New WoW player assessed why MMO is having such a hard time gaining more fans, and veterans agree. „It's cool, but too complicated”

You are so overwhelmed with system, functions, tons of different items that as an inexperienced and new player, you just totally lose the desire to deal with these things. If you do try in the form of guides or you read in forums, you don't even feel like it after the first few lines, because the people who apparently write such guides have been playing WoW themselves for 20 years and are throwing around technical terms and knowledge that no new player understands. I just gave up and ignore some of the systems in the game. This has made the game a lot more fun, but I'm afraid of missing something.

- HerrWeissnix

Even as an experienced player that takes regular month long breaks from game, the systems can be so overwhelming The management of addons keeps many people from coming back or getting invested again unless friends pull them in and help guide them. And then they retire these systems for new ones every expansion and add more again with each patch and continue the cycle.

- TacticalSpectator

It's almost universally acknowledged that WoW's biggest weakness has almost always been the new player experience. There is a huge world to experience in the game, and 95% of it is completely irrelevant (and that percentage only ever goes up). There's something of a vicious cycle of WoW players believing "the game begins at endgame," so they constantly try to find ways to speed up levelling. This results in the developers saying, "wow, they hate levelling, let's speed them through it as fast as possible." Which reinforces the players' belief that levelling is a pointless preamble to endgame, and so on and so on.

- Peregrine2976

Hit 80 two days ago, after taking like five year break, saw all these quests and things pop up decided to take a break, very overwhelming. As a casual player i was like i need to dedicate some time to understand this. I haven’t logged on for two days.

- Gizm00