WoW has lost it's luster

I have been a big fan for almost a year and a half now. However, in recent days, the games fandom has lost a citizen. My game play has gone from 2-3 hours/day to <1hour/week. For those who know me, this would seem like a miracle - I used to be totally engrossed in the game, and now I'm not. Let me recount the reasons.

For a while, I had been feeling disillusioned with the game. Nay, not the game, but the group of people (Guild) I play with. I had seen some politicking happening, people were saying something and doing something tangentially different, were recruiting new members without any respect for the group or the older guys etc. etc. The reason all this pissed me off was 'cause my main reason for playing the game wasn't the game itself, but the community surrounding it, and the few friends I had made in that virtual world. All that was breaking down now. All this had, hence, made me reduce my game play time by a little, but not too much.

Then I went to KL to visit my folks, my laptop's charger fried, and I was left without my machine for ~2 weeks. That was what broke the camel's back. I didn't miss not playing during those 2 weeks - in-fact, for some reason, I enjoyed the absence of the game. I read, slept, and did other shit I liked (or didn't...). All this meant that when I did finally have the use of my laptop again, WoW wasn't the first thing I started (like I would have done in the past). Instead, I went about doing other things - catch up on news, read blogs, learn some new systems etc. Now it's come to a place where in the last month, I have only attended the weekly guild night and haven't played the game outside of that. Most I have done other than that one morning of game play is hit the Auction house and sell all my shit. It's funny how I was broke when I was playing and now that I'm not anymore, I'm kinda rich :).

Anyways, I'm happy with this change, for now anyways. I don't feel the urge to play the game anymore. I can manage without it, and that's what I'm doing :).