As I have just deleted my account after more than a few years I decided to have a look on the board to see how things were going.
For me it was not a question of getting bored, more a case of not really enjoying the game as I used to. I don't have the time to commit to squads and such although I have in the past. I liked to be able to log on and join in with the action. If I saw a player in trouble on my side I would frequently get stuck in (whatever the odds!) to help out. If I saw one doing OK in a one to one I would leave him to it. I suppose after time I got a little tired with have a good one on one only to have a hoard of "friendlies" come down to help. No fun to have them all lined up behind you with tracers flying past trying to get the kill! - It will always happen but I think it took some of the pleasure away when it started to happen too often.
The organised events are without doubt the best way to play if you have the time to devote both in terms of airtime and clock time, in my case GMT.
My own style of play was to get on-line when I could and have a couple of hours of fun.
I thought of bring my lad into the game but knowing he would not like being shot down so often as all new players will be I was hoping the new beta would allow 1 v 1 without subscription so he could get some airtime with me. Unfortunately that is not going to happen.
So now I have my full CH setup and trackIR currently idle while I move on to other things that do give me more pleasure.
Last but not least, I did email to find out if I could suspend my account (It is a very old account!) and keep my game ID - No response, so that didn't help either. In the end I hit the "delete account" button which makes it rather more final. - Wow just looked, at least 14 years! - but still a "newbie" compared to some!