Playing with the partner World of Warcraft sounds like a dream. But then often one realizes what goes wrong in the game.
For many male gamers, it’s like Christmas and Easter fall on the same day. One has managed to convince the girlfriend to take a look at World of Warcraft – the game into which so many invest so much time. But the disappointment is great when interest quickly fades again. However, one person on Reddit impressively shows what it actually fails at.
Who is it about? The post comes from Reddit user “etozhedonald”. He has been playing World of Warcraft for over 10 years and even wrote a bachelor and master’s thesis on the game, focusing on linguistics. His girlfriend is also an experienced player and is currently studying game design.
What were the experiences? In a rather long post on Reddit, etozhedonald lists some points where World of Warcraft fails to engage new players and teach them the basics. Because while the direct entry with the Isle of Exiles succeeds quite well, almost chaos ensues afterwards.
Character is tired – because no one explains what it means
An amusing question from the girlfriend was: “Why is my character tired now?” A comprehensible thought when the typical “zZz” symbols appear on the character’s portrait. The fact that this indicates entering a resting area where the character collects a resting bonus – the game does not explain that.
Another criticism is the learning and use of mounts. Because this is essentially not explained in the game and requires quite a few steps:
- First, you need to get a mount.
- Then you need to open the bags.
- Then you need to use the mount in the bag, after which it disappears.
- Then you have to somehow know that the mount is now in the collections window, which was never explained and is just a very small button in the micro menu.
- Finally, you also have to figure out that you can simply drag the mount into the action bar.
Those are quite a few steps that the game never properly explains. If you don’t have a veteran by your side or bring enough time to search, it can take a while. Many will probably not even find their mount.
Also frustrating: The world doesn’t reward enough. Exploring a cave or simply going down side paths rarely rewards with new quests, treasures, or resources. Here, as a newcomer, one quickly learns: exploring is not worth it.
In addition, there’s the trivial difficulty level during the leveling phase in Dragonflight and the incoherent story. After all, WoW is currently aggressively promoting the game with Xal’atath and the story surrounding the Sunwell – something that’s not even part of Dragonflight yet. So anyone lured in by the advertising must first struggle through many hours of content that has nothing to do with the enticing storyline.
Cortyn says: I can only share these experiences. If you mentally put yourself in the position of a newcomer, many of the mentioned points are exactly the difficulties you would face. Important systems are often hidden behind several menus and simple tutorials for core features are simply missing.
As a veteran, one often overlooks these missing tutorials. Or one takes on the role of the gatekeeper who says, “I had to learn all of this too, they just have to try harder.” Unfortunately, this doesn’t make World of Warcraft better, but simply ensures that there are no or very few new players. That there’s a lack of suitable introductions was recently pointed out by a YouTuber.
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