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I started with RQG a year ago. My group is late 20s/early 30s and we have been gaming together since 3.5. I'm the "let's try a new system" GM in the group. RuneQuest has really worked for our group. It has frankly sometimes been a magical experience. Hurdles- RQG is significantly more complicated than, say, 5th Ed. There are a LOT of systems going on in this game. New gamers come from videogames now- it's easier to understand that the d20 is the Interact button of the game world. It took us a full day session zero to get going, but once we did, we haven't looked back. Glorantha is mind blowing. It's really hard to know where to start in the world, and considering that even player creation throws so much history at new players, it can be overwhelming. I am fortunate that my group is close enough to work with me to learn RQ together, and the complexity and alien-ness of RQ really turned out to be features for us. But if I was a new GM competing for new player's time, RQ would be too demanding. Which is too bad, because it's so rewarding, too. I think the Starter Set should do an excellent job of getting more new people to try out RQ. It cuts back on the steep initial time buy-in and you can just play. My players love the SR chart.