Although a lot of us think that WOW was better way back when, it has never been more new-player friendly than it is now. Leveling, resource gathering (which gives you xp now) are all very easy and the classes are all on the overpowered side... this changes a bit when you first get to Pandaria at 85 but it quickly becomes easy again once you gear-up a bit.

There are also a lot of level 25 (max level) guilds anxious to add you to their ranks since it will automatically help them with extra gold (in addition to your normal loot, the guild gets an extra amount) and unlocking bank tabs, etc. Your benefits will be mass resurrection (all party members after a wipe), faster travel, faster xp gain, and many more things including some level 1-85 bind to account auto-leveling gear.

From a new player perspective, this is probably the best time ever to start WOW.

WoW is the best theme park on the market. It is never too late to start playing as many older players have alts even and they take time to set up.

Waaaaay to late. Start looking for something newer, sign up for new betas etc and look elsewhere.  There are better F2P MMOs around now and more to come in the near future as well.

WOW went sharply downhill mid way through the 2nd expansion, after it's best developers quit.  It's been dumbed down so much it's not the same game it was.  They also lost a LOT of players just before the kung-fu panda addon, because most of the players were older than 12 and it looked rubbish.

Originally posted by NasherUK

Waaaaay to late. Start looking for something newer, sign up for new betas etc and look elsewhere.  There are better F2P MMOs around now and more to come in the near future as well.

WOW went sharply downhill mid way through the 2nd expansion, after it's best developers quit.  It's been dumbed down so much it's not the same game it was.  They also lost a LOT of players just before the kung-fu panda addon, because most of the players were older than 12 and it looked rubbish.

Ugh narrow mindet people xD

i would say its stil good to start. Lvld a mage in 2 days played from 1 to lvl 90 as mine New main and got geard pretty fast.

lots of things to do and with 5.2 now i'm having a blast on the lvl 90 isle of thunder and if you do start playing and from the EU let me know in a Private message would be happy to assist you on azeroth.