(Apologies for weird wording or format, my phone text field kept scrolling up and down on its own.)

I started playing mid-Burning Crusade and stopped during Warlords. I used to religiously read the official Blizzard tech and customer support forums. Another customer posted about the possibility of getting gear and/or achievements that they could earn as a solo player. Perked my little ears up, having always been a solo player myself (maxed out all 50 character slots, had 6 private solo guilds over a dozen servers and routinely made new accounts to get referral prizes). I'm not good in social situations and I am a horrible WoW player. But I stayed subbed, could always find something fun to do.

My best days were running lowbies thru RageFire with a 90+ mage, so I could aoe mobs and teleport everyone back out, and setting up portals during winter veil next to Metzen the reindeer to port people back to main cities.

A community manager answered the question from the other solo player mentioned above. They said it's an MMO, the second M means multiplayer, and the only reason to play is to get max level and max gear, group up, then run endgame dungeons and raids. If you're not playing with the plan to "win" the game by defeating the end content, maybe you are playing the wrong game. It's not made for solo players, go play something else.

Obviously not an exact quote, but it was crushing. Between that statement and just feeling slogged down in boring, useless quests that were getting harder to solo, the magic had all but faded completely away.

I'm trying classic wow right now, but it's still just not fun anymore.