Was just curious on how many people read the quest text before accepting a quest or just auto accept and look at quest requirements? For me, usually my first time into the content I’ll read them, after that it’s just auto accept and be like “Kill kobolds, got it!”
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Always read them the first time. If I remember the quest well then I don’t bother reading it again.
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I used to. Especially when I first started WOW, which was back in Wrath.
I had no idea what addons were, so yeah, I had to read.
But you kinda get sick of doing so after you level 100’s of toons in your WoW career.
I do read some though. I read Brokers and Venari quests.
Used to years ago, now I can’t be bothered. Just doesn’t feel as engaging.
There’s quest text?
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No, I just hit reply, post based on the title and move on…
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I used to not read but now I do read on my first run through a new zone. There’s a small increase in typos though…
I use addon auto accept, never read quests.
usually never when accepting the quest. if after enabling map tracking and i don’t make progress then i’ll open up the log and read the quest text.
failing that, i’ll open my browser and consult wowpedia/wowhead
Honestly, I gave up reading the quest text roughly around Legion. In my opinion, the writing has gotten so bad that there really is no point in reading any of the “flavor” stuff anymore.
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I used to read them in old times as well. I really tried to read all of them at the start of Shadowlands, but the lore for some reason was really uninteresting to me and there was SO much text at times I couldn’t handle it. I gave up by the start of Ardenweald.
I do watch all the cutscenes though.
I always read.
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It depends on my mood, sometimes I want the full immersion experience so then I read everything. But those moments are rare and most of the time I only read one or two lines. The last paragraph usually gives a pretty good resume of the task at hand. And to be honest, the difference is kind of small in the level of immersion, because there’s enough voice acting to fill in the blanks, making questing a seamless experience nonetheless.
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I read everything the first time through. I’m a lore nerd, I like to know what’s going on. I’ve enjoyed SL’s story too.
On alt follows ups afterwards I’ll just auto accept and burn through.
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I used to before I knew how to set the quest text to all come up at once, so it slowly wrote out on screen and I just read it as it was coming up.
I skim at best but never really read the quest text much. It’s a bad habit of mine.
The first time yes. The second time I do it to see if I probably missed something. Beyond that I skim and skip unless it’s quests that I really REALLY like.
I could read the quest text in Vanilla. You kind of have to in order to know what to do. It was also when the game was closer to its roots.
After that, I didn’t see much of a point.
There’s no real way to role-play your character. For Example: Take the idea of Covenants, but apply that to other factions such as the various human kingdoms and orc clans. Another example would be multiple dialogue options and various quest outcomes and branching paths.
I also have trouble understanding the lore. Everything feels and looks so weird from what I knew, and much of what is perceived in terms of context seems to contradict that which had been previously established. If this game wasn’t called Warcraft, I might not have known that it was a Warcraft game in some cases.
A few examples would be the presence of Illidan, which does not make sense to me because he be dead …way back in Warcraft III. Deathwing, who be dead way back in Warcraft II. Suramar, who be in ruins way back in Warcraft III. Genn Greymane and the Nation of Gilneas, who were not a part of the Alliance during Warcraft II. Yet Worgen intro be like naw, they totally loved the Alliance this whole time!
Why would I care about reading that which does not care about itself or represent who I am as a character?
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I spacebar that stuff, if they are too lazy to voice act the quests then I’m going to be too lazy to read them.
oh god no, that quest text is about as relevant as a “Geo Tracker” (its a type of car fyi)