We Can Fix That with Data

“2+ years of WoW and I never knew …”

Fascinating thread. People have trouble with wholly undocumented inventory and vendor controls! A smaller set of those people have trouble with the wholly undocumented talent system! (Really, if you don’t know to look for it, that new button in the button bar at level 10 is hard to notice.) And a much smaller set of people have had trouble finding flight paths, and an even smaller set had trouble finding some out-of-the-way quest givers. Some people share some not-entirely-obvious ability interactions.

Some of these things are in the (relatively new) loading screen tips; others aren’t. Hopefully, it’ll make a good resource for future loading screen tips. Every game should have loading screen tips. Arcane, totally unintuitive shift-alt-click commands are handy, sure, but you need to know about them in the first place. I’d vote for more intuitive commands in general, but these shortcuts have a place too.

As devs, we should do this ourselves during beta. Ask the testers what they had to figure out on their own, and document it.