This is why. WoW graphics are too good for kids these days to enjoy them. Pretty soon they’ll be playing Oregon Trail.
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Ill be dead with dysentery
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Most of the people in my guild are late 20s, early 30s.
I’m 38 and first played WoW back in 2005.
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Yep Oregon trail just now comes with a treadmill
You hit auto train to get more mileage. Compete with an alien, a pirate and a murloc pulling their wagons
Earn pets to help you travel faster. Jump over some crocodiles for extra points
Buy upgrades to your wagon until it can fly and carry 10 others.
Maybe a Obby where you see how many squirrels you can gather. Pick a job and rescue other players as a nurse or a carpenter or mechanic
Congratulations. Roblox Oregon Trail
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Hmm? Plenty of really good younger players.
No, it’s just not really a notable milestone. 3k during s3 of DF on a bunch of alts was very easy.
Cuz why pay 20$ a month for this when you can get a great game for the same price lol
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WoW is outdated by just about every modern standard. We need addons to do so many things other game UIs do by default as far back as 2010.
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It’s an MMORPG that outside of Classic no longer even feels like one and doesn’t deliver on the label.
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MMOs were artificially booming in the early 2000’s, conditions that kept the MMO craze going have steadily declined over the last two decades and more competitors in gaming have made making an MMO a VERY expensive hit or miss.
Being “top” MMO because of riding nostalgia coattails with a dwindling playerbase and dying competition is not an achievement to really boast about.
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All this hate on younger generations when the real answer is that there’s a lot more variety today than there was 20 years ago, and 15 bucks a month to keep playing after dropping 60 bucks on the box price vs you can grab elden ring for 35% off on steam and hang with friends in vc on discord.
There’s no nostalgia factor for kids under a certain age and wow almost runs on nostalgia.
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And I bet you 3 dollars this would bring in more players if it were like a Plunderstorm like mode that were free and alternate to the game
Oregon Plunderstorm
How many 15 year olds have $100 for an expansion and $15 a month for a game that their parents are okay forking over the cash for? Not to mention you can’t play it also for free on mobile.
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We’ve already proven it’s the same person but yeah that’s why they’re the first person to do it because it’s not something anyone found difficult enough to pursue or record other than this one person.
Because WoW doesn’t appeal to most younger audiences. Younger audiences want a game where they can drop in, drop out, have little commitment and still feel good about it. WoW’s more commitment reliant.
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I don’t really ask people how old they are in game. So I have no idea how old the playerbase is other than the assumptions on the forums. I think it’s honestly pretty cringe to ask a stranger their age.
I think it’s attention spans .
Most everything marketed towards younger people is quick and fast - the span of a tik tok clip and I think that - an a bunch of other marketing - has reduced attention spans to the TLDR we have today .
So that and 20 years of expansions makes other newer games just easier to jump into .
I think that’s why newer games are highly popular for a few weeks maybe months and then it’s onto the latest release of which ever game comes out next .
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Not enough waifus. Everyone is playing Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves, Zenless Zone Zero, Marvel Rivels, etc.
The cake always wins.
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This exactly. Everything now is short form media. Tiktok, Reels, YT Shorts, etc. the younger generations don’t have the capacity or will to devote hours and days of their lives to things like this.
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Kids these days don’t have the attention span required to engage in a game as overwhelming as WoW when they could just easily jump onto Roblox or minecraft etc.
My son only plays WoW to hang with me and his dad. My daughter wants to join in at some point too. Then in a few years when my youngest has grown up, I will finally have my dungeon party ready to go 
I told my husband by the time we reach that dream, WoW will be shut down 
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You ever sit in school and day dream because whatever was going on, or was so boring, it didn’t interest you? That is kind of the issue that WoW (and older MMO types) have. It’s not about attention spans, it isn’t even really about age. It just doesn’t appeal to them.
It could however be tied to the way dopamine hits work…which would mean it is an addiction based situation. Simply put, other shorter games give hits of dopamine much faster than WoW (the best Dopamine hits were during vanilla era- wrath IMO), thereby requiring more of it to get them hooked. It’s like a drug tolerance. You do too much Coke you gotta do more Coke, but more Coke eventually fizzles and now you’re either doing more or probably Crank (since for some dumb reason the other word is banned). This is what I can almost certainly say is happening.
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This is so wrong in so many levels.
WoW’s problem is trying to cater to players who are not into computer Role Playing Games in the first games.
The basis of the genre is exploration and discovery.
Finding out and experimenting on your own.
No addons, auras etc are required by anything at all in this game.
It does need better in-game information on some details, like some obscure configurations, click keybinding etc. That’s all.
WoW should never appeal to the common denominator (FPS / Sports / Fortnite / Minecraft / Roblox crowd) to thrive, but focus on its own niche, even if it’s dying.
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Hate to say it but it looks like Wow is to newer games and its players what Runescape is for most of us, an old obscure relic.
You can absolutely blame Bobby for it though, it should be a lot more popular (maybe not gigapopular but it has been severely neglected in favor of money grabs).
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