


If either you or your potential partner seems hesitant about getting involved in WoW, run down these questions to help you sort out what's behind the ambivalence. Make sure you can break free from other in-game obligations during the trial period so that you can help out as needed. Don't hover if your partner hates being watched, but be around.

No, you won't be playing together at this point, per se. Head off any sense of pressure by starting with a free 10-day trial. If you're still at square one trying to convince someone you dig spending time with to give WoW a shot, have you tried the sincere, straightforward approach? Try saying something like "I would have more fun playing WoW if you joined me, and I think it would be a great way for us to spend more time together. Inviting someone to join you in playing WoW does mean spending at least some time away from your usual in-game haunts and pursuits in order to have fun together. Inviting someone to join you in playing WoW isn't about "my friend playing with me" it's not even about "me playing with my friend." This is about " me and my friend playing." It doesn't mean magnanimously enduring your partner's need for newbie zone action, nor does it mean berating them through joyless powerleveling so they can end up tagging cluelessly along with whatever you choose. If you turn right back to your raiding and dailies schedule, you've already abandoned any semblance of togetherness. Whether or not you intend to play together from the start or after they've leveled up, make no mistake: Inviting someone to play WoW with or alongside you implies that there will, in fact, be time spent together. All too often, established WoW players miss seeing that inviting someone to play WoW with them means actually spending time playing with the new player. A partner in crime, not a vanity pet trailing behind youīefore you invite someone to play WoW with you, examine your offer from the other person's point of view.
