gear progression.

I stopped playing GW2 because of the elitist raiding community.

I stopped playing ffxiv because I was sick of the story and having to wait over an hour to get into mandatory dungeon groups.

I stopped playing TERA, Aion, blade and soul and BDO because the levelling was so pointlessly easy.

I stopped playing runescape because I lost my old character and couldn't be bothered going through the grind all over again.

I stopped playing City of heroes because the game shut down.

Jahlon

I stopped WoW because FFXIV the original one came out.

Stopped FFXIV the original one because it was a ballsack.

Stopped Atlantica Online because I went to SWTOR

Stopped SWTOR because I ran out of cutsences to do

Stopped RIFT because it was a ballsack.

Stopped FFXIV:ARR because the lag was stupid and my real life career was using up my time

Stopped AA because Trion was a house of liars

Currently Playing FFXIV:ARR and AA (Post-Trion now with Gamigo)

Noaani

I stopped playing EQ2 because of a natural disaster, and just never got back in to it.

I stopped playing Rift because the raid content was bland.

I stopped playing GW2 because I realized I never found it interesting.

I stopped playing Archeage because I got sick of Trion.

I stopped playing BDO because there was no actual content to look forward to.

I Also played Allod, AoC, Vanguard, DDO, LotRO, STO, WAR and a few others, all of which I left because of major dislikes with the actual game systems.

Damokles

I played WoW for around 7-8 years, and exactly one year ago i questioned myself one thing: "Why am i doing this? Grinding rep to get some inane item. Get gear to do raids, where i get slightly better gear. I will have to do this shit in a few months again, to do the next raid... Do i really want to do this? I will never be happy with where i am, no matter how much i play.
I remembered why i started playing games, i was depressed from school (i was 1.80-1.90m tall at age 13, now 2m, and a bit overweight, i was the typical class pariah), and searched for friends online. Then i found friends later on in real life, and we all played together, we built our guild and started raiding, because it was fun and we wanted to be actually good doing what we liked. Then, one after another, my friends left the game. We didnt have as much fun anymore, but we still had some fun. Until i noticed that i was the last one of my initial group still playing. And I didnt have fun anymore. That was the day that i stopped playing WoW.

And honestly? I dont even want to play WoW Classic anymore. I played it for a week and stopped today after reaching level 60, because it just feels... different. And that is because I, am different. WoW had its time, and it helped me deal with my problems, but i dont need it anymore. I cant wait for Ashes of Creation, or Star Citizen (support both games), nd really hope that they will bring some fresh wind into the MMORPG scene.

Shoklen

Stopped playing....

EQ1: because of the slow grind and limited quests (early days), slow resource recovery. Class and race xp penalties that stacked.. Really no reason for this from a design point of view.. Sure most of this changed but other MMOs came out by that time.

SW Galaxies: NGE hit.. Game basically crumbled at that point. Then servers came down after a time.

Warhammer Online: Class Imbalance. Laggy endgame (City Raids). Then the servers came down. Didn't help I also had a major operation at this time.

EQ2: Still pop in every few years... but Bloated Stats.. DPS is now measured in Billions of damage per second.. I heard they are even changing some damage abilities because the shear numbers are causing server lag.. Last played summer of 2018.. Probably not going back. When Sony had their "black out" for months due to a security data breach.. People left and populations never bounced back (I felt). I'm sure that his all their games though.

SW The Old Republic: Played for the first four months, then just ran out of content/stories.. and didn't want to play "every" class and their story line.. I'm sure it might be better this many years later, but I haven't gone back.

Horizons: Well.... it was horizons..

Planetside 1: Had a blast but populations dropped making epic combats very rare.

Planetside 2: Same as PS1, but also some class balance issues, and design issues.

Just covering major games..

Come on Ashes, we need you...

Nagash

lack of time manly

Behague

Only played SWTOR. Did every story. Stopped because I wanted more to explore. Want to make my own stories, this game sounds like the way to do it.

akabear

Stopped playing Lineage 2 as most of guild left, work commitments and changed time zone. Always a soft spot for that one but probably couldnt suffer the graphics if I went back
Stopped playing Conan Online as enjoyed for short time but not social enough with few players known
Played Never Winter (kind of MMORPG) had the best pvp that I have experienced but lost interest as daily things became a chore and player dungeon addons were not well vetter before introduction
Played Ulitma Online but on a 56k modem and from remote area was utterly unplayable
Played Star Citizen for a few hours off and on and one day may see it truely playable
Played Arch Age for about 1hr but didnt like the style
Played BDO for a while but never got to see what it would be like with a guild
Played ESO on and off but really it is a single player with teaming capacity
Played Albion all for 10 min then felt not for me
Played Atlas all for 30 min then felt not for me
Played Shroud of the Avatar for nostalgic reasons but really could not go down that path again
Played New World during beta, thoroughly enjoyed its potential

Blocked form playing Tera and a few other due to region lock, please do not region lock this game

Caeryl

FFXIV:ARR, felt boring. No skill involvement. You knew from the second your first bit of damage ticks if you’d be able to kill something or not. Screen clutter to the point of being unable to see key information. Customization applies only to how far you could move things around, font size, clean UI design was out of the question. Craft system reminded me too much of a cookie clicker game.

ESO: the game stopped working, random crashes, extreme lag (triple the amount i get in any other game), gamebreaking bugs that get ignored for years, homogenizations of all classes, complete storymode overland with zero true threat, total lack of coherent storytelling. Oh, they still keep pumping out loot boxes and overpriced cosmetics though, and “pay for convenience” brands of P2W after they design systems to be as mind numbingly dull as possible, or requiring months of grinding to obtain an item you can just buy in the store.

Professor Posh

I stopped playing RuneScape because of EoC and the tedious grind.

I stopped playing... well... I think that was it for the MMORPG side of things.

I then went on to play non-mmo games such as battlefield, CoD, Fortnite etc but I stopped playing those too because I missed the feeling I got with RuneScape so now I'm here.

Currently playing Destiny 2 for free because I'm loving the cinematics and fluidity of the game mechanics. Awesome game.

Mushin

They were all boring and turns into fashion shows maybe I'll try destiny 2 since they left activision

George_Black

mushin wrote: »

They were all boring and turns into fashion shows maybe I'll try destiny 2 since they left activision

Perfect.
Cash shop fashion shows.
No challenge.
No real sense of accomplishment
No human interaction.

Dailies and fashion shows.

Narys

ArcheAge - Far too much Pay2Win and the normalisation of all mounts pretty much killed the experience for myself and my guild. Yata and bear breeding is fun, but not when you can buy the end result from the cash shop.

Bless Online - Didn't see the potential in the game, poorly optimised, combat felt clunky and the game seemed very generic.

Makinoji

DCUO-handed over my guild and left for TERA

TERA- merged my small guild into a bigger one and then the bigger guild leader left the game and slowly so did everyone I knew.

Blade and Soul- The game was full of bots in Arena pvp

Bless-left the Asian server due to p2w and horrible combat-the NA version imploded

AA-all around bad handling

GW2-got boring

Currently, I'm playing ESO and have been for 5+ years, it keeps me engaged with the stories.

BlackBrony

If I were to chose, I left Rift with 4000 hours on it due to dailies.
I don't enjoy content that I'm forced to do otherwise I feel behind, for example doing rep grind everyday. I'd rather have a repeatable quests or just kill stuff, then I can stop when I want.

I don't enjoy content that I have to do, because you take away my choice. In AA for example I'd waste hours doing my cart runs, because it was fun, it gave me gold, I could talk to people on Discord.
Sometimes there was I war and I could join. Once a week we had our Guild runs.

NoeSparks

Wow. Got ruined by blizz over time

Gw2. Perma banned. Due to chargeback mixup. (Fk banks, oh well 10k hrs gone)

Gw1. Playerbase died

Neverwinter. Crap engame

Everquest. Moved on with the times but still play on mangler progression server

Lineage2 the grind

Bdo. Lack of dungeons. Lack of content. Poor enhancement system. (Have since started playing again to pass the time with friend)

Terra. Clunky combat.

Warframe. Repetative gameplay, fun and good game. Just burnt out.

Ddo. because monks didnt have endgame weapons.

Contributing factors to me leaving a game are, over sexualization, and bright/flashy armors.

BedDave

Interesting question. I'll hit a few that I can somewhat remember the reason I stopped playing.

WoW:
This one I mostly lost interest in. I was still playing the game for a few months trying to find some reason to stay, as I had a few friends still playing the game. Not being much into raids, the endgame didn't have much for me and I just slowly stopped playing. I don't think any of my friends are playing this anymore.

WildStar:
I liked this game, its humor was fun and I played it quite regularly. It was like WoW so I eventually started to get bored with the game and started looking around and ended up mostly forgetting about it.

Revelation Online:
This game was bland. I couldn't get into the game. I really liked the Spirit Shaper but the game couldn't hold me. I think I lasted 2 months in the game and the friend I play MMOs with 1.

Bless:
Hot mess. I could tolerate the game but didn't shed any tears on its disappearance.

BDO:
I am playing this currently casually mostly to mess around with the Shai. I am technically not playing this game.
The main reason I and my friend quickly stopped playing the game was the lack of Player Trading. The moment we discovered this terrible omission, we were gone in less than 2 weeks. My friend and I like working together on things, especially crafting. I had spent some time logging for him and when we found out I couldn't trade him the logs, we both pretty much lost interest in the singleplayer game pretending to be an MMO.
To me, Player Trading is just as important as the Trinity is to an MMO.

There were a couple of other games that didn't have player trading that I played that met a similar fate, but I can't remember their names.

Right now I am searching for a somewhat open-ended MMO where crafting isn't an afterthought and actually relevant and not obsoleted by raiding. On the healing side, I would like to see all types of healers covered. I still want to make a damage mitigation based healer. I can't even tell if that is even possible in this game. Healers have mostly been fill that red bar based. A damage mitigation healer should be a more active and more interesting character.

Kotter

i stopped playing Everquest 2 because it's DEAD.

i now play ESO and WoW.

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