A few days ago, we asked our readers what reasons they had for abandoning World of Warcraft Classic and turning back to other games. You have diligently participated in the survey, so now we can talk about the results. We were able to find several reasons why some players stopped playing WoW Classic.

First of all, it must be said that the justifications are diverse and all quite close to each other. In the voting, several justifications are only a few votes apart. Only the main reason, that is our rank 1, has a huge lead and seems to have become a problem for especially many players.

Therefore here is a quick run-through of the places 10 to 6.

• Rank 10: The population of the factions is not balanced (2%)
• Rank 9: The game is too easy and offers no challenge (3%)
• Rank 8: There is too much grind (3%)
• Rank 7: The game is not as good as you remembered (5%)
• Rank 6: Other reasons (5%)

Place 5: There is nothing to do in the game (no content)

Unlike the current World of Warcraft, Classic doesn’t have 7 expansions under its belt yet and therefore simply offered too little content for some players. Those who made it through the leveling phase had quite few activities to tackle. Those who enjoy dungeons and raids and like to collect the pet sets will still be motivated a bit.

But who prefers to look for other activities, won’t have much to do in Classic – at least that is the opinion of at least 5% of the votes cast.

Place 4: You switched to “retail” WoW

With WoW Classic, many players have once again taken out a subscription with Blizzard but not all of them have stayed with Classic for long. Since both WoW variants share the same subscription, it was easy to briefly look into “retail” WoW. 6% of the votes indicated indicated that they were now playing Battle for Azeroth for the first time or again and have turned their back on Classic.

So the Classic-Boom also had a good thing for the current WoW and has led to a small player boon there.

Place 3: The community does not behave like it did back then

One of the main reasons that are always mentioned is that the community of World of Warcraft no longer behaves in the same way as it did almost 15 years ago. Whether this is really only due to the players is hard to say, since circumstances have changed as well. Today information is much more easily accessible through the Internet and specialist sites with tips and tricks are a dime a dozen. This has many players to be more “effective” and thus more ambitious. more ambitious. The reduced time of many players also ensures that people want to spend their free time as intensively and effectively as possible.

But apparently a little bit of the spirit of the original WoW Classic has been lost. Because a full 7% stated that the community simply no longer behaves the way it did back then.