Discord killed Classic'ssocial interaction

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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Discussion topic:

I remember as a kid, OG classic was always popping off with funny, random, and well sometimes very inappropriate Discussion on /2 chat. Most of us were in Org or Sw and it was usually lively in those places.

Back then there was no social media. Wow was one of the best ways to interact with people all over the world.

I think RDF was a huge factor in the decline of the wow social experience back then.

In 2019 upon classic’s release I believe majority of the social interaction done now is on discord. WOW is no longer in an era where it is the best place to have those conversations on a public forum like we did in 2008 /2 chat.

If RDF does come back, I dont think anything will change on the social aspect of the game like it did last time. This is because most General Discussions, sign ups, voice chat, and wow Discussions are all done now on discord.

The topic is on the social aspect of the game. Not if RDF is bad because ex: Noobs join it or something. Yalls thoughts

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I agree – add LFD/RDF to LKClassic

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This topic is why everyone laughed when they said RDF would kill the social aspect of the game.

The social aspect doesn’t exist anymore.

We all have our circles all on discord.

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Discord is better than in game chat channels anyway. I wouldnt change a thing

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All of this is literally happening on era right now.

Wotlk is retail. That’s the problem.

Next

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Yeah… happening on the same level as wrath.

Comparing Era and the original is just dumb.

It has nothing to do with something being “retail” you have no more reason to talk and socialize in Era than you do in Wrath Classic.

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To be fair classic had a massive social aspect before server transfers were added and servers started becoming melting pots. Those first few months of classic 2019 were an absolute unicorn experience

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What it is Opposite Day? You start talking with other players on ERA at like Level 7 cus grouping makes a lot of the tougher quests easier. Wrath half the classes can set up a 1 button macro to 80.

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Cool? I thought we were pass this “being forced to group causes people to talk” fallacy. It doesn’t.

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That’s crazy. I’ve had the exact opposite experience for over 4 years now.

In fact I’ve never leveled a character in ERA who didn’t hit 60 with a large friends list from the leveling/social process

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Cool? You haven’t stated anything that anyone else couldn’t do in any version of Warcraft.

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Apparently you can’t though? Seems like a skill issue.

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I can and do… so can anyone else on Retail, Wrath, or Era. You really aren’t helping your argument. You even seem to have given up on it and started attacking me as “anti-social” for whatever reason when nothing of the like was stated.

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Yep.

If one sees the same peeps in BG and bump into them into discord, yeah, its gonna be the favored social platform in time…

they aren’t moving off their server, neither are you. Discord is the nice middle ground for that. No one has to move. It’s how many see friends come and go…out of the game even. If its eve/d4/whatever night I can be pinged to help out a wow bro lol. If better than what I am doing currently I will happily log in.

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I haven’t made one? Just stated facts.

Never attacked you either. You’re saying Era isn’t a social game, but at 4am on a Tuesday you can find general chat conversations happening and people grouping for ZF hammer quest in the Hinterlands.

I was responding to this which is a blatant lie. I play all versions of WoW and ERA is distinctly the most social experience by design. No amount of copium changes that.

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You haven’t stated a single fact. All you have stated is your subjective opinion that is easily proven wrong. I understand your bias but lets us be honest. Anyone who wants to be social can be social in any version of this game from Retail to Era. To even attempt to claim otherwise is simply asinine.

It isn’t hard, it isn’t some exclusive skill that only Era players have, and if you are having issues with social experience in Wrath and Retail maybe you should look at yourself. Maybe your own mindset changes and you choose to play the game differently and choose to no longer converse with your fellow players because it isn’t “vanilla” anymore so they won’t bother responding to you.

So… you now choose to put words in my mouth? I said that Era isn’t any more or less of a social game than Retail or Wrath.

Era isn’t the only version of the game you can find random conversations going on in various chats at all hours of the day or have people looking for help from other people to do various tasks outside of dungeons or raiding.

Hell, sometimes the conversations happens IN dungeons between people in entirely separate groups.

What blatant lie? It is a fact you have no more reason to talk and socialize in Era than you do in Wrath Classic.

Need a dungeon? Same in both.
Need a raind? Same in both.
Need something crafted? Same in both.
Need to get a group quest done? Same in both.
Getting ganked and need backup? Same in both.

No, it is not. It is the same socially design-wise. If you have some quantifiable information to the contrary please present it.

What is actually different between all three versions of WoW is the average player’s mentality. On average the mentality of an Era player is more social than a Wrath player. The reason for this is the same reason mega realms exist. Players choosing different aspects that are important to them.

The common thought is that if you want to be “social” you have to play Era because Wrath is dead socially. Which isn’t true but whatever. If you were to take those same group of players and drop them into Wrath they wouldn’t suddenly be less “social”. Likewise, if you were to take a group of people playing Wrath and drop them into Era they aren’t going to suddenly be more “social”.

The only coping going on is you believing the social aspect of WoW has anything to do with the game instead of how the players choose to play it.

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in original vanilla/tbc/wotlk & even cata you could always see people talking in major city in /say
there was always random people, random groups doing that and socializing in many servers till Blizzard allowed cross-server shared zone in city’s where players can see other players from different server in city’s yet you can’t even invite them to guild…you can’t trade with them.

now in classic it’s nearly impossible to see anyone communicating in city with /say or trying to socialize with randoms Except for those automated gambler character who’s online 24/7 next to Auction house with some character around it to gamble, …i dunno if they’re Gambling or that’s a facade to sell/buy gold or wash gold.

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So how come nobody has done this in 20 years? How come in 20 years Vanilla is still the only version of WoW still considered a virtual word?

I’m not even biased. I prefer playing retail for PvP/Arena, I only enjoy ERA for the social experience.

I agree, that said the social experience on those versions is vastly different than ERA. Most people don’t talk on retail at all due to mass reporting and fear of the social contract, so they use third party outlets instead.

Only in opposite world. Wrath players themselves say on these forums they don’t want to talk to anyone. Most you get is “gg” “Ty” and “gs?”

It’s literally not. You’re literally funneled and forced to socially interact with other players or skip whole quest chains. In any other version of WoW you can solo everything and not need to talk to anybody. This is game design reminiscent of EQ that inspired it.

You are showing your bias by not being able to look at all versions of WoW and design In objective reality. Idc about ERA or if it lives or dies or Wrath either. I don’t have a horse in the race, they are just vastly objectively different in reality.

I never said this, but I can understand Wrath being dead in general between all the changes/WoW token. I feel bad for the people who allowed themselves to fall for the sunk cost fallacy a second time on the progression servers.

You posted a whole lot of words that actually say nothing. You clearly are just against ERA for some reason, but who cares. You can play Wrath or Retail if you don’t like ERA. Nobody is forcing you.

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Discord doesn’t give you a 30 second slow mode after you post 3 times in chat lol so glad they have that retail feature in Classic though

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if we could ban ppl in game for their conduct in discord that would go a lon way

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