How many players actually started playing WOW after WOTLK?

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I’m just interested to know how many on here actually started playing WOW after WOTLK, i.e. from Cata onwards.

I rarely if ever meet anyone in game who didn’t originally play in Vanilla, TBC, or WTOLK. So prove my theory wrong that WOW doesn’t really have “new players” but mostly old ones who take breaks, come back, take more breaks, and that “new subs” are actually old subs coming back.

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I started in BFA

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I don’t have proof because I can’t call any names :slight_smile:
But in some of the guilds I am in, we have a handfull that started in BFA :slight_smile:

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I started during The Burning Crusade expansion.

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I know a few who started in MoP or Legion.
I dont Know of any who have startes during WoD

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I started at the end of legion, everyone was already preparing for bfa as it was long anounced, and i was running around like a headless chicken trying to learn how to play. Good times :slight_smile:

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Started end of MoP. Still remember dying a lot on timeless isle freshly dinged and being a noob standing in all those new stuff on the ground you had to dodge that I havent seen before pandaria while leveling.
Good stuff. Now its second nature, but it felt hard back then.

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Started in MoP, left early WoD, came back in Legion, still loving wow life

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Theres not a week that passes that I dont find some new player out there in Kalimdor or Eastern Kingdoms.
Get out more

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To make my point further, just 2 or 3 days ago I was in STV explaining to a BE fella there was no point in me giving directions to Dun Morough cause he wouldnt be able to purchase the White Ram :slight_smile:

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Wod immediately quit and came back in legion. I have played vanilla on a friends avcount tho since egerybody played wow bacl then

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I first created my account about a month or two before Cata prepatch for a month and then left for a year and tried again then left after a month and then came back half way through WoD when blizzard gave me a free week and I’ve never left. So technically I’ve played since wrath but in reality I’m a WoD baby :rofl:

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I only either boost or dungeon level these days, done the quests so many times before they would do my head in :slight_smile:

I wonder though are a lot of those new players just questing while it is fresh new content to them and then leaving further down the line. Either that or do most of them avoid M+ / raids / PvP the main activities that I would have done in most xpacs (yes I know M+ is new so before that just raids and PvP).

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I started playing in cataclysm…
mainly because family members have been playing WoW during BC and onward and I wanted to play too, but unfortunately I didn’t have a good Computer back then (window 95 was still running and this computer was too old to upgrade) so I had to wait until I got a better Computer, which took a really long time… BC passed, WotLk passed, and after cata released I finally got a newer PC… finally I was able to play… (though I am sad about that, since I really wanted to play WotLK (the zones are beautiful, and I like the Lich King story))

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Started in late Cataclysm, 4.2 if I remember correctly.

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Many people say that Classic hype is based on rose-tinted nostalgia, but I have long said the main reason WoW is still going strong after all these years is…nostalgia.

Ironic really.

Nostalgia is powerful though, it can get people to keep coming back even if they know that better games are out there.

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I mean it is based on Nostalgia really.
But what is weird with the actual trend is that for most of people “Nostalgia for Classic is bad” when nostalgia is seen with good eyes for every other games… Why not let people enjoy their Classic WoW even if it’ll not last long without spitting on them.

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Imo it is weird when people start to worship vanilla and take it as the pinacle of game design and a flawless, perfect game.

I just can’t agree when i see some weird classic fans stating vanilla was perfectly balanced. I mean how did they come to believe this ?

Nostalgia is great, blindness isn’t.

That’s just my take on this issue tho.

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TBC and Wotlk player here. Quit early MoP, rejoined in September. Good times since.

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I joined in Legion - a friend recommended I try it out after I said I was bored of Diablo.

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Just look at population numbers and try to wrap your head over the turnover rates.
Wow has bled out probably more than 10 million players since wotlk.
It survived a 100 supposed wowkiller games just to be killed by its own inept developers and backwards design choices.