Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
I feel like you've missed the entire discussion.
The game is receiving a large influx of new players, many have come from games like WoW, many have come via recommendations from friends, and a lot fall into both boxes.
These people make up a significant portion of the player base now, and they want to play with their friends, not dredge through 6 years of story content on their own before they can do so, or have to pay more money for the privilege.

I've personally welcomed a friend who used to play WoW, after they liked the look of Shadowbringers. They quit at level 40 from burnout.
That's on them for trying to burn through 6 years of content in a week. Also, you can play with your friends in older content. I ferried around mine, did the dungeons with them, chatted on discord.

And I'd like to see your stats and source on them being a significant portion. People got burned out at lvl 40 years ago, that just means they rushed too much or the game wasn't for them. That's OK. The game doesn't have to be for everyone. I didn't like WoW, and I only tried to play during vanilla. I didn't like XI either.