World of Warcraft

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with World of Warcraft, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Fewer mouse customization settings on Mac, and bad external mouse handling2025-08-15
Opening many chests floods the screen with queued toasts that block the view and take long to clear2024-08-20
No way to search for named locations, so players scroll the map at max zoom for hours2023-07-22
Can't attack targets beside the selected enemy; nameplate stacking makes enemy selection confusing2022-02-24
Stat text like '+30% to x' doesn't say how it stacks, forcing guesswork or wiki lookups2021-10-06
Button presses queue and take up to a second to show effect in large battles2019-09-27
The default game UI was pretty awful, so players relied on addons2018-08-28
Hacker-enabled two-factor locks the real owner out; recovery requires arguing with customer support2012-12-14
Add-ons either lack depth to fix the interface or make customization too tedious2012-08-24
Locked out after each connection switch, forcing manual re-verification via website2011-04-08