How many players actually started playing WOW after WOTLK?

[Lynlia-silvermoon]

Well. I am divided on the case of my origins tbh
I started mid-late wotlk(last weeks of ulduar) but was more of a scrub. I barely understood what I am doing or difference between spirit and intellect(if you still remember those haha). So I was just loling around…so to speak.
Serious raiding and understanding what the hell I am doing - > cataclysm.

So…I guess a wrath baby but who got his big boy pants in cata.

[Bandicoot-genjuros (Bandicoot)]

I started in classic with a trial of 10 lvl back then with a character named Clim undead rogue . I started in Genjuros because plenty of town players was playing in Genjuros as horde
Midway in tbc i bought a second account this one to play as an alliance in this server …coulnd’t make alliance and horde same server XD

[Lären-burning-blade]

I started at end on TBC on private server, on offical servers I started around mid of MoP for 2 months and actively I played since end of WoD until now and still playing.

[Tionara-frostwolf (Tionara)]

I was in the Beta of Vanilla, but i only played a few minutes
Later i realy started playing on private Servers that had WOLK.
I was there for a few month or so (had the full Nax set at the end (T7,5?)).
I switched to the original Servers when Pandaria hit and been playing here since then.

[Teknetia-argent-dawn (Teknetia)]

I didn’t start playing just before WoD.

Oh man playing WoW for the first time is just one of those feelings you can never really recreate

The sense of wonder about how big the world was and what there was to explore is just something that you can’t feel again once you’ve seen all of the world.

[Lilura-kilrogg (Lilura)]

I started playing during the closing months of MoP.
Know a couple people who started in Cata.

[Villent-magtheridon]

Mid-late WoD.

I was leveling purely by questing my first toon over 40lv and was recording it on YT every 5 levels or so.

Got my attempts in WoTLK but never really ticked for me, mostly due to my addicted friend who boosted me to The Nexus disregarding gearing and then his PC broke leaving me there with no game knowledge nor gear to even move. T_T

I’m afraid that character is still there somewhere, sitting near Spirit Healer.

[Orkantfany-hellfire (Orkantfany)]

Started a month before BFA pre patch. Levelled this hunter to 110 in that time and carried on from there =D

[Bairen-twilights-hammer (Bairen)]

A friend finally convinced me to start playing WoW just before the prerelease event at the end of WoD. Leveled a Fury Warrior and Disc Priest solely through the Legion Invasions. Good times

(I miss having to travel the world to complete those events…)

[Vintoleth-ghostlands (Vintoleth)]

@Naoth-argent-dawn

I think people become so invested in their characters, it’s difficult to give it up, even if they aren’t enjoying the game.

in a nutshell, this is me i think

and i think basically everything you said in the post is correct. if only more could see it

the only thing i am confused on, in general, not with your statement:

@Naoth-argent-dawn

But if the implementation is done right, and it stays popular after the first couple of years

how long are people expecting classic to be out? im guessing it will be about 2 years, like it was originally, but then all vanilla content will be out (naxx 40). will be a bit ironic that we are complaining about lack of content, but people will be happy with no more content, AND the fact that ALL content over the last 2 years was not new anyway! i am looking at classic as a 2 year~ nostalgia boost, not something where people will be lvl 60 for years and years.

does anyone know what the plans are for classic once its been out as long as vanilla was? (2 years~)

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

@Sholah-hyjal

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.

I agree. There is a vast difference between those who will enjoy the nostalgia and those who clearly seem to be imagining something that never was. Or those that maliciously want the retail game to collapse when Classic reboot comes out.

The thing with nostalgia (about anyting) is sometimes it lives up to your memory and other times it’s like oh no this is dreadful now.

[Julia-frostmane (Julia)]

First time I tried WoW was in Wrath, but I just played a little on my brother’s account, got to level 31 so I wouldn’t really say I remember Wrath that much, since I never got to maxlevel. I remember watching my brother play though and thought Dalaran was awesome.
But then I kinda forgot about WoW for a couple years and I started playing in WoD when I got the game as a gift.

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

Cata.

4.2, just in time to be disillusioned by seeing my first gear reset when 4.3 hit.

There are LOTS of new players all the time. However

@Brianboru-outland

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).

this is definitely a thing.

The game is pretty bait-and-switch now. Many new players quest to max, and then never develop any feeling for group content; they have learned what the game is one way, and do not like the change. Some others come in with the spcific expectation of group content, and feel let down that there is none before max. Some of them do find LFD though.

[Ewelyn-nemesis]

I’m quite old, I play since Vanilla without ever stopping.

[Bollthorn-steamwheedle-cartel]

I’ve been playing since vanilla with a few breaks in between.

I find you can tell newer players by how smoothly older and timewalking dungeon runs go.

People who were there back in the day remember tactics and everything goes off without a hitch. Newer players charge in and hero pull everything then act surprised and/or blame everyone else when the party wipes xD

[Ilyrian-draenor (Ilyrian)]

I started three months before TBC - so I don’t count myself as a true Vanilla player but I did manage to get my 60 in the week TBC launched. Then I threw all that work away and rerolled >.<

TBC is my Vanilla - all my nostalgia is TBC flavoured. I still think TBC was better than Wrath in many ways - but these things are all personal preference and I don’t think that anyone is wrong if they prefer Wrath onwards.

[Resarem-stormscale]

I’ve played since 2005.

@Sholah-hyjal

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 ?

I don’t agree with that completely. The only thing that has improved since old wow is class design to some extent and raid/dungeon boss encounters.

There’s no such thing as a journey to lvl cap anymore, no real itemization, etc.

As an example look at the amount of recipes you could get in classic wow compared to these days. These days everyone can get anything done in no-time at all.

There’s not really anything left to strive for. You can play this game 50 hours a week and have the same items as jimmy and henry who only play 5 hours a week. (And no, that’s not special snowflakeism).

The point I’m trying to make with that is that a lot of players need to be inspired to go raid or pvp by seeing other players’ progression, not to look at them with envy but to think to themselves ‘‘I’d like to get that bloodfang set, that looks crazy good, maybe I should go look for a guild to raid with.’’

Players (like me) look back fondly to those old days because you didn’t get from point a to b in a matter of hours, everything took a little longer but nobody cared. These days everything has to be fastfastfastfast and if it isn’t fast enough people don’t care for it.

[Xartìm-ragnaros]

Met a guy yesterday in an island that started to play in BFA. Probably the first guy i have talked to that have, on the other hand its not like they go around tell everyone they started fresh in bfa either so.

[Ãnna-draenor]

Same here near the start… it’s all my partners fault getting me into all of this.

[Brianboru-outland]

@Punyelf-draenor

The thing with nostalgia (about anyting) is sometimes it lives up to your memory and other times it’s like oh no this is dreadful now.

Exactly, when I think of classic I love how the Old Westfall and Darkshire were, but I hate the though of running everywhere to level 40, or worse still running all the way to SM only to have one player DC.

For me I think Wrath got everything right and all has gone downhill since, but I think everyone has their own favourite Xpac. However there really are some Zealots when it comes to Vanilla, I guess it comes down to a lot of people not liking any change ever, and you get that in real life too (crude example but Luddites in 18th century France).