MMO veterans who have never played WoW

I was thinking the other day about how a decent chunk of the people over at MassivelyOP have never played WoW.

I always find it wild that some people who cover MMOs and who have played dozens of games in the genre have never even tried WoW just once.

Regardless of your thoughts on the game at any point in its history, it has been the biggest player in the space for over 20 years now. It has totally shaped the genre and been a huge influence not only on MMOs, but on video games in general. Whether someone likes it or not, it doesn’t matter, but I’ve always been so fascinated by people who regularly play MMOs but have just never had any interest in even trying WoW just once for themselves to see what it’s all about.

So I was wondering if there are any MMO vets here on this very sub who have that same experience - where they’ve played a ton of games, but have never tried WoW. And I’m curious why that is?

I imagine the number one reason would be an unwillingness to have ever paid the sub fee, which is reasonable, but the game has also had free trials in the past (not sure if it still does or not). To those people: Aren’t you even the least bit curious??

I want to be clear, this is not a criticism by any means, it’s really just a curiosity.