Is Plunderstorm growing on me? or is this the acceptance stage of grief? 
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If I was convinced that I wanted the rewards enough to deal with it then I’d have to do some mental gymnastics to convince myself that I like it just to get through it.
So maybe the latter is making it appear like the former?
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Once you’ve had your first frantic running, jumping, hooking, trapping, energy blasting match with another player that goes on for several minutes, you’re hooked. Your heart races and you start cackling. It’s awesome.
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I’ve got the opposite idea. I hate when I actually have to engage other players - it contributes nothing to my actual progression (kills =/= plunder), it slows down my trying to collect the thing I’m there for (plunder to fill the bar to be done with this), and it makes it hard to actually complete the stupid “quest” that’s usually requiring me to collect things or kill elites because I’ll run across a player far too soon to actually be able to loot anything so we impotently swing our crummy cutlasses at each other for two minutes as level one pirates before a monster accidentally kills one of us. 
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Nah bro, it’s good. It’s a silly little side game people are taking way too hard.
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Oh for sure. That’s absolutely my mission. I don’t seek out fights, but eventually they come to you.
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Depends. Would you say that you are an open-minded person will to try new things and be open to enjoying something different; or are you so desperate for a few cheesy cosmetics that you’ll do something you actively dislike for 40+ hours to get them?
Guy-Am-I actually eating the green eggs and ham discovers he likes it?
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Not sure I found parts of unlocking the allied races back in the day very tedious but did it anyways because the reward was worth it so maybe idk allied race is a bit bigger of a prize than a nice outfit and some mounts.
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nope - had a guy chase me half way across the map this morning and I was so annoyed I don’t feel like even playing wow today.
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That’s the BR curve
First time you play a BR you hate it because you’re bad at it
Over time you start learning how to be better at it
You realize when you’re not bad at it it’s actually pretty fun
You start chasing the high of eliminating other players
You start chasing the high of being one of the last ones standing
Winning a BR as a solo is one of the most fun and addictive feelings in gaming
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This is how I explain how things like the PVP in the Soulsbourne franchise was like for me. It can be rough and seem unfair sometimes when you get invasions or engage in PVP, but once you learn the dance, you find yourself reaching something of a flow-state.
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Blizzard caters to the exact same player style all the time. There is a significant number of players in WoW that will never enjoy that because guess what they don’t enjoy PvP.
It’s your acceptance state of grief. Do you need / want a hug?
long pause…yes
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It has a learning curve.
Once you realize what spells combo well together and where the good elites to kill for a quick level up, then it’s fun.
The issue is we have people that seem to think they should know everything and be great at it because they’ve been playing their main for 15 years.
Is it a 6 week event - there shouldn’t be a learning curve at all.
The issue might also be that people have been given a patch for World of Warcraft that, in fact, is not tied to World of Warcraft by anything other than likeness/image and cosmetics/mounts, and is instead an entirely separate game in which, like you said, they have to learn how to play.
It’s hard for any game to be…well…an actual game that is interactive and engaging without some learning curve.
Basically the opposite of the awful boring “content” they add every patch like sleepingblooms and rifts.
It’s complete garbage, but I can do a few levels a day to get it done.
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