# Retiring After 7 YEARS playing

**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/retiring-after-7-years-playing/79689
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**Created:** [April 27, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/retiring-after-7-years-playing/79689 "2023-04-27T10:24:52Z")
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### Author: ![Vulpes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Vulpes](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vulpes)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/retiring-after-7-years-playing/79689/1 "2023-04-27T10:24:52Z")

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Firstly, I am a _long_ time player.  
I have been playing since early 2016 on PS, Mobile, and Switch. Over these years I’ve probably spent a cumulative $500+, so no small amount. A weapon offer here, a holiday offer there - it added up.  
I loved the game (and gaming) and am not afraid to toss a buck or two into something I love!

Recently (as in a couple months ago) I finally was just drained.

The “hamster wheel” of daily, weekly, monthly events to keep up had finally worn me down. Even just one console keeping up was tiresome.

_It felt like a job._  
It wasn’t _fun_ anymore.

So I took about 5 weeks off. Lord knows I had accumulated a ton of games in backlog!

Finally one day I came back, about 2 weeks ago. The game felt fresh again!

On Switch, I was way way behind in Hellcrag Monument, so I began the grind.

Then, 6.9 happened.

I went from making gradual progess on the Monument to now almost none.

When 3 weeks ago orcs and Hand of Zorn (for example) were the “weekly zeitgeist,” how in the world am I to reasonably hunt down HoZ? 20 orcs? Etc

Ive been a daily player for like 5+ years - I even have Hoard Mimic - you think I _want_ to do 2, 3, 4+ mind-numbing Explores to completion? All to get 10x more minor traitstones from the next level of Campaign (when I have thousands!)?  
Absolutely not.

You guys have been gradually dripping acid over the game, dissolving away the patina of fun and making it a monument to tedium and our wallets.

I haven’t minded a few bucks here or there…  
Because the game was “net” fun!

But now it 100% is a job.  
A chore.  
A grind - and that’s coming from the guy who played 300+ cumulative days of WoW a decade ago.

GoW’s latest update is hands down (for me) a deathblow.  
I already uninstalled off PS and my phone. Switch is barely clinging on - I am dreading, DREADING logging on to do today’s stuff.

Never in my 30+ years of gaming have I ever seen a team of devs so out of touch with their own game, design, “what’s fun,” and their own players.