I find it depressing we have to preface our threads with: I’m not a troll. I’m being serious.
As for the topic, I’ve learned just to play solo as people will come and go. Not a commitment phobic, but just easier than dealing with the loss of friends cause this other game is better, my computer took a nose dive, life happened, or something else.
I mean this with love: Touch grass. Go to your local library, go to a movie, go to a bar.
Meet people. A video game should not be your entire social life. Online communities are an important part of my social life, yes, but it’s not all of it, nor is it even the most important part of it.
Meh. Some people don’t care about being a “social butterfly”, it’s not authentic; just a demand of culture. Feels more like I’m pretending the entire time.
WoW makes me happy. It’s a simplistic happiness, but it’s a genuine happiness that going out and socializing, lying to myself that I am a social butterfly doesn’t bring.
So, I like others, will just draw some happiness from a virtual world until our life is spent and the void swallows our existence up.
Moral of the story: I’m doing whatever makes me happy in my short little time.
You know, the OP appears to be very aware of that, and was asking for advice from other players. We’ve nearly all had in-game friends who left the game, and there’s nothing wrong with missing those friends or feeling nostalgic over good times we’ve had in the game. Heck, nostalgia is pretty much the only reason Classic servers exist.
Your comment comes off as arrogant and dismissive. Makes me wonder what kind of issues you have when you feel the need to bash someone like that rather than just move on if you have nothing helpful to say.
So triggered by a basic statement of truth. You should join him in seeking that professional help.
Lol, not remotely triggered. Just pointing out the truth as I see it.
BFA was the top of a small hill inside an even larger valley after sliding down a mountain in terms of the playerbase. I don’t see any new mountains in the distance to climb out of this trough, I just see a gentle downward slope that seems to go on and on forever, maybe it levels out, maybe there’s another hill but it sure looks like there isn’t another mountain like the many we’ve been up and down from BC through Legion. The game is in the old age stage. I wouldn’t say dying but well it’s never going to be at the top of its game again it’s pretty clear. It’s more fading into irrelevancy, like an old person put in a retirement home, doesn’t mean they’re imminently dying but their best days are past them, their memories are increasing haunting them of better times, people and things now gone and lost in their past and no real hope for a better future, just the mundane continuation of shuffling along in old age for however long that lasts.
Oh wow will be here in 2030 but it won’t be relevant culturally and may not even be actively developed at anything like the customary rate. Instead of 2-3 raids an expac people might get 1-2 mini raids instead.
It’s sad but Blizzard killed the golden goose. They poisoned it slowly. They spat on the community and the community walked away and most are understandably never coming back after the cycles of abuse Blizzard put players through and still shows a probable intent of continuing.
Enjoy your memories. Save your screenshots folder, back it up somewhere nice, keep in contact with your real close friends, offer to play other games with them or do activities like D&D to keep in touch. Community can be anything and anywhere, remember that and don’t let a game’s long in the coming decline get you too down. There’s still adventure out there with friends because the real magic was the friendship we had all along… or something.
WoW may be finally dying and nothing can change that. They’ve tried changing things to keep it fresh and its worked and also not worked.
At minimum it’ll hold on to its diehard players ala FF14 style. There’s nothing wrong with that. It just means all of the content is going to become streamlined. That’s probably a good thing for the folks who have strong ties.