[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]The community is large and generally fun, entertaining, and helpful.blueness
The WoW community is one of the worst in the history of MMORPGs. Don't get me wrong, I have met and know some great people in this game, and there are some friendly and competent people to be found, but the bad elements far outweigh the good. I know many people who have quit because of how progressively worse the quality of players, and respectively groups, have gotten in the past year or two especially it seems. Tools such as the dungeon finder seem to have made matters worse. I enjoyed playing WoW lots, but quit due to extremely rude players, people dropping groups all the time, people generally being terrible toward each other. Though I played with guildies quite often, I found I did more pugs with various characters and just became shocked by the quality of players I was coming across. I won't moan about those who didn't really know how to play their classes (or spec their gear properly, yet act like they knew what was going on elsewhere) either here, but that was another huge issue. People in groups deriding tanks who in return rage quit, healers not healing due to sulking, general inappropriate rudeness, then you get the people not adequately equipped for heroics expecting to be carried in green gear etc.
I hear ya mate. World of Warcraft at times felt like a job. I would get home from work, jump on around dinner time to get ready for raids. There's a lot of babysitting and this was in the Vanilla WOW days when things were actually good. I quit a couple of months into Burning Crusades because I wasn't digging the change. It became more casual, which is good for those who cannot commit to big raids and dungeons that last longer than convention seminars. I use to be a co-guild leader with a friend of mine that I met on World of Warcraft. She was awesome to say the least. You do meet a lot of nice and cool people, but every now and then you just get burned out. If I was retired and a multi-millionaire, I would consider going back to WoW. But lets face it. MMO's are not for everyone due to certain restrictions and real life. I had a lot of fun times on there. I might go as far as to say some of the best PC gaming moments. But everything comes to an end. 
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