Originally Posted by Fenwick
Back in 2005, the average age of the WoW gamer was in their late 20's to early 30's ( source). Granted, time has passed, but I doubt we have enough new players to skew the average age of WoW gamers down to 12 years old. What does this mean? It means we're mostly all adults. Honestly, if you're not adult enough at age 25+ to ask for help or instruction when you see someone doing it better than you, you're screwed whether or not a tutorial exists in game. We're well past the age where we should need to be spoon-fed things before even walking out the door in the morning. |
Let's think of some reasons why a reasonable person might not investigate further.
1) Damage meters don't exist in the game, so they don't really even realize what's going on.
2) They don't run 5-mans with other players of the same class as them very often (pretty much always the case for a tank or healer).
3) They attribute people whining about their performance to just that, whining, because realistically, Internet anonymity inspires people to bitch and moan about just about everything.
4) They attribute better performance to better gear (very common and somewhat understandable).
5) They attribute better performance to a spec they don't want to take.
6) They attribute it to more experience, but don't feel that it's appropriate to ask for help (because they don't want to admit weakness to a stranger, or don't want to bother them)
7) They've looked for information online, but were put off by large, potentially out-of-date tomes of information containing a lot of obscure concepts and acronyms that they're not familiar with.
8) They went to the general forums and were insulted/ridiculed.
9) They have friends who play their class, who give them bad advice.
10) They just assume that they're being careful with threat.
Here's ten reasons off of the top of my head that don't involve being 12 years old.