I mean… its not epic like in SWTOR with all voiced cinematics and player choises. You just get a few silent lines to read in the chat for most of the time in here.
Who just play the game only for the story? 3 mins of a storyline per week with this time-gating…
I bet 98% of the players just rushing to level up and get their renown, anima, conquest cap and nobody give a s… about the story in SL and before this expansion.
I admit it… I just rush up to upgrade my PvP gear and do PvP in WoW. Stories about elves, faes, etc… are too childish to me. I play WoW just for some PvP (which is so broken atm).
I still haven’t read a single quest in sl. Gameplay > everything else
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I never played for the story, which doesn’t mean I don’t care about it. It’s just much more entertaining to catch up on the wiki or some YT video than paying attention while playing.
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Yeah 
me too. I just watch some videos on YouTube about Sylvanas and other characters I care about, just for the lore.
Story progression was a huge piece of my play motivation in Legion and BfA. I really can’t force myself to care in Shadowlands so far. The stuff with Sylvanas and Anduin was interesting, but it’s over for now and was pretty much over as soon as it started. And the thought of the amount of bullcorn I will have to endure from all the magic ghosts I don’t care about going on about their magic ghost juice shortage before I’m likely to see the continuation of that arc honestly makes me feel depressed.
For all the plot contrivances of BfA, at least it had actual story arcs about characters I cared about and new characters that were likeable enough to make me care. That Jaina questline that attuned you to Siege of Boralus is the best story questline ever put in the game and likely to be ever put into the game and I will MOTHERFREAKING FIGHT YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS if you say otherwise.
I didn’t play Horde beyond the initial levelling and I honestly despise trolls, but I still found myself moved by the events of BoD’A regarding Rastakhan, Talanji and Bwonsamdi because they were solidly written, likeable characters.
You couldn’t MAKE me care about any of the magic ghosts and their magic ghost juice in Shadowlands if you held a gun to my head.
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Whats going on with Sylvanas and the Jailer? I just saw them for 5 sec in the starting quest for the Maw at level 50. I`ll have to wait 6 months for the next patch cinematic to see another 5-10 sec?
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You get a short in-game cutscene with Sylvanas and Jailor while doing the Torghast quests offered by Bolvar. There’s two full cinematic cutscenes with Sylvanas and Anduin after that once you do the Twisting Corridors quest from Bolvar, but the second one also requires you to have killed Sire Denathrius. They’re fun and interesting, but very brief and the quests themselves offer zero context to them so you might as well just watch them on Youtube and you wouldn’t miss a thing.
Story means a lot to me in any game.
I always loved WoW lore and story and it always plays a huge part for my immersion and the way I take the game.
Raids and dungeons have never intrigued me or any form of repetitive content.
Exploration, questing, music, zones, atmosphere, and story are what kept me in WoW all this time.
However, I really wish they improved the storytelling and involved our characters some more…as our character is always this emotionless thrall that gets pulled around and just does things. Kills, rescues, does some erands etc.
From what I can see, they’re capable of pulling off cinematics where player character is seen. Why not expand on it?
The Maw Walker stuff is interesting, now I really hope that we get MORE involved here.
In the end it’s just gonna be that none of these major characters got rescued by player, but instead Bolvar and someone else.
Lorewise and canon-wise player character doesn’t even exist and it was even confirmed by devs. It’s always either Alliance or Horde…or a major lore character…which I find to be rather degrading 
I took a break from SL and decided to resume playing SWTOR, and man…yeah, the game is keeping me glued to the screen once more.
WoW is spoon-feeding us and time-gating way too much in Shadowlands that I completely lost interest, sadly…
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I haven’t bothered to read the story for this expansion at all especially after doing the Kyrian arc with the wokeness.
WOTLK was where I focused on story the most.
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Personally i find the story very very lackluster, the very setting that we are in the afterlife is laughable.
Gameplay is nice in SL but story? It’s as bad as WoD’s time traveling nonsense.
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What story? Wait, wow has a story? 
But stories about space Wizards of the 41135422355321th human-looking race with different accessories on them is somehow more interesting?
Besides, only the classic swtor stories are somewhat interesting… for certain classes. But if you play consular or BH, you’re sheer out of luck.
I really enjoyed BfA and it´s multiple story arcs, one for each zone and the fact that Alliance and Horde each had their own stories. It was fun levelling alts and concentrate on one zone while doing side activities to reach 120, that meant you had 6 different paths with each alt creating a bit of diversity.
SL´s story is weird and in so many aspects unrelatable, I am above God for intents and purposes, far more than ever.
Yes, the story is the most important aspect for me along with the social aspect of having fun with the guild. I do love PvP but not much for dungeons or raids, it has never been worse to level alts, the story is singular and railroaded with very few moments of any emotional attachment, Threads of Fate is just one long boring grind regardless of you do dungeons or the insufferable battle quests.
Welp, that probably explains why you are not interested in the Xpac stories.
This game has two factions (which kinda reference Tolkein and some other stuff) and they fight each other.
Now grind some spiky armour and mounts (there is even a transmog that makes your sword look like a Lightsaber, coz we heard you like SW, which deffo wasn’t a movie for children) by killing other Player characters… oh, and there’s a Competitors’ Ladder too.
See, you’re good to go.
I enjoy storyline quests and cut scenes etc.
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I don’t read or watch anything in game whilst playing, I usually do look up a youtube vid after a patch or 2 to see whatsup but that’s pretty much it.
Hey, I loved the Consular story! It did a fine effort in exploring the healing and diplomacy side of the Jedi Order despite the game itself being inherently combat-oriented. It also had not one, but two solid ‘mystery thriller’ plotlines. I only wish the first part was more connected to the other two but that’s a minor gripe, it’s my favorite story alongside the Agent, but saying the Agent is your favorite is cliche at this point :-p
Come to think of it, Shadowlands kinda feel like the later SWTOR expansions. KotFE and KotET were very impressive technically and the scope of their storyline was immense, but they were let down by their chopped up, episodic nature, and the story felt so impersonal and was so far removed from everything and everyone that was established before that it felt like reading a glorified fanfic. I’m getting the same exact vibes out of Shadowlands.
Crap, now I want to play SWTOR again… But since they changed and streamlined everything, that game is so lame outside of the initial story campaigns and playing dressup that I know I’ll hate myself for it… Crap, did I just wish for a SWTOR Classic? I should go to bed…
I’d definitely say that the story is my main motivation for playing the game these days.
I feel like WoW can’t really blow me away with gameplay alone anymore. It’s a 16 year old game that I’ve played ad nauseum - I’ve kind of had my fill of Raids and Dungeons and Battlegrounds.
The story is something that stays compelling to me. And since I also dig into the novels and short stories and what not, then i obviously haven’t had my entire fill of Warcraft story yet. Quite the opposite in fact. I think that it’s only been recently that the story has started to get really juicy and exciting, because Blizzard have stared to take a crack at the major plots that were only hinted at 16 years ago when the game came out - Titans, Azeroth, other realms.
So yeah, story means a lot to me. I enjoy the game for other reasons too, but story is probably to me what raiding is to Method.
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It’s in 3rd place, honestly, and it shares that spot with the smuggler.
With the First being the Trooper and the second shared between the Knight (guardian) and the Inquisitor (assassin variety).
What SWTOR could’ve done is introduce all non-force classes to both factions with unique stories, but…
(Also, you don’t need to leave the Starter planets to max lvl nowadays)
not the main motivation but something about finding out that the girl in trailer of bastion is devos or muezala was the one who whisper to voldjin in game feels more rewarding. I dont get all details but i do pay attention to what is said/writen when im not in rush.