10 Reasons Why I Stopped Playing World of Warcraft

By Jim on October 3rd, 2008

There’s an old song called Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds that comes from Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The song points out that there is a time and place for everything in life:

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven

Well MMOs aren’t any different than anything else and there’s a time to play and a time to leave and move on. And, after years of fun, it’s finally time for me to leave World of Warcraft and move on. Just typing those words seems somewhat unreal to me after all the time I’ve spent playing WOW since it was released.

But nothing lasts forever and so here are the ten reasons why I’ve finally left World of Warcraft.

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