Breakfast Topic: The newbs in your life
by Nico Deyo 
Jan 16th 2011 at 8:00AM
Blizzard's promotion for all three expansions for just a cool $20 prior to the holidays lured not only old players back to the fold but also a great deal of people new to the World of Warcraft. It's easy to grab a friend, a relative, or coworker to try the game out with a 10-day trial, but how about dropping pizza money on three expansions' worth of content? It was an easy deal for anyone to get into, especially now that the game has been revised heavily to favor new players.
My sister had tried a 10-day trial back in the day but ended up rolling a mage and not quite getting the hang of it, despite my help. She quit after a couple days. I got her back into the game with this deal, as she and I do not live in the same state anymore and it'd be a nice way to keep up with her. With the low price and easy new questing and class skills, she picked it right back up and rolled a night elf hunter. It was nice to see her enjoying it and to have someone additional to play with.
Have you recently pulled anyone new into the game, or perhaps brought a former player back into playing World of Warcraft? How are they liking it? Is it fun to help someone new along now that the early levels of the game have been so streamlined?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Necromann Jan 16th 2011 8:10AM
I'm trying to bring my brother back. He quit during ICC when he had 2 great geared toons but wasn't in his guild's core raiding group.
tompawson Jan 16th 2011 8:21AM
I am a few hours from home, currently studying at University , so I bought my girlfriend WoW as a way of easily communicating more often. She's gone from never playing the game to 40 in 2 weeks, the game has changed a lot since my first levelling experience back in Vanilla, and much for the better!
transrelativity Jan 16th 2011 8:28AM
My little brother was a big, bad, 40-man raider back in the day. He was actually the one who got me into WoW way back in vanilla, but he quit sometime during BC and (much to my consternation) sold his account. He's been playing EVE lately and talking all kinds of smack about WoW, so for Christmas I bought him the game and a time card whether he liked it or not. Now, what do you know... he's busting down my door at midnight to tell me how cool the new talent points are and to plan out professions for the little worgen I rolled with him on his chosen server. Mission complete.
thawedtheorc Jan 16th 2011 8:41AM
A few of my coworkers, family and friends tried WoW out a few years ago and I have gotten 2 of them to get back into the game. But the main reason most of them gave me for not liking the game was generally because of some bad experience(s) with other players.
I think that is because unlike other games where you can change your name.. and go on with your life after something stupid happens, it is different in WoW.
Just some people have a low tolerance for some of the idiots in the game.
razion Jan 16th 2011 8:48AM
I've recruited my sister to the game, and will enjoy working on getting my mother into the game as well. When I recruit my family, I set them on different servers so they can enjoy the game by themselves, perhaps get their own experiences out of it and hopefully make plenty of new friends! I've made Deathknight alts on each of their respective realms so I can help them if they need anything, but tend to leave them to their own devices.
My sister wasn't really into WoW when she first picked it up, but have seen a slight increase in her activity with Cataclysm. I'm happy she's enjoying the game again. She comes to me often for advice with social matters in the game, sometimes with lingo inquiries and theory-crafting. I've tried forwarding her to WoW Insider, but she seems content to try and figure it out herself (and if not, consult the younger brother). She seems to have a few friends who live around her area who play too, and I'm happy for her.
When I get my mother into the game, I hope she can pick it up as well as she has to make it into a nice hobby--I want her to enjoy her leisure time more.
BigBadGooz Jan 16th 2011 9:03AM
Everyone but me is a newb..........
I kid really I do. One of the nuns in my life is my uncle I try really hard to tell him crit is not your primary stat stack. But he just loves seeing them and he doesn't raid so I breath a sigh of relief.
BigBadGooz Jan 16th 2011 9:05AM
Nuns= nubs.
damn Autocorrect
Greg Jan 16th 2011 9:06AM
Your uncle is a raiding nun!?
MusedMoose Jan 16th 2011 9:15AM
I dunno, saying your uncle is a nun who plays WoW sounds like the best autocorrect ever. ^_^
Malozing Jan 16th 2011 9:09AM
I am getting my friend, a grandmother, into the game. She hasn't even started, and she has bombarded me with questions on lore, leveling, and so forth. I just hope she realize that by playing the game, the answers I gave make more sense.
McRaider Jan 16th 2011 12:49PM
My brother pulled my mom into wow recently... Thought it wouldn't be possible because she's no gamer.
Ilya Jan 16th 2011 9:22AM
I managed to convince my brother to try WoW for the duration of a 10-day trial back during Burning Crusade, a few months before Wrath released. He rolled a troll warrior on my realm, and much fun was had (for example, he didn't realize until about lvl 25ish that there was more to the talent trees than just Arms xD). He, like many, many others, stopped playing during the 'burnout stage' between Wrath and Cata, alongside one of our friends. I'm trying to get him back into WoW (both him and our friend), but thus far, he's shown no real interest.
Maybe if I bought two Cataclysm expansions and, say, gifted them... even if not, at least they'll have Cata if/when they DO decide to get back into it.
Joshua Redzinak Jan 16th 2011 9:30AM
I pulled a "I don't have enough toons" and made myself a second account.
MikeLive Jan 16th 2011 9:58AM
Mmm, pizza.
MikeLive Jan 16th 2011 10:02AM
To the topic at hand, I bought my girlfriend WoW in 2009 when it was $5, though it took her over a year to start playing. Which was right before all her exams and projects were due in December, so she barely played, then we went home for Xmas and she doesn't have reliable internet at her parents. Since we've got back she's been playing more than me. And in that time, she's also gotten her sister and DM friend to start playing.
Revynn Jan 16th 2011 10:27AM
Ive been trying to get my wife to play since Wrath launched. . . No dice yet.
Dragonrose Jan 16th 2011 11:06AM
Me and a couple of college friends finally convinced a long standing private server player to join the official WoW. While we didn't get the 3 exps for 20 deal, it only serves to show that if your product is truly good it'll eventually beat piracy. Our friend says now that he's tasted the official gameplay, he's not going back to private. : )
Boozard Jan 17th 2011 12:46AM
absolute truth. my siblings and friends all started in a private server too. i gave them all 10 day free trials just to see what it was like in an official server. no one has gone back to the private server. it's been 2 years now.
Rajinnu Jan 16th 2011 11:28AM
Yeah got my brother back in and a couple of others mates. It wasn't that hard Cataclysm did it for me really.
RAF helped with the brother.
Andrew Jan 16th 2011 11:35AM
I told a housemate about WoW when I moved into a craigslist apartment. (You read that right; he's a 35-year-old single IT worker who'd never *heard* of WoW before.) That was about 3 months ago. He now has around 9 characters levels 35-80 and spends every waking moment he's not working or showering in his room playing. Yup, I created one of THOSE players.