“At that first session, a fair amount of your time will be eaten up by character creation. Usually, it takes about one or two hours if you’re asking questions and exploring each character to get to your first scenes.“
That is such a good tip to have in the game text. I am usually a bit worried if we need that much time before we get to “ingame” stuff but yeah – it takes that long and that is okay. Really for all the questions and stuff you will need that long.
I find that if the players give enough good stuff in the first 50-60 minutes to build a session off, but I try to explain moves as they come up.
I usually take about 2 hours for character/world creation. It’s my favorite part of the process. I tell new players that it’s part of their time to own the world as well, so they realize they have as much input into the narrative as I do.