-_- moonkin balance druid chicken people its a insult dude. balance druids have a history of complaining about everything and making things up
Oh, I am unfamiliar with that stereotype
My gen z daughters just decided to try wow again. They both messed around with wow when they were very young, but didn’t really play back then. I’m not sure if they will stick with it. If i pay their subs, they will likely stay.
WoW is pretty backward, to put it mildly and unfortunately that applies to a lot of things. They could make it so easy for themselves if they actually gave players things that have been long overdue and finally listened to popular player requests. But no, instead they’d rather push out the laziest things imaginable, like now a fourth night elf copy, before that a third dwarf copy, before that female worgen with scales that can’t wear anything and only with two visage forms. And I’d better not even get started on all the joke races like diaper gnomes, etc. But of course, they know best.
At least they finally managed to introduce player housing soon. Over a decade later than everyone else, but oh well.
Which gen is gen z again?
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People born from 1997-2009 or to 2012 depending on the source.
I would be extremely surprised if Gen z and alpha constitute even 10% of the player base. Most people’s tastes in video games(and most things really) ossify pretty hard after early twenties. Millenials grew up on very different types of video games, and I doubt there’s ever going to be significant overlap.
Which I’m totally fine with, I don’t want my video games to look anything like fortnite or Roblox. Even if it means the game has fewer players.
Were you Born in 2006? In which today you would be 19 years old? I was in my 30’s in 2006.
god I wish people would stop regurgitating this idiotic generational nonsense. i’m old enough to remember that naming generations was a bs thing that time magazine made up in the 80s as mostly a joke to sell magazines. everyone with a brain laughed at how dumb it was to lump millions of people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs and abilities based solely on their age. yet here we are. sorry about y’all’s brains.
Gen Z is definitely playing 14, and I think some play Classic because of streamers. But retail is just so hard to get into for new players; it’s hard to imagine MOST young people really clicking with it. Some will stick it out! Most will bounce off.
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Nowadays absolutely everything gets put into a box. No matter how insignificant it may be. You favor certain things? Then you must be this. You react sensitively to this? A clear case of such and such! Absolutely every tiny little detail gets labeled nowadays.
No offense, but even a 4-year-old would manage to press a single button. People who call WoW difficult make me chuckle.^^
My daughter, my nephews, my younger cousins, all their bf’s and gf’s doesnt want to play WoW. Yeah, that is my data that Gen Z doesnt want to play WoW.
These generation hate to render time to a videogame. They rather do something else. And this game requires time and effort to be able to gear up progress your toon. How can they get a good experience when they cant render time and effort? They always end up with a weak toon and you cant do much of the content with a weak toon.
Most of the Gen Z not all hate grinding and WoW is an MMO… a Game of Grind.
Hard to get into and hard gameplay are not the same thing. A new player is tossed into a story with very little context about what is going on, weird scaling that makes them weaker as they level, and no great tutorial on how to play their class. When they reach max level, if they do, they are bombarded with quests and have no clue what sequence they should be done in for a coherent narrative.
Some of this is supposedly getting fixed in Midnight. We can hope.
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True, I can actually agree with that, but honestly, I personally would strongly advise anyone against playing WoW for the story.
If you want a solid story with a clear red thread, you play something like FF14 (minus Dawntrail, which is a shi** show) if it has to be an MMORPG, but definitely not WoW, which by now is nothing but a complete patchwork mess.
The way you get thrown into the game, where you can basically pick any random timeline, is also just a disaster if you’re even trying to make some sense of what’s actually going on around you…
Gen Z isn’t blown away by a shared open world like we were. It was new to us.
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WoW also came out in a vastly different and less competitive media landscape. Socializing and gaming with friends back then is unrecognizable from the convenience and variety of today, and people tend to forget or fail to appreciate how drastically gaming has evolved (or devolved, in many ways) since 2004.
I feel like I could go on for hours how different the internet as a whole was back then. I certainly wouldn’t look to WoW first as a kid, and frankly I don’t think my dad would have introduced 6-year-old me in 2025 to WoW like he did with 6-year-old me in 2004.
There are so many things Blizzard can do to improve the new player experience, but there is nothing they can do to recapture the spark of vanilla back then. Times just change.
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The venn diagram is a circle.
Your first time around you’re actually forced to go through Exile’s Reach into Dragonflight, but that’s so much more confusing and random. Also leaves new players without any connection to the old world or the factions and races it’s made up of. Having a streamlined starter experience at all is such a mistake, and I’ll keep going on about that no matter how much I prefer Retail to Classic.
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average age is about 35
Oh the gm of my guild is in that age range i think.