Why All New Players Quit WoW | Asmongold Reacts

I remember doing exactly what this dude did back during BFA. Leveling my first ever WoW character was the most profoundly lonely and frustrating experience I've ever had in a game. I can still remember being in Northrend and realizing I might well have been the only character on the island, gave me the feeling of being alone in a theme park, it was almost eerie.

This gold salesman is a genius, set up shop right in the opening cutscene

I really liked the old system aswell. Where you had to go to different zones for better or worse mobs. Liked the challenge of fighting mobs a few levels higher. And the fear when walking through zones with mobs with skulls as level

As a new player who started during Dragonflight the game felt so empty in terms of other players. I barely saw someone else and talking to the was even rarer. It never felt like an MMO to me. The dungeon system also felt dull where no one talked and just ran through it expecting you to get the job done and leave ASAP. Retail WoW feels soulless compared to when I tried out Classic. It was such a large difference it didn't feel like the same game. I saw more players, I talked to more of them, we quested together. I actually felt like I was exploring the world with like-minded adventurers.

The hostility of the community also turns new players away so quickly. My friend started playing, played with us for 1 night and the next day decided to try some alone. She got to her first dungeon, got to one that was already going so that she was alone in the spawn, but the first boss was not killed yet. She said that she is new right from the get go, tried to catch up, ran the wrong way and got yelled at, asked for help and got kicked off with 0 responses. Never touched a dungeon after that.

So refreshing to see expert gamers who haven't forgotten that everybody has to start somewhere.

You can't underestimate the effect of ilvl here. A large part of why he feels weaker is because his gear hasn't changed and it scales badly the higher level he gets.

I'm a new player in WoW, and i'm not even lvl 20 and started to feel how bad leveling is... Scailing is the biggest problem for me, feels like old content isn't relevant and all they want you to do is buy the latest expansion... it doesn't feels like an adventure

Yeah, that's why i go always with the community oriented servers like Black Whisper and etc...

With how janky the leveling continuity is, I can really see how new players are confused. I was a longtime player and I was confused. The Horde Warchief changes like 4 times while leveling. I remember running into the throne room and seeing Sylvanus, Garrosh, and Vol'jin all instanced as the Warchief at the same time.

I think your point about there being too much in the game is so spot on. Me and my older brother grew up playing WoW but he was always better at it and had more time to play then me, so I was always playing catch up! At first during vanilla and BC when everything was still new and the worlds were full of players I didn't mind trying to catch up and he and other player were always on hand to play with. However, by the time we got passed MoP, I felt like every time I was getting close to reaching certain goals, those goals suddenly became extinct and irrelevant as a new patch, content, raid or expansion came out. So every time my brother was like "look at this cool new thing I've got", I would aspire to get that thing, but by the time I did, he had something else. I always did find it overwhelming and felt like I was always aiming for loads of moving targets that would appear and disappear in a matter of moments, but I carried on anyway. Until about Legion, by which time I just felt this is just a constant hamster wheel that is never going to stop, and as a casual player I'll never have enough time to enjoy the achievements before they become irrelevant. So, I stopped playing. Even my older brother has stopped playing now.

I started leveling up a tank in s2. I mainly played M+ with random groups. Within 2 id´s i experienced 3 times that other people in the group get insulted hardly because they made a mistake. Yesterday while running another ones key, i didnt went the "perfect" route and made a mistake (i knew the strat i just made a mistake) at one boss and got insulted so badly that it literally stole all my motivation to play the game. Some People expect everyone to play so perfectly like if their life was on the line its so frustrating. I know its not the majority and that there are kind people and maybe its because of me but that really ruins the experience for me. I guess ill go back to single player games.

Back in 2004 when I started playing the social experience was so much different than it is now. I was thrilled to be in the world of Azeroth with other people from all over the country. My first character was a gnome warlock and I took every opportunity to stop and /wave at every other player I encountered along my journey, in the early levels. Those were the good ole days.

In FFXIV, the "Chosen One" thing works a lot as a stop gap measure; you have abilities that few possess, and that makes you the only one who can handle certain problems "for a time". After a time, they find solutions to those problems that don't require you; and by Endwalker, basically anyone could be sent to fight the battles you're in, but you're the strongest, and most experienced. Once you're in "Patch Cycle Endwalker" content, the quest you go on isn't even one you started because anyone had to, you went because "well, I am an adventurer", and its by coincidence that it unravels into something with greater implications for more people as time goes on.

One thing to note is the "Starter Build" talent feature isn't automatically selected when starting a new toon. Many new players would likely not know about that feature and would be totally lost on choosing which talents to get them through. I know when I start a new toon, I have to consciously choose the Starter Build feature. Mostly I do it now just so I don't have to think about which talents to pick. That's something to worry about at max level.

I was totally brand new to WoW and started a character from level 1 in Shadowlands. Not only lonely for what is supposed to be an MMO, but man is it a bit overwhelming. I accidentally started doing a quest line from the previous expansion at one point, and knowing my way around or how to find things felt impossible at times. I'm not new to MMOs or their general mechanics by a long shot, but WoW is daunting for the new player experience. I would stare at the maps and think "okay, how do I find anything other than a quest point?" I played through without doing a thing with crafting, nor does the game really care to show you anything about it. It seems like such a backburner thing, like they sat around and said "well, it's an RPG, it's gotta have crafting" and it was just thrown in there. Feels entirely insignificant. Once I hit level 60, I had no clue what to do or what I should be doing. I didn't feel any motivation at all to keep playing. I was doing the dungeon finder and as a Hunter/DPS, it was easy enough to just follow the lead of an experienced tank and not getting fussed at, at any point. But it felt.. empty? Like it wasn't the content I was supposed to be doing because there was no carrot on the stick, just the stick itself for me to swing around in a theme park of content that has no clear direction.

I left the game because I couldn't stand the aggressiveness of the people who made raids, insults, threats and even death wishes, nobody did anything to show me where I was failing so I simply gave up and went to another mmo that was more friendly with new people

Personally, the community is the biggest issue for me. In BFA I made it to Heroic Ny'lotha, but people just don't seem to help at all. Like I get it, you are experienced and you want dungeons, raids, and BGs to run smoothly, I do too, some empathy would go a long way. People don't give an absolute fuck that you are new.

About the sellers, i remember the corpse signs in stormwind.. there was also always multiple spamming in trade and yell

my only problem is that when you cross the barrier into "chosen one/champion" territory there is no going back. it gets old being referred to as the "champion" by all of the most notable heroic characters like thrall, and there is no way to go back to being just a nobody or a rank and file soldier in future expansions because of that.