Quote Originally Posted by Ilan View Post
The story in WoW is relevant if you want to know the full lore, if you don't want to know the full lore then you can just level and play the end game. The game isn't just really forcing you to do it except you want some certain extras like flying in and after WoD and so on. Just because you don't have to do it doesn't mean it isn't relevant.
No, it isn't relevant because the story doesn't treat it as being relevant. When I can boost a character and not have the story autocomplete or force me to do the story in chronological order in the way it canonically happened, then it's irrelevant. When I am leader of my class order hall in Legion expansion via gameplay but canonically in the lore I am not (according to some people in the WoW forum), then the story is irrelevant. When my character is an allied race that was newly recruited near the end of Legion expansion and yet I am experiencing storyline quests from expansions prior to my joining the faction that I joined, then the story is irrelevant.

When I'm playing an RPG, my character should be part of the story, not just a game character that is experiencing a story disconnected from the character. If my part in the story is messed up because gameplay convenience trumps lore continuity, then the story is irrelevant.

Having the story be relevant just to know the lore of the world makes it an irrelevant side story. Those kinds of story should just be put in a lore book, not in the game as the main story.

It makes it a story put into the game, not a story about the game.