WoW had great lore. I had those years of emotional investment in the story too. But it just doesn't exist anymore. I see FF14 as the opportunity to start a new journey and experience years of emotional investment in a great story all over again. There's just no reason for me to cling to the tattered remains of something that's done and over and miss that chance. I have fun here.

Blizzard went downhill once they started removing storyline back in MoP (the Legendary cloak questline) to try and create a fomo effect and drag people back to cover their content drought. They went pants-on-head after that and left massive chunks of vital story missing, tucked away in a book somewhere, deleted more legendary quests, deleted conclusions to entire expansions, deleted pre-patch quests that explained how major events happened. The story ingame made no sense whatsoever.

I could never go back to WoW. I had fun. I don't regret playing it. But it's over. I would rank Blizzard as one of the worst large gaming companies I know of now.