As you mentioned, you started 20 years ago. A lot of us consistent players have been around for a long time. Sure, some new people pick up the game, but I’d be willing to make a bet that a majority of players have been playing for fair amount of time and have just stuck with it.
It’s not a new trendy game, it’s a 20 year old game that a lot of us have stuck around for.
Because what they post is always bait.
They were here just a couple days ago making a fuss about their friends carrying them on their priest in a 10.
https://raider.io/characters/us/proudmoore/K%C3%A1yko
I have tried Multiple times to get my three boys to play Wow, they’re ages 14, 16, and 19. None of them lasted very long. Do not pay for six month subs that wasn’t smart on my part.
The game has been out so long and there is so much to figure out, it just wasn’t fun for them. Trying to teach them how to tank or heal or how to even just DPs in group content when all they wanted to do was go have fun wasn’t fun either.
Right now, they prefer Elden Ring, Assassin’s Creed, and various other type of games like that, but no MMOs.
Rocket League has a much MUCH higher skill ceiling than wow…it’s not even in the same ball park really. I’ve put close to 2400 hours into RL and I’ve only ever reached champ 1.
MMOs aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be. So many new MMOs try and fail almost instantly. Wow is carried on it’s legacy and FFXIV is carried on it’s story. I can’t comment on ESO or GW2 but other than those 4 what other MMOs are actually popular?
I’m really awesome world 1st player.
Why young people not play oh btw I’m top level player, like really really good but where are the young players?
Sorry, just messing.
Not sure why, but reading this just gave me flashbacks to when I order Chinese food and I have to try and give them my address and phone number.
Multiple Times.
Carry me daddy.
That’s the one
I’m fairly certain the majority of folks I run M+ with are 16-20’s. Behavior and ease of irritation seem to be a common factor.
there’s a lot of history with wow that can be offputting to new players. it’s like ESO: if you’ve never played ESO, it’s almost as old as wow, and if you load it up you’ll be hit by a ton of quests sending you to various places when you’re overwhelmed by basic mechanics like “learning to walk and fight” - it’s just kind of overwhelming.
Once people get past that initial hurdle I do think the game is actually more welcoming than a lot of bitter naysayers want to think it is. I watched this video from a guy who played wow for the first time last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9rTMp--ZQ
I recommend it to even veteran wow players - it’s an agenda-free assessment of retail wow from the eyes of someone who’s never played it before, and in places it’s sweet and heartwarming and reminded me of the sense of wonder I got when I played the game the first time.
Ah, this is that same person that made that failed bait thread? Yeah that was embarrassing.
Young gamers today just want to log into the game and play. They don’t want to have to do a bunch of homework or social networking before they can start playing content.
I imagine the age of the game. Most of the people left in this game are 30-50 cynics.
It’s crazy, I’ve played RL casually since 2020 and have 1100 hours into it and I’ve made it to D2. In WoW, I have around 36,000 hours played which is insane by comparison.
Yup. Here is their priest from that thread. Linked to their hunter.
https://raider.io/characters/us/proudmoore/Kayk%C3%B3
They messed up by requiring themselves to brag about accomplishments in every post and the guild this character is in is the name of the shaman healer who carried them.
I won’t confirm or deny if I was associated with that situation, but it was indeed pretty epic, Poster for completely exposed and deleted their thread!
Because my kids and their older friends are on Minecraft and Roblox
Combined total of 566 million players per month.
WoW has 7 million subscribers per month according to various google searches.
They enjoy the F2P model and it’s not a grind.
My kids are literally playing a Roblox game where they pick their favorite K pop artist in secret and then have team A and Team B go into a punching contest
Followed by interrupt your teacher with sigma, memes and dancing.
Little to no real investment. Nothing they’d play for 20 years. My daughter will get bored in 5 minutes if there is a grind of any kind
They think WoW is pretty to look at but there’s, in their mind, too much empty space and nothing to do that isn’t complicated such as my user interface
They literally have like 4 buttons. A jump, a run, an interface/action (could be punching), and ragdoll
Kids want to play good games.
Because young people have unlimited free time, and they are going to outnumber the older generations.
Also the game is rated T so it is very accessible to young people. And wow could run on a potato, assuming your potato has an SSD, so it’s even more accessible.
It’s not surprising how young people can gravitate over here.
It’s the same person
Stephie kayko zoey yukina etc