Do new players really exist in this day and age who know nothing about the Warcraft IP yet want to check the game WoW out?
I personally think one would be hard-pressed to find such a person.
Do you personally know people who are totally new to the IP? What about people who never even dabbled in WoW for the last 15 years even though they might have played other MMOs and/or PC games?
What made them start to play WoW?
I’m kinda newish, I started in december 2018, why? I was bored I guess.
They do, but they’re smaller and smaller in numbers.
The era of this game has come and pass, wherever you want to say it began declining is another debate, but there are fewer new players.
Speaking from experience I have two friends who joined during Legion, one saying that she said that she found demon hunter elves to be really hot and the other joined because he played only when his friends played but he eventually quit because the game wasn’t fun anymore.
The rest of my friends quit somewhere maybe either around WoD, Cata, or MoP and have come back only for Classic.
What drew you to the game? Were you familiar with Warcraft?
There are almost 8 billion people in the world. I think new folks stumble on this game all the time.
Now, how long they stay is a different question altogether.
I see new players all the time. I define “new” as people with next to no achievment points. I see people with 1-2k achiv points all the time. I’ve even seen a few with double or triple digit achiv points. They’re more common than you might think.
I do, I know someone IRL who’s interested in trying WoW. He knows nothing about it beyond general online research and hasn’t pulled the trigger yet, a little overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff in the game. But I think he’s likely to try it eventually. Runescape and CoD are kind of falling off for him and WoW’s calling his attention.
I also ran a dungeon with someone just today who was relatively new to the game. It was actually his first Mythic dungeon ever. So that’s two people already!
Nothing in particular, I always heard about it, finally decided to gave it a try.
Nope.
I started mid-last year.
I knew about WoW growing up, but we didn’t have enough money to justify buying it. Warcraft lore itself I had an interest in after trying Warcraft 3 a few times at a friends house.
Now that I’m working it’s easier to set aside a few dolaroos to play WoW.
I know that there’s a lot of people who enjoyed the WoW of the past but I like the way it is now.
No, not a single new player since WOTLK obviously, only players who stopped playing since then.
Yes, I help out new players quite a lot, especially lately, though a good amount are actually returning players.
But sure there are always new players.
I’m brand new, started earlier this year. I played warcraft 3 a long time ago when it first came out as a teenager. I’ve never had the means to pay for a subscription even though I’ve been interested until now. Having a lot of fun with the game, and I just got max level on a character.
no, you are not new lol
Well…I’m newer than everyone here who started in beta vanilla apparently.
come on now
I have a new friend I am levelling with right now, he’s playing Classic with me.
It’s not stupid overwhelming like retail, and it’s the original version of the game, no expansions and whatnot.
To answer the second part of the question:
I’ve been a gamer my entire life, always wanted to play wow but never had a chance. I never really considered it, I played Guild wars 1 & 2, mainly because of no subscription. A year ago I realized I spent just as much money or more than a subscription would be on cosmetics and microtransactions in other games, and in the end decided it’s actually cheaper to dedicate myself to a single game with a sub than what I was doing before. So I tried FFXIV - I really had trouble getting into it though, I won’t go into why. So finally decided to try the big one, WoW. And so far I’m loving it!
The ones I know exist because I never stop talking about it.
I started playing at the end of mop because I’d seen my boyfriend playing for a long time. I didn’t know anything about warcraft, and I still have no interest in doing research to figure out what’s happening in the game that they couldn’t be bothered telling us about.
My previous experience with games was a game where you slide cubes on a board.
The more time passes, the more complicated the game becomes, and the harder it is for new players to break through that knowledge barrier. And as the game becomes continually more focused on elite content, people who will never be interested in that leave, as there’s less to do in the game than years back.
Leveling is so boring now. When they first implemented level scaling I couldn’t believe how awful they had made it. And even now that it’s faster it’s so much more boring even than when I started in mop. There’s nothing for a new player to do but boring, pointless fetch quests that are connected to some story that may never have even been in the game.
New players have been used as an excuse to implement game changes that have had no positive effect on the new player experience. Everything they do is too little too late.
If a new player, a real new player who has never played an mmo before, buys the game and uses their boost, they wouldn’t even know how to start playing bfa.
The people who make changes “for new player” have no idea what new players want or need.
i ran into a lock in a +2 that didnt know he had chaos bolt or gateway and was apologizing sincerely for not doing good dmg 
was adorable