How many WoW players are the stereotypical WoW gamer?

Hey there, been wondering recently cause an acquaintance made a joke about it when i told him that I play WoW.
The joke poked fun at the around 2012 meme that everyone who plays wow is a fat sweaty nerd who is absolutely addicted.
And after I laughed at it I realized the amount of times I encounter those kind of people is getting progressively less then what I remember, almost to the point that I wonder if they still exist.
Cause WoW has change fundementally as a game and I feel like the overall playerbase are older then back then and had to face the real world and either quit or are now either responsible adults or parents with kids and a whole life built.
Keep in mind I’m 18 and have been playing since Mop so I feel like I wouldve met my generation degenerates if there were any, but alas not to my recollection.

Would you say the toxic addiction community has faded slightly, if not entirely?

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It was mostly addictive back when reaching max level was the main end goal and took forever.
End game content is pretty limited compared to the “endless” grind of leveling back when it was a thing.

Also, the addicted teenagers of yesterday are the mostly-functional adults of today.

ive met all kinds of gamers here that dont really fit the stereotype of a wow player.

i met a British mum (who yes is old) but she isnt what i call the wow stereotype. so there is that.

I met a Arab mum from saudi who… i guess doesnt fit the stereotype as well.

I have a friend who plays with her parents and shes young , and female. so doesnt fit the stereotype as well.

i had a female cousin who played wow (on male characters mind you) and she doesnt fit the stereotype.

I have met the stereotype of a wow player you described once or twice, but not too much.

I myself dont fit the stereotype. im not fat and im not addicted to wow. ive been focused more on other games these days.

As for the sweaty part… well you try living in a 50 celsius weather!

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Me too

Even the Newest Hearthstone expansion is great. I enjoy every hearthstone expansions

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My younger cousin is your age (19) and he ironically stopped playing in MOP LOL. his brother is 22 who also played wow and stopped around the same time.

Same here, got baldurs gate 3 recently and havent been on wow in like a week.

Yeah not too jelous, as a german I melt when I see that its over 20°. That’s why winter is just better for me.

IRL I’ve met a couple of people who would fit that stereotype completely, and this is in a country where WoW is not a popular game so the amount of people playing is very low.

Outside of those stereotypical WoW gamers, the rest of the WoW playing crew that I’ve known were almost exclusively women, younger ones. Not sure if they still play WoW.
People I’ve met through guilds and other online means, would not fit that stereotype at all.

I think I have not met anyone just starting to play WoW in years, probably a decade.
Something that I think can also be seen in game, as the playerbase seems to overwhelmingly made of people that are long time WoW players, with new players mostly not staying with the game after a short period of play.

Faded, no. Moved on to some other thing to latch onto, yes.

How are you still alive, im cooked at 10 Celsius.

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I don’t think the stereo type has ever been true. It’s just one of those things that non gamers presumed when it came to anyone playing games.

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Make Love, Not Warcraft has a lot to answer for …

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It was an amazing episode that probably did more good than harm.

Ah yes. Watching a kid defecate in a plate, spraying his mother’s face with his feces in the process.
Truly peak humor. The best of the best.

The word “cringe” was invented to accurately describe American animated TV series.
South Park, Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Big Mouth…
I’ve never been a fan of the word, but truly, “cringe” is by far the perfect word to describe these abominations.

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So yeah they were somewhat obsurd levels of stupidity in the jokes, no doubt. But uhh there aint nothing wrong with some low lvl comedy, dont forget to have an advanced form of something, there must be something lower, and some dumb jokes aren’t gonna kill anyone so no harm no foul, and credit where it’s due, regardless of its jokes, it is and will always be a classic wow clip.

Mummmmm, moree hot pockets!!

Make Love Not Warcraft was a 10/10 episode, I don’t care what anyone says. Anyone actually offended by it needs to take a hard look at themselves.

I’ve definitely met the stereotype IRL, but they’re the exception not the rule, definitely. The vast majority of people I’ve ended up having proper conversations with in-game are usually at least mid 20s with a partner, a job etc.

I guess I don’t fit it either, i’m female but generally play male characters

I’m not in the least offended by it. However, for anyone who didn’t know anything about Warcraft, their impressions of WoW would have come from there and wouldn’t be great. Wow players saw it as satire, non-players based their opinions of computer games/gamers from it.

A lot of people are the stereotypical nerd gamer - they might not be fat as in that South Park episode but skinny fat isn’t that much better.

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