That’s why there’s trial character.
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Your first sentence negated your premise.
Edit: Hmm. You altered your title. I know it is anecdotal but my wife started playing for the first time a month ago and is having fun.
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I was literally talking to friends last night about how I was happy to see a new player in Stormwind.
He couldn’t figure out how to get the item from an auction he had won. It was fantastic.
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There is nothing wrong with only appealing to returning players and active subs. WoW has a lifetime sub number of over 100 million. If blizzard plays their cards right and makes the necessary changes to reverse the direction WoW has been going in the game could easily sit around 20 million active subs between Classic versions and retail.
Reading your list sounds like you are one of those who want everything given to your alts without working for it and have come up with a new way of begging for it by claiming “Its for a Friend”.
Every whine you posted was from the perspective of an End Game player who wants a new class alt that doesn’t want to do the work of leveling and equipping. Not from the perspective of a new Player who most likely want to explore and learn game play.
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Funny how everyone suggested to level my first character manually instead of using the free boost two years ago. I ended up leveling a demon hunter (yes I know that’s cheating I’m sorry ok?) but after 3 months I went back to play my boosted mage instead.
Hahaha exactly. Back during Legion when I finally unlocked the High Mtn Tauren allied race, I decided to level one. Ran into a person leveling a orc warlock in the Stone Talon mtns. He whispered me, and said he was new to the game, then asked me, if I would like to quest with him. I said sure. We quested for a hour, or two before I had to log off. He gave me his battletag before I logged, and added him to friends. A few days later I noticed him online, and he was playing on 120 blood elf paladin. I asked him, if he gave up on his lock, to boost a paladin? Guess he forgot that he told me that he was new to the game lol. Because he then told me naa I have had this paladin at level 70 since The Burning crusade, and decided I would level it instead. With so many people having more than one account nowadays, I don’t believe anyone when they say they are new to this game lol.
And this lol.
look me up. i have 2 toons I actively play.
$15 for a month of entertainment, a price which has not changed with inflation, is a pretty good deal.
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Your pretty much correct, trying to get friends Into the game pretty much goes like that. Things are getting better in shadowlands
Yep and so do all the other whiners who have been asking to be given stuff free for their new alts. So that isn’t an excuse for your whine and QQ.
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I did say that I defend it, but if i was super casual, never wanted to raid or do high end stuff, and i only log in like once a week and screw around, I’m probably not going to pay that. I would just play another game. I already paid for the game would be my point of view.
Yeah, I’ve noticed this too. People claiming to be new to the game and after a swift Achievement check, you see they have been playing the game for years. I don’t really understand why some people do this, especially when it’s so easy to prove if it’s true or not.
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The gear gap is too much right now. It’s never been worse from top to bottom. That would turn away a lot of new players away. Think call of duty, you start with terrible weapons and perks but a least have a chance to beat a prestige player. Not the case in wow you have no chance. Battlegrounds should have caps or just done by I level.
It’s true, the only content that actually gets any polish or love is raiding and dungeons. The rest of the game is pretty much garbage. Questing makes no sense, Crafting is dead, reps aren’t even content. They really do need to work on making the rest of the game fun.
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I’ve done that 73 times and found it fun every time.
I still have free boosts sitting unused because I enjoy leveling.
By the way, the AH is already cross faction.
Changing it to be cross realm would mean the top AH mogul would get far richer and could screw with every realm’s economy at once.
Some of us love random benefits, such as sockets, corruption, titan forging, and bonus stats. I sure do, but sadly we have no more titan forging.
If you and your friend want the benefits of sharing a realm the answer is easy. It costs nothing to roll new characters, and leveling is quick and easy.
Are you asking in your opening post for the ability to turn gold back into cash?
I hope I’m misunderstanding you, because that would be a horrible idea.
I think if anything the major turnoff for new players will be the toxicity and elitism in dungeon groups (even leveling ones). I’ve read way too many posts lately about someone getting booted out of a low level dungeon for some nonsense reason. That’s going to get people to say screw this and unsub.
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I can only speak for me, but leveling is my favorite thing to do in game.
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When I queue for arena and get killed by a breath of the dying proc while losing it gives me an eye twitch.
New guy here.
I started playing only like 3 months ago. So the end of BFA was my first experience in WoW and honestly I’ve really enjoyed the game and the people.
Edit: Maybe more like 4 months? Not sure exactly but somewhere around 3-4 months.
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