Hi! I also am in the same boat that wanders the gaming seas drifting along looking for the the perfect replacement for WOW. I've played since Vanilla and quit two day into Pandas. Since then when i'm bored I've searched online read tons of reviews played countless free trials. My advice, shoot the bottom of your boat and sink it. You're better off drowning lol. Anything close enough will take up as much time as WOW did. Anything less will frustrate the hell out of you. I knew I was failing hard when I found myself raging in Monopoly...I will never admit this happened. We will pretend like it didn't and move right along. So now when I feel the urge instead I head to the gym, go for a walk, read, bug my kids, find some weird anime that confuses the hell outta me. Sorry I wasn't any help finding a replacement

Battlefield 4 is on the way.

The Elder Scrolls Online is in beta phase.

Try Skyrim.

There are a few F2P games out there to dabble in, LOTRO, SWTOR, STO, etc but you probably wont be satisfied because they really feel like a step down from WoW.

Rift is awsome and on par if not above WoW in terms of game play but you have to sub and it will be a time sink like WoW. GW2 is a good replacement, as there is no sub so you dont feel like you 'have' to play to get your money's worth.

ESO will hopefully be good, i cant wait. There are others that are not sub like Skyrim and Defiance that have some good parts depending on your play style.

kinda in the same boat myself.

I've been dabbling with path of exile at the moment. I've also mucked about in Terraria.

My boyfriend's currently on the game hunt to try and find something new. I've managed to keep busy with other things of late (exercise, cleaning, catching up on tv, etc.), even if I miss gaming.

Im trying to find something myself as I seem to have lost the urge and desire to play WoW, Rift and just about anything MMO orientated on my computer. I guess it's because the people I used to play with have disappeared and Im left playing by myself which is no fun. I'm hoping something I try will keep my attention eventually. If not theres always Console. Time to play with Master Chief again......*shifty look* So yeah, no help, sorry. lol

Maybe try something like The Sims or Sim City or Skyrim to mix it up.

Rift (played since beta) is way above WoW in many aspects, except community. Trion has done such a piss poor job of marketing this game that it's going F2P. Too bad cause Storm Legion was a great xpac. But, like many of you, I stopped MMOing. When I took a break from WoW I went to DCUO, SWTOR, Rift, etc. Aside from Rift, they all let me down.

Waiting for Elder Scrolls Online to try out.

I would go back to shooters, but those communities just suck in general. Plus I can hear a guy across my condo complex yelling "that M-fer is camping again. Kill that ***** you stupid SoBs. God, why do you all F-ing suck?" every day. hahahahah

I really try to educate these young boys that you don't pick up chicks by showing them your KDR player card.

Awe I'm in the same boat too. I really miss WoW but I realized one day this is why I'm fat and I'm just trying to break my own cycle of laziness lol. Good luck finding something!

I played WoW for 4 years and got chubby because of it.

Saaaame here lol.

I've played a lot of MMOs but they do have that problem of sucking you in and making you spend too much time sitting still (possibly with drinks and snacks!). Not good for health/weight.

I've been dabbling more in single player games. I agree with the suggestion above about looking for indie games. It's fun to play something a bit different. If you like games with a story, I would highly recommend The Cat Lady, or To The Moon. Both of those really caught me up in the story, and I found myself thinking about them after I'd completed them. They are both quite "easy" to play, so maybe not the thing if you're looking for a challenge.

These games are often available cheap or on sale, through Steam, Gog, Humble Bundles, etc.

The other thing I've been doing is revisiting some old games, via www.gog.com . Now some of those old games are huge and time-consuming, so maybe not what you're after, but there are some classics that I'd played years ago and it has been fun looking at them again. Some are not as good as I remembered, but some hold up well. I'd recommend The Longest Journey if you haven't played it before. Planescape: Torment is great. And there are more recent games when on sale - Dragon Age, Mass Effect series, Skyrim, Fallout, etc. are worth a look if you haven't played them.

Apart from that there are the free MMOs mentioned and I do dip into GW2, etc., but I find it's somehow much easier to limit gaming time on single player games that I can just save whenever I want.

I play Runes of Magic. Love it! It's completely free! They have a Slim Version which they made for laptops so it doesn't take up much space. I'm sure it'll work just fine on a regular desktop PC too.

I allow myself to play a game (Skyrim, RoM, BF3, ect...) for a month when time allows, then take 2-3 months off to give myself a break from the computer.

Good luck!

Sims 3 is fun for awhile, also arma 3 is in alpha....love testing it, can't wait for final release. Oh and tomb raider was kick *kitten*, lots of cut scenes and back story. Looks phenomenal

DayZ has been my new crack. A MMO zombie survival game. I think what so amazing about this game is you die in the game. Like if you die, you lose everything. You potentially could run back to your body and pick up everything, but if you were killed by someone else, all your stuff is probably gone.

You constantly have to worry if you have enough food, drink, are warm enough, have enough ammo, etc to stay alive. If you want, look up FrankiePCin1080p for his dayz videos (start at episode 1). Watch 2 of them, youll be convinced.

Also there is no subscription fee