The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

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WoW gives you options of selecting which expansion you want to play through when leveling 1-50. After 50 if you have completed shadowlands you can choose not to go through the story again, and just do dungeons, side quests, or world quests to level.

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Oh yeah, 18 years of great story across multiple expansions have been reduced to leveling on an island and going directly from there to BFA ... the best of the best of the best of expansions ever, with no context whatsoever about who these people you see in cutscenes are and why you should care. If that had been my initial 'experience' playing WoW 14 years ago, I'd have gone through that much of the 'free to play' (the island) and quit, rather than staying subscribed for 10 years.