World of Warcraft

I have played WOW since release, and many other MMO's before that, and have found that after "however many 1,000's of quests" i have done, I simply cannot do another quest.  If an NPC asks me to walk across the room and talk to Jim the Cook and receive an epic weapon and 20,000 experience points, I find I just cannot (will not) do it.

Emptied out my quest log today, even.  Maybe every game has its playability limits. 

In the future, I think I will look for games that have few or no quests.  For me, the quest-grind is the worst grind of all.

Anyone else out there feel the same?

 In WAR, when I get tired of questing, I can always click that sweet little scenario button, and I know that RvR will find me in moments.

Sorry, I think quests are a staple of MMORPGs. Unless the genre completely revolutionizes itself somehow, thus earning a different name, and they do away with quests. Maybe something like "Play in a happy world where everything is happy and no one needs your help, so there are no more boring 'quest' things! Cupcake!"

Well, more likely, quests will slowly become obsolete and completely optional. That'll happen if levels and experience is done away with. Personally, I don't think that's ever happening. The only salvation for quests is non-ADD people who actually read the quest text, and get a feel for what they're being asked to do and why. That's where the lore of the game comes in, a factor that's very overlooked in my opinion. You're paying for the damn thing, why not get into it a bit more than spam clicking "Accept"?

As long as there are experience/levels, there needs to be other ways of leveling besides quests. Quests are there for you in WAR if you want them, but you don't need them. The ideal way of leveling is through PvE and PvP of course, but you can skip the PvE if you want. Though the quest text in WAR is superb...you see the effort they put into it when the typography sounds like the actual accents of the NPCs. A dwarf's quest text sounds like 'e's talkin like a Dwarf, not a namby pamby Elf or one o' them manlings. Just an example.

LOL absolutely, a friend tried to get me back into WoW last week reactivated my account played for 1 hour and realized why it was I can not stand the game

the quests are rediculous the game should have been called everquest....

everquest has maybe 1/100th the quests  WoW does.

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Play Eve and create your own challenges (put a POS up and maintain it for 30 days without it being blown up for example).

I loved WOW for two years but got bored of the quests and the repetive play style. I've tried maybe 10 other MMOs that were similar (AoC, WAR, EQ2, GW, DDO etc) and just couldn't get into them, often getting bored within hours. I've been happily playing Eve now for almost a year and still have SO much more to achieve. Sure you can do missions if you want to but that's just one of many, many things you can do.

To top that off, the graphics are amazing and PVP is a lot of fun.

Agree with OP 100% .

But 10mio players love wows killtasks )

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I think it beats hands down just camping a certain spot of a certain dungeon for hours to grind monsters.

Beside, WoTLK quests are way above anything else in the industry (with the possible exception of Mines of Moria of which I have no personal experience). I enjoyed flying on my frost dragon blasting scarlets in the DK starting areas, especially as you have to physically avoid the arrows and bolts to not get damage, but oh well, if you cannot stand then good luck finding a MMO that does not have quests...

There is only so many ways to make a quest and most games use just a few ones (you know them, "postman", kill X beast", talk to X, pick up X and so on). And many of those are idiotic since the NPC can do them faster by themselves than getting the player do them.

Quest should be long chains that ends with an epic fight, not kill 20 bears. EQ2 got actually some really great quests like it's Heritage quests but it also got even worse farming quests than Wow.

This isn't just about Wow, almost all games have the same quests and they are usually unispired. And I don't care about how good the flavor text is when I have to go and talk to another guy or something else moronic. I want to be a hero (or Villain) and do epic stuff, not be an errand boy.

If I get to the point of being tired of doing quests I'll usually just take a break from the game. I have been pleasantly surprised with the consistent variety of quests in Northrend. Many of the quests are off the beaten track of messenger quests and go kill X and collect Y. 

I prefer quests to just killing mobs for no reason other than for a bit of EXP or money, but if the quests were boring enough then I would just go to some dungeons or something before I started randomly killing mobs probably.